Sentences with phrase «despite challenging markets»

«Despite challenging markets, the resources industries continue to be key areas of strategic focus for the firm.

Despite the challenging market conditions in 2016,...

Despite challenging market conditions, Lion said the premium and craft beer segments continued to perform well.

19 Apr 2018 — For Finnish dairy company Valio, 2017 was a good year from a business development perspective with net sales increasing by 4.3 percent, and Valio was able to pay the co-operatives a steady milk price despite the challenging market situation.

We are looking forward to the further positive development of the project with EREN RE that has until now lead to a financial close in record time, despite challenging market conditions.

When you add the rest of the advantages of the RE / MAX system to the atmosphere of success that we've cultivated, it's easy to see how RE / MAX Professionals agents are consistently top performers - despite the challenging market conditions, we averaged 22.72 sides per agent last year (2014)!

Not exact matches

Despite the crowded market, Toshack says one of the major challenges she faced early on was skepticism about wine in a can.

Despite a rapid growth approach to new markets, Sim says that the company made a strategic decision to defer entry into more challenging markets, such as China, where many domestic oil - and - gas firms already use similar software programs.

Commentary: «Boston Scientific's earnings performance remains strong, despite very challenging global economic and end - market conditions that adversely impacted revenue... Achieved double digit sales growth in the three largest emerging markets of Brazil, India and China.»

«Last year, we delivered higher revenue and stronger pre-tax margins despite a challenging environment for our market - making businesses,» Lloyd C. Blankfein, Goldman's chairman and CEO, said in a statement.

«Despite the challenges we are seeing in the European and emerging markets, the continued recovery of the U.S. economy should continue to support Canadian exports going forward.»

Despite a challenging energy market, we believe the management team has a solid plan for the future, as CEO John Christmann recently changed the company's capital allocation process to better direct capital to the highest internal rate of return projects, regardless of where they are located.

Despite all the new channels into China, foreign investors have moved cautiously, in part because they continue to face challenges in gaining access to domestic markets.

Despite the expectation that the tide is finally turning for Canada's oil producers, significant challenges remain, with constrained pipeline capacity and limited capability to expand export markets the biggest of them all.

Meanwhile, emerging market bonds that make up the J.P. Morgan EMBI Global Core Index, currently offer similar yields and may benefit from global reflationary trends despite the potential challenge of higher valuations and a rising U.S dollar in the short term.

However, despite the potential for emerging technologies like blockchain and executable distributed code contracts to challenge foundational market infrastructure, Giancarlo believes that they remain bogged down by regulatory challenges that will hinder the ability for the US to remain competitive and transition into the upcoming digital finance era.

Despite the challenging and erratic market conditions, we still netted a profit in July from individual stock trades of The Wagner Daily swing trading newsletter, equating to just over 1 % of the model portfolio value.

Despite Hipac maintaining its business and market share, it faces other challenges related to the recession, Chandler says, such as the continuous rise of freight costs.

Wine Institute vice-president of international marketing Linsey Gallagher, who manages the institute's export programme, involving more than 170 wineries that export to 138 countries, observed that California wine exports had grown by an impressive 78 % by value in the last decade, despite the challenges of heavily - subsidised foreign competitors and high export tariffs.

The company, which supplies the multiple grocers, wholesale and cash & carry market and the on - trade, saw revenue up 10 % to around # 23 million in the year to 31 January 2016, which it said came on the back of its strategy to build a wide portfolio of brands, despite the challenges of operating in a competitive market.

«Despite a flat wine market in Canada and ongoing exchange rate challenges, Canada remains the top dollar value market for California wines.

Despite these challenges, the category remains a competitive market for large and emerging brands alike.

But Prof Alabi, who is also member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana and fellow of the Institute of Taxation, disagreed, insisting that, despite the daunting challenges that confronted the Mahama government; its achievements so far indicate that when given a second term, the country will be better off.

Intelligence gathered by The Finder indicates that staff of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) are demanding salary increment despite a myriad of challenges, including the huge fall in the price of raw cocoa beans on the world market and GH 10 billion debt overhang inherited by the new management.

«We've been able to make some slight gains despite markets that remain challenging,» DiNapoli said.

