Sentences with phrase «deal years ago»

Here's some good news: this used to be a big deal years ago.

«We've had a long, hard think about this when we signed the [Aston Martin] deal a year ago,» Buckler told Sportscar365.

Not exact matches

For example, Uber sold new shares to SoftBank Group in January in a deal that valued the ride hailing startup at $ 48 billion, significantly higher than the nearly $ 4 billion valuation at which Google had bought its stake in the company five years ago.

It's a paltry number, but a noticeable improvement from 10 years ago, when female founders were involved in just 2.95 % of deals.

The potential deal sent both stocks soaring as it would tie up two giants from Quebec and give Metro an expanded foothold in the drug business, mirroring Loblaw Cos.» purchase of Shoppers Drug Mart four years ago.

DURING the sustained economic boom that came to a screeching halt one year ago, business leaders were unanimous in advocating a long - term approach to dealing with the big strategic issues.

He says he recently attended one of the largest industry trade shows, Mipcom, and ended up talking to the same people he'd last encountered six years ago, most of whom were still thinking in terms of selling programs region by region to established channels as opposed to «worldwide deals for rights to be exploited via the Internet anywhere.»

Years ago, I lost all but my home in a bad business deal.

Two years ago, North Korea dealt with inflation by undergoing a currency denomination, a process wherein the face value of circulating currency is changed.

«A few years ago I would have dismissed this kind of deal as too expensive, but I did the analysis and was pleased to find it will only take a few midsize deals to pay back the investment,» McElaney says.

CVS's deal was the third - biggest offering on record, beaten only by Anheuser - Busch InBev SA's $ 46 billion offering two years ago and Verizon Communication Inc.'s $ 49 billion deal in 2013.

«One of the things most founders deal with today that they didn't deal with five years ago is navigating the major platforms — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google,» he said.

Just a few years ago, self - publishing (a.k.a. «vanity publishing») was an embarrassing last resort for writers unable to secure a «real» book deal.

But somewhat lost in all of this business wheeling and dealing is the fact that the balance of power in medicine is shifting: Armed with their body's own endless stream of signals and a smartphone, many individuals are getting the information they need to take charge of their health and wellbeing — or, in the case of Theresa Beech, whose 13 - year - old son was lost to cancer two years ago, to help total strangers search for a long - elusive cure.

Notably, the NBA signed a five - year streaming deal with Tencent two years ago that's reportedly worth $ 700 million.

If you stopped paying all your credit cards three years ago, this is always a good deal.

About two years ago, as dPoint's sales team talked with European and Asian customers about problem of dealing with hefty shipping costs, one customer suggested that the firm should think about licensing the machines that manufacture the frames — in effect, outsourcing production to dPoint's clients.

The airlines merged just over a year ago, but the deal was sealed in the eyes and ears of air traffic controllers Thursday when Virgin America lost its colorful call sign that conjures up its California roots: «Redwood.»

SmartBall was originally introduced to deal with leak problems in the water industry more than five years ago, but the team quickly saw opportunities to expand.

The existing deal between the two was signed seven years ago, before Netflix even existed, and has been extended through a series of short - term agreements since January.

Two years ago, after Facebook's $ 19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp made huge news, the New York Times reported that Zuckerberg and WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum negotiated the deal over a plate of chocolate - covered strawberries at Zuckerberg's house.

China eased the payment terms two years ago on some $ 19 billion in oil - for - loan deals, under which...

years ago, but the financial crisis hit, and a deal didn't work for either of us at that time.

«The people I was dealing with these matters four and five years ago are the same people I'm dealing with today,» he reports.

«It certainly makes for a different set of conversations we were having a year ago,» said Robbins about how startups are dealing with the economy.

It's a lesson my business coach taught me a few years ago, and it's made an immense difference in my ability to close deals as a result.

The company, whose brands include Vans, The North Face and Timberland, said on Monday it is buying the maker of Dickies hospital scrubs and Kodiak boots for $ 820 million, its first major acquisition since its transformative deal for Timberland six years ago.

Though this deal was blocked four years ago by regulators in the Obama administration, this time might be different.

When Groupon filed for an IPO in early June, excitement was brewing about a chance to buy into the leader of online deal - buying websites, a trend that was relatively unknown about two years ago.

Discovery Communications and Scripps Networks Interactive are in merger talks, revisiting a deal that was scrapped three years ago, Reuters reported.

For example, when U.S. health insurers Anthem and Aetna separately announced deals two years ago to acquire peers Cigna and Humana, they did not reveal which assets they would be willing to divest.

The company two years ago had planned to buy smaller rival Rite Aid in its 4,500 - store entirety but in the face of anti-trust regulators balking in June, instead settled for a downsized deal announced in September.

The deal with Epix was signed five years ago, which is a lifetime in the digital - content business, and a lot has changed since then.

The company is in the early stages of an import - export strategy that began after completing the acquisition of U.S. - based Beam in a $ 16 billion deal that closed nearly a year ago.

It's the first time Naspers has sold any of the Tencent shares it bought 17 years ago, in a deal that worked out extraordinarily well for the firm.

Making a $ 75 car payment six years ago was a big deal.

«Raising meat takes a great deal of land and water and has a substantial environmental impact,» Gates wrote on his personal blog, Gatesnotes.com, a few years ago.

And Ludwig Hantson, the current CEO of Baxalta (bxlt), which Shire also acquired a few months ago, is set to leave his post after that deal closes later this year.

About four years ago I started pricing all of my deals as a function of «post-money valuation.»

«It's the same as it was 20 years ago,» she says, noting that HR practitioners have long dealt with cases like those that recently have been making headlines.

«As recently as three years ago, Black Friday — dominated by Big Store brands — was clearly better than smaller brand - focused and clothing - focused Cyber Monday, in terms of the number and quality of deals, as well as the number of participating retailers,» says de Grandpre of DealNews.

You are dealing with live audiences here — other social platforms people are looking at stuff you've already posted, whether it be a minute ago or three years ago.

I did a deal with David Chilton three years ago with a company called Steeped Tea.

The «Mad Money» host reminded viewers that Amazon started collecting state and local sales taxes years ago, and that if the Post Office pushed back on their deal, Amazon could simply take its business to FedEx or UPS.

With the deadline looming to win a regulatory approval that seemed unlikely for the $ 9.4 billion deal, first announced almost two years ago, Walgreens said on Thursday it was scrapping the planned acquisition of Rite Aid as a whole and would instead simply buy 2,186 Rite Aid stores, or about 45 % of its fleet, three distribution centers, and related Rite Aid inventory for $ 5.175 billion.

«Many years ago, I began to use the term «intersectionality» to deal with the fact that many of our social justice problems like racism and sexism are often overlapping, creating multiple levels of social injustice,» Crenshaw says.

FMC has been involved in deals with Dow and DuPont, while the IMS - Quintiles deal happened about a year ago.

Listen to Bill Vogelgesang, a senior vice-president at the Cleveland investment - and merchant - banking firm Brown, Gibbons, Lang & Co. «We see deals — and are doing deals — now that could never have gotten done five or six years ago.

But one thing that isn't part of the deal is Gawker.com — the website that helped to launch an alternative blogging empire almost 14 years ago.

Three years ago, when four of the major health insurers rushed to partner on large - scale mergers, the deals were blocked by the Department of Justice, and ultimately rejected by the courts on anti-trust grounds.