Sentences with phrase «few smaller industry»

We advise having a few smaller industry conference «dry runs» to gain feedback and refine your offering before making a planned and timely token sale announcement.

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And bucking the trend in a retail industry where many rivals are paring their store fleets, Walmart said it plans to open a few more stores: it expect to open fewer than 15 SuperCenters in the U.S. next year, a small uptick to be sure, but additional physical facilities to support its roughly $ 15 billion a year e-commerce business.

A few safeguards every small business should have in place include: compliance with payment card industry (PCI) standards, end - to - end encryption, properly trained employees and no storing of credit card information.

Though the industry has grown explosively in the past few years, making an estimated 1 million loans worth about $ 12 billion to consumers and small business owners, so too have questions and complaints.

So while a few industries in the U.S. got a small boost from Trump's new tariffs, more industries are feeling the pain of higher prices selling to China.

In the last few months, a number of the industry's leading companies have been acquired by or have made acquisitions of smaller companies.

Small banks continue to make up the vast majority of the financial services industry — 98 % of banks have fewer than $ 10 billion of assets, while 89 % are smaller than $ 1 billion.

Not only am I on a first - name basis with most of the head purchasers and tool room managers of the biggest utilities in the Northwest, but there is such a small internet presence for the industry online that even the most rudimentary of Google Adwords campaigns (or something similar) would land a well - built page in the top five within a few months.

there are precious few opportunities for the small business owner to actually take some time in the day to catch up on the news, email, industry information etc..

Allwork.Space: So your barbell model for coworking, where there are industry giants on one side, and small companies and independents on the other side, with few mid-size companies in - between, is holding up.

A few told us they meet with key customers in small groups, while others say that their entire boards attend industry conferences together.

So while a few industries in the US got a small boost from Trump's new tariffs, more industries are feeling the pain of higher prices selling to China.

Barbell industry structures consist of a relatively few giant corporations on one end, a narrow middle consisting of a shrinking number of mid-sized firms, and a large and growing number of small, micro and one person (solopreneur) firms on the other end.

It is also important to state that this industry is made up of self - employed individuals who work as independent contractors or small operators with fewer than three employees.

The majority of the industry is characterized by self - employed individuals who work as independent contractors or small operators with fewer than three employees.

It envisions a barbell structure for most industries, with a few giant corporations on one end, a relatively small number of mid-sized firms in the middle, and a large group of small businesses balancing the other end.

It's a different and much smaller industry in the northern states such as Western Australia and Queensland, where very few farmers supply to Murray Goulburn and Fonterra, and most of the fresh milk produced is sold to the domestic market as drinking milk or butter and cheese.

At present Australia ranks the lowest across OECD countries in terms of collaboration between industry and research.63 Only a small proportion of Australian F&A businesses have a strong awareness of the breadth of capabilities that lie within the research community and even fewer have structures in place to take advantage of them.

Based in New York City, it is one of the few small public companies in the global beverage alcohol industry.

The industry is delivering for consumers in communities across America by providing more beverage choices, smaller portions, fewer calories and clear calorie labels.

At the time, there were few options for prints in the woven wrap industry — mostly stripes and a few small patterns in the Didymos line.

«Today is a step towards rebalancing our economy away from an unhealthy overreliance on a small number of industries and a few areas,» deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said.

What began a few years ago as a trickle of small independent films shot in and around Kingston has of late turned into a veritable flood, including big - budget productions with real movie stars, thanks to a new tax break and efforts by local officials to woo and accommodate the industry.

Its diversified blend of small to medium size industrial plants and commercial outlets prevents the area from relying on one or only a few industries for its economic vitality.

Savarino said the small event attracted an «eclectic mix» of guests with «a few familiar faces from the building industry.»

Although pig farming is a longtime practice in Malaysia, the industry had recently grown from many small family farms to include a few intensive operations that were large enough to satisfy the demand from non-Muslim communities in Malaysia, Singapore, and other parts of Southeast Asia.

