Sentences with phrase «company for more than a few years»

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It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

Personally, I've been impressed with Ubisoft's presentations for the past few years running and the company — which has more than half its employees in Canada — is once again looking strong for 2014 and 2015.

As the Country Head of Singapore for Grab, Lim took Grab from being unheard of a few years ago, to having more drivers on the platform than all of Singapore's taxi companies combined.

Perhaps it's this ideal that has propelled the company to grow (its revenue) more than 20 percent annually for the past few years.

As attorney general, Spitzer's favorite tactic was to use shame and publicity as weapons against publicly traded companies, and for eight years, it was hugely effective — though Spitzer ran roughshod over more than a few innocent parties.

Under a proposal put forward by Cuomo, the program — which has been criticized for producing only 408 jobs over two years despite more than $ 50 million in ads — would be renamed the Excelsior Business Program and opened up to any company operating for five years or fewer.

Fewer people this year were looking for a new job for career advancement than last year, but more are moving because of «company direction» and for reasons related to mergers and acquisitions or expected layoffs that were taking place at the survey taker's company.

Postdoctoral stints are never more than a few years anyway, so even if your company doesn't make it, it's not the end of the road for your own career.

There are fewer ways for Indie Authors to find an audience than there were a year ago, and every day there are more predatory companies seeking to make money off of us.

It is beyond the scope of this initial letter to discuss in great detail these issues, such as the sale of Mr. Riggio's own college book business to BKS for more than $ 500 million and the hundreds of millions of dollars that the Company's failing and poorly - conceived Nook business may have cost shareholders, along with the Company's inexplicably high SG&A expense structure and parade of CEOs who have come and gone in the last few years.

Make sure that the debt settlement company has been around for more than a few years, and is generally well - regarded.

A person with a good credit history for the last few years will be much more attractive to credit card companies than a person that has many missed payments on their credit report.

Fewer than 100 of the more than 10,000 publicly - traded companies have increased annual dividends for at least 26 consecutive years.

Having been at the helm of her media and communications company spanning more than thirty years, managing several successful Platinum selling recording artists, working as executive producer for artists of the caliber of Tupac Shakur, hired to procure and produce a specialty album for Microsoft co-owner Paul Allen, launching a critically acclaimed television music program «Your Music Network», and traveling the world with four time heavy weight boxing champion and fellow music lover, Evander Holyfield, while handling his business affairs along with those of his family are only a few of Lisa's achievements.

I will admit that I had the Starwood Preferred Guest Business Credit Card for less than a year, so I wasn't given the shaft with regards to points, but I heard a few rumors that the company makes it more difficult to build points if you are long - term customer.

- for Sonic's 25th anniversary last year, Iizuka received a task to deliver some sort of product - the target was «dormant fans» who used to play the SEGA Genesis, but haven't really played any games since - Iizuka met Christian Whitehead, which lead to the creation of Sonic Mania - there was talk of another port, but Iizuka thought fans would desire something new from the old games - this is the first time Iizuka partnered with a team of devs spread across various countries - Iizuka said this team had a greater passion to create - this was in comparison to companies that set decisions on a pre-determined schedule (in meetings, etc)- the team had so many features they still wanted to add after the beta version was complete - since there were only a few spots with text that needed to be localized, they could bring the game to more places quicker - the game has Japanese, English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish support - the Studiopolis stage is included due to receiving the most requests from the Sonic Mania development team - Iizuka actually considered reducing the amount of stages at one point in order to meet the development schedule - Sonic Mania doesn't really have much in the way of cut content like scrapped stages - since Sonic Mania was only distributed digitally, the team was able to continue working very close leading up to launch - this let them put in practically all ideas, and there are currently no plans for DLC - Iizuka recommended Flying Battery Zone for inclusion becaues he likes the music - he also likes when the player goes inside and outside the ship - Iizuka likes Mirage Saloon because the stage structure will be different depending on the player character chosen - Puyo Puyo gameplay was added because there was a Puyo Puyo game released in the west for the SEGA Genesis - this game was originally called «Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine», and the team thought it would make a fun boss battle - Iizuka didn't have plans to feature Blue Sphere in the special stages - the Blue Sphere special stages were brought over to Mania as a test, but ended up staying for the final game - the team felt the need to continuously connect stages from various eras, which is doe with the Phantom Ruby story - for Sonic Mania, it was decided that the technological limit would be set at SEGA CD, - this is higher than the Genesis but lower than Saturn - in creating a SEGA CD - grade special stage, they would intentionally make SEGA CD - grade polygons

Witnessing rapid industrialization in the past few years, Gurgaon is now center for more than 250 Fortune 500 companies.

In the first few years insurance companies do lot for detailed investigations than normal and hence claim settlement takes lot more time than normal, established companies.

In just a few short months this year, the company parted ways with more than a dozen top executives including president Jeff Jones, head of finance Gautam Gupta, senior vice president for business Emil Michael, vice president of technology Anthony Lewandroski, and APAC business president Eric Alexander.

Samsung's taken its time to do something other manufacturers — including its biggest competitor, Apple — have been doing for a few years, but the company's implementation of stereo speakers on the Galaxy S9 is more than good enough for us to stop complaining about the long wait.

Databases: For a company that's a bit more than two years old, Faraday Future as accumulated a few databases.

One company that Barr works with has replaced home purchase assistance with a rental allowance for transferees who expect to be gone for no more than a few years.