Sentences with phrase «companies first started»

The two companies first started conversations last summer about a partnership that could improve Target's grocery business and give Kroger customers more access to merchandise and e-commerce.

Rumors are spreading that the merger being negotiated by T - Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) and Sprint (NYSE: S) is hitting a rough patch right now, months after the companies first started talking, and just as the two were expected to expected to seal the deal.

The report said the two companies first started discussing a partnership last summer but decided «a merger is the best path forward.»

When the company first started out, the idea made sense — customers could select the DVDs they wanted to watch and literally line them up for mailing.

When the company first started, it sold what Scott calls «sugar water» under the brands TummyTicklers and BellyWashers.

«This new terminal is a symbol of our commitment to Miami, the city where our company first started almost 50 years ago.

Many times, when companies first start experimenting with content marketing tactics, they eagerly jump into many of the well - documented strategies such as creating a company blog or registering for each social channel, but don't see the immediate results that they were looking for — this can cause uncertainty in their marketing tactics and lead to an eventual failure.

When the company first started in the 1930s through the 1950s, the wine and spirits industry was a carriage trade because at the time, no one wanted to be seen carrying a bag of liquor.

When the company first started producing these products, there were no other businesses around to copy.

When the company first started 70 years ago, we covered two counties — now we cover 21 counties.»

It has been almost 25 years since the former Pioneer Mill Company first started planting coffee on their Kaanapali Estate in -LSB-...]

When the company first started releasing e-readers they basically had no competition.

With Star Control: Origins coming out later this year, we're getting our first look at the technology the company first started working on in 2011.

PayPal celebrates 15 years of progress, taking readers down memory lane back to when the company first started and was called Confinity.

The company first started shipping the Surface Hub displays to businesses last year with a starting price of $ 8,999.

Most hiring processes of bigger companies first start with two distinct piles: College and No College.

Not exact matches

Ryan Drexler thought so, too, but he also saw a great opportunity — first as an investor, then as a board member, and starting last year, as the company's CEO.

The company recorded a net loss of $ 93 million in the first quarter, but Toutant believes it'll make up for the rocky start as the company continues its big push to expand in the United States.

Dunham isn't the first actor or Hollywood celebrity to start her own media company: Gwyneth Paltrow has had some success with her newsletter and site Goop, but others have not been as successful.

And starting in 2008, the majority of U.S. workers, for the first time, worked at companies with 500 or more employees.

When Davis Smith first got the entrepreneurship bug, he wanted to start a company that would change the world.

When first starting with a company as a new employee, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed when taking on board new practices and getting used to the processes in place.

When I started my first company in my 20s, I also didn't know exactly what I was getting into.

The second - richest person in China, Alibaba founder and executive chairman Jack Ma reportedly started China's first internet company in 1988: China Yellowpages.

Theranos is the first company to start using blood tests that primarily rely on microfluidics, and it says it gets unparalleled results.

When you first start a company the CEO, of course, is Chief Everything, which includes sales, marketing, PR, product, HR and even office management and accounting.

Her first husband left her for her secretary, and she had to borrow $ 1,000 to start her company.

Long before they've exhausted the growth possibilities of their first company, they decide to start another one in a totally unrelated business they know nothing about, and they end up spending time and money on it that should be put into building their original business instead.

On April 27th, he is launching a campaign for Synergist to raise money for the company using their own platform, an industry - first for a socially driven company.Jared has also worked for 2 Silicon Valley start - ups and is currently writing a book about other inspiring young entrepreneurs and innovators.

The space industry started the first quarter of this year the way it ended the last — with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of private funding flowing into commercial space companies.

He started his first business, a paintball company, in high school, and his second, a Vernon, B.C. — based pizza - by - the - slice joint called Growlies, in lieu of finishing his last year of business school at the University of Victoria.

Revealing why you started your business in the first place can say a lot about your company and you as an entrepreneur.

After spending all of 2016 meeting, befriending, and interviewing «top - performing» Millennials who've started companies worth billions of dollars collectively and influence hundreds of millions of people every month, Jared Kleinert wanted the readers of SBDIB to be the first to read his new book.

Two years since the company launched, the start - up is now hitting its first inflection point.

The company was founded in 1977 by Ron Ball (Eppel was an early hire, just 18 years old when he started), and it expanded quickly — first with a plant in Buffalo, then to Europe and, as the industry moved east, to China in 1996.

There were 140,430 companies created in the first quarter, better than the average (137,813) since the start of 2001, which is as far back as the data go.

What you might have missed: The company said it expects revenue between $ 46 billion and $ 48 billion in the current quarter, which will be the first to include sales of the new Apple Watch that started shipping last Friday.

This worked for me when I started my first company back in college.

Swiss company Nestlé announced plans to remove artificial flavours from its candy products, the first major firm of its kind to do so in the U.S. (A day later, Hershey said it would start using more natural ingredients in its products, too.)

Raider started his first company in 2009.

He started a B2B services company because it allowed him to start small — first with himself as the head programmer — then adding on more staff as he found more work.

In a sport rooted in the hard - partying fringe of Southern California, Hawk was something different: While he was still in high school, he used his winnings to buy a house in Carlsbad, and a few years later, he started his first company — Birdhouse — even though the skateboard industry was tanking at the time.

Since Facebook first started letting businesses integrate with its chat app, Messenger, at last year's conference, it has continued to give companies more ways to use it to communicate with potential customers.

While running her first company — Coutorture, a fashion and lifestyle ad network she started at age 22 and sold two years later — a typical day involved 12 hours at the office, followed by a night of schmoozing at industry events and a scant four hours of sleep.

So as the idea developed, about 6 months after doing this kind of exploration where we'd meet continually with a whole bunch of different people, industry thinkers and stuff, it became clear that we could actually start a company around this and we could build the world's first social magazine.

I was living in an RV when I first started my company, my husband at the time and I were sharing a laptop computer and my blood used to boil when it was his turn to use it.

Back when I first started NetCreations, I was the typical small - business owner who ran her company by the seat of her pants.

The company established an export business from the start, with its very first sauce.

«I know people are coming to Spotify to listen first, but we're starting to build something new,» Courtney Holt, the company's head of studios and video, said in an interview.

Cuban's first big startup success was an early software company called Micro Solutions, which he started for $ 500 and sold seven years later for $ 6 million.