Sentences with phrase «company faces product»

Every major company faces product issues like this at some point, McGregor said, often the result of too - aggressive scheduling.

Companies facing products liability and mass tort litigation require experienced counsel with a sophisticated, multi-disciplinary practice.

Not exact matches

He also bet on the product being successful and priced it based on what it would cost in the future if sales increased, instead of factoring in the high input costs that the company had to face at the onset.

While Soylent wants consumers who aren't avid readers of nutrition labels to be able to understand the concept behind the company's products, it's not looking to do an about - face.

the Company is exposed to, and may face adverse developments involving, mass tort claims such as those relating to exposure to potentially harmful products or substances;

Much of what we love about Slack is timeless: The problem the company set out to solve is one that Butterfield and his founding team faced themselves, and their product is less of a quantum leap forward than a stunningly effective set of improvements on what came before.

Still, there is not a company on the face of the Earth that can maintain a powerful brand image with lousy or even mediocre products and service.

Even in the face of these exclusionary agreements that have unreasonably restrained competition, some companies, such as TreeHouse, have fought hard to win market share away from Green Mountain on the merits by offering innovative, quality products at substantially lower prices.

Twitter's design update is highly indicative of the identity crisis the company's namesake product now faces.

KIND bars faced some problematic press in 2015 as well, when a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said several of the company's products weren't as healthy as advertised.

The delayed launch of what Monsanto calls a blockbuster product is another setback for the company, which is already battling to keep a new version of a herbicide on the market in the face of complaints that it damaged millions of acres of crops this summer.

BlackBerry announced a couple of new products on Wednesday (the upcoming Z30 phone and BBM Messenger for Apple and Android devices) but neither really mattered in the face of the big news of the day, which is that the company is cutting 40 % of its workforce, according to The Wall Street Journal.

«As an investor, I think the ideas and discoveries coming out of biohacking will change the world,» says Scholnick, though he adds that companies concentrating in this market face a challenge in developing products that are easy for consumers to understand and use.

The name and glossy logo serve as the public face of a labyrinthine network of companies that have sold a bewildering array of products online, from colon cleanses to credit reports.

These mistakes can be quite costly for businesses, as differences in tariff rates mean that a company making a classification error will either pay too much in tariffs or face a retroactive tax bill if they accidentally classified a product at too low a rate.

Patron, facing an onslaught of competition from celebrity - endorsed tequilas, is fighting back this summer with a line of pricey drinks as part of the largest product launch in the company's 25 - year history.

The disclosure said that the company may face product liability claims due to «failures of new technologies that we are pioneering, including autopilot in our vehicles,» adding that «product liability claims could harm our business, prospects, operating results and financial condition.»

Several survey companies have templates that you can use to assess customer satisfaction, performance of customer - facing employees, or new products.

Finally, he suggested licensing the company's custom merchant - facing technology, which helped sellers more easily input product data to the site.

When Lehman and Zechory recently announced a list of Genius company values such as «Feel It to My Face» (never be afraid to tell others what you're thinking) and «Take the Roast out of the Oven» (unleash incomplete products into the world and see what happens), Moghadam immediately sent an unprompted email declaring «I think Tom has finally lost his f — ing mind — RIP.

Zuckerberg's complete belief in his product has also given him the strength to persevere with some of the most unpopular changes in the face of huge opposition, even within his own company.

The effort to point to the future also swayed Fitbit's designers away from traditional round watch shapes, either for the overall device or even for the watch faces the company created for the initial product (though outside developers will be able to create additional watch faces).

The expansion comes as the company faces allegations that it has been not - so - honest about its ingredients and product efficacy.

Go online and ask outdoor products company North Face, «What's the best tent for upstate New York in October?»

Brands such as Clinique and Smashbox, which the company pushes through makeup counters in department stores, have been facing a decline as shoppers opt to purchase discounted products online or through specialty shops such as Ulta Beauty and personalized makeup subscriptions like Birchbox and Ipsy.

iPhone chip supplier Qualcomm (qcom) faces a fresh set of antitrust allegations from a group of four companies that assemble the iPhone and other products on behalf of Apple (aapl).

