Sentences with phrase «company hit it big»

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Seattle - based PopCap, meanwhile, was acquired by giant Electronic Arts in 2011 for $ 750 million, and Finland's Supercell, which currently rules the mobile roost with its hit Clash of Clans, last month netted a cool $ 1.5 billion after Japanese telecom provider Softbank purchased a 51 % stake, which values the company at $ 3 billion — or bigger than Zynga.

In Dick's case, Wedbush Securities estimates that the whole hunting segment, not just firearms, make up only 10 % of company sales and that the moves announced by Dick's would have at most a small impact on sales, with the biggest threat coming from a hit to store traffic.

A big hit for our company is the personal financial wellness programs.

CEO Brian Cornell also worked to revamp the company's food business as well as launch new brands like Cat & Jack and Pillowfort labels for kids that have so far been big hits.

Other companies that said they had been hit by a presumed cyber attack included Russian metal maker Evraz, French construction materials firm Saint Gobain and the world's biggest advertising agency, WPP — though it was not clear if their problems were caused by the same virus.

Suncor is Alberta's biggest company by assets, but a near 50 % drop in oil prices in 2015 hit the company hard.

Among the individual tracks seeing the biggest spikes were 1993's «Linger» and 1994's «Zombie,» with the hit singles seeing their global Spotify streams increase by 664 % and 320 % on Monday compared to the same day a week ago, the company said.

«With sponsored lenses becoming a big hit, Snapchat is also the first company that has monetized the beginning of augmented reality marketing.»

But instead of a big hit to drum up some hype in the city that never sleeps, Cirque's got Shpeel on its plate, and it isn't the sort of entrance the 26 - year - old company was hoping for.

«There was a little bit of confusion in the tech world about who this entrepreneur was that has had two big hits in a row starting these companies,» he remembers.

That's a big tax hit for real estate companies, but especially so for First Capital, given many of its assets are in urban markets, which have some of the highest property tax rates in the world.

Yahoo, now owned by Verizon, and Equifax, are two companies which were hit with some of the biggest data breaches of all time.

Founder and CEO of Estimize, Leigh Drogen, provides a list of the company sees the biggest potential earnings hits and misses.

Her experience was quite different with her first big investment hit, a company called Cousins Maine Lobster.

For the company to hit that mark, the top line could stand the kind of big boost that a new, growing brand could bring.

The company took a big hit when it not only had to re-ship the tables to the right customer, but had to eat the cost of one of the wrongly shipped tables when the customer who received it refused to give it up, explains True.

Judging from recent layoffs hitting big business technology companies, it appears to be more than 60,000 jobs over the past year.

Although currently a small market, HP CEO Dion Weisler believes that 3D printing will become a big hit for his company and that it could win a sizable share of what he said is a $ 12 trillion market.

Prior to July, the last time the currency hit $ 300 was on March 10, the same day on which bitcoin companies 21 Inc, ShapeShift, and Digital Asset Holdings all announced either fundraising rounds or big executive appointments.

For smaller ecommerce companies, the biggest wins will be around improving fulfillment times and hitting delivery cutoffs.

For the company to hit that mark, the top line needs the kind of big boost that a new, growing brand could bring.

Nintendo Canada says Super Mario Maker first - weekend sales were 15 % to 20 % ahead of Splatoon, another of the company's big hits released earlier this year.

It turns out, you have to hit big - tech companies in the pocketbook if you want them to take change seriously.

World's no. 1 container shipper and one of Denmark's largest companies Maersk was hit by major cyber attack in June, one of the biggest - ever disruptions to hit global shipping.

I took a big hit to my income and a move from a VP to a director in a much bigger company.

The biggest risk for most business owners is that they'll be so busy running their companies they'll take their eye off the road — and end up in a head - on financial collision before they ever knew what hit them.

Adidas (AG) will become one of the club's biggest sponsors along with Chevrolet, which recently replaced Aon as Manchester's shirt sponsor, meaning Wayne Rooney and company will hit the pitch at Old Trafford with the Chevy logo blaring across their chests next month.

Maybank - KimEng said both companies likely needed the deal to gain access to «a bigger playground,» noting Geely's potential in China was capped by moderate growth and Malaysian auto sales appeared to have hit a saturation point.

Some of the biggest technology companies are making billions in turnover every year so this could be a big hit if they were to breach any rules.

There seem to have been more flops over the first seven months than hits, with a number of big companies either limping along or treading water.

People who start companies tend to be goal - oriented: They'll set out to accomplish a big «it» — making a better product, hitting a huge revenue target, going public, whatever — and then spend all of their energy (and most of their waking moments) in its pursuit.

Some of the numbers weren't a big surprise, given the company's financial forecast in March, when the company said it expects to hit as many as 96 million subscribers this year.

