Sentences with phrase «companies profit by»

Insurance companies profit by choosing to insure people who are most likely to live past the policy term.

Companies profit by using the genetic material to breed new crops, which in turn benefit farmers.

The bill is estimated to boost insurance companies profits by as much as 15 percent, according Ana Gupte, an analyst at Leerink Partners.

Well, now, the Teflon suits stand for yet another essential truth (besides untruths by ATRA, that is): without class actions, consumers can't gain access to the courts where a company profited by harming large numbers of people, each of whom have relatively small injuries.

Recovered 98 % of «lost» items decreasing overall lost revenue, increasing company profits by 18 %.

Not exact matches

But a for - profit company co-owned by Ezzell, Corbett and United Tissue President David Breedlove is paid to provide management services, leased equipment and loans.

Company restaurant margin percentage is defined as Restaurant profit divided by Company sales.

Company Restaurant profit («Restaurant profit») is defined as Company sales less expenses incurred directly by our Company - owned restaurants in generating Company sales.

More recently, she released a proposal to encourage profit sharing by private companies.

Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

The highlights of 2011 are almost too painful to mention: the PlayBook, RIM's first tablet, was a flop; its latest line of BlackBerry smartphones was delayed; weak sales forced the company to issue a profit warning in the spring; its network was hit by a massive service outage in the fall; and it suffered the largest wave of layoffs in its history.

Tech companies with no profits (or even much of a business plan) soared to extreme valuations that were justified, in part, by the belief that future profits would be made faster and that equities were less risky than in the past.

The PROFIT / Chatelaine W100 ranks female entrepreneurs by a composite score that considers the size, growth rate and profitability of the companies they own and manage.

«Really the success of that product isn't how many people buy it, in our mind, but how many people don't buy it and choose another product,» he said, after the company reported better - than - expected profits for a quarter plagued by deadly hurricanes.

Forte's pretax profit nearly doubled in 2017 to 10.63 billion naira, though sales fell by 15 percent to 129.4 billion naira, the company said in March.

According to not - for - profit Catalyst, about 20 percent of board seats at S&P 500 companies are held by women.

As a result, mission - driven companies who tell their stories are going to attract younger workers more than organizations purely driven by profit.»

Both companies get to expand their profits by tapping into new markets with the help of the other.

He'll jump in when the trucking industry — which was hurt by the recession — starts to improve and, most important, when the company starts posting a profit.

On the other end of the benchmark, Swedish packaging company BillerudKorsnas fell 4.7 percent by the end of Friday after a profit warning.

The company reported a $ 10.9 billion profit for the year ended June 30, saying its bottom line was also dented by one - time charges of $ 922 million.

He gave it a name and a face: a modern Robin Hood helping the working class by stealing from himself — and perhaps from shareholders of other companies whose bosses are now also putting employees ahead of profits: #imwithdan!

For instance, the company is believed to be making a healthy profit on the sale of each iPhone, further bolstering arguments by industry watchers who believe the iPhone X and iPhone 8 will help Apple reach new financial heights.

At least in the short term, the bank was expected to be the most affected by the new law, which lowered the corporate tax rate and introduced measures designed to encourage companies to bring overseas profits back to the US.

A freeze on Evraz's Canadian profits being repatriated to Russia (made even more complicated by the company's legal address in London)?

The comments come as Alphabet's total headcount swelled by roughly 9,000 year - on - year, and as expenses crept up during Q1, causing the company to miss Wall Street's profit targets.

That's one reason why City Girl Coffee Company, run by Alyza Bohbot, gets its beans from women - run farms and cooperatives and donates 5 % of its profits to organizations that support women in the coffee industry.

The company now expects to reach an 8 percent profit margin by 2020, two years earlier than it had been targeting.

In an article that discusses recent trends in corporate sponsorship entitled «Why Sponsors Sponsor,» author Jim Karrh lists the four criteria that not - for - profit fundraisers expect to be used by most companies in assessing the request to become involved as a sponsor.

By outsourcing development wherever possible, conducting rigorous market testing and selling exclusively online, he's turned Paretologic, which specializes in online security, into a company with $ 88 million in annual revenues, and profit margins that regularly exceed 50 %.

In terms of being a headphone company's OEM for Shieldz, our goal is to show them the profit that can be made by offering this value add to customers.

Nike (NKE) had another strong quarter — highlighted by strong demand for athletic apparel and growth in the company's e-commerce business — and the footwear giant is expected to report profit and sales that outpace Wall Street's expectations.

Trump and Republican lawmakers clinched a major legislative victory by passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in late 2017, reducing the corporate tax rate to 21 percent and offering new incentives for companies to repatriate profits.

Sundararajan adds that Uber should also be concerned about investors pressuring the company to go after profit prematurely, say, by filing for an initial public offering.

The company expects its pre-tax profit to go up by 7 percent to 315 billion pounds ($ 385 million) in the last six months of 2016.

Chief Executive Bob Dudley is in line for a $ 19.6 million compensation package for 2015, a year in which shrinking profit margins triggered by sharp falls in the price of oil led to more than 5,000 job losses at the oil and gas company.

In the summer of 2014, the company abruptly slashed its projected 2016 profits by a third.

Although it has been reported by those close to the Burger King deal that its relocation to Canada is not primarily motivated for tax reasons, the move would empower the company to repatriate profits on its overseas business at a lower rate.

Collection companies buy it for pennies on the dollar, hoping to make a profit by collecting the uncollectable.

With legal B corporation status, companies are allowed to favour social impact over profit without the risk of being sued by shareholders.

In fact, he said, it was his decision to work with digital marketing expert Adrienne DeVita that helped his business grow its AdWords profits by 50 percent in 60 days — all while lowering the company's cost per acquisition by up to 70 percent.

As a result, these companies have grown by leaps and bounds and made millions in profit.

Within five years, the three undergrads grew Buytopia's revenues by a whopping 3,951 %, nabbing No. 11 in PROFIT 500's 2014 ranking of Canada's fastest - growing companies.

AT&T Inc reported quarterly profit that beat analysts» estimates on Wednesday, helped by tax cuts and new wireless subscribers, and its chief executive voiced confidence the company will complete its $ 85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc..

Chinese state - owned companies are «profit - driven to the core,» according to a recent study by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Canadian International Council.

BlackBerry Chief Executive John Chen last month expressed confidence the company's trimmed - down handset business can turn a profit by a self - imposed September deadline, even as some analysts urge the company to ditch the unit.

Welshpool - based Maca has posted a slight fall in profit for the financial year but increased revenue by 1 per cent, despite it being a tough time for contractors and mining services companies in the current market.

Engineering services company RCR Tomlinson has increased profit by 3.9 per cent to $ 19 million for the six months to December, on the back of sales in the infrastructure and energy markets.

The company turned its first profit in 2003, surpassed $ 1 billion in sales in 2008, and was acquired by Amazon.com for $ 1.2 billion in 2009.

Unlike other retailers, the company sees none of the profits — instead, making its money by leasing space to product makers on a month - to - month basis.