Honest Tea co-founder Seth Goldman faced this conflict a few years ago, when the company realized that its then - new product, Honest Fizz, would not carry the USDA Organic seal — the first time Honest Tea would not have that label since 2004.

Avis Car Rental this week announced the launch of a new marketing campaign, which once again features the famed founder, along with a few other familiar faces including: Alexandra Wilkis Wilson and Alexis Maybank, the co-founders of online luxury retailer Gilt Groupe and Baratunde Thurston, the comedian co-founder of Cultivated Wit, a digital content and product development company.

With small - business owners already telling surveyors from the National Federation of Independent Business that poor sales are tied with taxes as the single most important problem they face, the gross domestic product forecast isn't going to bring much good cheer to the owners of small U.S. companies.

If you own or lead a professional services company, you understand the unique challenges you face in not offering a tangible product.

Since Stuart Montaldo, founder of DoubleStar LLC, which does business as Cogno Products, started using a space creature to promote the company's board games, Cogno the alien has become the recognizable «face» of the company.

By appealing to the mass - market, companies have access to more potential clients, and they'll likely face less initial competition since incumbents offering this luxury product or service likely ignored this portion of the population.

Entrepreneurs are faced with a unique opportunity to not only build innovative products but also to build companies that break the cycle and do not play off of fear, false superiority, or treating work as simply an exchange of labor for money.

Companies often hire celebrities to endorse their products because they invoke feelings of trust and familiarity on potential consumers, and Bitcoin Direct is betting that Tyson's face tattoo will do what Walter Cronkite's mustache did for CBS News.

The company may be facing product competition from other sellers of active wear, but hardly any other retailer with similar products has managed to replicate the Lululemon shopping experience.

At the same time, Cisco has faced new competition from companies offering less expensive products, like Arista Networks and lesser known vendors.

But as Snap faces increasing competition from companies looking to clone some of its products — Instagram stories, basically — Snap has had to look at some pretty significant changes to see if it can keep its users engaged and continue to grow.

He named his high - end yoga wear company Lululemon because he thinks the trouble Japanese people face pronouncing L's works as an extra marketing tool for his product in that country, according to a National Post Business Magazine article which awarded him a special citation for product innovation and marketing.

Days before talks were broken off, Thomaz Zanotto, a consultant for Brazil's second - biggest steel company, CSN, who had been kept abreast of negotiations, said it appeared that Brazil might have to face quotas on finished products, which represent 20 percent of exports to the United States.

As Amazon often does in the U.S. and Europe in the face of new Google product launches, the company today has discounts for both Echo and Dot devices.

Either way, the issue highlights the difficulty the Trump administration faces as it seeks to limit imports in a world where companies routinely make, ship and sell products across borders.

We may face increasing competition for additional new product acquisitions from pharmaceutical companies as new companies emerge with a similar business model and other more established companies focus on acquiring products to develop their pipeline.

Balsara, an Indian hygiene - products and cosmetics company best known for its Promise brand of clove toothpaste, is facing stiff domestic competition from Colgate - Palmolive.

The company also faces increasing content costs, because the big Hollywood studios and content owners are not thrilled about an upstart rival gobbling market share on the back of their products and are raising their prices.

People love to quote Buffet and say «price is what you pay value is what you get» but I can assure you that Buffet would slap you in the face with a BigMac if you paid 60 times the earnings for a company that sells a boring (non growth) product such as toilet - paper or tooth - paste.

That consumer revolt underscored what Uber and other businesses face in a «polarizing time,» when people are sensitive to the «political leanings» of companies» actions and are willing to boycott their products and services, says Evan Rawley, an associate business professor at Columbia Business School.

Jack Black is another great company that has made multiple of our top male grooming product lists including best safety razor and best face body lotion for men.

The company faced criticism in The Wall Street Journal after two independent lab tests conducted on behalf of the newspaper found sodium lauryl sulfate — one of the chemicals the company promises that its products are free of — in The Honest Co.'s laundry detergent.

Canadian oil and gas companies and investors continue to face opposition on pipeline construction, reducing the ability to get petroleum products to market and reduce reliance on transportation by rail.

In the long run, we might all be better off if companies faced less pressure to generate returns for shareholders — and more incentive to invest in the next generation of great products.