Sentences with phrase «company after last year»

Other recent news about portfolio holdings include a new deal for AIG to sell ILFC to a Dutch company after last year's deal to sell it to a Chinese consortium apparently fell through.

Staples Inc. (SPLS) is exploring a sale to a private equity company after last year's failed merger with Office Depot.

Not exact matches

Now, 14 years after inheriting her father's semi-successful company, she took in $ 10 million last year by overseeing a half - billion dollars of hotel construction and living the life she has always wanted.

Former Telus top man Joe Natale officially took over as CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. this year, signaling a return to stable leadership for the company after former CEO Guy Laurence was axed last fall.

Limestone Building Blocks Company has been handed a $ 65,000 fine after a worker at its Nowergup manufacturing plant was seriously injured when he became trapped in a block - making machine last year.

Despite returning to profit growth last year, investors sold off the company's stock after Exxon reported fourth - quarter results that fell short of Wall Street's expectations.

The Democratic candidate for president also attacked the company for last year laying off 250 technology workers after requiring some of them to train their replacements: foreign employees hired on temporary H - 1B visas for highly skilled technical workers through an Indian outsourcing firm.

Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner admitted the decline in demand for dinosaur sales was a bit of a headwind in 2016, after the movie gave that company a boost last year.

After eight years in business we looked at the performance of our company in the last three or four years, we had a lot of growth ahead of us, but still we had enough maturity to know that our concept is very resilient, very solid.

Papa John's stock tanked after the company and the NFL mutually decided to end the pizza firm's sponsorship of the professional football league, and after Papa John's missed analyst expectations for the fourth quarter of last year.

Last year, Rome - based MonkeyParking voluntarily shut down operations in San Francisco — a city that couldn't be friendlier to technology startups — after officials threatened to sue the company.

Sometimes it's an obvious misstep — bankrupt airbag supplier Takata ranked last in the Harris poll this year after the largest recall in the history of the auto industry (and 22 deaths due to the company's products).

The disclosure confirms media reports last week that said Dell was considering going public after operating for roughly five years as a private company.

But the Ohio native, who took the top job at Google Canada last May after several years overseeing Google's local and government sales at its Chicago office, brings his own extra method to the company's madness.

The company was also forced to realign itself after sales dropped when it strayed to far from its strength in quality classic clothing last year.

Or maybe Tim's was inspired by French's Food Company, the New Jersey - based condiment maker owned by Britain's Reckitt Benckiser Group, which got a jump on Heinz last year by making a show of using Canadian tomatoes to make its Canadian ketchup after Heinz shut its plant in Leamington, Ontario.

Holt joined Spotify last year after stints in music and digital media to figure out what the company should be doing beyond music.

It's not clear, however, that the company learned its lesson: After eliminating the Extra Value Menu last year, it launched the Dollar Menu & More, which is another hodgepodge of offerings McDonald's (at least) considers good deals.

Kalanick was pressured to resign last year after the company became mired in legal woes and a raft of government investigations into how it does business.

The company's shares have lost value in each of the last two years after a seven - year streak of gains.

After phasing out her work last year as creative director for a packaging company to give Tweedle Press her full attention, she found that running the company with only one employee — her husband — made for an easier work - life balance than when she used part - timers in the past.

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the action Tuesday against the company, which is now called Altaba after its email and other digital services were sold to Verizon Communications for $ 4.48 billion last year.

According to one recent report, the company expects its advertising revenue to climb by 10 %, after only getting a 3 % increase last year.

The company only properly reorganized its various offerings, which include mapping, document collaboration, machine learning and artificial intelligence, into a proper cloud business last year after hiring VMWare co-founder Diane Greene in 2015.

After five long years of innovation, research, and testing, David Dickinson, CEO of start - up Zeo, based in Newton, Massachusetts, was confident that the product his company introduced last year»» a personal sleep monitor that gathers data from brain waves during sleep»» was unlike anything on the market.

Shares in Mungana Gold Mines rose by more than 25 per cent after the company announced it would move ahead with its North Queensland zinc strategy, following shareholder support for the $ 15 million acquisition of the Chilagoe base metal assets from the liquidators of Kagara, originally announced in December last year.

Westoz Investment Company stated that it almost tripled its reported profit in the 2014 financial year, with an increase in after tax profit from $ 7.4 million last year to $ 21.2 million.

After navigating the company through its first substantial challenges (the U.S. authorities investigated Alibaba's accounting practices last year, concerned about data from its blockbuster annual sale), Tsai is making more positive headlines of late.

After weeks of silence, Amazon's retail team informed Nest employees on a conference call late last year that it would not list any of the newer Nest products recently announced by the company, according to a person familiar with the call.

The number of protest votes fell to a little more than a fifth of the total after the advertising company came back last year with a more modest 48 million - pound plan for the executive.

The last time he signed with the satellite company in 2010 he got an estimated $ 80 million a year, and the new deal gives SiriusXM the right to use Stern's archives for seven years after the end of his contract.

If there's a blip on this otherwise impressive record, it's Cool's experience with Benjamin Moore, the 131 - year - old paint company Cool was sent in to help after a slew of management and strategic problems (Fortune profiled the business» blues last month).

After six construction companies completed the prototypes late last year, the barriers were tested on several fronts, including whether they could prevent illegal climbing and digging, and whether they are safe for Border Patrol agents.

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.

Immediately after the movie was finished I ran to my computer to see where Steve Madden's stock trades today and it turns out that the popular women's shoe company is up nearly 10 % over the last 12 months — and a whopping 567 % over the last five years.

The ball gave birth to a company, Uncharted Play, that is now «a profitable startup with gross profit margins that have doubled year after year for the last three years,» says Matthews.

After her internship last summer, she returned a second year to research and work on the company's safety products.

The city of about 1,400 people had been at odds with the company, which recently moved its main operations there, after residents complained last year of spicy odours burned their throats and eyes.

The North Face, in a statement, said he last visited the company two years ago and still proved inspiring to employees, even after all these years.

Dark Matter comes just a couple of weeks after the anti-secrecy organization released a trove of documents describing how the CIA over the last several years has targeted electronics made by a slew of prominent tech companies to further its espionage efforts.

The Miss USA Pageant was recently acquired by WME / IMG after the company cut a deal with the pageant's co-owner Donald Trump last year, Variety reports.

Zhang Yiming, the chief executive of Bytedance, last month said on social media that the company would increase the number of employees handling censorship at Toutiao — a popular news app that's also part of the social media giant — to 10,000 after being temporarily banned earlier this year.

May's government also faced questions from the opposition Labour Party about why it awarded the company 1.3 billion pounds of state contracts after Carillion fell into financial difficulty in July last year.

«If numbers remain what they are today we will not improve our results in the second quarter versus the one of last year,» chief financial officer Denis Petrin told reporters after the company's annual meeting.

After generic drug maker Actavis bought Allergan last year, it took the name of the specialty pharmaceutical company; the reinvented Allergan then turned around and sold its legacy generic business to Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA) in July.

Shares of a Hong Kong - based crypto company have been halted after soaring last year, as the U.S. cites concerns about unusual activity.

Last year, Lululemon, the high - end athletic clothing company, had to pull a yoga pant line after customers complained the pants turned sheer after being stretched.

When Saori Ito went on maternity leave last year and stopped getting a regular paycheck from her cosmetics company, she became worried about her future — and wondered if this kind of anxiety is what awaits her after retirement.

However, the company continues to lose money, with $ 143 million in losses last year after ending 2013 nearly $ 200 million in the hole.

The company has said it plans to launch about 30 missions in 2018 after completing a record 18 last year.