Sentences with phrase «company up for sale»

With one major company up for sale and the other going through Chapter 11, changes of some sort are sure to be on the horizon.

Then in 2011 Jim and Mary decided they wanted to start slowing down and possibly soon retire, so they put the company up for sale.

Management would be doing shareholders a greater service by simply putting the company up for sale given the time allotted for a number of strategic moves to play out unsuccessfully in recent years.

McGuire has put his multi-million dollar company up for sale and he is enrolling in a community college course to pursue his new goal of becoming a counsellor for teens.

The Hollywood Reporter is claiming that The Crow reboot, now entitled The Crow Reborn, has moved on from its former home at Relativity Media after CEO Ryan Kavanaugh put the company up for sale last month.

Deleted Allens, Inc. because it sold off most of its frozen foods division in 2012, and is now a canned goods company up for sale.

Well before you put your company up for sale, you should be both grooming your successor team and «institutionalizing» clients so they are used to working with company representatives other than you.

The cost - cutting and rush to reach profitability could be viewed as a strategy to dress the company up for a sale.

Then in February you put the company up for sale.

Not exact matches

Sales were up 16 % and profits increased 20 % for the first nine months of 2015, and the company opened 230 new stores across 48 markets.

People sign up for a show for a number of reasons: It can serve as a launching pad for new products or concepts, a way to build up your brand and distribution, a means of nurturing relationships or even a place to position your company for sale.

Today, mere months after the moms in the Dallas store told him they wanted more organic foods for their babies, Cornell has a goal: He wants organic items to account for 60 % of the company's baby food sales within two years, up from 40 % now.

Activist investors, who now manage some $ 174 billion in assets, have exploded onto the scene, shaking up boards and pushing for share repurchases, company breakups, or outright sales in order to get stock prices higher.

Expect a rash of «for sale» signs to go up at Canada's independent companies, and soon.

And brand sales remain up even in the wake of the switch, proving change can be a very good thing for a company.

(Adidas Group bought Reebok in 2006 for $ 3.8 billion; in recent years some critics said it should sell it off, but now the company has positioned Reebok as a fitness brand, and the brand's sales were up 5 % in 2014 globally.)

In early December, Machin personally set up hundreds of dolls for a one - day sample sale that took place with other companies sharing space in an industrial building in San Francisco.

For 13 consecutive years, the company has grown steadily, with 1998 sales of $ 5.7 million, up 18 % from the year prior.

Daniel Yoo of Kiwoom Securities says SK Hynix should show better first quarter sales as demand has held up for chips and the company should perform well in the second quarter as well.

Responding to Tory charges that the NDP's proposed cap - and - trade system would wind up raising gas prices by 10 cents per litre, Jack Layton blamed Stephen Harper «s subsidies to big oil companies and support for the harmonized sales tax in Ontario for higher gas prices.

The steady stream of revelations over the past year that the National Security Agency has been hoovering up companies» data is hurting international sales for U.S. - based companies, he adds.

CALGARY — Calgary - based oil and gas company Petrominerales (TSX: PMG) is up for sale in a proposed deal worth roughly $ 1.6 - billion.

In February 2000, when I showed up for my first day of work at Fortune as an assistant managing editor, the title's parent company, Time Warner, was then in the early throes of a sale.

For his part, Rocchi sees big things to come from the company's growing online store, where sales were up 92 % in the third quarter of 2012.

The rise of mobile commerce and superpower payment system Square have made the iPad the hottest point - of - sale system around, and integrating the device into business models has shot up the priority list for many companies.

Since then, the company's had to weather such self - inflicted wounds as a pretexting scandal in which a board member, an executive and HP - paid investigators faced criminal charges for spying on journalists; the $ 1 billion acquisition of Palm Computing in 2010 to beef up HP's mobile capabilities; then the sale of Palm's intellectual property.

So if he buys up a chunk of your company, take it as a mark of confidence: The sale of CPPIB's stake in auto parts manufacturer Gates Corp. for $ 1.5 billion and its $ 128 - million purchase of 115,000 acres of Saskatchewan farmland are just two recent examples that show no deal is too big or small for the CCPIB head honcho.

Still, the poor holiday season, which puts the company on track for a third straight quarterly comparable sales decline, means Target now expects fourth - quarter comparable sales to decline between 1 % and 1.5 %, compared with prior guidance of between down 1 % and up 1 %.

Traditional banks have also sold their bad loans to these nonbank companies, which have then packaged them up in products for sale to consumers and, also, back to the banks.

It will be up to the markets to decide which company will be the stronger of the two, but if sales of PCs and printers continue to slump while the demand for data center technology increases, investors might be more keen to go with HP Enterprise.

«Both companies have put themselves up for sale hoping that private equity will buy them out,» he added.

The East Norriton, Pennsylvania, company, which consults for the pharmaceutical industry, is on track to reach more than $ 5 million in sales in 2008, up from $ 3 million in 2007.

The company website, reintegrated with the stores, again became a major contributor and helped make up for still - anemic in - store sales.

To make up for the drop in beef sales, Erdman leases land to telecommunications companies to build towers.

Excitement for the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models sparked sales of 39.3 million iPhones in the last quarter — a record for the months of July through September — and made up for more disappointing sales of the company's iPad tablets.

Having recently sold his second start - up, Mohsenin was scanning the landscape for a new business venture and playing with one of the toys he bought with the spoils of his company's sale — a new digital camera.

While the company has reportedly put itself up for sale, so far no suitor has agreed to a deal, though a fake takeover bid in May 2015 briefly sent Avon's (AVP) shares surging 20 % before the offer was revealed as a hoax (and the shares promptly resumed their downward trend).

The beleaguered technology company's core business is up for sale after years of lackluster performance, with bidders including frontrunner Verizon, inventor Dan Gilbert (backed by Warren Buffett), TPG, and a consortium that includes Bain Capital and former Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn.

Small Business Saturday — the Saturday after Thanksgiving — was created by American Express in 2010 as a way to drum up more business for small companies who may not benefit from Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales boosts like their larger counterparts do.

With sales projected to be up 4.1 percent to $ 616.9 billion compared to last year, it is vital for companies to evaluate how to prepare for the upcoming season and take necessary steps to ensure a profitable fourth quarter.

«As a company, we take a reduced margin, but we can make up for it through online sales.»

Activists use their ownership stakes in public companies to pressure them to change in order to boost returns — whether by restructuring their businesses, shaking up management, or even putting themselves up for sale.

Sales of Made to Matter products were expected to hit $ 1 billion for 2015, the company said, up 30 percent from the prior year.

The Company consolidated its customer account activity in each country into centralized sales districts for certain countries that make up approximately 70 percent of 3M's 2017 international net sales.

After putting Hulu up for sale, its parent companies, Disney, 21st Century Fox, and NBC Universal, CNBC's parent company, are announcing the streaming - video company is no longer for sale.

So is this company, thanks to the completion of a two - year highway - expansion project: first - quarter sales for 1997 were up by more than 40 %, compared with the same period last year.

But when a plot of land on that road finally went up for sale, Kennedy, the founder of Noodles & Company — a $ 120 million national restaurant chain headquartered nearby — discovered it was too close to the street for his liking.

Here are salary projections for some key jobs at companies with up to $ 15 million in sales:

He added a news and media subsidiary to his company in 1990, but even today the bulk of Bloomberg LP's $ 9 billion in revenues still comes from the sale of terminals that Wall Street traders rely on for the most up - to - date financial and market information.

Macy's comparable - store sales have fallen for seven straight quarters, and the company has turned to selling off real estate and consolidating as a way of keeping profits up.