Sentences with phrase «conglomerate facing»

Other featured articles examine a media conglomerate facing a win - win situation and a consumer staples giant that now resembles a bargain.

Not exact matches

The quick - and - dirty fix is akin to both companies dipping their toes in the water in terms of dealing with each other, but they know all too well the disadvantages they face in dealing with their conglomerate - like competitors.

Pinault is now the face of fashion conglomerate Kering (formerly PPR), but at one time, he had to quit high school because he was teased so harshly for being poor.

Zara — the Spanish retailer, owned by fashion conglomerate, Inditex — faced outrage and accusations of cultural illiteracy when it pitched a set of child's pajamas resembling a concentration camp uniform, complete with a yellow Star of David.

In the face of a changing and potentially punitive regulatory framework, you must realize that insurance businesses of AIG's caliber are more valuable to shareholders if held directly than they are as part of a SIFI conglomerate.

The concern facing these conglomerates is whether they can manage their high - priced expansions well enough to earn the profits needed even to repay loans issued at low rates.

It was a bloated industrial conglomerate that was facing extraordinary competition from Asian manufacturers.

The other major problem that Johnson & Johnson faces is that although its pharmaceutical segment has continued to pull more than its fair share of the load of helping the conglomerate stay in growth mode, other businesses have fallen off.

In a statement on Wednesday about the reshuffling, John R. Slosar, the chairman of Swire Pacific, the publicly listed flagship of the Swire conglomerate, praised Mr. Chu but highlighted the tough environment that Cathay is facing.

As a reminder, Page had said to some shareholders that he saw Berkshire Hathaway as a model for Google to emulate, and in that piece I wrote about all the ways Google isn't like Berkshire Hathaway, and why that model would be wrong for Google, and yet here we are facing the prospect of a conglomerate called Alphabet owning Google and a variety of other unconnected businesses.

Pearson, the educational and publishing conglomerate out of the U.K. — best known for standardized testing services, covers a few of the common challenges teachers face in a recent article.

Publishing conglomerates Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster are facing tough times this quarter as ebook sales fell and total profit dropped 5.6 % at S&S and approximately 12 % for RPH.

Sum - of - the - Parts Value: Rather than accepting a company or conglomerate's face value, the analyst should investigate the worth of all its subsidiaries.

Leave aside for a moment his efforts to merge the two firms when stockholders tend to prefer «pure play» firms to conglomerates — it's interesting to look at how two «growth companies» are facing a challenge raising funds at a time when the stock market is near all time highs.

And while the two conglomerate mascots have faced each other before, they have never outright duked it out.

The influence that Uber has had on the taxi cab industry is written on every face in Joseph's profound photographic portraiture series, exploring the true impact of the controversial conglomerate giant and questioning the cost of technological revolution.»

The tech conglomerate still faces significant debt, Jia told shareholders in Beijing last week.

The Korean conglomerate is planning to take some cues from the Galaxy Note 8 and bundle dual rear - facing cameras in next year's Galaxy S9, KGI Securities analyst Ming - Chi Kuo told investors in a note this week.

«LinkedIn is probably the most underutilized platform on the face of the planet,» according B. Bonin Bough, vice president of Global Media and Consumer Engagement, Mondelez International, a global snack foods conglomerate.