Sentences with phrase «family businesses which»

Plus it is a family business which makes them even more amazing!

Younger generations receive a subsidy that gives them more money per pound of coffee produced to encourage them to stay in the family business which helps long - term sustainability in coffee farming.

Spindle is a smaller, family business which is why you may not have heard a lot about them.

For thirty - six years, I was part of a family business which began in my parents» garage and grew to almost 700 employees by the time it was sold in 2004.

So we just changed it to how he was running a family business which exports goods to Hong Kong.

Watugo Outback Tours is a Brisbane based family business which caters for tours of up to 20 passengers and offers that special personal touch.

They want to know for the rest of their lives that they tried to deal with problems such as, fighting for the custody of a child, or loss of employment without cause, compensation, or notice, or to save a family business which is the source of family income and payment of a mortgage, when too old to start another business.

Lastly, Kimberly works with her husband so it's a family business which I like.

Her client also helped with his family business which sold products online so he had ecommerce experience to leverage.

Not exact matches

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

From those international experiences, family members could possibly act as an external contributor to the business, which might lead to similar results as bringing in a non-family member to the company.

In 2009 Sam Keats was a typical 26 - year - old roped in to help a family member undertake a backyard renovation when he stumbled on the idea which formed his now rapidly growing business.

Madsen looked at 609 family - run companies in Norway, many of which were small, first - generation companies, to see whether a firm's family influence and dynamic capabilities hinder or promote the type of entrepreneurship the business is working towards.

Taking the advice and working closely with Gekko, Fox soon finds himself swept into a world of «yuppies», shady business deals, the «good life», fast money, and fast women; something which is at odds with his family including his estranged father and the blue - collared way Fox was brought up.

The study was presented recently at the 2014 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference at Western University's Ivey Business School in London, Ont., which set out to uncover the factors that «influence variance in entrepreneurial orientation» — risk - taking, innovativeness, pro-activeness — among family firms.

Western Australia's oldest family - owned business has won a contract to provide local inbound freight transport services for German supermarket chain Aldi, which is planning to open its first Perth stores next year.

«No matter where I am in the world, I try to routinely wake up at around 5 a.m.. By rising early, I'm able to do some exercise and spend time with my family, which puts me in a great mind frame before getting down to business,» he explains.

One such business is Ann Arbor, Michigan - based Nie Family Funeral Home & Cremation Service, which added the option in the late 1990s.

The Mannix brothers share many things with their father (Fred Charles Mannix) and grandfather (Fred Stephen Mannix), whose empires they inherited: their names, obviously, but also their sharp business acumen, quiet - but - aggressive approaches to philanthropy (Calgary's brand new National Music Centre — which houses Canada's Music Hall of Fame — came to being thanks to more than $ 10 million in donations from the Mannix family business; the company also contributed $ 1 million to the National Gallery of Canada in 2015) and steadfast commitment to privacy.

The Frederictoncampus continues tooffer its Activator program, in which studentswork with anentrepreneur to cultivate a business idea.Meanwhile, a new entrepreneurship streamis available to students on the Saint John campus, which also added skills developmentcourses and a social entrepreneurship course.Big changes have come to the Saint John campusthrough some big donations recently.The Pond - Deshpande Centre for Innovationand Entrepreneurship offers courses andmentorship opportunities for students, whilea donation from the Irving family helped funda new library facility.

Whether you choose to sell the business, hand it down to family or a colleague, close the business (which often requires selling assets like equipment) or sell out a partnership, this decision will ultimately inform how you prepare for retirement.

Sales in its baby, feminine and family care business, which includes Pampers diapers, dropped 1 percent.

«The processing time is about 30 seconds and there's no sales tax,» says Dan Lee, the general manager of Green Avenue Market, one of five family - run businesses in Brooklyn, N.Y., which have accepted Bitcoin for close to a year.

And there's this interesting tidbit too: One quarter of business executives surveyed said they are simply more effective communicating in their businesses than in their personal lives, which may factor into why so many have trouble communicating plans for passing on their businesses to family members.

This week, Rogers Real Estate Development Ltd. — a private company owned by the Rogers family and held separately from Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business)-- announced its plan to develop a 15 acre patch of land at the city's western edge.

My family owns a small business of which I am the manager of, so it is good to know how to handle trespassers on business premises.

