Sentences with phrase «costs of large businesses»

The government is heavily subsidizing the energy costs of large businesses, and asking residents to pay sharply rising prices» (source: Scott Stinson: Ontario Liberals continue to prove that the Green Energy Act is a misguided policy)

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Because regulatory compliance has a high fixed cost, small businesses face a larger per - employee cost of adhering to government regulations than big companies.

Another factor that's not helping the lending environment for small business owners is that transactions costs to process these types of loans are comparable to larger commercial loans, but without the payoff.

But in an era when businesses, insurers, and governments are increasingly balking at these charges — and when patients themselves are bearing a larger share of the cost — that model no longer works.

The low cost of capital, over the same period, did not help business investments either; they increased at an average annual rate of 0.8 percent because the poor sales outlook at home did not require large expansions of production capacities, and exports were increasingly sourced from overseas factory outlets.

(The ACA has been in effect for larger employers — those with 100 or more employees — since the beginning of 2015) This is called the employer mandate, and generally speaking, such business owners must offer plans that cover a minimum of 60 percent of plan expenses, and must cost no more than 9.5 percent of an employee's annual household income.

Alliance Santé, as his company was called by the mid-1990s, expanded further into Europe until 1997, when Pessina, believing he could rationalize the costs of pharmacies with his wholesale business, merged with UniChem, one of Britain's largest pharmacy chains and a public company.

The research crunches numbers to determine the cost to large companies of having all - male executive boards running the show, and while it's far from the first report to conclude a lack of gender diversity is a terrible idea from a business perspective, this analysis produced one particular attention - grabbing finding.

If you can identify how they present themselves in an industry that's of interest, you can quickly build a low - cost solution (at least at the outset) that can scale massively as demand grows, ultimately leading to a very large and profitable business.

«The attitude down there is: there is so much opportunity in Brazil that, even though there is a cost of doing business here, the size of the pie and the reward is sufficiently large that it's worth paying that cost,» says Ray Castelli, CEO of Weatherhaven.

It allows you to expand capacity without having to formally hire large numbers of new staff; without having to invest in new capital equipment, without leasing a larger commercial space; and without having to invest in development costs for non-core parts of your business, increasing your fixed overhead.

Private equity firms have been keen investors in businesses that help companies cut costs by outsourcing large parts of their administrative functions, since such operations can generate strong cash flows.

The rise of cost - effective data analytics has given small businesses a way to compete with — and even surpass — their larger competitors.

The study ranked urban centers — excluding the larger metro areas — using three factors: local business environment (length of the average workweek, revenue growth, industry variety), access to resources (financing and the amount of venture capital investment made per capita), and costs (office space affordability, labor costs, corporate taxes, and cost of living).

Utility costs are typically thousands of dollars a month for large businesses.

Operating out of a shared workspace is a way to offer your employees the company culture of a larger business without the operating costs or administrative hassles that come with it.

Small merchants like my company take credit card security very seriously while some larger companies simply write it off as a cost of business.

Investors who avoid high and unnecessary costs and simply sit for an extended period with a collection of large, conservatively - financed American businesses will almost certainly do well.»

The firm sold a majority stake of its European business to Cerberus Capital Management in December 2016 as part of a larger cost - cutting measure.

If you're a business manager, how do you decide whether to invest or hire when you have no idea how much one of your largest expenses will cost even a month from now?

Small businesses don't have large accounting departments yet must fill in the same set of tax forms that large businesses do — meaning their proportional compliance costs are higher.

While many industries require large, upfront investments — and, in many cases, an additional cost of maintaining a brick and mortar location — the cleaning industry has the fewest barriers when it comes to not only starting your business but growing it as well.

In 1914 Congress enacted the Clayton Act55 to strengthen the Sherman Act and included a provision to curb price discrimination and predatory pricing.56 The House Report stated that section 2 of the Clayton Act was expressly designed to prohibit large corporations from slashing prices below the cost of production «with the intent to destroy and make unprofitable the business of their competitors» and with the aim of «acquiring a monopoly in the particular locality or section in which the discriminating price is made.»

That opportunity is to attract or retain the business of public pension funds and union related funds (which control approximately $ 3 trillion in assets), the institutional leaders in the shareholder empowerment movement, which are shifting their portfolios away from high cost, actively managed mutual funds and hedge funds to low cost indexed funds, the kind of funds that the top 10 largest mutual fund advisors dominate in terms of market share.

