Sentences with phrase «fewer companies control»

Consolidation means that fewer companies control a greater share of the market.

Not exact matches

«We have strong concerns that the combined company's unmatched control of popular content and the distribution of that content will lead to higher prices, fewer choices, and poorer quality services for Americans,» they wrote.

Tightly controlled companies are the unloved children of the public markets, because they concentrate decision - making in the hands of the few to the exclusion of a firm's wider shareholder base.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Besides owning trains (BNSF Railway), planes (NetJets) and automobiles, Warren Buffett also wholly owns or controls huge stakes in food (Heinz), restaurant (Dairy Queen), beverage (Coca - Cola), banking (Wells Fargo), insurance (Geico), furniture (Nebraska Furniture Mart), real estate (Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices), building (Benjamin Moore) and clothing (Fruit of the Bloom) companies, to name just a few.

Although unable to perform her normal duties, Scheerer returned to the company a few weeks after her accident and began to work four - hour shifts as a quality - control inspector.

Introducing these controls is a step that few companies will take unless they are preparing an IPO.

To make privacy and security settings easier to find on the network, the company has created «Privacy Shortcuts» as a new menu where users can control their data in just a few taps, with clearer explanations of how the controls work.

In the past few weeks, Iranian businessmen with links to foreign companies have been detained, interrogated and warned against wading into economic monopolies controlled by the Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to several businessmen interviewed inside and outside of Iran.

Because markets dictate the price of commodities, cost control is one of the few levers that oil and gas companies have over their margins.

Work for a company so anti-choice they won't even allow insurance to cover birth control, so of course no procedure coverage because I «might change my mind» even though I'm married & will be 50 in a few months!!!

Major reasons for lack of control of violence in TV are monopoly dominance by a few powerful companies, the drive for profits, the lack of accountability and a lack of the FCC to exercise oversight.

Fakahany says the company will continue to grow, albeit at a slightly more controlled pace than in its first few years.

Unique Foods is one of very few companies in North America with a business model that facilitates comprehensive market coverage, while maintaining control of all the key components required to manage brands effectively.

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

Then there is Senate Rules Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein of California, who may have bent a few rules by steering over a billion dollars» worth of defense contracts to companies controlled by her husband.

Hence, we shall increasingly find that our economy is controlled by the Government and a few large multi-national companies.

But European chemicals companies, including France's Elf - Atochem, Hoechst and the Chemical Industry Federation in Germany and Belgium's Solvay, protested last week that there are few controls on whether the imports are really used as feedstocks or recycled.

But while multinationals may consider stricter controls on their China operations, few expect the companies to pull out of the growing market.

It's even more egregious in agriculture and food, you know, where almost all of the world's, the country's cropland is now diverted to growing corn and soybeans — not because there's this unbelievable demand to eat corn and soybeans but because there's a federal subsidy for growing them, a subsidy basically written into the law by a few huge corn and soybean consuming companies, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, whatever, who control the senators of the corn states, you know, and have enough power to enact [egregious] policy [into] law.

If only a few wealthy companies control how Americans communicate with each other, it will be harder for people to talk among ourselves about the kind of society we want to build.

Slim - Fast is one of the few diet companies to back up its products with the gold standard in diet research: controlled clinical trials.

A number of companies have sprung up in the last few years that allow women in certain states to request birth control pills and other contraceptive methods via the Internet, sometimes without even seeing a doctor.

Customers can use companies like Pandia Health to fill existing birth - control prescriptions they receive from their doctor — but if they don't have an Rx, they can usually get one in just a few simple steps.

Choice Organic Teas is one of the few tea companies that packages its own tea, which gives it direct control over quality, food safety, and costs.

Although he grew the business into one of the most recognizable names in the dating industry in a few years, he lost controlling interest in the company to an American partner.

Dr. Neil Clarke Warren left eHarmony a few years back, only to take control of the company he founded once again in 2012 to implement a turnaround strategy for its drastically sinking subscriber base.

A majority of the districts want to keep control of academics, despite a few highly publicized experiments in which private companies have taken over instruction in public schools.

