Sentences with phrase «family ran the company for»

The Busch family ran the company for nearly 130 years, even after it went public, but the stock stagnated in the early 2000s when Michelob and Budweiser fell into a sharp decline as Americans gravitated to wine and spirits.

Our school was founded in 1953 by Cleo and T.J. Thompson and has been a family run company for 3 generations.

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In addition, as Spielberg's shop moves more into the family space, it could run up against part of the deal that forbids DreamWorks from making animated films for any company other than DWA.

Jackie Hosang Lawson and Jonathan M. Zang complained of retaliation for whistleblower activities from the privately held parent company and subsidiary companies that run the Fidelity family of mutual funds.

Response to market conditions is thus faster for family - run companies.

For example, if you run a children's educational toy company, it would be poor form to retweet content that's not strictly family - friendly.

I'm delighted for Five Guys, as it's a family - run company and has risen from very little.

While Bhakta says that in the earliest days of launching WhistlePig, he toyed with the idea of building a spirits company to sell, he had long ago decided to keep WhistlePig in the family and run it for generations.

Selling a skyscraper isn't the same as selling a retail storefront, explains George Carras, who runs research company RealNet Canada (though there is one comparison to selling a family home; the tower will likely be «fluffed» for visits by bidders, which could involve anything from new lobby furniture to removing condensation from windows).

One theory (alluded to in the Clarkson report) has to do with managing for the long run: a company rooted in a family's history, tradition and reputation may well be less susceptible to the short - termism that is so notoriously a factor at most corporations today.

A family - run company that specializes in making custom English saddles for women, Schleese Saddlery has trotted steadily to the forefront of an international industry without every relying on distributors or retailers.

Although Mr. Kushner has stepped down from his management positions at the more than 200 entities that operated aspects of the family real estate business, he will remain a beneficiary of a vast majority of the business he ran for the past decade, through a series of trusts that already owned the various real estate companies.

It seemed logical that technology would increase the economic surplus and hence make it less necessary for families, companies or governments to run up debt to rentiers even more rapidly than the tangible surplus was growing.

The company met many of Buffett's criteria for purchase: strong return on capital, a family run company, $ 135 million in annual revenue and a business plan that's difficult for competitors to copy, said Kenkel, who is international marketing manager for an Omaha health care diagnostics company.

Before I started my term job last year in May, I formally resigned from the family cleaning company that I ran / helped run / then owned for quite some time.

The deal illustrates a recent trend among family offices, the little - known money managers that run the fortunes of the world's richest individuals including computer maker Michael Dell and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, to team up with likeminded peers for direct investments in companies.

«That means we are not a small family run business anymore — we are running a real company with lots of employees and that comes with the need for better structure, execution and quality across the board.»

If you're not familiar with Divine Flavor, it's a family - run and grower - owned distribution company based in Nogales, Arizona that believes in growing «Better Food for a Better World.»

«It was the family's vision for the company to be family owned but professionally managed, giving it all the advantages of a private business but run like a public company,» he says.

Today, the Dickman brothers oversee the day - to - day operations of the family company, with Jim handling the meat purchasing for Charlie's Pride and Robert running the sales and marketing side.

«There is a saying that a competitive edge is something you can't buy or copy, and you can't buy or copy a company that has been a family run business for 105 years,» he says.

Pacifix, a family - owned company run by Roger Young, is a prominent wire hood supplier for both the Australian and Californian sparkling wine industries.

After running the company for 24 years, Earl sold Wine Trends stock to the Miller - Vontz family who founded Heidelberg Distributing Company five generations ecompany for 24 years, Earl sold Wine Trends stock to the Miller - Vontz family who founded Heidelberg Distributing Company five generations eCompany five generations earlier.

When it comes to oral dose packaging, you can count on our Pharmafill brand line of packaging machinery for dependable, long - lasting, low - maintenance operation, easy to use controls that any of your workers can run and a comforting level of affordability that only a family - owned company like Deitz seems willing to offer today.

Family run for more than 25 years, the company can improve a business with packaging done right.

Add in CEO Tim Carter's love of almonds, a partnership with leading almond grower Harris Woolf (another 100 - year - old family - run company), plus a growing appetite for this delicious, heart - healthy nut among American consumers, and the decision to stay ever - relevant by expanding into almond butter was really a no - brainer.

