Sentences with phrase «company decreases the number»

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And the dividends themselves can seem relatively stingy: The number of companies increasing their dividend has been shrinking, and the number of decreases is accelerating.

Your company benefits because you and your employees could learn how to adopt practices with a number of advantages (such as decreased stress or fewer people needing to take sick days).

A number of other embarrassing debacles followed — including reports that Uber had used a software tool to try to deceive authorities by «hiding» rides — and ultimately resulted in a more than 20 % decrease to the once high - flying company's valuation, from around $ 70 billion to an estimated $ 54 billion.»

The policy that councillors will vote on won't immediately decrease the city's number of payday loan businesses to 15 to match its number of wards because it will grandfather in existing companies, but will prevent new ones from opening, said Tom Cooper, the director of the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction.

As well, companies like Bell argue that prices for individual channels will go up while the number of available channels will decrease, leaving customers paying the same amount of money or more for less TV.

«Insurance and retail companies were decreasing their hires in large numbers and that brought the overall number down,» said NACE research manager Andrea Koncz.

For example, while a number of communities are debating how to provide benefits to gig economy workers, without policies that ensure a baseline wage threshold or that grant workers a voice in determining their wages and benefits, low - road companies could respond to requirements to contribute to benefits with commensurate decreases in pay.

The Consumer Discretionary sector has witnessed the largest increase (+6) in the number of companies issuing negative EPS guidance and the largest decrease -LRB--6) in the number of companies issuing positive EPS guidance in Q3 2012 relative to Q2 2012.

The Information Technology -LRB--8) and Consumer Discretionary -LRB--5) have also seen the largest decreases in the number of companies issuing positive EPS guidance for the quarter relative to their five - year averages.

Since the end of September, the number of companies issuing negative EPS guidance for the current fiscal year has decreased by eight, while the number of companies issuing positive EPS guidance has increased by 15.

This represents a 26 % year - over-year decrease in the number of female - led companies that raised an A in the Bay Area compared with 2014.

The McGill study is the first «to say that soft protective headgear for soccer significantly decreased the number of concussions for those athletes,» said lead researcher, Dr. Scott Delaney in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Company.

On jobs a quarter of the companies expect to increase numbers, half no change and a quarter a decrease.

And although there has only been a modest decrease during this period of 1 % in the total number of German biotech companies, 32 have gone bankrupt.

The company is often viewed as a sort of apparel - industry savior, not only because it's supplanting the decrease in retail jobs by hiring more than 3,000 «stylists» as W - 2 employees — meaning that Stitch Fix deducts payroll taxes from each pay check and offers benefits like 401K and health insurance to those who work a certain number of hours a week — but also by emerging as one of the largest wholesale partners in the US.

In a statement released earlier this week, the company revealed that it would be adjusting production schedules and the number of agency staff due to the decreased production demands.

A reputable company will never let their workers miss customers deadlines, because it may decrease their reputation and number of returning customers.

In an open letter to librarians explaining its switch to limit the number of check - outs a library can offer on an e-book, HarperCollins said that its previous policy of «selling e-books to libraries in perpetuity, if left unchanged, would undermine the emerging e-book eco-system, hurt the growing e-book channel, place additional pressure on physical bookstores, and in the end lead to a decrease in book sales and royalties paid to authors.9 Similarly, Simon & Schuster's executive vice president and chief digital officer Elinor Hirschhorn says that the company does not make its e-books available to libraries at all because «[w] e're concerned that authors and publishers are made whole by library e-lending and that they aren't losing sales that they might have made in another channel.»

«So increased deductibles mean a decrease in the number of claims, and the insurance company saves more money.»

It is also not uncommon for HR and management to see a decrease in the number of benefits inquiries accompanied by a greater appreciation of the company and its programs.

A reverse stock split decreases the total number of a company's outstanding shares and simultaneously increases the price per share.

This bank has run into a number of problems related to sub-prime loans so rather than continue to pay out the normal dividend and risk running out of cash, the company decided to decrease the amount of dividend.

A company that issues a reverse stock split decreases the number of its outstanding shares and increases the share price.

If a company pays out the same amount of total money to shareholders each year in dividends, and the number of total shares is decreasing, then each shareholder will be receiving a larger dividend each year.

This effectively reduces the total number of company shares in existence, and therefore each share is worth a larger percentage of the company (and correspondingly, the stock EPS will increase and therefore the P / E will decrease or the stock price will go up).

