Sentences with phrase «dollar company off»

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A company that became a national phenomenon with retail alchemy — a rare ability to attract millions with hip designer items at clear - out prices — has seen that delicate formula stifled by excessive caution and a strangling bureaucracy, even as competitors emulated Target's approach, and fast - fashion retailers like H&M, off - price chains such as T.J. Maxx, and dollar stores all muscled onto its turf.

«If I did a remarkable job, I would add a couple million dollars to the bottom line of a company that's throwing off billions a quarter in profit,» he remembers thinking.

In 2011 a reported 908,300 workers were stuck at home with work related injuries, costing companies millions of dollars in workers compensation and paid time off.

After spending millions of dollars and several years doing research, a company can still fail to bring a product to market — leaving its investors with little to show for their money except disappointment and a tax write - off.

So why would a company that has colonized most of the known world over the last two decades slough off its billion - dollar brand?

Alcoa had voluntarily shut - off the plant's burner in 2002 after a number of multi-million dollar compensation claims were made against the company by workers relating to adverse health effects.

That is because banks, private - equity firms and institutional investors have continued to pour money into the sector even as oil companies slashed billions of dollars in spending from their budgets and laid off more than 100,000 workers.

In July, Williams formally spun off the company, raising several million dollars from Union Square Ventures, a New York City VC with a hands - off reputation.

Another option for Sirius would be to sell off the unused spectrum to the highest bidder, which would translate to billions of dollars in a marketplace where communications companies are constantly vying for more bandwidth.

And, Time Warner (twx) is also likely to post a dip in profit, as the company contends with a strong U.S. dollar amid activist pressure to spin - off HBO and the return of Fox takeover rumors.

Still, to become a billion - dollar company, Indochino will need to learn to thrive both online and off, and stitch together a brand that appeals to a wider group of shoppers.

Like Elon Musk's company, Blue Origin is engineering its rockets to safely land back on earth so they can be reused, thus shaving tens of millions of dollars off the cost of each launch.

In early September, Solyndra ceased operations, laying off 1,100 staff and dooming the U.S. government's hopes of recovering more than half a billion dollars in loan guarantees offered to the company as part of the 2009 stimulus plan.

The high yield is a symptom of the sell - off of Torstar's shares while the company maintained its dividend in dollar terms.

The recent investment that Warren Buffett's holding company Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a) made in Apple has paid off to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars in value.

At close to half a billion dollars, it was well beyond the outer limits of what investors had ever paid for a publishing company of Wired's size — never mind one whose operations were on track to lose $ 11 million that year (not even counting a onetime $ 20.5 - million write - off to put the company's disparate assets under one corporate umbrella).

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.

The company has seen billions of dollars wiped off its market cap, and the hashtag #DeleteFacebook is percolating on Twitter.

As it flirts with banking and health care, the company aims to serve as a middle - man, skimming off dollars from as many online transactions as it can.

Yeah, but why that caution for companies that, again, like Google is the company that paid 12, 13 billion dollars for Motorola, and then a couple of months later said, «Actually, we're going to sell most of it off.»

Marijuana Penny Stock Scams With the proliferation of legal marijuana companies and the massive growth we've seen in the industry, it's no surprise that less - than - savory characters have tried to make a dollar off the boom through, shall we say, less honest means.

Investors are currently getting more than $ 2 of revenue for every dollar invested, making the company look like a cheap buy in the present, and that could pay off long term if the company's ambitious plans work out.

The reports caused the company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in sales, shut down three of its four plants and lay off roughly half of its employees, BPI said in its Sept. 13 complaint.

The reports caused the company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in sales, shut down three of its four plants and lay off roughly half of its employees, BPI said in its September 13 complaint.

Sure, we might be off our rockers and pumping millions of dollars into pharmaceutical companies, but that's what we do with formula!

Two issues I can think of off the top of my head -(1) what if I'm an entertainment company and I don't believe my tax dollars should be spent on PBS, (2) The funding for this used to be spread out across the country.

«The truth is that you don't «invest in MWBEs» by cutting off a key source of startup capital and you don't deliver «real, local wealth creation» by siding with multi-billion dollar hotel companies against home sharing hosts who plow 97 percent of the list price of their space back into the local economy,» the letter states.

Trillions of dollars in savings has been lost, forcing seniors to put off retirement, young people to postpone college, and entrepreneurs to give up on the dream of starting a company.