Despite the considerable challenges of a scientific career — relatively low pay, long hours, a very long training phase, and a tight job market — scientists say they enjoy the work.

The daytime expert conference helped to explain why people still argue that a skills shortage requires increased immigration, despite the reality of today's very challenging STEM job market.

But one thing's for sure: there's certainly no lack of desire on the part of international buyers to discover and bring Japanese designers to global markets, despite the challenges of navigating the scene.

According to Eric Schmidt's, the chief executive, statement, the company would become the leader of the Chinese internet market despite the challenges, such as censorship issues and fierce competition from the largest home - grown rival called Baidu.com.What is more, Google's Vice President and «Chief Internet Evangelist», Vint Cerf, supported the company's decision to expand its activities in China, although it should have complied with the Chinese government's demands to censor information.

Despite some challenges in technology, in the same study, it is projected that China's eLearning market is expected to surge to $ 5.9 Billion by 2018.

Despite the rail industry's efforts to prevent new entrants into the market, 1920 ushered - in a major challenge to rail's hegemony.

«We know there are some local challenges, the truth is despite rising pupil numbers and the competitive jobs market a stronger economy has created, more people are entering the teaching profession than leaving it, there are 13,100 more teachers today than when we came to office and the ratio of teachers to pupils is stable with more teachers also choosing to come back to the classroom,» he said.

Gibb said: «We know there are some local challenges, the truth is despite rising pupil numbers and the competitive jobs market a stronger economy has created, more people are entering the teaching profession than leaving it, there are 13,100 more teachers today than when we came to office and the ratio of teachers to pupils is stable with more teachers also choosing to come back to the classroom.

Despite the ever growing presence of import cars in the U.S. market, there's one segment in which the Big Three had never been challenged, until 2004.

The PC business measured $ 100 million in FY13 despite challenges in the market.

Despite the unique challenges of the most recent market cycle, I do expect that we will observe frequent opportunities to accept market risk in the coming years, even in an environment where valuations gradually work lower from a secular perspective.

Despite the solid economic and fundamental backdrop, some emerging markets face challenges that primarily stem from political factors

There are many reasons for optimism when looking at global market factors, despite the challenges listed above.

Which presents a bit of a challenge... Despite the EU / Eurozone & a plethora of pan-European indices, buying Europe's nothing like buying the US for the average investor — it's still a somewhat daunting exercise in learning about / adapting to the foibles of every single individual market.

«This will add impetus to our marketing strategies despite the challenges that have impacted the sector in the recent past.»

Reed Travel Exhibitions director World Travel Market, Simon Press, said: «The emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are often group together with their potential discussed as a collective whole, despite there being different advantages and challenges in each mMarket, Simon Press, said: «The emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are often group together with their potential discussed as a collective whole, despite there being different advantages and challenges in each marketmarket.

In so many ways Shadow of Mordor does not break new ground, despite being a new IP entering a challenging market.

Despite the news that Jon posted yesterday about THQ's shares plummeting, Homefront has risen to the challenge of competing with the other first person shooters on the market and silencing some of its more sceptical critics, by beating Killzone 3's day one sales.

Despite gallery closures and continued challenges for mid-sized dealers, 2017 will likely see an improvement in the art market's size over 2016.

Engineering News China is surging ahead in wind power, blowing away the US — the world's second - largest wind power market — by a long margin, while African countries are making more inroads despite facing challenges, delegates attending the yearly Windaba conference and exhibition, in Cape Town, have heard.

End - user engagement in the CRM system remain a significant challenge for law firms despite the efforts of both the CRM vendors and the firms» marketing and business development departments.

However, despite the growing and very lucrative cyber-crime market, the security industry has been working hard to challenge these criminals by developing new and innovative technologies.

Black says that despite challenging conditions existing for the foreseeable future, the average growth in the sector of 6 % remains impressive and is evidence of the resilience of the legal market.

Despite the legal challenges to non-lawyer ILSPs, Internet - based services may eventually inhabit a significant share of the legal services market previously occupied by small firm practitioners.

Despite challenging trading conditions recently, this focus on specific sectors has served these firms very well in terms of relative profitable growth and market share.