«It's baked into their DNA to be focused on the long term, as their focus is to maintain the family business and wealth,» says Matt Fullbrook, manager of the Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and Board Effectiveness (CCBE) at the University of Toronto, which has been studying the underlying reasons for the curious strength of familbusiness and wealth,» says Matt Fullbrook, manager of the Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and Board Effectiveness (CCBE) at the University of Toronto, which has been studying the underlying reasons for the curious strength of familBusiness Ethics and Board Effectiveness (CCBE) at the University of Toronto, which has been studying the underlying reasons for the curious strength of family firms.

Mayer has purchased Palo Alto's oldest funeral home, Roller & Hapgood & Tinney, a 114 - year - old family - owned business, according to news reports which first appeared in local California news site Palo Alto Online.

Jon Levs, author of All in: How Our Work - First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses — And How We Can Fix It Together, studied the effect of paid leave in California and New Jersey, which have paid family leave programs, and found that the majority of businesses reported that their state's paid leave programs had either no effect or a positive effect on theirBusinesses — And How We Can Fix It Together, studied the effect of paid leave in California and New Jersey, which have paid family leave programs, and found that the majority of businesses reported that their state's paid leave programs had either no effect or a positive effect on theirbusinesses reported that their state's paid leave programs had either no effect or a positive effect on their business.

Lotus 1 -2-3's cousin, Lotus Notes — which offered companies integrated messaging, business applications and social collaboration in one workspace — was the program that caught IBM's eye; Lotus 1 -2-3 simply tagged along because it was family.

So have his business interests, which also include a vineyard and a family - owned blue cheese company, based in Iowa.

To find the answer, I spoke with Trisha Harp, founder of the Harp Family Institute (HFI), which focuses on the impact that entrepreneurship has on relationships and, inversely, the impact relationships have on businesses.

Early in 2013, the pair had raised $ 500,000 from family, friends, and old colleagues, which they hoped would sustain them until business took off.

The family's holdings now employ 8,000 and include the London Drugs chain — which did an estimated $ 2 billion in business last year, tripling online sales after a revamp of its website — and IGA grocery stores.

The family's bank of choice has long been Deutsche Bank, which was the only bank willing to loan to Trump after he lost others money in a series of bankruptcies — something he figured «was the bank's problem, not mine,» he wrote in his 2007 book, «Think Big: Make it Happen in Business and Life.»

There's even a crash course titled Starting a Business is Like Starting a Family, which gets bonus points for being a video that starts with a lot of wine drinking.

Morneau brushed off the questions about his family business, which he helped run before entering politics.

The window cracked open earlier this year when billionaire Peter Thiel's investment firm Founders Fund made a multimillion - dollar investment in Privateer Holdings, which raised $ 82 million for its cannabis businesses, including Marley Natural (in partnership with the family of the late reggae singer Bob).

Trump's father, Fred, wasn't too keen on the young developer's decision to enter the Manhattan market, instead insisting that the younger Trump should continue with the family's outerborough real estate business, in which it had found its initial success.

If the answer is the founder, their friends and family, then chances are the business will be among the glut of failed startups, which the 2015 Startup Genome Report co-authored by Berkeley and Stanford faculty members estimates is as high as 90 %.

Gavin de Becker and Associates owns and operates The Private Suite, which means the same national security services that have protected US government officials, business executives, and prominent families oversee these exclusive accommodations at LAX, one of the country's busiest airports.

American families, on average, buy the same 150 products over and over again, which make up 85 percent of their household needs, according to research out of Harvard Business School.

She says that the family frustrated her efforts, however, to reduce costly inventory — a crucial plank in her strategy to redirect the business away from the contractor trade on which it had long relied.

As for family leave, Elliott expects companies to go the route of private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, which recently extended paid leave for new parents, and announced it would let employees take both their babies and their caregivers on business trips — on the company's dime.

Bellow you'll find some other common funding alternatives for the cannabis industry, which might either come in handy when raising seed capital or when looking for additional funds for your business after a friends and family round.

The common denominator for me is stories which have helped Chinese business leaders do a better job of managing their businesses as well as their personal and family lives, against a backdrop of phenomenal, turbulent change.

That was the first of a series of conversations in which they swapped their visions for future accelerated growth, their attitudes about family and business values, and, finally, their key financial numbers.

His son Kyle also works for Angel's Envy, and the family intends to remain involved with the business, which will continue as a standalone operation.

In a 2014 blog post, the entrepreneur explained why he wakes up at 5 a.m.: «I'm able to do some exercise and spend time with my family, which puts me in a great mind frame before getting down to business.»

For Matt Ampolsky, growing up in his family's concert business gave him the insider view of the process, which resulted in the wildly successful start - up Confirmed 360, an entertainment and concierge service.