Sentences with phrase «dollar company based»

Nearby, at boutique Hotel Lago, Stephen Longbottom, acting concierge manager, is anxiously awaiting the arrival of the board of directors for Silken Pleasures, a multimillion dollar company based in New York and specializing in high end cosmetics, fragrances and lingerie.

The online retailer grew into a multibillion - dollar company based on the reputation and power of its unique organizational personality.

Not exact matches

U.S. - based Eli Lilly's high - profile phase 3 failure for solanezumab was a particularly harsh blow, which also cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars and led to job cuts.

Ottawa - based Shopify has grown from scrappy startup to a multi-billion dollar company.

The court case revealed a series of convoluted legal infractions performed by Amanat and Tuzman in their work with the presently insolvent video - technology company, KIT Digital, a former multi-million dollar leader in the cloud - based video management industry.

But skeptics believe the company is bilking investors out of billions of dollars based on marketing fluff and a heavy dose of FOMO — fear of missing out.

This Houston - based power company is giving back to its local community in the form of one million dollars to Houston organizations.

Samantha Godfrey, CEO and co-founder of San Diego - based Pharmly, a pharmaceutical bidding marketplace that graduated from the program in June, says her company benefited from mentors who gave guidance for which she would have paid top dollar had she been working on her own, as well as from $ 60,000 in credit for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.

Jack Raudenbush, vice president of the $ 4.6 million company, which is based in Middletown, Pennsylvania, estimates that the change costs a few thousand dollars per year but calls it money well spent: «This was the type of plan our competitors had, and we needed to offer competitive benefits.»

Sedgman has awarded Perth - based concrete construction group Whittens a multi-million dollar subcontract to provide civil work at Groote Eylandt Mining Company's Manganese mine in the Northern Territory.

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.

«Amazon is one of the few companies that sees significant e-commerce dollars,» notes Greg Sterling, an Internet and mobile analyst with San Francisco - based Internet2Go — an Opus Research advisory service.

The company, which is pre-revenue but has several million dollars in investment, is developing a form of clean energy made from the waste wood that is plentiful in Oregon, where HM3 is based.

By the following March, they had spent more than half a billion dollars acquiring two more companies: San Francisco - based MyFitnessPal, a nutrition - tracking system for people to log their meals, and Copenhagen - based Endomondo, a personal - training program whose users are almost entirely outside the U.S.. Under Armour suddenly had not only the world's largest digital fitness community but hundreds of engineers and reams of user data as well.

A company can also augment literal dollar value based on purchases tracked by shopping apps, downloadable coupons or online flyers, but that information is rarely publicly available.

Some companies have successfully tapped Facebook's massive user base to earn millions of dollars, or seen massive paydays through acquisitions — or both.

In Adobe's case, a third - party review of the company's pay practices in 2016 found U.S. - based female employees were paid $ 0.99 on the dollar of their male coworkers.

But Midwest and East Coast - based entrepreneurs shouldn't give up on building a billion - dollar company just yet.

On #AskGaryVee, he answers questions about social media, entrepreneurship, startups, and family businesses based on a lifetime of building successful, multimillion - dollar companies.

«When we first started Fairy Tales Hair Care for Children, a salon - only line of organic products created to deep clean and condition as well as prevent head lice, we spent thousands of dollars on a direct - mail piece bundled with other salon - only products,» says Barash, 43, who started her NYC - based company in 1999.

Hempel dives headfirst into the underbelly of the San Francisco - based company and finds that things aren't as rosy as their multi-billion dollar valuation might suggest.

A share sale by San Francisco - based Dropbox, one of a closely watched group of high - profile private tech companies with multibillion - dollar valuations, would follow Snap Inc.'s disappointing step into the public markets.

In one well - publicized deal Motorola was pumping more than a billion dollars into Iridium, a satellite - based phone and paging company aiming to span every inch of the earth.

That job is now obsolete, replaced by Internet - based services from billion - dollar companies like Priceline (PCLN), TripAdvisor (TRIP), and Expedia (EXPE).

A SOFTWARE solution that fully automates the design, filling and printing of forms could save local councils millions of dollars, according to Perth - based information technology company Business Management Information Systems.

The ability to talk about these transactions on a one - on - one basis and market them more broadly online is going to allow us to go from the small company that we are today to a company that does millions and millions of dollars of transactions.»

It's attracted millions of dollars of funding, thousands of drivers across the country, and today the company enjoys a healthy user base.

