Sentences with phrase «companies face cut»

The companies face cut - throat competition and have to run on a low profit margins.

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Facing opposition from internet pioneers, online companies, members of Congress and the vast majority of Americans — all of whom are worried about broadband providers offering cut - down packages of services rather than the full internet — he released a jokey video scoffing at their dire predictions.

Telstra investors are bracing for a cut to the company's popular dividend, as the telecommunications giant faces growing pressure from competitors and a looming earnings drop due to the rollout of the national broadband network.

Answer and solution: Term Sheet readers are aware that the private equity industry is increasingly facing an inventory problem — viable targets are too expensive, activist shareholders are forcing companies to do PE - style cost - cutting while they're public, and corporate buyers have so much cash they can afford to pay high premiums.

MONTREAL — Valeant Pharmaceuticals faces years of legal challenges despite cutting ties with a U.S. mail - order pharmacy at the centre of a controversy about how Canada's largest publicly traded drug firm conducts its business, say industry observers and the company's second - largest shareholder.

The cuts are expected as Yahoo's Marissa Mayer faces increasing shareholder criticism over her handling of the company's turnaround.

«It's a courageous act to admit that a mistake was made — to cut bait and move on, as opposed to saving face and trying to make it work, and then three years go by while company performance continues to decline.»

BlackBerry announced a couple of new products on Wednesday (the upcoming Z30 phone and BBM Messenger for Apple and Android devices) but neither really mattered in the face of the big news of the day, which is that the company is cutting 40 % of its workforce, according to The Wall Street Journal.

However, Finance Minister Bill Morneau still faces the challenge of corporate tax cuts in the U.S. that have prompted worries that companies will choose to invest there instead of Canada.

Media giant Viacom said on Wednesday it cut the compensation of its top two executives, executive chairman Sumner Redstone and CEO Philippe Dauman, as the company faced business pressures and a sharp drop in its share price.

It'll be interesting if the Republicans face the kind of blowback that the Trudeau government did; while the plan technically cuts the taxation rate on such «pass - through» structures, it has the potential to actually raise taxes for a sizeable proportion of those companies:

One of the original examples is 42Floors, but even then that company early on faced a lot of troubles trying to get the model working and in 2015 cut its brokerage team.

Facing a backlash, representatives from the company stood before Congress in April and said they would work to cut prices for the drugs.

WPP's Martin Sorrell, CEO of the world's largest advertising company, faces a huge cut in his pay package.

Fortune Brainstorm Health, in association with IBM Watson Health, gathers not only C - suite leaders of top companies, hospitals, insurers, and cutting - edge pharma and biotech companies, but also titans of venture capital, tech and telecom, and other industries, all of who are rapidly changing the face of health care.

Whole Foods (WFM) was downgraded to neutral by Sterne Agee, which set a $ 40 price target and said that estimates have also been cut, as the company is facing increased competition.

If you recall, small - caps skyrocketed in the days immediately following the 2016 presidential election as investors anticipated the implementation of «America first» policies — deep corporate tax cuts, deregulation, tariffs on imported goods — that would greatly favor inward - facing companies.

In January, Viacom said it cut the compensation of its top two executives, Redstone and Dauman, as the company faced business pressures and a sharp drop in its share price.

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Browning says many mining services companies face financial stress after spending cuts, so he expects consolidation.

A pre-election report from the Toronto Region Board of Trade says Ontario businesses face challenges including high labour costs and energy prices, and urges the next government to cut property taxes to help keep companies competitive.

Far from doing anything about it, the government relaxes local planning rules and sucks money from local councils, making them even weaker in the face of these companies, who are meanwhile made richer with George Osborne's cut to corporation tax.

Public sector staff in eight more prisons have learned they face privatisation just two weeks after job cuts were announced by the company set to take over Birmingham prison, the Public and Commercial Services union says.

«We face a terrible price because of Albany's irresponsibility,» Bloomberg charged as he unveiled a doomsday budget that eliminates 20 fire companies, closes dozens of senior centers and cuts the city's workforce by 11,000 people.

Brauer, too, alluded to the cord - cutting paradigm phone companies face when customers jettison their landlines for mobile service only.

As an employee at a startup biotech company, I face the daily excitement of knowing that my job is so cutting - edge that it might not exist in a year.

Established in 2011, the NTU - JTC I3 Centre aims to pioneer cutting - edge industrial infrastructure solutions to address challenges faced by Singapore and its companies in areas such as safety, productivity as well as manpower and resource constraints.

At the National Institute of Standards and Technology, scientific programs would face a 4 % cut rather than Trump's proposed 13 % reduction, although House appropriators balked at Trump's plan to eliminate its Manufacturing Extension Partnership, which helps domestic companies.

Such a move would require major capacity cuts and face serious obstacles, analysts also said - but the discussions may signal that the companies are preparing to tackle overcapacity.

As the current climate of publishing services companies closing their doors or facing legal battles has demonstrated, it's a game that not everyone was cut out to play.

Amazon cut the price of the Kindle in July and revamped the line in the face of a threat in the e-reader market from Apple's iPad and companies such as Sony and bookstore Barnes & Noble, which also offer e-readers.

Amazon cut the price of the Kindle and revamped the line in the face of a threat in the e-reader market from Apple's iPad and companies like Sony and bookstore Barnes & Noble, which also offer e-readers.

That Countrywide is still facing problems after the Bank of America infusion might not be too surprising; companies that cut corners with their customers are more likely to be aggressive in their accounting practices.

Another possible way to cut your student debt down to size is to work for a company that offers student loan repayment after a certain period of employment, an increasingly popular recruiting and retention tool in the job market as employers recognize the student loan burden many millennials face.

The increases come after the company faced a backlash from consumers when it was revealed some franchisees cut employee benefits to offset the impact of minimum wage hikes in Ontario, which increased to $ 14 per hour from $ 11.60 — a 21 - per - cent jump — on Jan. 1.

in Afghanistan, the projected cuts in defense department spending and now the impact of the SEQUESTER, the company faces an uphill battle in 2013 and 2014.

Dear Richard, You're facing a common problem — even more so now that companies are cutting back on business travel.

Next in the curated section, Troy Michie (Company Gallery) creates works using photographs with people's bodies and faces cut out in a symbolic specter of invisibility, and Tomashi Jackson (Tilton Gallery) assembles sculptures that meld Josef Albers's color theories with the history of racial politics in the US.

Should that value go to utility companies, electricity customers who will face rising rates, government investments in new technology or tax cuts?

Now, the company is facing a January 30 deadline to come up with its end of the financing and it's cutting it awfully close.

When Kinder Morgan, the Texas based transnational oil company, faced wide spread opposition to clear cutting and seismic testing for a proposed pipeline expansion on Burnaby Mountain Conservation Land, the corporation applied to the Supreme Court of BC for an injunction against protestors.

While using cutting - edge technologies, many nanotechnology companies face the same old labor issues.

But its ability to act is constrained by its parent company's constant cost - cutting, endless hand - wringing caused by years of unsophisticated execution by its sales leaders and an inward - facing culture rather than a customer - focused culture.

The National Rifle Association, and now the State of Florida, faced a growing backlash Saturday as companies cut ties to the gun industry following the latest school massacre, and student survivors called for tourism boycotts of their home state until gun control measures are enacted.

A convergence of trends — a desire for improved work - life balance, wasted time traversing congested highways, and the influences of a generation who cut their teeth on virtual experiences — suggest the continued growth of telecommuting is not likely to be reversed, the recent about - face of companies like Honeywell notwithstanding.

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