Sentences with phrase «challenging target of»

So with an ambition to stay below 2C, if not the more challenging target of 1.5 C. That's quite a small margin.

Now, we are into a new year and setting another challenging target of probably $ 12K.

City of Vancouver, Canada July 2007 After a recent keynote by Architecture 2030 at the EcoDensity conference in Vancouver, the City Council voted unanimously to adopt aggressive citywide GHG emissions targets and The 2030 Challenge target of «carbon neutral» for all new buildings by 2030.

Not exact matches

However, defining product - market fit can be challenging for some startups, as it takes time and requires a deep understanding of your target market.

In June 2014, however, Target Canada released its apology on YouTube, which featured employees and executives reflecting on the challenges of the first year and confessing to their sins.

On a full - year basis, 2013 same - store sales growth of 1.1 % in the Canadian segment was below our original target range of 2 % to 4 %; we believe this was due to ongoing challenging economic conditions and increased competitive intensity in our industry.

One of the biggest challenges faced by content marketers is ensuring their content gets discovered by their target audience.

Robert Kozinets, director of MBA specialization in global retail management at York University's Schulich School of Business, says none of the challenges experienced by Target so far have been out of line with what should reasonably be expected of a brand making its first foray into international territory — certainly not a powerhouse such as Target.

Finances aside, Target's bigger challenges are stubbornly centred on unhappy customers whose loyalty has been stretched thin by a series of supply - chain snafus and prices that many perceived to be out - of - whack with both big - box competitors and the company's own reputation as a quality discounter.

The less challenging task required «digit cancellation» where each row of digits was preceded by a «target number» that the participant was to circle and then proceed to cross off each time that number appeared in that row.

The more challenging task was an «additive cancellation» task where each row of digits was preceded by a target number that the participant was asked to circle and then proceed to cross of any two adjacent numbers that «added up» to their target number.

It looks like a real challenge for any sales professional, the kind of question that can separate a real salesperson from those who are never going to hit their targets.

Target and J. Crew will challenge Sears in terms of apparel, and back at home, Canadian Tire's purchase of the Forzani Group creates a stronger sports and activewear business.

The chain, which reported better - than - expected quarterly profit last week, recently announced that achieving the low - end of its U.S. comparable sales growth target of 2 to 3 percent in 2014 would be a challenge.

Bloomberg names Sam Adams maker Boston Beer (sam) as a possible target, as it sells premium - priced craft ales and is one of the largest players in the craft space (albeit, sales have been challenged of late).

«A constant challenge for our research is trying to reduce the number of clones we need to screen to find a desired targeted modification.

If you're a business owner, the challenge of finding your buyers online in order to deliver the most targeted advertisements directly to them has never been harder!

The parent company of Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin - Robbins reported a better - than - expected quarterly profit, but said hitting annual sales targets will be a challenge.

They are reaping the benefits of their target customers because they delivered products that demonstrated they understood their unique challenges.

Ebeling's challenge was how to grow the business and achieve the target of plus EUR1 billion in revenues by 2018, going from EUR2.4 billion to EUR3.4 billion.

An effective way to overcome this challenge is to offer your target an exclusive: your product, a package, a design, a channel of distribution — something special and different from the competition.

While having genetic validation for a target is no guarantee of success — scientists still have to figure out how to drug the target safely and effectively, and meet myriad other biological challenges — it does offer a head start.

(The domestic market has also presented another sort of challenge: Animal - welfare activists targeted Saputo Inc. for what they describe as inhumane practices on the part of one of its suppliers.

The results are catastrophic compared to those of rivals like Kohl's (kss), Target (tgt), J.C. Penney (jcp), and Macy's (m), each facing challenges but none in nearly as poor condition as the once iconic Sears.

«The tone at the top of the organization and the performance - based environment at the company, where challenging targets were set and achieving those targets was a key performance indication, may have been contributing factors resulting in the company's improper revenue recognition.»

The final DOL regulation «unfairly targets certain types of fixed annuity products, making it harder for Americans to purchase fixed indexed annuities when it is in their best interest to do so,» he said, adding that «this legal challenge is necessary because the rule creates an unworkable standard for independent agents and insurance companies and goes far beyond DOL's authority.»

Targeted IRS guidance for these IRA owners may help them navigate the potential compliance challenges associated with certain types of unconventional assets.»

