Sentences with phrase «company owners say»

Cab company owners say if local municipalities can not regulate ride - hailing as they do the taxi industry, the state law should at least have requirements that DMV conduct driver background checks, including fingerprinting.

But many company owners say while they're more upbeat about the economy, they're not planning to ask banks for financing.

Not exact matches

All companies, and especially small firms, must be clear about more than just their budget before they can start designing their offices, says Richard Shugar, the principal and owner of 2fORM, an architecture firm based in Oregon.

Susan Faykus, from Integrated Financial in Austin, Texas, says: «More often than not, when we help business owners exit their existing company, we commonly find they have waited too late to engage legal, business broker and financial strategist professionals that could help them mitigate the heavy tax burden that could have been restructured for philanthropy or their legacy.»

A merger of CBS, which owns its broadcast network and premier channel Showtime, and Viacom, the owner of Paramount Pictures and such networks as Comedy Central and MTV, would give the company scale at a time when many competitors are merging, Paulson said.

«This is one of the biggest nightmares merchants are going to face,» says Michael Kleinman, owner of Mason Eyewear, a store in Brickell, Florida, and Centurion Payment Services, a company that processes credit and debit card payments.

«In young, growing companies particularly, owners want an accountant who can help them manage financial business performance and have responsibility for the internal control function,» Chamberlain says.

Founder and owner Craig Howard, who also runs a small Kansas City organics catering company, says he was inspired by the self - serve and honor - based model used by many traditional farm stands.

«A big source of the problem is the company owners haven't forced themselves to sit down and say what their expectations are for the sales function,» Sunde says.

Anderson says that only a small fraction of the hundreds of business owners he meets with every year use a formal system to track and analyze company metrics.

The company engineered two three - month loans, totaling $ 300,000, from a private party — «a friend of a friend,» says Anderson — who required the owners to put up 10 % of their equity as collateral and make principal and interest payments of $ 75,000 a month.

That's not to say that owners should throw out the notion of rewarding employees for the company's overall performance.

The owner of the trucking company involved in the crash, Sukhmander Singh, has said the 30 - year - old driver had been working for him for about a month.

(The company will soon reveal a system that owners can install themselves, says Smith.)

«It was me and the dog, and we didn't know any better,» says Salonek, the owner of Go-e-biz.com, an Inc 500 company in St. Paul, Minn..

Even after Thursday's rally, Norwegian's founder and top owner, CEO Kjos who controls a quarter of the company's shares, is expected to demand a significantly higher price before selling, said Korsvold.

As passive owners snag a larger and larger share of the companies in the market, they change how companies are managed, so the new studies say.

A sizable number of business owners (about a third) said after selling their companies, they planned to start new businesses.

Once you have registered in an amnesty program, all sales tax issues your company faces in the future will be under state scrutiny, says Paul N. Gada, senior small - business tax analyst with CCH Business Owner's Toolkit, a division of CCH Tax and Accounting in Riverwoods, Illinois.

Wyndham Worldwide Corp., owner of the Ramada and Days Inn brands, said it will spin off its hotel unit into a new publicly traded company and consolidate its timeshare business while exploring strategic alternatives for its European rental brands.

Raymond Haller, tax partner at Grassi & Co., had said of the House plan, «It does not really help the small - business owner who is actively running his company.

«It usually starts off with some kind of challenge your company is facing,» says Ron Welty, owner of ItelliShop, a market research and mystery shopping company in Perrysburg, Ohio, with a database of 400,000 shoppers.

More than 80 percent of the 300 small business owners surveyed in the recent 4th Annual Staples National Small Business Survey said that they don't keep track of their business goals, and 77 percent have yet to achieve their vision for their company.

«Small business owners are seeing the number of alternative sources for financing their companies grow at an unprecedented rate, and while this is a good thing in terms of increasing access to capital, borrower protections have not caught up,» Mills said last month while introducing the borrowers rights bill in Washington.

In fact, 60 % of small business owners say finding skilled workers is their company's biggest challenge.

The statement said 3G Capital, the majority owner of Burger King, would continue to own the majority of the shares of the new company on a pro forma basis, with the remainder held by existing shareholders of Tim Hortons and Burger King.

Gaudet says she's able to own up to 99.5 percent of her company, since by Turkish law, a company must have two owners.

«IBM and the FDA will explore the exchange of owner mediated data from several sources, such as Electronic Medical Records, clinical trials, genomic data, and health data from mobile devices, wearables and the «Internet of Things,»» said the company in a press release.

Some business owners are reticent in investing in training for their employees, saying they can not afford to invest in them or are worried that training employees will make them better equipped to leave for some other company.

Hulu's owners still are talking to companies that could become partners for the service, a source with knowledge of the discussions said.

The pipeline's owners, Plains Midstream Canada, said that loose soil and a bad weld were to blame for the spill, but now that the company has applied to reopen the pipe, scientists are looking for more information.

Vazquez says that since it can be tough for female business owners to connect with big companies, her organization tries to get women to «think big.»

Shintani says that companies should also look at alternative sources of financing: «In addition to a line of credit, business owners should consider SBA lending, micro-financing, or an equity partner.»

Employees say: «The company treats us as if we are owners, because we are.

Some customers of Carl Mazzanti's computer networking and security company want to upgrade their systems, but it's been taking longer than expected the past few months to get banks to agree to finance the deals, says Mazzanti, owner of eMazzanti in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Say, for example, that the owner of a small trucking company wants to grow the business by adding another vehicle to his fleet.

It will have a nationwide presence with more than 163,000 towers, the owners of both companies said in a joint statement on Wednesday.

Critics also routinely say that mandated wholesale arrangements discourage network owners from investing in upgrades, which is indeed what we've heard in just about every dispute between big companies and small ISPs in Canada.

The Essen - based company said Tuesday that it was now the sole owner of the project, which has a planned installed capacity of 860 megawatts.

On Sunday, a Journal editorial defended NFIB, saying that many small business owners oppose «ObamaCare» and the tax burden it places on companies.

BarkBox's owner says the company will be ready for an initial public offering in as soon as six months.

Nikkei said the point of contention was over T - Mobile owner Deutsche Telekom's request to have control over the combined company.

According to the Metro, company owner Greg Buchanan said: «Pets are like babies nowadays, so why shouldn't staff have some time off when they arrive?»

Japan's SoftBank, which controls Sprint, will own 40 to 50 percent of the combined company, two of the sources said on Friday, while T - Mobile owner Deutsche Telekom will own a majority stake.

In fact, 82 percent of small - business owners say they use social media to engage with customers, according to a recent social - media awareness survey from online - marketing company Constant Contact.

Productivity expert Jason Womack says to ensure that company emails are consistent, business owners should create an email protocol.

Service firms are getting into the act too: «Beth Harshfield, the owner of Exhibit Arts, an advertising and marketing company in Wichita, Kan., said she started bidding on military contracts six years ago because «I got tired of the local economy kicking the legs out from under us.»

A number of business owners say the company's salespeople convinced them to sign up for its CreditBuilder credit - rehab service by telling them that their credit ratings had gone down.

Business owners who do it say it can boost productivity from workers stressed about their finances, as well as improve loyalty, morale, and a company's reputation.

Still, to some company owners, such fees smack of factoring, but Simkins says he'd rather get 97 % of his money now than wait 30, 60, or 90 days to get it all.