Sentences with phrase «company year in and year out»

Thus, many auto insurance companies now offer customer loyalty discounts, to reward those customers who have stuck with their insurance company year in and year out.

Not exact matches

IF you measure the value of a chief executive by the salary he or she takes and compare it to what heads of similar size companies receive, Andrew Forrest would come out on top in Western Australia year in, year out.

In the past few years companies like Braeburn Pharmaceuticals, Intarcia Therapeutics, and Proteus Digital Health have set out to create better medical mousetraps through devices that make existing drugs more effective.

Within a few years, the company said, the suburbs will be just as connected as cities, with riders able to pay one monthly price, hop in and hop out as needed, and easily get to metro areas without ever needing to drive.

And if convicted, in addition to any other penalties handed out, the company could be barred for 10 years from competing for contracts with the Government of Canada — a category of contracts that make up an important element of the company's income.

As it turns out, it's not just the Hulk Hogan case: Thiel admitted in his interview with the Times that he decided several years ago to secretly fund multiple cases in an attempt to cripple the company, and that there is at least one other case before the courts that he's involved in.

Many great companies sat out the IPO market last year for a myriad of reasons, including the abundance of private capital, funds flow out of conventional funds ($ 224 billion in outflows, to be exact), and more «blackout» windows than normal — post-Brexit and post-Trump in particular — where companies were afraid of political uncertainty.

«You see these little companies building out service brands because they want to have account executives who work with customers,» Atkinson adds, «so they try to spin their products into serving three different groups in the first couple of years, and that's a very adverse situation to get into.

The new research shows that something different has been happening: Boards have been allowing CEO pay to climb ever higher by offering executives the same number of options year in and year out, regardless of company stock prices.

The model is apparently so enticing that Goldman won hundreds of clients and, the company says, nearly eight figures» worth of business in 2013, which was RelSci's first year since coming out of stealth mode.

Fast - forward two years, the new CEO figured out the company had lost $ 1 billion in accounts to competitors and needed me to figure out why.

Holt joined Spotify last year after stints in music and digital media to figure out what the company should be doing beyond music.

The amount of times I hear that a company only uses social media because they think they ought to has diminished over the years, but there are still some out there who don't get that digital is here to stay, and therefore fail to embed it deeply in their future plans.

By that metric, and every other, Port Equipment has done phenomenally well: In five years it's grown from five employees to 50 who are spread out among the six intermodal yards the company now maintains for Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC).

More than 500 companies have expressed interest in rolling out student loan benefits to their workers next year, said Tim DeMello, founder and CEO of Gradifi, a platform that lets companies, including PwC, Connelly Partners and Western Union, pay off some of their employees» student loans.

North Korea generates about $ 1 billion a year from the coal trade, according to the Treasury, which singled out three Chinese coal companies it said was responsible for importing almost a half - billion dollars in North Korean coal between 2013 and 2016.

It also means that over the next year, Apple will be paying more back in dividends than any other publicly traded company, beating out oil giant Exxon Mobil for the position, according to Howard Siliverblatt, veteran market watcher and senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

In the past few years, however, the concept has become mainstream, as companies like Starbucks and Timberland seek out socially responsible vendors not only to provide quality goods but also to help create a positive image.

It's been an exciting year for self - driving car projects that people can actually see and experience in the real world: In December, Google announced it was spinning out its self - driving car project into Waymo, a company that will partner with automakers to put driverless technology into carin the real world: In December, Google announced it was spinning out its self - driving car project into Waymo, a company that will partner with automakers to put driverless technology into carIn December, Google announced it was spinning out its self - driving car project into Waymo, a company that will partner with automakers to put driverless technology into cars.

In the past half - decade, the company that started making tractors for Italian farmers more than 55 years ago has unveiled the $ 242,300 Huracán — known for its smoother, sleeker (more affordable) demeanor behind the wheel — and the $ 200,000 Urus, its first SUV since the LM002 went out of production decades ago.

Giving people an extra day off five months out of the year to take trips — which are often financed by the $ 2,000 allowance — helps create a give - and - take mentality that SteelHouse respects employees, who in turn respect the company.

The supervisor of Dianella - based building company Frayson has been fined $ 15,000 for failing in his duties as a manager and supervisor on work carried out at 20 Perth properties over a 10 - year period.

«When I was 22 years old, a guy who owned a little bodega in my neighborhood told me, «If you really want to start a company, you better dig under your couch for a couple of extra dollars, stop going out to dinner four times a month, trade in your car for a cheaper one, and raise that $ 40,000 or $ 30,000, if you can, by yourself.»»

Although the change may come as a surprise to the public and some Starbucks employees, the company has been sending to signals to Wall Street for the last year about its intentions to carry out a the succession plan, announcing a reorganization in the summer that gave Mr. Johnson oversight of the day - to - day operations.