When, a few weeks back, we were talking to Anthony Shaw of The Hobby Company (01908 605 686) about the remote - control Nissan GT - R we wanted to feature in last issue's Christmas Essentials, he happened to mention that he'd also got a Carson one - fifth - scale petrol - powered remote - control Mustang, complete with double - wishbone suspension, oil - filled dampers, disc brakes at the front and a 2.4 bhp 23cc two - stroke engine.

The Big 5 have a problem that few people comment on: Big companies of whatever industry are controlled by people who are primarily business people and not product people.

A device dedicated to non-dedicated readers is a big risk to Amazon which also faces a few other risks when it comes to casual readers — Apple can easily kill two of the most important channels, Amazon doesn't have the advantage of being the default or the only reading app on these platforms, other companies can beat it, and it has little control over the complete user experience (resulting in oddities like users having to buy Kindle books through the browser).

Because a few monolithic, profit - focused companies are controlling the publishing industry, critics claim, we are seeing fewer and fewer fringe books and new authors — and even established authors who sell respectably but not spectacularly (the so - called midlist) are having a tough time staying in print.

As Philip Cercone notes, «Book publishing in Canada is not in the hands of, or controlled by Canadian - owned companies, but is in those of a very few profitable foreign - controlled book publishers.

HP announced its last week where around 8 percent of the company will leave, and Yahoo's 2,000 job losses came only a few weeks after now - disgraced former chief executive Scott Thompson took control of the ship.

If the Internet had no websites except for a few hundred «approved» by a handful of companies that controlled the Internet.

In that regard, in a world where very few companies are going to control — because of the DRM — the way we read, share and enjoy our books, the Renaissance Of Publishing is not only inevitable, but also foreseeable; and it's important to know it's coming, regardless of the above described intricated issues.

A few years ago, the company acquired its bottlers as a way of gaining more control over its distribution chain.

While it is anticipated that most transactions will be completed on the day of your selected processing date, it is understood that due to circumstances beyond the control of the Credit Union, particularly delays in handling and posting payments by slow responding companies or financial institutions, some transactions may take a day or even a few days longer to be posted to your account with those merchants.

In its most recent, frenzied incarnation, dot - com entrepreneurs have exchanged stock in companies with few tangible assets and even fewer profits for control of established, profitable companies.

The upshot here is that the results of own shares in just a few private companies will vary tremendously; most people will not be able to live with that level of variability, lack of liquidity, and lack of control.

Animal control organizations, police stations, and even fire companies usually don't spare the time or expense to rescue these cats in distress, and pet owners are left with few other options.

KIRK YOUNG: Precise Pet Products is one of the few remaining companies that controls the process of making pet food from start to finish.

The few companies who did try are going to see dividends on Wii U, Black Ops 2 has WIimote controls because they've done it before.

Supposedly the argument for Nintendo hoarding most of the 3rd party companies was because it was to ensure the American part of the industry crash would never happen again, so they wanted to really strengthen quality control so much that it led to them being so strict with licensing agreements, and because of the installed username of the NES, Nintendo had that weight to throw about, because few companies are going to want to be cut out of writing and developing for that console that has most of the market cornered.

«This helps build momentum, and that can affect policy,» Kenner continues, «which examines food production and consumption in the United States, and underlines the dangers of a system in which a few big companies control nearly everything we eat.»

I covered the launch of the original Rachio Iro sprinkler controller a few years ago, but now there's an updated option, as the company has just released its Generation 2 smart sprinkler, with one of its selling points being its integration with Amazon Echo and Alexa, which allows for voice control of the device.

According to the 2010 report, «Impact of EPA Rules on Power Markets,» by Credit Suisse, tougher federal air pollution rules that will be coming in the next few years could prompt electricity companies to close as many as 1 in every 5 coal - burning power plants in America, primarily facilities more than 40 years old that lack emissions controls.

The combination of fewer insurance companies and a tighter control on costs means the pressure is on law firms to get to the heart of what their clients want

And, since lots of music is controlled via a few major companies, negotiating licenses for a quite substantial fake book would involve far fewer agreements than one might naively expect.

If you were diagnosed after age 40, your type 1 diabetes is well controlled, and you are following your doctor's recommendations, as well as not having other complications from diabetes, like loss of vision, kidney disease, nervous system disease or amputations you should be able to get approved for coverage with a few high quality life insurance companies at a table rating of between 4 - 8.