Sentences with phrase «dollar companies taking»

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Now, 14 years after inheriting her father's semi-successful company, she took in $ 10 million last year by overseeing a half - billion dollars of hotel construction and living the life she has always wanted.

And as has been pointed out, the oil crash hammered energy companies, but cheap oil and the low dollar (in Canada at least) should have spurred non-energy exporters to take advantage of those ideal conditions.

The financial crisis and poor Australian dollar is just two of a thousand excuses I have heard them use over the years to avoid taking responsibility, and justify in their own minds that the collapse of this company has nothing to do with the underhanded practices and their own poor management.

«It's not about taking a bunch of dollar bills and spreading them around,» said Deep Nishar, SoftBank's managing director, noting that the company is looking at making similar investments in Europe and South America.

There's no new theme to it, just more riffs on the old one of a self - reinforcing spiral of slower growth in China crushing the economies of its raw material suppliers, while an appreciating dollar makes it ever harder for emerging market companies and governments to repay the debts they gleefully took on when the Federal Reserve was giving away dollars for free.

Matt Scanlan, co-founder and CEO of Naadam Cashmere, takes us on his wild journey from an unemployed tourist in Mongolia to the head of a multimillion - dollar company.

We might be losing $ 50 million per day today because our pipelines feed the middle of North America as opposed to the coasts, but when companies were selling the idea of more pipelines right into the heart of the now - discounted mid-continent market, they did so on the basis that we'd make millions of dollars per day taking advantage of a growing market premium.

Companies chasing their dollars may wish to take heed.

After all, it's usually the Founder who took the company from nothing more than an idea with a few thousand dollars in cash to where it is today.

That led me to take a job making zero dollars at a company that had no name, with Elon Musk in California.

Starting in August 2016, shares of Dollar Tree, the parent company of Family Dollar, and Dollar General were taken down after a disappointing earnings report from Dollar General.

Noble is pursuing a $ 3.4 billion debt restructuring - crucial for the survival of the company - which has sold billions of dollars of assets, taken hefty writedowns and cut hundreds of jobs over the past three years to cut debt.

An example his post provides: A roughly 10 mile ride in Los Angeles where he calculates Uber pocketed an additional four dollars beyond what the company normally takes from passenger payment.

In many parts of the country, companies that would rather not take on the logistics of live streaming a meeting themselves can now hire a live streaming producer or consultant to do the work for them for hundreds or thousands of dollars depending on the length and complexity what's being produced.

I'd say that taking an existing technology (internet calling) and turning it into an internationally - beloved brand that is worth billions of dollars makes you a heck of a company builder.

«How much in dollars should management take out of the company?

And, as I noted in the earlier post, the stakes are positively enormous, potentially affecting billions of dollars in future revenue, to say nothing of the valuations of several companies that have already launched to take advantage of this approach.

The company has sold billions of dollars of assets, taken hefty writedowns and cut hundreds of jobs over the past three years to slash debt.

Take the underrepresentation of women among tech entrepreneurs together with an overwhelmingly male VC population (with their presumably dude - heavy networks and natural affinity for the types of companies that speak to men) and the result has been dismal amounts of investor dollars going to female founders — less than five percent just a decade ago.

Sanders could make her investment dollars stretch a lot further if, for instance, she took the amount she has invested in a VALIC annuity — valued at roughly between $ 75,000 and $ 427,000 — and rolled it over into an IRA managed by a low - fee company like Vanguard, says Murrieta, Calif., financial planner Scott Dauenhauer.

«We took that company from 18 cents [per share] to over a dollar in a year,» says Christian Milau, True Gold's suddenly ex-CEO.

We have created hundreds of billions of dollars of shareholder value over the last 30 years by convincing boards and CEOs to take the steps necessary to greatly increase the value of their companies.

But the shareholder letter indicated that his taking time off was not enough for some investors who have pumped millions of dollars into the ride - hailing company, which has seen its valuation swell to nearly $ 70 billion.

Indiegogo is the first major crowdfunding site to use a new securities rule that took effect six months ago, allowing ordinary investors to risk up to a few thousands dollars a year backing private companies.

It takes customers a while to get familiar with a new menu and the company will «keep finessing» how it uses the $ 1 $ 2 $ 3 Dollar Menu, Easterbrook said.

So I think a litmus test is always just to say if we took the dollars out of it, is there a deal that we would want to do with this company?

Ripple's xRapid is a foreign exchange investment vehicle that allows companies to take their U.S. dollars, convert them to XRP and, within seconds, convert them to another fiat currency.

The attack has likely sharply lowered the price Avid Life could muster in any sale of assets, assuming it could find a buyer willing to take on a company facing several multi-million dollars lawsuits and the challenge of rebuilding a computer network that has been so badly infiltrated.

In 1903, Henry Ford founded the company that bears his name, but it took him decades and hundreds of millions of dollars at today's prices to build a company that reached all corners of the globe.

The quickest way to create a billion dollar company is to take basic human social needs and figure out how to mediate them online.

We work with C - Suites at multibillion - dollar companies who want to take the initiative to create a platform business.

CEO Tim Cook, has been a vocal advocate for streamlining the tax system and allowing companies (including his own) to return billions of dollars in foreign earnings without incurring a major U.S. penalty — and Cook has taken that message personally to Congress and the White House in recent months.

The company's combined ratio has averaged 95 % over the past decade, reflecting that Markel has been paying out only $ 0.95 in insurance losses and operating expenses for every dollar of premium it takes in.

You can use them to basically take pre-tax dollars, have them matched by your company (hopefully), and then invested in stocks, money market accounts, mutual funds, and bonds to grow over time.

Dave said to use that first dollar and take a good long look at your website and find out how to make it work for the company's target customers.

From the San Fran Chronicle: Wells Fargo & Co., Bank of America Corp. and other major financial companies that came up short in government stress tests took quick steps Thursday to shore up capital and confidence, most notably announcing plans to raise billions of dollars through common stock offerings.

The already legendary merger of the Gannet chain of newspapers and a television company in 1979, for a little more than 350 million dollars, seems today a very modest transaction compared with what took place a few months ago when an unprecedented US 19 billion dollar merger between Disney Company and the ABC Network was quickly overtaken by an even more massive Times Warner - CNN link - up worth, all told, in excess of US 25 billion dcompany in 1979, for a little more than 350 million dollars, seems today a very modest transaction compared with what took place a few months ago when an unprecedented US 19 billion dollar merger between Disney Company and the ABC Network was quickly overtaken by an even more massive Times Warner - CNN link - up worth, all told, in excess of US 25 billion dCompany and the ABC Network was quickly overtaken by an even more massive Times Warner - CNN link - up worth, all told, in excess of US 25 billion dollars.

Lion has taken billions of dollars in writedowns against its dairy assets and there has been speculation that company wants to exit the dairy business.

That kind of investigative journalistic experience comes in very handy when taking on the explosive topic he addresses today: are big food service management companies (FSMC's) like Chartwells, Aramark and Sodexo passing on to school districts — as required by law — the millions of dollars in rebates and «volume discounts» they receive from food manufacturers like Kellogg's, Pepperidge Farm and others?

Bettina, just wanted to let you know that, thanks ENTIRELY to you and your petition to take pink slime (YOUR WORDS) outta school lunches, I now dread going to work — thinking «this may be my last day of work at BPI», a company I've beem proud to work for for the past 10 years; a company that has taken recycling to the utmost heights (recycling lean beef trimmings to separate out the fat and reuse the remaining protein as a suppliment to other processed meats (such as hamburger, sausage, etc) and which customers, such as McDonald's, had WILLINGLY purchased in order to stretch their purchase dollars to give us consumers more value for our buck.

«We can not let the progress we have made together and the promise of a decent life for all those who work hard, be undermined by pressure from multi-billion dollar companies like Uber who are taking a page out of the Trump playbook and turning good jobs into bad jobs,» the letter states.

The New York State Public Service Commission is taking legal action against the parent company of a local cable television and internet provider, threatening a million - dollar fine and possible re-evaluation of its cable TV franchise deal in New York City.

To Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty he said, six years later, that various central bank schemes were set up to «allow friends to earn handsome profits... They allowed friends to make profits because when companies are created without any risk, and billions of dollars are transferred, somebody takes a (quite big) commission... a minimum of tens of millions of dollars.

A former top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — described in court papers as his «right - hand man» — was charged Thursday with taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from companies looking to score state - funded contracts.

When Karen asked if the company might ask other ad - targeting firms to pay a licensing fee or even try to force them out of the business, for instance, the answer that came back was, «I'm just a simple man trying to advance the cause of digital politics, you're talking way above my pay grade,» though we did also learn that the patent is «patent is a recognition of what we've done as a company» and that «taken us years to get to this place, it's taken millions and millions of dollars.»

That's why, when this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies — companies employing tens of thousands of people and holding hundreds of billions of dollars in assets — had to take place in hurried discussions in the middle of the night.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli proudly boasted he's made more than $ 1.60 for every dollar spent in an investment area that's been bulked up since he took office in 2007: buying stakes in New York companies, including 13 in the Capital Region.

Cuomo, who has benefited from LLC contributions more than any other politician in New York, said companies regularly take advantage of the gap in state law and set up numerous LLCs to donate millions of dollars to candidates.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has charged one of his closest confidantes, Joseph Percoco, with taking bribes from companies that contributed to the governor's campaign in exchange for getting state agencies to loosen up with subsidy dollars.

Percoco is accused of having taken tens of thousands of dollars from CPV while the company won state approvals to build the $ 1 billion, 650 - megawatt plant in Wawayanda, Orange County.