As stated by the company «a decrease in the number of blockbuster titles resulted in net sales decline as compared to the same period of the prior fiscal year.

We can also drill down deeper into quarterly results to see how the company is dealing with stock on a rolling basis, though it is possible for Nintendo to increase and decrease inventory before it has to report the numbers at the end of the quarter or year.

The FIT reduction reversed the upward trend in the sector: The number of new solar installations in the UK has decreased and a number of companies have exited the market.

Both Lexis and Westlaw have done their usual slew of Joint Ventures, Mergers and Buyouts in the world of legal technology to boost ever decreasing revenues and as late as mid March press departments at both companies were in silent mode as the number crunchers and management run around furiously creating end of... [more]

While the rules helped to decrease the number of accidents, many companies are secretly pushing drivers to falsify their records to drive longer.

I suppose it is because of the inherent uncertainty with the trickier cases in insolvency law in Scotland, and partly because of the significant costs associated with the formal insolvency processes available to an individual or company, that the number of cases has significantly decreased over the last few years.

Both Lexis and Westlaw have done their usual slew of Joint Ventures, Mergers and Buyouts in the world of legal technology to boost ever decreasing revenues and as late as mid March press departments at both companies were in silent mode as the number crunchers and management run around furiously creating end of Q. 1 figures for boards, MD's and investors that are designed to ensure that their jobs last into quarters 2 & 3 of 2013.

The company will offer thousands of discounted items and special promotions to reward its Prime customers and increase their numbers, while rivals scramble to maintain their decreasing share of the e-commerce pie.

That could mean alienating some of its more intolerant users, making changes that decrease the number of ads people see or improving privacy and user control in ways that could reduce the stream of monetizable data the company receives.

Microsoft as a company is by no means impoverished, but its mobile efforts have yielded an expected and ever - decreasing number to its balance sheets.

Telus announced its second quarter 2015 results today, with the company reporting an income of $ 341 million, a 10 per cent decrease from the $ 381 million number it reported at the same time last year.

Due to the gradual implementation of the Core version 0.12.1 by bitcoin companies the system is becoming more stable as the number of «orphan» blocks in it is decreasing.

If a salesperson is employed by a company, in some cases the compensation may be either decreased or increased based on the number of goods and services sold, and these companies may hold a specific quota that the salesperson is required to reach.

Promoted workers safety awareness, resulting in lower workers compensation claims and decreased annual workers compensation premiums and average number of recordable injuries.Key Accomplishments: Created and designed company first Employee Handbook, Policy and Procedures Manuals.

Achievements should include increases of good numbers, decreases of bad ones, major projects, fulfillment of targets several tens or hundreds of percents over 100 %, all kinds of improvements you brought to the company etc..

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Increased the number of clients 25 % by performing word of mouth marketing through existing customers • Singlehandedly performed advanced detailing on 5 rental vehicles, in the absence of 2 car detailers • Successfully created a large vehicle display, which won the Auto Display Competition, held at The Orange in May 2016 • Decreased the red tape involved to gratify the qualifications procedure, increasing customers» interest in renting vehicles from the company

• Introduced core office systems which resulted in increased efficiency of work processes • Implemented a novel filing system which dynamically assigned library numbers to folders and files • Reorganized the office supplies inventory system, incorporating a module that sounded alarms when the inventory for any item went lower than 30 % • Decreased office supplies cost by $ 58000 by switching from an expensive supplier to a cheaper one who offered the same quality • Set up a core system to organize incoming mail which eliminated distribution hurdles completely • Streamlined the client scheduling system, resulting in increased communication between office and clients • Singlehandedly prepared a plethora of materials, now being used for all workshops and conferences that the company organizes • Introduced and implemented a forms processing system, resulting in a 50 % decrease in processing time • Successfully implemented a client information system, decreasing information pulling time by 80 % • Scheduled 3 meetings and a large annual event simultaneously, without a single evident problem in any of the 4 occasions • Reduced executives» travel expenses by 50 % by incorporating the services of a less expensive travel agent

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Increased the efficiency of call taking and messaging by introducing new PABX technology in setting a Samsung OfficeServe to work with existing technology • Implemented a call tracking system to trace calls that come from unidentified sources, as part of the company's security measures • Introduced the collect call module, resulting in decreased problems associated with customers» outbound calls • Led the creation and maintenance of electronic telephone directories, resulting in 88 % decrease in number location time

In 2007, the number of property transactions is expected to decrease by three per cent to 468,000 units sold, the company says.