Despite these achievements, our financial performance did not meet the challenging targets established by the CNGC at the beginning of fiscal 2015.

According to the opinion, the 2011 Qualified Default Investment Alternatives Notice, 2012 Summary Plan Description, 2012 Annual Disclosures, and targeted emails notified Sulyma of the challenged investment allocations.

The CNGC's independent compensation consultant regularly analyzes our performance goals and has consistently found them to be challenging — a conclusion that is supported by our recent history of below - target incentive payouts shown on page 45 above.

There is no doubt, as some have pointed out in recent times, that adverse supply shocks are presenting the most significant challenge to the inflation - targeting approach that it has so far experienced in a period of nearly two decades since New Zealand and Canada led the way in adopting it.

With the objective of learning from the rich experiences and lessons that other countries have gained from their own programs, teams of researchers at Ryerson University and California Lutheran University looked at a wide range of assistance programs targeting branding, financing, and management - associated challenges, among other issues.

In addition, as part of this assessment of internal control over financial reporting, the company has determined that the tone at the top of the organization and the performance - based environment at the company, where challenging targets were set and achieving those targets was a key performance expectation, may have been contributing factors resulting in the company's improper revenue recognition.

The grant was awarded to teams of researchers at Ryerson University and California Lutheran University who looked at a wide range of assistance programs targeting branding, financing, and management - associated challenges, among other issues.

«Amidst the economic turmoil in 2009, SCB was able to close the year with a healthy and above - target profit, which strongly bears out the bank's right strategic direction to become the «premier universal bank in Thailand,» plus the bank's resilience in adapting to a very challenging economic environment, which resulted in the solid performance,» says Vichit Suraphongchai, chairman of Siam Commercial Bank.

Developing targeted content by buyer stage was the greatest challenge of lead nurture campaigns for 71 % of respondents.

The article quotes David E. Teitelbaum, Partner at Sidley Austin, as saying that the guidance will be «challenging» and Angela Angelovska - Wilson, Counsel at Latham & Watkins in Washington D.C. and a Member of the Finance Department and the Financial Regulatory Group, as explaining as others have how the guidance creates more confusion than it clarifies: the new definitions introduce ambiguities and where it seems to target Bitcoin it isn't clear if it affects programs offering «miles» or «points,» etc..

As she progressed with a wider target market, she came to know intimately the challenges of fast - growing tech companies in the sharing economy category, such as Lyft, Etsy and TaskRabbit who experienced bottlenecks in managing their expansive external «workforce» and mobilizing their vendors.

You're going to want to do some research in advance of the effort on each of the companies that you will be targeting, so that you can customize your challenge message to them.

«France's fiscal policy flexibility is limited, which, together with the policy challenges noted above, imply a continued risk of missing fiscal targets,» the firm added.

By Seshadri Ramkumar The cotton sustainability research challenge program sponsored by Target and coordinated by Center for the Advancement of Science in Space has selected a...

With the challenge of all these different accounts and networks, and with all of the endless advertisements, there's a unique opportunity: being able to target the right people (your employees, your advocates), empowering them with content that they enjoy, and encouraging them to share it.

This allows you to get granular in identifying the different characteristics of your target audience — number of employees, geographic location, their interests and challenges, etc..

Reports of Target buying Kroger to try and challenge Amazon may not be as crazy as it seems.

The ambitious targets of tech entrepreneurs also create a high - pressure environment and the fast pace of change in the tech industry leaves many entrepreneurs facing a significant growth challenge.

Having no evidence whatsoever for what they believe makes believers inviting targets for both atheists wanting to challenge challenge their beliefs and people of other faiths seeking to convert them.

«In addition, as the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change works with the state government to deliver democratic dividends, we urge it to also assist in addressing the challenges to rule of law posed by these arrests and prosecutions, encouraging respect for press freedom and advocating for protection and justice for targeted communities in southern Kaduna.»

Critics from the National Rifle Association have challenged Bellesiles's account of the Battle of New Orleans, citing the ability of the long rifle to strike targets well before British muskets could get within firing range.

One of the challenges we're finding in Haiti is that families are still moving, so the target population is quite mobile.

Four concrete and relevant targets by 2025 In order to secure the future of chocolate, Barry Callebaut's new sustainability strategy includes four targets that the company expects to achieve by 2025 and that address the biggest sustainability challenges in the chocolate supply chain: