Sentences with phrase «companies after a decade»

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Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.

Subiaco - based resource exploration company TNG has been awarded damages of $ 3.5 million after a court case that spanned more than a decade, but has cautioned that the impact of the «extraordinarily complex» judgement remains unclear.

In the past decade, Goldstein's three businesses, which include the subprime lender Enova, which he started a year after graduating college in 2004; real estate site and Inc. 5000 company Pangea Properties, and 2015 30 Under 30 listee lender Avant, have added 2,200 new jobs to the economy.

After more than a decade growing the company, the Scheinbergs cashed out three years ago, selling to Amaya Gaming for $ 4.9 billion.

Adam Belsher, who left his job in September as vice-president of the Verizon business unit at RIM after seven years with the company, says the lack of accountability is partly a result of the company's rapid growth over the past decade.

Investors are excited: After raising $ 40 million over its first decade - plus, the company closed a $ 75 million round in 2017 that included Samsung and Kleiner Perkins.

After three decades, the company had established a reliable customer base, market - proven products and a large, productive workforce.

Brand - licensing models are not new in the industry; European companies like Philips and Alcatel have made money from consumer electronics by licensing out their brand after capitulating to Asian competitors more than a decade ago.

A decade after opening, Swedish coffee maker company Hammarplast sent one of its marketing executives there to investigate why this little shop in Seattle sold more of its coffee makers than Nordstrom.

After more than a decade of research on the use of machine learning to detect disease - causing mutations in DNA, Brendan Frey, biomedical engineering professor at the University of Toronto, this week launched his company, Deep Genomics, to bring the technology his team developed to the public at large.

Nearly a decade after launching Participant Media, a movie production company with a social conscience, Internet - mogul - turned - unconventional - philanthropist Jeff Skoll is still looking to change the world.

Now, almost two decades after Salesforce's debut, new enterprise tech companies almost inevitably default to the SaaS model, both when choosing products for internal use and when deciding how to bring their own products to market.

After more than a decade at Yahoo, she was ready for a change and knew she wanted to join an early - stage, high - growth, consumer - facing company.

It's this career philosophy that has fueled her turnaround effort at Yahoo since she joined the company as CEO last year, at age 37, after more than a decade at Google.

He has, after all, built a world - changing online payments company, revolutionized the auto industry, and dared the world to dream of putting boots on Mars in the next decade.

After more than a decade's absence, Halifax - based children's programming company DHX Media Ltd. plans to resurrect the series that was once a sensation with preschoolers.

Of course, the Oracle doesn't worry himself with the day - to - day management of companies he owns; his biggest act of participation in four decades was in 2006 when he installed longtime Berkshire insurance man Brad Kinstler to run things after Chuck Huggins, who had been with the company 54 years and was CEO for 33 of them, retired.

The news comes just a day after Nordstrom announced the president of its Rack division, Karen McKibbin, would be retiring in March, having worked at the company for three decades.

Ionic is a big bet by the decade - old company to get back on track after sales of its popular but simpler fitness tracking devices tanked last year, along with its revenue and its stock price.

In the decades after the stock transfer, National Amusements served as Redstone's holding company for his bold acquisitions of Viacom, Paramount Pictures and CBS, in which he retains 80 % controlling interest.

But after nearly a decade and a half in Cowtown, Burrows is well - versed in the ways of the cyclical sector, and he's inspired by the resiliency and innovation it takes for companies to succeed in it.

He replaces Scott Bergren, who is retiring at the end of 2014 after more than two decades with the company.

With Google, we have a company that is using the cash cow of search to go after the «flying car» - type businesses that may be mainstream in a decade.

Meanwhile, after decades of selling through select luxury retailers and online, the company opened its first Canada Goose retail location in Yorkdale Mall in Toronto last fall, and another in New York shortly after.

Brand - licensing models are not new in the industry; European companies like Philips (PHG.AS) and Alcatel have made money from consumer electronics by licensing out their brand after capitulating to Asian competitors more than a decade ago.