He points out that when the big boys hit town, local accounting firms, business - cleaning services, insurance companies, and wholesalers also take a hit.

On the other hand, more than 300 people gave the device a shot at the company's booth, and by almost all accounts, it was a big hit and worked well for virtually everyone who tried it.

And the company forecast year - over-year growth of 10 percent to 29 percent in the current quarter, which is not a big jump from the 26 percent growth rate it hit during the first three months of the year (some of that can be blamed on foreign exchange rates).

Business observers say independent companies that have hit the big time always make their customers feel like they're still working with a small, personal operation.

Steven Schwartz, an analyst at Raymond James, points out that the company has seen a turnaround in its investments, which took a big hit after the recession.

If he were following the dot - com millionaire rulebook, he'd have known that what you're supposed to do after hitting it big during the 90s boom is either retire off into the sunset of leisure and angel investing, or if you still have ambition, start a new company with someone else's money.

What's at stake for big cell phone companies with the iPhone 6 hitting stores in one week as they fight to sign up more customers?

Investors also expected that travel - related companies won't take such a big hit from the storm.

With the declared number of compromised payment cards being in excess of five million, the current hacking attack is amongst the biggest and most damaging to ever hit retail companies.

The biggest hits to the company came from carried interest declines, but if the markets rebound, those numbers should climb with them.

That spells a big hit to profits for companies that rely on gig workers, and could raise prices for users.

If Kickstarter were like the media institutions that dominated the 20th century — book publishers, movie studios, record companies — the crowdfunding site's revenue would derive mostly from a few big hits, like the Oculus Rift virtual - reality visor and the Pebble smartwatch.

That's when I almost got hit by the first big round of layoffs at our company (see Why I started this blog).

In the United States alone, just those companies in the S&P 500 have been hoarding more than $ 1.9 trillion in cash which began in response to jurisdictional tax disparities and global economic uncertainty following the Great Recession, then accelerated over the past decade as big U.S. corporations accumulated profits offshore in lieu of repatriating the funds and taking a tax hit.

American - style corporate activism is now hitting Australia's biggest companies.

In this video I'm going to show you a great way to get better keywords out of the Google Adwords Keyword tool if you haven't seen the previous video you'll want to watch that video where I show you how to get better search volume numbers from both google adwords as well as some other sources to get better estimates for the amount of times that keyword is searched each month i'll put a link in the video here so that you can click that video if you haven't seen that yet let's get started now if you want better results from the Google Adwords Keyword planner you have to work a little differently than everyone else so most people come to the Google Adwords Keyword planner and they simply click on this search for new keywords using a phrase, website, or category and then they just paste a bunch of keywords into this text box so let's say as an example that these were our starting keywords ok so let's say we have the keywords «fishing tips» «fishing tackle» «fishing for bass» «fishing rod» and «fishing reel» what most people do is that they would simply come here and they would copy this they would paste it into this field and they would hit Search and they would get back their results and that's fine but one little tip that will help you get much better results is only paste in one key word at a time so instead of pasting all these in just paste in the single keyword «fishing tips» and then proceed from there to pull that those results up and you'll get this back if you click right here you can download the ideas you'll notice they're 701 here listed so if we download these ideas will download them to a CSV file comma separated value file you can open that with notepad you can open it with excel open office when you're finished putting all your ideas and individually you will now have a bunch of different common separate value files containing the keywords and the search volume I've already gone ahead and done that just to save time on the video but i want to show you what happens when you use this method versus just pasting in the keywords like most people do so here you'll see this column here represents these two columns here represent if we had pasted in all of the keywords at once and click search at google adwords keyword tool is one that showed you and you'll see we have a total of 706 results we got back when we did that this column this column here represents what happens when we paste one key word at a time and then download the file paste the second keyword download the file and then we just simply grab those terms and copy them and you'll see now we have a total of 1,915 keywords now what I've done with the highlighting here is to show you anything that's not highlighted in this column is a keyword we would not have gotten back had we pasted in all the keywords at once you can see there's lots and lots of keywords here we would not have seen know your competitors and the company's you're competing against they're using probably the simple method just pasting a bunch of keywords sitting search and then looking through those terms to find their terms if you will take the extra few minutes it takes doesn't take long to simply go in and paste one key word at a time you will get back a ton of great keywords that others aren't seeing because they're using this other method and in actuality when I ran the numbers there's a total of 3.8 million searches represented by these keywords here that you would miss if you simply just copied and pasted those five terms and hit search the Google Adwords Keyword planner once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there are so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and Keyword Grouper Pro is completely free there's not even an opt in you just simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns and know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business

The loss of the movie will be a big financial hit to Ratner and his production company.

With the Espresso Americano already proven to be a big hit in its original market, Kubena says the focus now is on breaking into the lucrative North American market, and the company is taking a strategic approach to accomplishing that goal.