And if you can get enough of Twitter lore, check out the profile I wrote on the company three years ago, when the top source of revenue at Twitter was subletting empty desks in its office.

Sappington plans multiple pilot tests to collect customer feedback, work out any kinks and streamline the integration with the company's existing technology systems before rolling out the finished app in nearly all 14,000 U.S. restaurants and some 6,000 others in Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Australia and China, by the end of this year.

A company based in Belgium also offers its employees such implants, and there are isolated cases around the world where tech enthusiasts have tried this out in recent years.

We do random acts of appreciation throughout the year, like taking the whole company out for ice cream midday or bringing in McFlurrys for everyone in the office... we have breakfast catered every Friday, rebirthdays (celebrations on the anniversaries of hire dates), all the ladies receive flowers on Valentine's Day, parents receive letters on Mother's Day and Father's Day, and so much more... plus, the whole company is going to Miami for an all - expenses - paid trip in a month (revenue and nonrevenue producers) for hitting a sales goal.»

Two stocks he scored big on were Philippines - based Alaskan Milk Corp., which saw an 80 % return in the three months before it was bought out in March, and Singapore beverage and food company Super Group Ltd., which is up 126 % year - to - date.

Shah's CSRs also reach out to customers on social media outlets and networks to engage them in dialogue, which helps CSN get candid feedback about the company and its reps. «We have enhanced many consumer promotions, deals and rewards this year and plan to do the same in the next year — in an effort to bolster customer retention, interest and loyalty,» he said.

In 2013, two years after founding the Boston - based company, she launched the platform: Wanderu helps travelers map out the best sequence of transportation to a particular destination using a combination of buses, trains, and ferries.

After playing a two - year game of chicken with management, bondholders forced the company to wipe out shareholders and legally separate the Lake Erie operation — the most modern integrated steel plant in North America — from the Hamilton mill and its related obligations.

When college dropouts Andrew Perlman and Mark Land founded Cignal Global Communications, a fiber - optic data - communications company, five years ago, they ran it out of a low - rent apartment in Cambridge, Mass..

Startup Garage, a second - year elective, asks students to build an idea for a company using, in part, the lean startup model, Eric Ries's method of developing and rolling out products or services quickly to avoid costly failures.

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.»

In 1995, Potter says, «only 5 contract craft brewing companies out of about 100 in operation were that large, and all of them had been in business longer than three years.&raquIn 1995, Potter says, «only 5 contract craft brewing companies out of about 100 in operation were that large, and all of them had been in business longer than three years.&raquin operation were that large, and all of them had been in business longer than three years.&raquin business longer than three years.»

The Roasterie, a 17 - year - old company in Kansas City, Missouri, for example, sent out a small price increase a couple months ago, according to Paul Massad, the company's director of supply chain and self - described «bean hunter.»

Sanofi lost out on buying California - based cancer specialist Medivation to Pfizer in 2016, and also missed acquiring Swiss biotech company Actelion, which was bought by Johnson & Johnson last year.

Over the past year, technology companies Uber and Waymo (the self - driving business spun out of Google) have been engaged in a battle of wills, culminating in a high - profile court case that commenced last week.

With the company riding out iterative improvements in iPhones, iPads and Macs over the past few years, it's overdue for something new.

Fast forward five years, Avon's stock market value is down to $ 1.3 billion and McCoy is on her way out in March, having failed to improve the company by almost any measure.

Why it's hot: Chick - fil - A rolled out a popular app last year that lets customer order and pay for their food, and the company has been expanding to new territory in the Northeast.

In 2003, 19 - year - old Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford and founded a company that can run multiple blood tests on a single drop of blood.

He quietly told some of the staff that the company would put out one catalog fewer in the year ahead so that he and Gloria could cut back their hours.

The company told Reuters it had carried out a test run in one store in Geneva and would launch the business more widely at its outlets in Switzerland this year.

It was only this year that the company rolled out Sponsored Stories — customized ads that appear in a user's timeline — for smartphones and tablets, and the early results are promising.

And while the business is profitable and sold roughly $ 100,000 worth of lionfish in the past year, Chadwick is quick to clarify that making money is not what they set out to do with the compaAnd while the business is profitable and sold roughly $ 100,000 worth of lionfish in the past year, Chadwick is quick to clarify that making money is not what they set out to do with the compaand sold roughly $ 100,000 worth of lionfish in the past year, Chadwick is quick to clarify that making money is not what they set out to do with the company.

The company has tried it out in limited doses over the years and has been selling it in Quebec for some time.

Pfizer was the thirtieth largest lobbyist on Capitol Hill in 2014 — out of over 3,500 companies — spending $ 9.5 million in 2014 and $ 6.2 million so far this year.

We spoke by email with Rule and his co-founder, 40 - year - old Chittu Nagarajan, also formerly of eBay and PayPal, who is based in India, to find out how Modria can help ecommerce companies.