So far the field hasn't lived up to its promise — but senior scientists and administrators in the field mostly agree that a few companies in the industry are approaching viability so the small industrial scientific workforce is likely to grow.

Thanks to the efforts of a few people who believe in the technology, Biggin notes, the Italian HTS industry includes both giants and very small companies.

Because Texas has a small commercial and film industry, the auditions were far and few between and barely caused a ripple in the family's schedule.

We wondered why so few of the adults working closest to students on a daily basis had been consulted (the Common Core was infamously devised largely by a small group of non-teachers closely linked to the testing industry).

A few examples of responsibilities include middle and high school reform, smaller learning communities, continuation high schools, court and community schools, independent study, Partnership Academies, Regional Occupational Centers and Programs, gender equity compliance, business and industry partnerships, and oversight of state and federal programs totaling over $ 1 billion in annual revenues.

The industry remains fairly fragmented as smaller enterprises have access to just a few titles for publishing.

Of course, the fact that a few smaller publishers have come on board and the nomination for a publishing industry innovation award lends a lot of credibility to the concept behind Rook, the free ebook reading app that lets... [Read more...]

I suspect few industry watchers would categorize it as such, despite its small size and aggressively low price.

Amazon has been good for all authors, best - selling and non, self - pub and partner pub, because, for a few, A) Amazon helped replace part of the wholesale market, which shrank in the 1990's, and really helped open up online book - selling; B) Amazon has increased international publishing by expanding into numerous countries, allowing more international authors to hit the big English markets, English authors to hit new markets and transnational publishers to do multi-country launches more easily; C) by launching the Kindle, Amazon juiced the small e-book retail industry into a much larger, fast - growing market, which helped replace mass market wholesale sales, etc..

Pinnacle looks for firms with strong balance sheets since small firms have fewer buffers in a downturn than large ones do, management teams that do an outstanding job of allocating capital including their own, and understandable businesses which tends to keep him out of tech, bio-tech and other high obsolescence industries.

In general there have been few reinsurance agreements for longevity risk for immediate annuity portfolios, but then, that would be a really small component of the life insurance industry at present.

The International Fund may invest in emerging markets, which are generally more volatile and can have relatively unstable governments, social and legal systems that do not protect shareholders, economies based on only a few industries and securities markets that are substantially smaller, less liquid, more volatile and may have a lower level of government oversight than securities markets in more developed countries.

I have seen quite a few jump into the industry and have no clue what they were doing whether in staging or running a small business or both, and consequently hurt themselves and their clients along the way.

Further empirical evidence suggests small cap premium is concentrated in few sectors / industries which emerge out of nowhere and become sunrise industries.

While there may not be many mega-mergers left in the spirits industry (few companies are big enough to buy fellow blue chips outright), we're now seeing a rash of merger mania in the smaller, craft distilleries, which is where Brown - Forman has traditionally looked for its acquisition growth.

My strategy with tech going forward is basically to keep my exposure light to the entire sector relative to my portfolio, diversify between a few small positions, focus on major blue - chip companies that sell ubiquitous products and / or services — the true cash cows of the industry (nothing nascent)-- and make sure I understand as much as I can.

Equity diversification is especially important for Canadian investors since the market is small and concentrated in a few industries.

I've discussed before that I only want very small exposure to tech in general, strategically spread out among a few small investments in some of the true cash cows of the industry.

Part of the reason for these smaller, more incremental changes is that Canada's housing market is one of the few robust industries left in the current economic environment.

«As we've looked back at how the Association got its start with just a few key players in such a small industry at the time, it's amazing to see the progress we've made that has led us to where we are today, part of a 69 billion dollar industry,» said Bob Vetere, president and CEO of APPA.

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In the Pacific Coast states, the wide areas filled with small towns, farms, and forests are supplemented by a few big port cities which have evolved into world centres for the media and technology industries.

Its one of the few places, that a small single man studio can co-exist with a huge industry folks like Microsoft, Bethesda, and Sony.

Although her small inventory (fewer than 50 cards) frustrates some subscribers, the curious popularity of http://www.jacquielawson.com has put it on the radar of industry - watchers.