Sentences with phrase «companies hundreds of millions of dollars a year»

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Fast - growth companies like Airbnb and Uber have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding in the past few years, which has pushed their valuations into never - before seen territory for startups.

During the 13 years Trump spent as chairman, the company lost a total of $ 1.1 billion and declared bankruptcy twice — all while Trump essentially paid himself roughly $ 82 million and also had the company pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy Trump Ice bottled water for their mini-bars.

Major consumer products companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year constructing, assigning and fielding market research projects and then summarily reviewing and incorporating the survey and research results into proposals, pitches, and other internal presentations to a variety of audiences.

Lilly faced a devastating clinical setback last year with a late - stage failure for its experimental Alzheimer's treatment, the studies for which cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars.

-- Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam, a data center backup company founded in 2006 that now employs more than 1,500 employees around the world and brings in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, with its sights on reaching $ 1 billion in revenue in the next five years.

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.

The fund is reportedly being raised to help Sequoia compete with Japanese tech giant SoftBank, which announced a huge new $ 100 billion (# 75 billion) fund last year that is now being used to back promising tech companies worldwide with tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars.

• Expanding upon data gleaned from the «black budget,» the NSA is found to be paying hundreds of millions of dollars each year to US companies for access to their networks.

Peter Rahal, who along with Jared Smith founded RXBar, recalls a pivotal moment that set the philosophy of their nutrition bar company — one that would eventually be acquired by Kellogg for hundreds of millions of dollars last year.

-- Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam, a data center backup company founded in 2006 which now employs more than 1,500 employees around the world and brings in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, with its sights on reaching $ 1 billion in revenue in the next five years.

It is still not clear to me, but the company had only raised less than $ 2 million and after more than a year of fighting against a larger company, and after many hundreds of thousands of dollars, they finally settled out of court.

The Justice Department said AT&T would use Time Warner's films and movies to force rival pay TV companies to pay «hundreds of millions of dollars more per year for Time Warner's networks» in its lawsuit filed late Monday in federal court in Washington.

«Class actions succeed in bringing hundreds of millions of dollars in relief to millions of consumers each year and cause companies to alter their legally questionable conduct,» the study said.

The moves are expected to cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars in the short term but lead to annualized savings of $ 25 million beginning next year.

The success of these all - but - unknown companies in raising millions — or hundreds of millions — of dollars is all the more striking given that many of these firms did not exist a year ago, while others do not even have a functioning prototype.

Graziosi, who's generated hundreds of millions of dollars with his brands, companies and investments, with a 15 - year television career, argues that creating a true vision for your future by looking backwards will get you exponentially better results than setting goals in the traditional sense.

In the last year, Vice has secured $ 500 million in financing and signed deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars with established media companies like HBO that are eager to engage the young viewers Vice attracts.

«What I am struck by is that Uber is not significantly worse than companies that have been around twice as many years and have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity in the last three years and have diversity departments of a dozen people,» Klein said, speaking of Uber's much larger tech brethren such as Facebook, Apple and Google.

There is also the risk that allowing poorly substantiated claims to stand may affect a company's status in Ottawa, where hundreds of millions of dollars in regulatory fees are sent each year.

Martin, a native of Scotland who has been with the company for 19 years, declined to disclose specifics about Inventus» revenue, but he said it is in the «hundreds of millions» of dollars annually.

Many of the hugely successful companies that make profits of hundreds of millions of dollars a year could have afforded to raise their workers salaries a mere $ 1.00 or two over the past 20 -30 years!!

Both issues have been central to federal and local prosecutors» probes of Nassau contracts, which account for hundreds of millions of dollars a year paid to outside companies.

«We have companies that spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the past couple of years, competing for a casino franchise license, so this is a valuable commodity.»

Since the 15 - year period of for non-payment of royalties expired in June 2014 the should collect arreas of royalties running to hundreds of million of dollars owed by the oil and gas companies operating in the area.

But while Edison, the New York City - based company whose educational program does include free computers, has lost hundreds of millions of dollars and fallen out of favor with investors, National Heritage last year turned a small profit managing more than two dozen...

However, despite the controversy surrounding K12 and Bennett's role in the company, the corporation's profits have grown exponentially over the years, earning hundreds of millions of dollars for K12's executives and shareholders.

