Sentences with phrase «few companies sell»

Few companies sell independent flood insurance directly to consumers and they typically only offer the policies in specific, high - risk areas they have underwritten.

In other words, very few companies sell term life policies alone.

Very few companies sell insurance products directly to the client.

Few companies sell independent flood insurance directly to consumers and they typically only offer the policies in specific, high - risk areas they have underwritten.

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Few, if any, companies think as big as Tesla: To say the 15 - year - old company is merely reinventing the automobile industry would be selling it short.

The CRTC is now easing those rules by allowing newcomer companies with fewer than 20,000 subscribers to sell TV service without a license.

A few years later, he sold the entire company for $ 225 million to Standard & Poor's after a routine sales call.

Yik Yak has the option to sell to a few different acquirers, sources say, but none of the deals will provide a return for the company's investors.

When the company went public a few months later, he sold a few shares for $ 10 each — a 33 percent profit.

«Let's be honest, the massive shift toward SUVs and trucks allowed all the car companies to make more money selling fewer cars last year.»

Appleby, who founded YogaForce, a company that designs and sells yoga clothing and mats, started doing doga a few years ago after she adopted a Pomeranian puppy named Madison.

To John Warrillow, the founder of the Sellability Score and author of the book Built to Sell, there are few things more important than recurring revenue for a business owner who is prepping to sell a compSell, there are few things more important than recurring revenue for a business owner who is prepping to sell a compsell a company.

Pershing Square also dropped a few investments in the second quarter, selling off nearly 11.7 million shares of spirits company Beam, which sold to Japan's Suntory earlier this year, as well as roughly 3.7 million shares of apartment building operator Apartment Investment & Management.

In 2011, both companies sold fewer than 10,000 units of these cars, below company forecasts.

Last year, PwC surveyed the CEOs of growing tech firms in Canada, and found that few are in it for the long haul: 63 % intend to sell their company.

Motorola says the device, which sold particularly well in India and Brazil and re-established the company in the United Kingdom, is its most successful smartphone yet — even more so than its Droid a few years ago.

Some of the authors mentioned in the New York Times story worried that they'd sell fewer books if the company put higher price tags on them.

It was a blockbuster product for Nintendo a few years ago, but the company sold fewer than 900,000 in the last quarter, down from 1.4 million at this time last year.

If and when the company, which makes a line of streaming media players and licenses its software for use on a growing number of smart TVs, goes public, it'll have a few attractive stats it can use to sell itself.

«But we'll also be selling to the 160,000 manufacturing companies that have fewer than 10 employees.»

So with such an innovative and potentially cost - reducing scheme in place, how is it that Better Place has only managed to sell 500 cars in nine months, a fact that led the company's board to fire founder Agassi just a few weeks ago?

The idea that small companies should be able to sell small amounts of stocks and bonds to investors — which they've been prohibited from doing since the Depression — has exploded over the past few years.

The most effective way of approaching a cluster sell is by targeting a few key companies within one industry.

That building is the home of Omaha Steaks, the mega red - meat company (which sells its products through direct mail, catalogs, retail, the Internet, and telemarketing) that has exploded to become a nationally recognizable brand name in the past few years.

The New York company, formerly known as Liz Claiborne, has been selling off parts of its business over the past few years.

The company has a few limited - time offers, like Shacktoberfest — a 10 - day event in October when the company sells sausages, beer and desserts in an ode to traditional Oktoberfest fare.

A few years later, he sold the company for $ 64 million.

That's a departure from a traditional initial public offering in which a company and a few select investors first sell a limited amount of stock at a starting price determined by investment bankers who spend weeks gauging investor demand.

The company has become more streamlined in the past few years, selling off its brewing business and some pubs to focus mainly on Premier Inn, Costa, the Beefeater restaurant brand and the Brewers Fayre pub restaurant chain.

May 2 (Reuters)- Estee Lauder Cos Inc topped expectations for quarterly profit on Wednesday but investors were worried about slowing U.S. sales as fewer shoppers visit department stores where the company sells a bulk of its products.

Amazon sells everything from books to groceries to electronics the company makes itself, offering customers the option of receiving items as soon as just a few hours after they order.

«Someone handed me a check that set me for life — and I was miserable,» George Jacobs told me a few years ago, referring to the $ 20 million the 50 - year - old serial entrepreneur made when he sold his company American Limousine in 1998.

«Outside Apple, very few U.S. technology companies — from Google, to Facebook, to Microsoft — have had success selling in China,» he said.

It sold Codman Neurosurgery to Integra LifeSciences for $ 1.05 billion while scooping up a few smaller equipment and device companies.

The company sells to customers in all 50 states and a few countries around the world.

For most of the companies I've worked at, the Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) is has been anecdotal at best... meaning that if you ask sales leader who we sell to, they'll offer a few key titles, maybe a couple of industries.

I'm just going to name a few things — in 1998 he sold ClassicGames.com to Yahoo!, in 2006 he was a New York Times best - seller for the AdSense Code, in 2008 he release iFart a paid iPhone application that was the No. 1 best selling for three week and most recently, and this is where I met him, he sold DealofDay.com at over seven figures where I was a consultant for the company that bought your website.

In 1999, at the age of 24, Spencer co-founded Hotwire.com, a leading Internet travel company, which a few years later he sold to InterActiveCorp (the parent company of Expedia).

Vista Outdoor, among the largest producers of ammunition in the United States and one of just a few publicly held firearms companies, said on Tuesday that it plans to sell its gun - making business.

These foreign taxpayer handouts hurt American companies» ability to sell aircraft overseas, meaning fewer U.S. jobs.

When selling a company, you can follow a few simple steps to avoid due diligence snafus and show investors that your business is a worthwhile investment.

They stayed and kept working so hard that, a few years later, Archana's company — Hubbl, which provides internet advertising solutions — sold for $ 14 million.

Shares of growth companies may not pay out the dividend you get from a value stock but you can create your own dividend by selling a few shares.

They snap up struggling publicly traded companies, with the help of some debt financing, spend a few years turning them around by restructuring or shedding businesses and then they sell them back to public stockholders, ideally at a gain.

Just a few years after Chinese companies lined up to sell shares on Wall Street, a growing number are reversing course and pulling out of U.S. exchanges.

On the issue of how to support Canadian content when fewer Canadians are purchasing cable TV subscriptions, the government tested four options to raise new money for Canadian content: making telecom companies divert some smartphone and Internet revenue; requiring «foreign companies like Netflix and iTunes» to devote a portion of revenues; giving consumers the option of making a voluntary $ 2 contribution on their telecom or Netflix bill; or making telecom companies add an app to every smartphone sold in Canada that would provide access to Canadian music, TV and film for between $ 5 and $ 15 a month or a flat charge of $ 3 on the sale of all smartphones.

There are very few private company case studies that illustrate how selling a business well can increase the business valuation by 50 % or more.

Uber's shareholders will now deliberate over who will choose to sell their stake in the company — the so - called «tender offer» process that will begin in the next few weeks will give investors a clearer picture of how much they can expect to be paid per share.

Repligen's share price ended up going nowhere for a few months, and I ended up selling my 1000 shares at slightly more than I paid for them, despite wholeheartedly believing in the company's long - term potential.

One big mistake that I've made a few times throughout my investing career is selling great stocks too early despite believing in the underlying companies» businesses over the long term.