As we prepare for our 2nd Anual No Child Wet Behind 5k, 1 - mile Family Fun Run, and Diaper Drive on May 13th at Wolfe Park in Columbus, Ohio, we want to take a moment to recognize the fabulous companies who help make this event a fun filled morning and get diapers to the families who need them most.

Strube Celery & Vegetable is run by Mr. Strube's two children, and fourth - generation family members also are working for the company.

This is a family - run company that continues to win awards and recognition for its safe baby products year after year.

Jacobs, much of his extended family, and a number of Limited Liability Companies or LLC's have given Cuomo nearly $ 125,000 in campaign contributions since he first ran for Governor in 2010.

Naples had a twenty - year career on Wall Street, serving at HSBC, Merrill Lynch, and Chemical Bank, and in her family's insurance company in Buffalo, before running for office.

The return of broadcast - transmission facilities to a perch high above the World Trade Center site marks an expansion into a niche business for one of New York's most prominent family - run real - estate companies: The Durst Organization.

Nixon, the Working Families Party candidate for governor and Cuomo's Democratic primary foe, made the anti-corruption vow after it was revealed that the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office has launched a probe into an Orange County health care company, Crystal Run, that received more than $ 25 million in state grants after officers and family members contributed $ 400,000 to Cuomo's re-election campaign.

Maragos, who changed his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat last year to run for county executive, would ban political contributions from all county vendors, including from officers and family members of related limited liability companies.

Elena Kiam, creative director of the family - run jewelry company lia sophia, tells us which items are must - haves for a jewelry wardrobe.

A commercial for the website was previously pulled by sports network ESPN, which is part of the family - friendly Walt Disney Company, when it ran in the US in 2008.

The film, which clearly shows David Cronenberg's love for body horror running through the family, revolves around a man (Caleb Landry - Jones) working for a company who inject paying customers with the same viruses as famous celebrities.

And there is a robust appreciation for women maneuvering the patriarchy in the form of the late Katharine Graham, the underestimated publisher of the paper who made the call to run the Pentagon Papers report at great existential risk to her family's company and legacy.

It is true that Nintendo has that image of a family friendly company, and that Bayonetta 2 may have a hard time selling at first, but I also believe it's gonna be a success on the long run for what it represents: Nintendo trying to cater for the so - called «hardcore» gamers, and including «Mature» content on their consoles.

Miron said that for - profit companies running the schools have led to some to some questionable practices, like heavily marketing its schools to families that are not fit for the program in order to rake in more money.

Stu Loeser and Company are paid to run the Families for Excellent Schools» public relations campaigns in New York and Connecticut.

Low - income kids and their families are the biggest losers in the attacks on public schools, but there are winners in the ideological assault: new for - profit companies that run charter schools, private and religious academies that now receive taxpayer funding and sketchy online institutions that are raking in state dollars.

By the same token, when under - funded and under - resourced public schools do not show «adequate yearly progress,» our response should be to find out why these schools are struggling, and provide them with the materials and support they need to improve — not for the charter management companies that run these schools to walk away before the end of the school year, forcing families to scramble to get their kids placed into public schools with little notice and no assistance.

Kuljetus Auvinen, a Finnish family - run hauling company has been customizing semi trucks for a number of years.

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Oh, okay, perhaps a small exception can be made for Baen books, a small family run company that treats its authors like family.

The Acer Iconia Tab A500 is the company's first 10.1 - inch tablet running Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) in the new Acer Iconia family of tablets for North America.

Kreutzfeldt previously worked for her family - run company Kreutzfeldt digital, which specializes in consultation and services for publishers in the field of e-books.

They are recommended for cats and dogs that may have separation anxiety, that run for cover every time you have company, or become moody after being introduced to a new family member and dogs that urinate in the house or cats that urinate outside of the litter box when you go on vacation, or leave you special «gifts» if you interrupt his or her routine.

Fortunately, a family - run company called Big Barker came up with a solution and created one that is specifically made dog beds for big dogs such as Great Danes or Mastiffs that require that extra joint support and additional space.