Sentences with phrase «company falter»

I think this happens a lot — attempts to diversify a company falter because the team doesn't have a sufficiently diverse network.

«When companies falter, it is usually because they've forgotten their original DNA — that is to say, what it is that made them distinctive and gave them their purpose and values and made them successful,» Thornton told analysts Thursday.

Edison's company faltered, and he was out.

The initiative, which Sage calls the 100/100 program, provides interesting insights into why entrepreneurs delay recruiting salespeople — sometimes until their companies falter — and what mistakes businesses make in the hiring process.

In the second stage, many companies falter, as growth creates a new set of challenges.

Ideally the company should have a strong competitive position in a stable industry, or should at least be one of the stronger companies in a cyclical industry that can ride out slumps when weaker companies falter.

When companies falter and the equity becomes drained of value, holding the right bonds can allow private equity sponsors to control the restructuring and potentially regain ownership after converting debt into new equity.

«If you look back over time, both when the company faltered and when it surged, I'd say the periods of growth were tightly aligned with the willingness to take risk.»

Not exact matches

Laura Ashley, Nokia and many others faltered while growing their company.

Around the same time, a number of defined - benefit plans sponsored by troubled companies, including Nortel Networks, GM Canada and DaimlerChrysler, began to falter in the wake of the 2008 stock - market market meltdown and had to be restructured.

Hershey (HSY) cut its full - year revenue forecast again earlier this summer, and also announced a round of layoffs, as sales continue to shrink in the increasingly health - conscious U.S. and the company's efforts to boost sales in China have faltered amid that country's sluggish economic growth.

The U.S. market is faltering as scandals hit companies like Facebook.

CEO John Chen says the company is working on a set of products that will help it to regain its faltering share of the smartphone market.

While other family firms falter during a generational transition, the company has doubled in size in the past five years.

If their companies weren't hamstrung by big loan balances during the downturn, owners saw plenty of other businesses falter when revenue fell and monthly payments became unmanageable.

A good buddy, Cliff Rees — he's now the president of Telegroup — had a job with a faltering software company.

Other reasons the company could be faltering in China include the government's «official bias toward bolstering homegrown competition,» according to the Times, as well as scalpers, who tend to buy new cars early on and resell them, thus deflating actual sales figures.

When the company began to falter, she received more frequent e-mails describing what they were doing to stay on track, which she found reassuring.

Considering the ups and downs of the economy, not to mention the rapidly changing American palate, it's astounding that one company could sustain that level of momentum and profitability without faltering.

Nielsen agrees that some e-commerce startups have faltered, but he stands by the unit economics of the startup, remarking that the company has not made the mistake of getting ahead of itself for expansion.

Unfortunately, Gallup data reveal that companies are faltering even in the earliest stages of the employee experience.

In other words, if the company is faltering or on the verge of going bankrupt, the venture debt investors have a better chance of getting their money out before the investment turns to zero.

In 2004, after decades of smaller acquisitions of Canadian companies, he got his chance: CGI snapped up a faltering Fairfax, Va. - based technology and consulting company called American Management Systems for $ 858 million in cash.

Indianapolis - based Lilly is now laying off 485 people, mostly in its faltering Alzheimer's unit, the company told its city's mayor and the Indiana State Department of Workforce Development in a letter sent under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act (WARN).

Its smartphones were once carried by millions of executives and professionals all over the world, and ever since then the company has faltered over the last few years.

A year later, with oil down to $ 40 a barrel, not only is no one calling for sympathy for oil companies, plenty of people are drawing a connection between oil's fortunes and the recent faltering of the Canadian economy.

There have been a crowd of companies removing into the diversion nonetheless some have already faltered.

When SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket finally takes off for the first time, a debut now scheduled this fall, there's a good chance the commercial heavy - lifter will falter short of reaching orbit, company founder and chief designer Elon Musk said last week.

