Sentences with phrase «company on pace»

A new report released by The Wall Street Journal claims that the company's quick growth rate — which sits around five percent — is three percent higher than industry leader Spotify, and puts the company on pace to outgrow the Swedish streaming service in the U.S. by mid-2018.

Thanks to strong iPhone 7 sales, Apple snapped a streak of three quarters in a row of shrinking revenues, putting the company on pace for a historical fiscal year.

Losses for the first half of this year stand at a staggering $ 533 million, putting the company on pace to lose more than $ 1 billion for 2016.

Not exact matches

The fast - paced business world is focused on results and returns, but truly innovative companies have a culture focused on long - term gains where innovation can thrive.

As the pace of business slows down over the holidays (sorry retail folks, you're obviously excepted), this is an ideal time to reflect on and update your digital footprint, writes Allison Durazzi, a digital marketing instructor at Seattle Central College, on Fast Company.

If Barcelona or Catalonia lost the presence of large anchor companies, that would have an impact on the startup ecosystem, since large companies are customers and sources of talent and future founders,» he wrote, but the strong pace of acquisitions seems to point in the opposite direction.

In response to a shareholder question about what could be done to speed up the glacial pace of adoption of electric car production by other car companies, Musk said he was «playing with doing something fairly significant on this front which would be kind of controversial with respect to Tesla's patents.»

The German company is midway through a strategic transition, aiming to force the pace on developing its S / 4 HANA cloud platform, which now counts 7,900 customers, and wean customers off software sold under license and installed at offices and factories.

GA largely focuses on recruiting workers and re-training them in coding - specific career paths, often at an expedited pace with the goal of getting them hired by outside companies quickly.

He thinks Apple will increase its dividend, but he'll be watching on Tuesday to see if the company says anything about the pace of those dividend increases.

Chunshek Chan, global head of M&A Research, Dealogic, said excluding the Syngenta deal in 2016 - Chinese companies are on a similar pace or even better for outbound deals in 2017.

«It's clear that our world changed and our consumers have changed, but our company has not changed enough and certainly has not kept pace,» said Kraft CEO John Cahill on the call.

«We look very different today than five years ago — for example, clinical and technology professionals are the first and third largest job categories across UnitedHealth Group — and we will look different again five years from now as we continue to evolve at an accelerated pace,» UnitedHealth CEO David Wichmann said on the company's first - quarter conference call.

Failure of prices to recover raises the prospect of even deeper cuts to investment by oil and gas companies next year and would likely result in Canada's economy remaining on a slower growth path than the 2.2 per cent pace we are expecting.»

Relying on Google and Qualcomm means that the Fossil watches should be able to keep pace with all the latest tech developments while the company's own designers focus on trends in fashion, picking the colors and materials and decorative patterns needed to make products winners in the marketplace.

The company said it remains on pace to deliver roughly 55,000 cars in 2015.

On Wednesday, a survey of services firms — covering restaurants, construction companies, retail stores, banks and others — found that they expanded in September at their fastest monthly pace since 2005.

Nike is aiming to address all of those elements: the company is trying to offer more services like personalized shopping, quickening the pace of innovation to get new product on store shelves faster, and also working with stronger retail partners like Foot Locker (fl) and Dick's Sporting Goods (dks) to better present Nike goods.

Plank noted on Thursday that Under Armour has maintained 20 percent revenue growth in 26 consecutive quarters — the only consumer company on the S&P 500 that can make that claim — and is still on pace to reach $ 7.5 billion in revenue in 2018.

At the company's current rate of growth, membership should reach 50,000 this year, with sales on pace to reach $ 45 million, which would vault the firm to profitability.

#OptOutside is the name of the sticky social game and it's catching fire fast on Twitter and Facebook, keeping pace with a steady gush of media coverage surrounding the company's «shocking» jab at over-the-top Black Friday consumerism.

It is the first day of November, the week after Alphabet reported a third - quarter profit of $ 6.7 billion on revenues of $ 27.8 billion that grew at a blistering 24 % pace, and I'm keen to find out from Porat if the company ever will stop giving its employees so much free food.

And now, word on the street is that the company's board of directors has expressed concern about its pace of innovation.

It made the Inc. 500 list of the fastest - growing private companies in the U.S. in both 2016 and 2017, and is on pace for $ 160 million in 2018 revenue.