The audit showed continued spending on advertising did not lead to an increase in the number of companies who applied for the program, and the state continued spending millions of dollars on advertising even as monthly applications dropped off from roughly 5,300 in January 2014 to about 500 in June of 2014.

The obscure Brooklyn company at the center of the nursing home scandal already owed millions of dollars in unpaid taxes, and its principals were accused of «secretly scheming» against a former business partner, long before the city signed off on a sweetheart deal that netted the firm a $ 72 million profit, records show.

Rath pointed out there will be at least 102 companies looking for venture capital dollars just off of that competition.

His office found the group diverted $ 800,000 in taxpayer funds for elderly services to pay off a mortgage on a vacant building and that its former director charged thousands of dollars of personal expenses to a company credit card.

It is highly ironic that Cuomo is offering NYS tax dollars to a company which holds $ 119B in profits off - shore, and is ranked as the second biggest corporate tax evader and which paid - $ 71m in state income taxes in 2014.

So even though it seems far off, a $ 10 million difference in revenues 5 or 6 years from now is going to make a big difference — sometimes as much as millions of dollars — in the value a company will be given today.

Well, the problem is that if your patent is worth a lot (that is, if the company infringing on your patent thinks they can make millions of dollars off your idea), chances are, there's not a whole lot you can do.

Large pharmaceutical companies have poured untold millions (or perhaps billions) of dollars into developing and marketing insomnia drugs, and their drive to find the magic pill has largely paid off.

On one hand, you've got the mega-powerful multi-billion dollar food companies that make huge profits off of cheap grain - based foods and they attempt to convince the public that breads, cereals, etc are «healthy».

Unveiled in multiple instalments, with a finale that premiered at the closing event of Shanghai Fashion Week, the mysterious movie begins with Houston playing a London - based CEO, whisked off to China to sell his multi-billion dollar company to an enigmatic investor.

I can't believe that this Great Expectations that is ripping people off for thousands of dollars is the same company that I sent $ 25.00 to over thirty three years ago.

Irons tops things off as the company CEO who sees everything in the cold calculation of dollars and cents, with the human factor never entering the equation.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has spent the last decade building up a sprawling, interconnected world of comic book superheroes, an incredible experiment that has paid off to the tune of billions of dollars for Marvel and its parent company, Disney.

New companies are surely aiming at these dollars, just as Google, Facebook, and Craigslist have siphoned off newspaper ad revenues.

This beautiful sedan is our reward for the billions of dollars that the Ford Motor Company poured into Coventry's moribund Jaguar before off - loading the brand in 2008.

Finally, the sunset of the era of Ford manufacturing in Australia capped off the week's discussion, following the company's announcement that local production would end in 2016, the victim of shrinking demand for the brand's traditional full - size rear - drive sedans, the strength of the Australian dollar, which has made imports cheaper, and Ford CEO Alan Mulally's insistence on global platforms.

An article in Publisher's Weekly outlines the demise of one such company, WinePress Publishing, who unfortunately closed its doors amid accusations of ripping off authors and its own employees, including allegations that its CEO was brainwashed into selling what had been a multi-million dollar company to her church pastor for only $ 10.

The question I would ask: Would writers really be better off if all the only options they had were getting published by one of the Big Five or going the vanity route with vampire companies like Author Solutions, and the only entrepreneurial paths would require hundreds of thousands of dollars of up - front investment?

Although tough economic times often prompt companies to unveil new products in their search for shrinking consumer dollars, businesses might be better off with their old products and new positioning, said Fern Reiss of Expertizing.com on this week's Wall Street Week with Fortune show.

I have a credit card my interest rate is 25.24 % I had the card for a year and six months, credit limit at that time was 2,000 dollars first charge on the card was 1,700 dollars, I paid it off in 6 1/2 months because I paid it off quickly, the credit company gave me and increase credit limit up to 2,800 dollars 3 months later I used my card again this time 2,340 dollars four months later I paid my card balance down to 1,200 dollars.

Gold, he points out, has been a «horrific» performer all year and with America's quantitative easing program now over, the U.S. dollar taking off and no signs of inflation, the commodity, and the companies that produce it, will continue to suffer.

It just had to stay in business long enough for Lampert to wring out every dollar he could before selling off the company's assets.