Sentences with phrase «company less than a year»

Among other changes at the firm, Jon Rubinstein, who joined the company less than a year ago, will step down from his co-CEO position.

The Kauffman Foundation, citing its own research and drawing on U.S. Census data, concluded that the number of companies less than a year old had declined as a share of all businesses by nearly 44 percent between 1978 and 2012.

Since taking over the company less than a year ago we have implemented many improvements and changes to the structure of the business.

We took over the company less than a year ago and in this time, we have implemented many improvements and changes to the structure of the business.

Originally, they operated under the name of The Wisconsin State Life Insurance Company in 1909 but actually changed to Guardian Life Insurance Company less than a year later before selling their very first policy.

In a chat with ZDNet, Zoho President Raj Sabhlok stated that Microsoft approached the company less than a year ago with a request to create apps for Windows 8.

There are some who believe that if you have worked for a company less than a year it is completely acceptable to leave the job off your resume.

Not exact matches

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

Over the same period, the proportion of American workers employed by companies less than five years old has dropped, from over 20 percent to less than 11 percent.

Continental posted net income of $ 233.9 million, or 63 cents per share, compared with $ 469,000, or less than a penny per share, in the year - ago quarter, when oil prices plummeted - and the company's production costs were higher.

(Yes, you read that right: In less than two years, the company is already completing as many rides in China as it does in the whole United States.)

Though TrueRSVP had existed for less than a year prior to the pivot, Sergeeva says the company's advisors were happy about the new direction.

Uber had developed a system to monitor employee access in December 2014, but the company stopped using the system less than a year after it was put in place and rarely monitored employee access thereafter, the FTC alleged.

To take advantage, you must have an export credit sales volume of less than $ 5 million in the past three years before application, your company must qualify as a small business under the Small Business Administration's definition of the term and you must have been in business at least one year with a positive net worth.

The European Commission ruling wraps up a three - year long investigation into whether Amazon received an unfair advantage based on a 2003 Luxembourg tax ruling which allows an Amazon subsidiary to pay less tax there than other companies.

Over the past three decades, companies less than five years of age have added an average 1.5 million new jobs annually, while older firms have tended to just shed jobs.

Investigators believed the company's reviews over whether to supply customers more controlled substances were not meaningful and were used as a sales tool; customers were granted threshold increases for reasons, like the 4th of July, or the closure of an area pharmacy years earlier, that the government considered less than compelling.

Axovant shares tumbled another 20 % Monday after CEO David Hung, the former chief of Medivation who orchestrated the latter company's sale to Pfizer, resigned from the post after less than a year on the job.

The country's foremost struggling retailer is once again without a CEO now that Ron Boire has bailed after less than a year with the company.

It's unclear why the company would need to raise so much more money less than a year after a previous fundraising round, Recode reports.

This year Berkshire Hathaway ranks higher than ever before, yet the holding company is less about Warren Buffett than it ever was.

Less than a year after growth picked up at the test prep company, Hansoo Lee, Parikh's co-founder, passed away from lung cancer.

It's a far cry from the days — say 15 years ago — when less than a dozen banks held a corporate loan on their balance sheet, and companies could renegotiate the terms of their loan with a single creditor, or a small committee.

The company took advantage of a number of U.S. programs meant to spur «orphan drugs,» or treatments for the kinds of disorders that afflict less than 200,000 Americans each year.

Meanwhile, Richard Herman, a Cleveland immigration lawyer and the author of Immigrant, Inc.: Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Driving the New Economy, claims nearly all of the net job creation in the past 20 years has come from companies less than five years old.

Amazon is reportedly paying less than that, which means the acquisition price is significantly lower than the company's $ 1 billion valuation when it raised funding last year.

More than half of the respondents owned companies that were in business for two years or less.

Less than a year ago, King — the executive that doubled sales of the company's TaylorMade - Adidas Golf business in the span of a decade — was appointed president of the company's North America business.

It was a smart bet; after less than year, the line makes up 11 % of the company's total revenues.

& # 9660 Earlier this year, when Microsoft killed its new line of Kin smartphones in less than two months, its own employees were among the first to admit the Redmond, Wash. - based company had screwed up.

In less than two years of operation, the Mokrin House has housed more than 700 individuals, over 3,000 company team members, and over 5,000 events.

Business entries mean companies that were less than a year old, expressed as a percentage of total businesses.

It took less than a year for Sterling's company to go from a Kickstarter campaign to the shelves of Toys R Us.

In the U.S. today, the number of publicly listed companies is less than half of what it was 20 years ago.

Our company has grown substantially — from a staff of six to 70 in less than five years — because of the investment we make in our employees» careers.

South of the border, Square's November 2015 IPO appraised the company at less than half the $ 6 - billion valuation ascribed to it a year earlier.

Less than a year ago conglomerate General Electric Co combined its oilfield business with Baker Hughes, creating the second largest oilfield services company by revenue.

«I wouldn't have thought you could have a [company that's both a] banking company and a technology company trading at less than 20 times next year's earnings,» he adds.

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.

Now what I love is that in less than five years the company has expanded from a single product to a line of more than a dozen.

Wellard shares were hammered for a second time in less than a week, with the company warning of yet another potential profit hit before the end of the financial year.

At $ 22,000 each — less than the price of a minivan — it could easily pay for itself in months, saving a company $ 30,000 a year or more in labor costs per robot.

It is still not clear to me, but the company had only raised less than $ 2 million and after more than a year of fighting against a larger company, and after many hundreds of thousands of dollars, they finally settled out of court.

Part of what may be contributing to this trend is the fact that public offerings in Europe are, on average, smaller than they are in the U.S. Consider that 18 of the companies to go public in the region this year have a market cap of less than $ 100 million, the Atomico research found.

In a little less than two years, Halo Top's relentless sales growth has afforded the founders something most entrepreneurs only dream of: They run a profitable company, at scale.

In less than three years, his own books have built his company into a $ 5 million annual business.

Overall, the pharmaceutical industry, biotech companies, and medical device makers have given less money directly to Hillary Clinton's campaign than they had to President Obama's by this time four years ago.

Even though Neometals is now holding less than 15 % of Mt Marion, company management had the exceptional foresight to insist on the right to purchase a sizeable percentage the lithium off - take after about three years of operation.

Western Australians could be using energy converted from municipal solid waste in less than two years if companies proposing waste - to - energy plants achieve their timeframes.

Long delayed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Title III was the most controversial provision of the JOBS Act because it allowed non-accredited investors — generally defined as individuals with less than $ 1 million in assets who earn less than $ 200,000 per year — to invest in private companies as shareholders.