In large part due to their higher cost base, most Western companies tend to target the top end of their markets, although in many business - to - business markets the premium that can be charged for Western products is rapidly decreasing.

Vanguard, the mutual fund giant, has combined large scale with technology and a focused, repeatable business model to drive down the cost of direct and advised investing.

This can be especially true for businesses that have large amounts of overhead and carrying costs.

Rises in other indicator rates on loans to small businesses have, on average, tended to be larger than this as some banks have raised some rates independent of monetary policy moves (including by some banks to recoup the costs of the GST).

The cost of token - holder relations and maintaining an active community, the cost of needing now to execute on their projects in the public eye, and the cost of needing to «mature» as a business quickly to responsibly handle the large amount of funds raised.

It can often take a large proportion of your businesses cash to hold the required stock and working capital, and a loan can be used to cover these costs and provide you with the extra capital you need to grow your company

You can use your cash and that of your investors when you start up your business for all the start - up costs, instead of making large loan payments to banks or other organizations or individuals.

The reality is that for any established business, small or large, its bank will always be the cheapest cost of funds.

In the course of your business, you may also have to negotiate with other institutional investors to put together the financing for large deals, also with labour unions to implement cost - saving measures to raise the earnings and cash flows of your portfolio companies.

It's no surprise that gift card marketplaces have been some of the first large e-commerce businesses to begin accepting bitcoin payments, which carry no card fraud or chargeback costs for sellers.

Noting Walmart's ongoing high - profile fight with credit company Visa, and recent news that consumers in the U.K. are preparing a 19 billion - pound ($ 24.5 billion USD) class action lawsuit against MasterCard alleging unfair practices, he added, «Whether retailers are large or small, when credit card and related transaction fees for merchants run rampant, it directly and immediately increases the cost of doing business.

More commonly, as the business became more profitable and the owner begins making more money, he will leave wages where they are, but try to find a way to cut down on overhead adn production costs (potentially at a loss of worker salary or through layoffs when outsourcing is utilized), and will pocket the increased profits until the business is positioned well enough to be sold to a larger conglomoration for a substantial payout that NONE of the workers will see a dime of.

«I would ask that they do not steal from small family businesses, but from large national businesses, knowing that the costs are ultimately passed on to the rest of us in the form of higher prices.

Their management has been unable to balance the competing demands of low price and increasing operating costs, such that even large seemingly successful businesses became smaller unsuccessful ones to be sold off to whoever had the cash.

Many businesses generate film plastics such as shrink wrap, stretch film, and sheet plastic all of which can be recycled and done so cost effectively when generated in large quantities.

The corporate fleet has long been seen as a necessary cost of doing business — and a large one at that.

Because Nancy and I came into this business with no pre-conceived notions as to how you manufacture food on a large scale, it never occurred to us to take the kind of shortcuts (read: cost savings) in order to make cheap food.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the Commission «launched a scathing attack on Australia's latest series of free trade agreements, saying they grant legal rights to foreign investors not available to Australians, expose the government to potentially large unfunded liabilities, and add extra costs on businesses attempting to comply with them».

Sale of packaged alcohol (wants convenicence stores to be allowed to sell packaged alcohol); Excise increases on fuel and tobacco (negatively impact small business more than larger chains); Penalty rates (claim huge cost burden for small business)

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

A key advantage with daycare centers is that many businesses, especially large corporations, are able to negotiate discounts for their employees or even help to supplement the cost of care as an incentive for workers.

Western New York's largest business group, the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, once again plans to focus its lobbying efforts on core issues familiar to its members: the high cost of doing business in the state, the need for more trained workers and the importance of encouraging investment in the region.

Moreover, the British government is involved in a large number of international organizations that share «best practice» for how markets should be regulated, how different regulations interact, and how much it costs to do business across different regulatory jurisdictions.

Further analysis of the impacts of policies on prices and bills, including analysis on households medium - sized businesses and large energy intensive users and a breakdown by individual policy, will be published later this year alongside the Annual Energy Statement and should provide more detail on the uncertainty surrounding the true cost of the Government's policies.

But representatives of the state's largest business organization said the higher wage would cost 600,000 New York jobs, especially in Upstate.

If approved, the health taxes in the Deficit Reduction Plan and Executive Budget will drive up the cost of health insurance for all Business Council member employers that purchase health coverage — from sole proprietors and small businesses to the largest self - insured companies — yet will provide no additional covered benefits or have any effect on addressing the rising cost of health care.