Sentences with phrase «chief global rival»
With a library of more than 2.2 million e-books, with five million customers in 100 countries so far, the Toronto - based e-book retailer has shown potential to build itself into Amazon's chief global rival for digital reading, concentrating on markets like Europe where the American company isn't as strong.
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Its chief rival, the National Post — which endured eight years of ever - deeper cost cuts after being sold to the now - bankrupt Canwest Global Communications empire in 2001 — has racked up nine - figure losses since being launched in 1998.
Glencore Plc's billionaire Chief Executive Officer, Ivan Glasenberg, underscored his belief in the longevity of the global commodities boom by beating his biggest rivals in handing out surplus cash to investors.
A few months later I traveled to the once - closed city of Sevastopol, an august Soviet Sparta, the chief station of the Black Sea Fleet and heart of Admiral Sergei Gorshkov's attempt at a global navy to rival the U.S. Navy.
Treasury chief executive Mike Clarke told The Australian Financial Review that with large assets in California it was in a stronger position than other global rivals even if there were changes in tariffs and other measures that might make it more difficult for exporters selling into the American market.
Woolworths chief executive Grant O'Brien mounted a similar defence in February, blaming the entry of global rivals such as Aldi for pricing pressure on suppliers and saying Woolworths» future was at risk unless it responded to changing market conditions.
About 15 minutes into the Channel 4 undercover video here chief executive Alexander Nix, managing director of CA Political Global Mark Turnbull, and chief data officer Dr. Alexander Tayler appear to be slyly suggesting they're ready and able to broker the use of prostitutes and bribes to entrap and blackmail a client's political rivals, and imply they have in fact also successfully completed such assignments in the past.
It feels an age since global infrastructure group Balfour Beatty announced its seventh profit warning in a couple of years, had its chief executive quit and was in the midst of merger talks with rival construction group Carillion.
Now, rival media behemoth WPP has announced a «global strategic partnership» of its own with Twitter, which may not come as a total surprise given WPP Chief Executive Martin Sorrell said he wouldn't rule out a similar deal with the microblogging site.