On the other hand, if an employee's skills have declined or haven't kept pace with new advances in the marketplace, a company should have the right to adjust compensation accordingly.

Doing so may work in the short - term, but if you don't want your company to be another stat on the Gallup employee engagement survey, don't add unnecessary pressure to an already frenetic work pace.

«Insight's investment will help HootSuite capitalize on the global demand for their solutions, and accelerate the company's pace of product innovation.»

«Women are founding companies at a very significant pace today, but they're still relatively smaller numbers focusing on high growth venture - backable businesses,» says Cindy Padnos, managing director of Illuminate Ventures.

He says the company met its projections for the first quarter of this year and is on pace to exceed its projections in Q2 and the rest of the year.

In prepared testimony expected to be delivered to the Senate committee by Mr. Cook and other Apple executives on Tuesday, the company said it «welcomes an objective examination of the U.S. corporate tax system, which has not kept pace with the advent of the digital age and the rapidly changing global economy.»

Forward - looking statements may include, among others, statements concerning our projected adjusted income (loss) from operations outlook for 2018, on both a consolidated and segment basis; projected total revenue growth and global medical customer growth, each over year end 2017; projected growth beyond 2018; projected medical care and operating expense ratios and medical cost trends; our projected consolidated adjusted tax rate; future financial or operating performance, including our ability to deliver personalized and innovative solutions for our customers and clients; future growth, business strategy, strategic or operational initiatives; economic, regulatory or competitive environments, particularly with respect to the pace and extent of change in these areas; financing or capital deployment plans and amounts available for future deployment; our prospects for growth in the coming years; the proposed merger (the «Merger») with Express Scripts Holding Company («Express Scripts») and other statements regarding Cigna's future beliefs, expectations, plans, intentions, financial condition or performance.

The company this year is on pace to double its revenue and number of users, which is currently about 80 million, up from 41 million last year.

«Building relationships with reputable companies such as IceCUBED in South Africa, who are also focused on making e-payment accessible to as many people as possible; we will continue to set the pace of the Nigerian online payment industry.

However, EPS growth continues, albeit at a slower than expected pace as the company has begun focusing on improving and growing its business in key segments with an eye towards the future.

Kathleen serves on the board of directors of Apptio, a publicly traded provider of business management software - as - a-service applications, and TPG Pace Holdings Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company.

A Reuters analysis shows that many companies are barreling down the same road, spending on share repurchases at a far faster pace than they are investing in long - term growth through research and development and other forms of capital spending.

However, with oil recently closer to the $ 45 - per - barrel level, these companies are on pace to outspend cash flow this year.

Cele notes that, «the demand from China for iron - ore continues to grow, but at a declining pace, further exacerbating pricing pressure,» meaning that Vale's considerable investment in nickel, coal, fertilisers and copper will only partially mitigate the impact of the increase in iron - ore mining capacity globally on the company.

But the venture firm has also said it believes its most famous portfolio company is on pace to be worth over $ 100 billion — which would appear to be merely a negotiating posture if the venture firm then agreed to a 50 percent haircut.

The company has over $ 30 billion remaining on its buyback authorization, so there's no reason to expect a slowdown in the pace of buyback activity.

But a stronger euro could slow the pace of earnings growth among European companies, and other risks include politicians not delivering on reforms, the European Central Bank (ECB) winding back its stimulus too soon and renewed political instability in Italy.

On Wednesday, a private monthly survey found that U.S. services companies expanded in August at the slowest pace in more than six years.

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Today's startup world is fast - paced and competitive, and many fledgling companies feel like they need to gain sizeable investments early on in order to succeed.

The head of the Continuum Company claims that his partners, frustrated by the slow pace of sales, want to slash prices on condos and unload units in a fire sale.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The company is on pace to add between 15 and 20 new stores a year.

«We're a full - line broadliner,» Erik Tapia says, noting that the company employs a staff of nearly 300 and is on pace to hit $ 250 million in sales this year.

«We have plans in place to double our company in the next five years, and we're on pace for that,» Herr maintains.

The company is on pace to have its best year ever in 2016, and it has already reached a 100 percent increase for Ganeden's 2016 first - half sales numbers compared to the first half of 2015.