Pete's Fresh Market may no longer be «a traditional mom - and - pop market,» but the company has not let its ethics falter, Dremonas says.

And from the start, I've insisted that the financial industry — and not taxpayers — shoulder the costs in the event that a large financial company should falter.

The industry has faltered because of declining global demand and low natural gas prices, which have encouraged electric power companies to use gas instead of coal to generate electricity, said Ray Rasker, executive director of Headwaters Economics, an independent research group focusing on the economic implications of land management decisions in the West.

He can't retain top talent, and his company is faltering.

After being let go from her job at a small time TV station, the perky but prattling program director shamelessly implores IBS News executive Jerry Barnes (Jeff Goldblum) to give her a chance to produce his company's faltering morning television show.

AMERICAN HONDA -10 % It was not a great September at Honda, with the company getting passed by Chrysler, the Civic falling behind the new Corolla, and Acura continuing to falter.

Using the example above, this would mean that by owning shares of both The Coca - Colca Company and PepsiCo, you have actually strengthened the foundation of your portfolio; if either company were to falter, you would still have the other one to bolster yourself (assuming, again, that the rest of your portfolio is properly diversCompany and PepsiCo, you have actually strengthened the foundation of your portfolio; if either company were to falter, you would still have the other one to bolster yourself (assuming, again, that the rest of your portfolio is properly diverscompany were to falter, you would still have the other one to bolster yourself (assuming, again, that the rest of your portfolio is properly diversified).

Focus too heavily on dividend stocks, on the other hand, and you may end up with shares of companies concentrated in just a few industries, leaving you vulnerable if those sectors falter.

Questions remain about how the market will react Monday, particularly to Lehman's plan to wind down its trading operations, and whether other companies, like A.I.G. and Washington Mutual, the nation's largest savings and loan, might falter.

«The days of planned obsolescence are over; people are fed up and they want quality and durability,» says Oliver, who reports that her company's yearly 100 - percent growth rate faltered only this year due to the economy.

I'm surprised by the claim that Rare «faltered» on the N64, considering that they were pretty much the only company other than Nintendo itself to be very successful on the platform.

David Malin Roodman, «Economic Growth Falters,» in Worldwatch Institute, Vital Signs 2002 (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002), pp. 58 - 59.

Christy Burke, President of Burke & Company consulting firm is the moderator / referee as «Brown and Christian make bold projections — and sometimes clash — about imminent global legal IT trends for law firms, vendors, the cloud, what's hot (Surface) and what's not (Blackberry), and whether eDiscovery is finally faltering as the industry's cash cow.

«B2B companies whose customers are other early stage B2B companies put themselves doubly at risk: Not only are startups failure - prone by nature, but an early stage company with strong fundamentals can still falter if its client base is vulnerable to market corrections.»

At a passing glance it appears to me that the more successful companies or industries tend to stay away from dress codes, for example, Google is famously known to have the cultural motto of «you don't have to wear a suit to be taken seriously», while companies or industries that appear to be faltering are the ones with dress codes or even stringent dress codes.

If you compare their «best» rates to other insurance companies» best rates, this is where they falter.

New York Life Insurance Company has been serving its customers since 1845 and during their 170 years of service has never faltered in paying a claim or meeting the company's commiCompany has been serving its customers since 1845 and during their 170 years of service has never faltered in paying a claim or meeting the company's commicompany's commitments.

That said, the company's original S series flagship line has been going strong as well, and while faltering a bit in 2014, with the latest addition to this lineup, the Galaxy S6, Samsung has come back as strong as ever.

But by November, it was clear the company's broader ambitions had faltered, with CEO Yueting Jia admitting the company had grown too fast, and that it would scale back many of its global expansion plans.

Sony is a company of extremes — a pioneer in bringing exceptional products across categories, yet faltering sometimes on the very basics of...

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But now the company is financially faltering and looking to offset its giant, basket - shaped asset, on which it owes over $ 570,000 in back taxes.