Sentences with phrase «firm estimate»

The market research firm estimates that cosmetic companies spend roughly 2.5 % of their sales — that's about $ 750 million — on research and development each year.

Space tourism is another possibility; one consulting firm estimated that space tourism could be worth over a billion dollars by 2021.

This gap costs women - owned firms an estimated $ 5.7 billion in government contracts every year, according to a recent congressional report.

However, we have an 18 - year history of providing firm estimates and know how to manage to them.

I will spend most of my day tomorrow doing that and then go from there once I get a few firm estimates.

A market research firm estimates that a person living in a city 30 years ago saw up to 2,000 ad messages a day, compared with up to 5,000 today.

Although Facebook doesn't release sales statistics of the Rift, several analyst firms estimate that competing VR headsets sold by Sony and HTC appear to be outselling the Rift.

The analytics firm estimates that the game attracted 1 million downloads in just one day and a total of 1.75 million over its first three days.

In fact, the Rockville, Md. - based firm estimates total U.S. retail sales of pet treats were $ 5.4 billion in 2014, reflecting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.9 percent during the 2010 - 2014 period.

The PricewaterhouseCoopers accounting firm estimated earlier this year that the complete elimination of the SALT deduction would lead to a 10.2 percent drop in housing prices.

The PricewaterhouseCoopers accounting firm estimated earlier this year that if the deduction were eliminated, home values across the country could fall 10.2 percent.

«All told, time wasted in document creation and management activities cost firms an estimated $ 9,071 per lawyer each year, or a 9.8 % loss in the firm's total productivity.

Last October, an independent firm estimated that Apple had sold more than 10 million iPhone 3Gs; and that was before the Christmas rush.

Before its collapse the construction firm estimated it owed 587 million pounds to retirees.

The Chinese counterfeit industry costs foreign firms an estimated $ 20 billion a year in lost profits, according to Charles Scholz, Asia director for the security consulting firm, Kroll Associates, which works with international companies to root out and help shut down counterfeiters.

One of the usual press gambits for an art fair is to have an insurance firm estimate the gross value of all works brought to the fair.

Regarding sea level rise, for instance, they gave the first firm estimates ever contained in an intergovernmental panel report, declaring that if emissions continued at a rapid pace, the rise by the end of the 21st century could be as much as three feet.

3 / Things blow up again in April 2015 when AmLaw publishes its latest financial survey; Dentons objected to the global profit figure AmLaw estimated in the absence of an official figure from the firm

The U.S. Pro Bono Institute notes in its 2000 paper «Making the Business Case for Pro Bono» that a managing partner of a major law firm estimated every dollar spent on pro bono generated 10 times that in good publicity and heightened visibility for his law firm.

This particular consulting firm estimates iPhones captured a record 91 percent share of $ 9.4 billion total worldwide industry profits, which makes a little more sense than mind - boggling numbers previously thrown around by BMO Capital Markets analysts.

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Research firms estimate new office space added to the market in 2016 at between 70 and 72 million sq. ft. ConstructConnect tabulates 70.2 million sq. ft. of new office supply this year, while CoStar data shows new deliveries at approximately 72.8 million sq. ft.

Gartner and other analyst firms estimate that Amazon's Kindles make up about half of the market for black - and - white e-readers, not including devices like Apple's iPad or the Samsung Galaxy Tab.

The analytics firm estimates that the game managed to attract 1 million downloads in just one day and a total of 1.75 million in its first three days.

The global consulting firm estimates that more than 45 percent of the Fortune Global 500 could be based in emerging regions by just 2025, up from 5 percent in 1990 and 17 percent in 2010.

In fact, independent research firms estimate that the average stock investor's returns trail the stock market significantly.

«We've stopped that and put in a clause that says overages will be granted only in extraordinary circumstances and what we are now getting is firms estimating $ 60,000 instead of $ 40,000, but they know they can't get to $ 80,000 so, frankly, we feel everybody comes out ahead.»

In December before the tax bill was passed, the firm estimated it would most likely cost the firm $ 20 billion in the fourth quarter.

His firm estimated that $ 75 billion in insured losses would result in an average industry - wide combined ratio, a closely - watched measure of expenses to premium income, of 106 percent compared with 95 percent in 2016.

That, in turn, would sink U.S. stocks by about 5 percent, the firm estimates, a fall it says may already be priced into the market.

But in total, approximately 13.5 million households do not pay for traditional forms of TV service currently, the firm estimated.

The firm estimates that Canadian factories are the single biggest buyers of U.S. exports.

The firm estimates that 800,000 cable customers will ditch their subscriptions in the next 12 months.

At most, the industry might lose $ 1 billion or so in revenue, the firm estimates, or 0.5 % of what it pulls in every year.

Based on geological surveys and the results of preliminary drilling carried out in the 1980s, the firm estimates that the local rock contains 10 grams of gold per ton - double the minimum for a viable mine.

The firm estimates that roughly half of the remaining loans will have difficulty refinancing.

By comparing the rates at which each country's diverse boards outperformed male boards with the country's GDP, the firm estimated what it called the «opportunity cost,» or the increase in business profits the country might have earned if all businesses had at least one female executive directors.

The research firm estimates that iPads accounted for 28.8 percent of tablet shipments...

This firm estimates that it manages $ 12.9 billion in funds.

Two sources told Reuters in June that the firm estimates its annual profit could be cut by 1 billion pounds ($ 1.3 billion) by the end of the decade if Britain returned to WTO tariffs of 10 percent, according to internal documents.

On the potential, the firm estimates that out of the approximately 500,000 distributive shock patients in the U.S. annually, about 200,000 CRH patients could be eligible for the drug, creating a $ 1 billion — $ 1.5 billion opportunity.

The firm estimates that up to $ 9.5 billion in losses caused by Harvey is covered by NFIP or private insurance.

The firm estimates 300,000 people may have been affected by the breach...

Commissioner Roger Kotecki of Glen Ellyn expressed concern that the lack of a firm estimate sends the wrong signal to voters, who soon must decide whether to approve a $ 75 million bond issue for land acquisition.

The L.A. Times reports that a reputable consulting firm estimates that close to 60 million Americans who follow hoops are going to watch about 15 minutes a day of March Madness at the office for a total daily loss in productivity of 237 million dollars.

The firm estimates in its report, «Microcomputers in Schools, 1983 - 84,» that there are a total of 325,000 computers distributed among the 55,765 school buildings using computers...