It is beyond the scope of this initial letter to discuss in great detail these issues, such as the sale of Mr. Riggio's own college book business to BKS for more than $ 500 million and the hundreds of millions of dollars that the Company's failing and poorly - conceived Nook business may have cost shareholders, along with the Company's inexplicably high SG&A expense structure and parade of CEOs who have come and gone in the last few years.

The company is paying hundreds of millions of dollars per year in interest payments.

I looked at the full list of companies and found a mix that I would say Yes, Maybe, and No to individually, but No to altogether, especially with 25 % in financials and 22 % in health care, two industries whose biggest entities are the height of avarice and whose top - dogs are paid staggeringly huge salaries and bonuses (hundreds of millions of dollars per year) that I believe come from entrenched practices of outright usury and gross overcharging, among other heinous activities.

According to the Company's 2009 proxy statement, ModusLink paid out more than $ 13.8 million to its top three senior executives over a period of three years while Company's market value declined by hundreds of millions of dollars.

Ever year investors pay out hundreds of billions of dollars (that's billions with a «b») in fees to money managers that, essentially, they really don't need to be paying.Things are so bad that companies like FeeX have raised over $ 12 million in financing to provide a service that gives people a window into the fees they're paying to their advisors.

FICO is a company that they started out of the garage with four hundred dollars and it's grown into like up 900 million dollars a year business.

CEO Doug Parker declined to detail how much revenue the product would generate for the company, but said it would be hundreds of millions of dollars per year.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in expenditures by these companies each year is what some of us call «real money.»

Company officials said they planned to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in projects that aim to make nonpolluting technologies for generating electricity competitive with what has been the norm for the last 100 years — burning black rocks.

(03/30/2012) At the same time that it is committing hundreds of millions of dollars a year to protecting rainforests, Norway is investing more than 13 billion dollars a year via its pension fund in dozens of companies linked to deforestation, alleges a new report from Rainforest Foundation Norway and Friends of the Earth Norway.

For about the cost of a single typical litigation consulting trial engagement, we can help large companies save tens or hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of a calendar year.

Ripley has an impressive list of achievements that includes building LINN Energy through numerous acquisitions ranging from several hundred million dollars to over $ 15bn in market cap, completed in just over five years with the company.

Customer gets what customer wants» approach — and lead to there being a whole slew of games companies less than 5 years old doing a couple of hundred million dollars revenue annually (c.f. http://www.freetoplay.biz/2008/09/08/top-10-free-to-play-publishers/ for some examples).

Tuttle also notes the growing number of far - flung tech companies looking to list their share in the U.S. Among these are three China - based companies with plans to raise hundreds of millions of dollars by selling American depositary shares in the not - too - distant future, including Bilibili, a nine - year - old, Shanghai, China - based anime video sharing platform; iQiyi, an eight - year - old Beijing - based video streaming service; and OneSmart, a 10 - year - old, Shanghai, China - based K - 12 after - school education provider.

The CEO of thin film solar company Miasole, John Carrington, made a very public to - do last year about how Miasole needed a large partner to commercialize and scale — this year Miasole sold for $ 30 million in a firesale to China's Hanergy, despite that it raised hundreds of millions of dollars in VC money.

Admittedly, it will take years for companies like LG and Japan Display to catch up to Samsung — even with hundreds of millions of dollars in investment.

Admittedly, it will take years for companies like LG and Japan Display to catch up to Samsung — even with hundreds of millions of dollars in investment — so in the meantime, those who are looking for large quantities of OLED panels will have to turn to Samsung.

These efforts cost banks, healthcare companies, and government organizations hundreds of millions of dollars a year in manual labor and redundant systems.

The company says the technology has been battle tested for more than a year with hundreds of millions of dollars already.

«China Oceanwide Holdings Group Co. and its chairman, Lu Zhiqiang, have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into U.S. West Coast commercial and residential real estate in the past two years, far from the company's traditional turf of projects in cities such as Beijing and Wuhan.»

Although Opus declined to disclose the specific dollar amount on outstanding debt, if Opus South is any indication the company is facing hundreds of millions of dollars in maturing loans over the next two years.

While a bank only offers the products from their particular institution, licensed mortgage professionals send millions of dollars in mortgage business each year to Canada's largest banks, credit unions, trust companies, and financial institutions; offering their clients more choice, and access to hundreds of mortgage products!

The long - term leases it signs with landlords can last 10 — 15 years and require WeWork to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in future rent, even during economic downturns and down cycles in the real estate market when the company may struggle to fill its buildings.