We also expect SolarCity to immediately account for 40 % of the assets of the combined company on a historical cost basis, to contribute $ 1 + billion in revenue in 2017, and to add more than half a billion dollars in cash to Tesla's balance sheet over the next 3 years.

Most of these global staffing firms are based in India, they've become multibillion dollar enterprises supplying American companies with H - 1B workers, like Rajesh, to replace American workers.

John Ho, founder of Janchor Partners, a $ US4 billion fund whose 2012 stake in Alibaba has grown several times in value, said the Hangzhou - based behemoth could become a trillion - dollar company in less than a decade.

Bitfinex has come under fire for its relationship with Tether (a company, partially owned by van der Velde through Tether Holdings Limited, which purports to offer a blockchain - based equivalent to the US dollar and has been subpoenaed by the CFTC), but that hasn't stopped its executives from trying to turn over a new leaf.

This founder, whom we'll call Tom Green, said that while exact dollar amounts and percentages fluctuated slightly based on how many founders a company had and how experienced those founders were (younger founders lost 1 percent or 2 percent more in equity for the same amounts of money), most of the deals were structured to favor Y Combinator with the assumption that most of the teams were just starting out and were likely to fail.

Bengaluru - based startup Discover Dollar Technologies Pvt. Ltd, which helps large retailers identify and resolve revenue leakages, has been selected for the Metro Accelerator class of 2018 in Berlin, a company statement said.

The Company may enter into fair value hedges, such as interest rate swaps, to reduce the exposure of its debt portfolio to changes in fair value resulting from changes in interest rates by achieving a primarily U.S. dollar LIBOR - based floating interest expense.

We should recognize that tech companies based here can be global leaders and that it is possible to shift away from a petro - dollar economy in the future.

In July 2015, the company completed its acquisition of Family Dollar, roughly doubling its store base.

Investors hoping for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) to put some of its billions upon billions of dollars to use might be disappointed to find out the Cupertino - based company didn't buy a Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) or a Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS)- type of company.

Many companies lose organizational leaders based on a few thousand dollars per year.

However, in the long run, hundreds of millions of dollars» worth of bitcoin have been stolen from exchanges and other bitcoin - based companies.

John also served as the VP and Head of Corporate Development for an early - stage renewable energy and feed company based in Florida as well as a Director in Business Development at Valens Capital, a billion dollar hedge fund focused on providing flexible, custom - tailored and cost - effective debt and equity growth financing solutions to small - cap public and private companies.

Tech companies make billions of dollars by selling advertising based on what they learn about us.

Half of the corporate performance bonus is based upon non-GAAP EBITDA and a company defined «renewal dollar percentage», while the other half is based on the discretion of the compensation committee using company - defined metrics for success.

«More companies are trying to manage risk... but companies are still seeing highly uncorrelated moves [against the dollar] based on swings in one currency,» said FiREapps CEO Wolfgang Koester.

Bringing the Seattle - based company closer to the nation's seat of power could be a competitive advantage for Amazon, with growing calls to regulate tech monopolies, billions of dollars in untaxed offshore stockpiles at stake and the habit some tech companies have of getting into hot water for operating on the fringes of state and federal rules.

«The ideal way for China to replace the dollar as the dominant currency for her cross-border trade is to encourage her oil suppliers to accept payment in her own currency,» says Alasdair Macleod, head of research at Goldmoney, a gold - based financial - services company in Toronto.

The next set of metrics defines mission - level goals for each of our departments: number of companies started, number of top 100 restaurants carrying plant - based entrees, number of scientific grant dollars moved to plant - based and clean meat research, etc..

Capital Markets Foreign Exchange The surging dollar, falling euro and plunging emerging - markets currencies had a record $ 32 billion negative impact on the earnings of companies in North America and Europe in the first quarter, according to Scottsdale, Arizona based FiREapps, which helps corporations measure and manage foreign exchange exposure.

«Based on our sales record, we should have been in a prominent position, but we were at the bottom of the page,» said the e-commerce director of a multibillion - dollar publicly traded company.

One of the first talks I gave after I started working at Rackspace was to a global financial company based in the UK that had just sunk several million dollars into...

But it has been disappointing in that the kind of genetic variation it detects has turned out to explain surprisingly little of the genetic links to most diseases... One issue of debate among researchers is whether, despite the prospect of diminishing returns, to continue with the genomewide studies, which cost many millions of dollars apiece, or switch to a new approach like decoding the entire genomes of individual patients.The unexpected impasse also affects companies that offer personal genomic information and that had assumed they could inform customers of their genetic risk for common diseases, based on researchers» discoveries...