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After the company's debut in 1999, he served as Group chairman and chief executive officer for more than a decade, with responsibility for overall strategy and focus.

Toy store chain Toys «R» Us is planning to sell or close all 800 of its U.S. stores, affecting as many as 33,000 jobs as the company winds down its operations after six decades, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Gary Cohn: Cohn joined the administration after spending two and a half decades at Goldman Sachs, where he was president and COO (the No. 2 position at the company).

His resignation Thursday, after a decade at the helm of the company his father Izzy Asper founded, comes as Mr. Asper works on a potential bid to stay on as a key investor in CanWest.

With over 30 years of investment experience, David co-founded the leading Baltimore - based growth investment firm Camden Partners in 1995 after spending more than a decade investing in small cap companies with T. Rowe Price.

Soon after the results were released, the company's stock price plunged to its lowest level in a decade and a number of small shareholders called for the resignation of Karl - Johan Persson, chief executive and grandson of the company's founder.

In 2004, after decades of smaller acquisitions of Canadian companies, he got his chance: CGI snapped up a faltering Fairfax, Va. - based technology and consulting company called American Management Systems for $ 858 million in cash.

True, some companies, such as Coca - Cola (NYSE: KO), can figure out one thing, do it extremely well and enjoy success for decade after decade.

He holds about 69 percent of Rovio after investing 1 million euros ($ 1.2 million) more than a decade ago into the company co-founded by his nephew Niklas Hed.

Azar left the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly in January after working there for nearly a decade, most recently serving as the president of Lilly USA.

The very best growth stocks can deliver returns of a hundredfold or more after decades of growth, although by definition only a tiny handful of the thousands of companies listed will ever reach blue chip status.

If GOOGL's NOPAT margin expands to 23 % (based on Cowen's estimate of tax reform's impact) and the company can grow after - tax profit by 14 % compounded annually for the next decade, the stock is worth $ 1,520 / share today, a 41 % upside from the current price.

After a decade of explosive price gains fueled by Chinese demand, often defined as the commodities supercycle, mining companies are contending with slower growth by spurning mergers and cutting costs.

After bottoming out at decade - plus lows in February, oil prices finished the year up more than 40 %, lifting the prospects for a lot of companies across the oil and gas industry.

After decades of being run as private company, Glencore went public in May 2011 at a price of $ 8.57.

Dow says it has no liability because it bought the company responsible for the plant more than a decade after the cases had been settled.

To create its list, the company «relied on two factors: the overall home price growth rate since 1991 (our growth factor) and the average odds that a homeowner in a particular market would have experienced significant price declines within the decade after buying a home (our stability factor).»

President Jim Pellerito explains that the company is on the verge of making some of its biggest changes yet — changes that he anticipates will turn it into a national player after decades as a regional powerhouse.

Founding Executives David Stirling, Emily Wright, Dr. David Hill and Greg Cook created the idea for the company after several decades of combined experience working in the essential oil industry.

After more than four decades, Boselli is proud of his company.

Australia Network News 1 May 2014 Decades after phosphate mining all but destroyed the tropical island of Banabas, a coconut oil company is achieving undreamt of success that is benefiting the local community.

A decade after the company's inception, Tofutti created a new product called Egg Watchers, a cholesterol - free egg replacement made from processed egg whites.

Rosemount, which came into the firm's stable in 2001 when BRW Rich Lister Bob Oatley sold it for a whopping $ 1.4 billion after building it up as a private company over three decades, is one of the 15 «priority» brands that Mr Clarke has stepped up investment behind since taking over as Treasury chief executive in March 2014.

After a decade in business, Kansas» largest independent craft brewery has found itself squeezed between national brands and taproom - room focused microbreweries — both of which are chipping away at the company's local market share at a time when the industry has grown hypercompetitive (more than 5,600 U.S. brewing companies are now in operation across the U.S.).