Sentences with phrase «company histories when»

Tesla released arguably one of the biggest over-the-air software updates in its company history when it introduced Version 8.0 with updated Autopilot in...

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Liquor company Diageo tried to promote the progressive history of its Johnnie Walker brand in late February when it introduced its limited edition «Jane Walker» scotch whisky, its traditional Johnny Walker bottle with a female iteration of the brand's Striding Man logo.

Companies in these segments still were standing and history showed they did well when the value of the currency declined.

The first female CEO in Lloyd's of London's 328 - year history, Beale says reverse mentorship is what has helped her company to think outside the box when it comes to new ideas.

When the restaurant chain's team moved to a new headquarters, it brought its company culture into the 21st century without losing its history.

(The company declined «for competitive reasons» to reveal when it plans to equip other outlets with such gadgetry, but the reality for the chain is that its dealers, who own their stores, have a long history of resisting new, and potentially costly, merchandising ideas from head office.)

The company's IPO was the largest in Israel's history when it began trading publicly in 2010.

Frankly, if Twitter wanted to adopt a «no world leaders» rule now and then quietly drop it in three or seven years» time, that would be perfectly consistent with the company's history when it comes to safety and abuse, which is one of inconsistency.

The halls of business history are littered with companies that failed to adapt when the market dictated it.

Baby's First Deal: In April, when Netflix raised $ 1 billion in new debt for content acquisitions, we noted that the streaming giant has never acquired another company in its entire history.

She made history 14 years ago when, at 27 years old, she became the youngest - ever CEO of a public company.

According to this theory, the family didn't want even the slightest hint of impropriety to affect the Sky bid — especially when there is enough attention already on the Murdochs» history with News of the World and the hacking of private telephone accounts, an affair that caused them to drop an earlier bid for the company in 2011.

But a look back at history shows that when nations plunged money into US - based companies with market momentum their timing wasn't so great.

As the company's history books like to boast, P.J. «awoke the sleeping giant» when he consolidated ownership and shifted Cara's focus from transportation to restaurants.

The worst crisis in the 54 - year history of Le Château Inc. came to a head last June, when the only analyst still covering the company slapped a Sell rating on its stock.

Early on in our history when things weren't really going well — we had hit a tough patch and a lot of people wanted to buy Facebook — I went and I met with Steve Jobs, and he said that to reconnect with what I believed was the mission of the company, I should go visit this temple in India that he had gone to early in the evolution of Apple, when he was thinking about what he wanted his vision of the future to be... That reinforced to me the importance of what we were doing, and that is something I will always remember.

When talking about the evolution of desktop 3D printing, many companies today make the analogy to the personal computing boom of the 1980s, but Lobovsky argues they're misremembering the history of computers.

His biggest victory this year may have come at the end of October, when Tesla announced that it had its second profitable quarter in the company's history, shocking analysts who thought that the company would be reporting yet another loss.

Tania Bryer speaks with Jochen Zeitz, who became the youngest ever head of a public company in German history when he was made CEO of Puma.

For most of the stock market's history, buybacks were actually illegal — considered to be insider trading — the thought being that if you ran the company, you would have nonpublic information to know when to buy shares.

It's interesting to see how diligent some companies are when it comes to keeping track of institutional history.

That's going to drive demand, but the company has an inconsistent history when it comes to meeting planned release dates.

Shares of defense companies tend to outperform the broader market when the United States takes military action in the Middle East, history shows.

The installation took three days when it might easily have taken a week — the smoothest in the company's history, says Paul.

«I think when the coverage of our company is about the story of the day,» Sloan says, «as opposed to rehashing history, we'll know it's over.»

The company made history last year when its self - learning AlphaGo agent beat a world champion at the notoriously difficult Chinese board game Go.

When Betts arrived, the company's market share sat at 14.9 %, the lowest in its history and efforts to modernize the Canadian operation had only lodged it deeper in the grease trap.

Because it would significantly mark a time in my business history (much like when we decided to give away more than the average 10 percent tithe) where I can build a company without a motive of providing for myself.

It just seemed to me that the best way to understand how great entrepreneurs become great company builders was to take the greatest companies of the 20th century and then rewind the tape of history to when they were start - ups.

When Brandon Snow goes looking for companies to buy, he wants to see three things: a defensive business model, a history of capital allocation and a management team whose interests are aligned with those of shareholders.

«As the market for natural and organic foods and nutritional supplements continues to grow, having a story based on a set of founding principles that have guided us throughout our 60 year history... helps when talking to investors,» Kemper Isley, co-president of the company, and son of the founders Margaret and Philip Isley, said in an email.

When Cambridge Advisors» Brandon Snow goes looking for companies to buy, he wants to see three things: a defensive business model, a history of capital allocation and a management team whose interests are aligned with those of shareholders.

«When you look at her history with Starbucks and Lululemon, how can you not believe she's going to be able to grow this company in the same way?»

History has shown that great companies, such as Palo Alto Networks, are often financed during times when risk capital is scarce, forcing a discipline that values spending with genuine care.

But the fact it's even happening is a sign of just how much Apple's fortunes have shifted from a year ago when its stock was on an extraordinary run that would make it one of the most valuable companies in history.

Simply click on a year to see which companies were excluded and when it occurred [see also Visual History Of The S&P 500].

The history of the company dates back to the year of 2009 when Brian Acton and Jan Koum worked out this messenger.

He assumed the chairmanship of the Board of Management in the fall of 2015 when the Company faced the greatest challenge in its history.

When you review the history of fraud in corporate America history, it is not the legendary companies with decades of dividend growth that fall victim to egomaniacs that engage in corrupt behavior.

Twitter reported its second straight profitable quarter — and the second profitable quarter in company history — early Wednesday morning when the company shared first - quarter earnings, which were better than expected.

The history of business is filled with companies that are no more because their leaders refused to enact change when the writing was on the wall.

When a group of Bitcoin users and companies split the digital currency into two different versions in August, it was an unprecedented event in the technology's nine - year history.

When you look at the history of this country, and you look at the history of these kinds of hearings... when companies become big and powerful and accumulate a lot of wealth and power, what typically happens from this body is there's an instinct to either regulate or break -When you look at the history of this country, and you look at the history of these kinds of hearings... when companies become big and powerful and accumulate a lot of wealth and power, what typically happens from this body is there's an instinct to either regulate or break -when companies become big and powerful and accumulate a lot of wealth and power, what typically happens from this body is there's an instinct to either regulate or break - up.

What history tells us is that petro - economies do poorly when they allow rent - seekers to capture the resource rents — those rent - seekers may be international companies looking to profit at the expense of the locals or they may be locals in one sector looking to profit at the expense of other sectors.

When Procter & Gamble purchased Gillette for $ 57 billion in 2005, then the largest acquisition in the company's history, Warren Buffett called it «a dream deal.»

When you select a company with a strong dividend growth history and future dividend growth potential, you have literally hit the jackpot.

In such cases, the exchange ratio will be established and the convertible instrument will convert into equity only after the company has more of an operating history — typically when there is a Series A financing round.

When we see a company that generates increasing amounts of cash each year, and has a history of paying out more cash to their shareholders, we get excited.

That may be hard to pull off when its chardonnay and merlot sit on shelves with dozens of other brands in bricks - and - mortar stores in Beijing and Shanghai, as there's no way for China's wine aficionados to understand the wine or the company's history.

Breyer was the managing partner at Accel Partners, which invested $ 12.7 million in Facebook in 2005 when the company was priced around $ 100 million; that bet proved to be among the most lucrative in the history of the venture business, returning many billions of dollars to Accel's investors after the company went public in 2012.