Sentences with phrase «firm than a retail»

An employee will have different workplace hazards from someone driving a truck, and liability claims might happen more often at a professional services firm than a retail store.

Not exact matches

With rents averaging $ 3,000 per square foot a year, retailers in the area near Trump Tower pay more than they do anywhere else in the world, according to real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield.

«We see many international retailers reluctant to come to the U.S. [after] you've seen big retailers take longer to resonate here than elsewhere,» said David Zoba, chairman of the global retail leasing board at commercial real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle.

If you haven't followed this story, you'll remember Shkreli from his fame two years ago, when his biotech firm, Turing Pharmaceuticals, acquired the patent to a drug used to treat malaria, cancer and aids, and jacked up the retail price by more than 5,000 percent.

«It's been nice to hear Macy's talk about reality rather than tell the Street what it wants to hear,» says Stacey Widlitz, president of consulting firm SW Retail Advisors.

The average retail broker at Morgan Stanley typically gets no more than a few hundred shares per client for popular IPOs that the firm underwrites, said one of the advisers, who requested anonymity because he did not want to be seen criticizing his own firm.

From bakers to retailers and construction firms, more than a dozen of Mexico's biggest companies cited concerns over NAFTA and the election and issuing conservative guidance in recent weeks, despite economic data pointing to an uptick in Latin America's second - largest economy.

Still, the online retail giant is in a «unique position» compared to other tablet makers in that the company is more concerned with getting more subscribers to its Prime subscription service than pushing its Fire tablets, the firm explained.

The 2.4 - million - square - foot center generates about $ 1,000 in annual retail sales per square foot, according to real estate research firm Green Street Advisors — more than twice the national average for shopping centers.

To put that in perspective, that's about twice the average of the rest of the firms in its specialty retail group, and even greater than buzzworthy tech companies like Apple and Google that trade at about 14 and 16 times, respectively.

Data from Adobe's Digital Index found that 35 percent of online sales volume went toward retailers» Thanksgiving Day doorbusters, leading to «a lot more out of stocks» on Black Friday than the firm expected.

A partner in the firm and co-chair of Fox's Franchising, Licensing & Distribution Practice Group, Gerhards leads a team of more than 40 attorneys in 21 offices who represent franchise and distribution companies in industrial, retail, food, entertainment, service, technology and home - based businesses.

Considering that WMT already has more scale and margins nearly 4x higher than Amazon's margins, it is fair to say that Wal - Mart has a strong competitive advantage over Amazon as it does over all other firms in the general retail business.

One study from retail - research firm IHL Group found that a mere 16 chains, including RadioShack and Payless, account for nearly half of all store closings, and that there will be a net increase of more than 4,000 stores in 2017 and 5,500 - plus in 2018.

One option proposed in a new Government Green Paper would see firms linking annual rises to the consumer price index measure of inflation, rather than the higher retail price index

The online retail firm more than doubled its quarterly profit despite spending heavily on building more warehouses and devices, as well as bulking up on assets for its delivery network and video content.

The deal is the second serviced office provider tie - up to emerge this week, after Boutique Workplace Company, part of the Moorgarth Property Group owned by South African retail magnate Christo Wiese's Tradehold, confirmed on Monday that it was buying serviced office firm Ventia, creating a business with more than 2,500 workspaces across central London.

Following Sutton on RCA's tally are GGP, Vornado Realty Trust and Thor, which bought 44 Manhattan retail properties (more than any firm) over the past five years.

Ronald Dickerman, whose firm Madison International Realty owns stakes in 2.5 million square feet of retail space across New York City, argued that retail today offers better returns than office space.

For now, Alipay handles more than three times the volume of transaction that Paypal does, and payment firms have more retail customers than banks have and are now expanding into offline payments.

In line with this moderation in expectations, the NAB survey reports that firms expect near - term price rises for both retail and all final products to be smaller than the rises they expected over the past few years.

U.S. retail giant Wall Mart Stores Inc has 432 stores in China, while coffee chain Starbucks Corp has 2,500 stores there and outgoing CEO Howard Schultz told investors China will one day be a bigger market for the firm than the United States.

Featuring six restaurants and more than 20 food and retail purveyors, Central Fare and Monger by the Voltaggio Brothers have been designed by award - winning global hospitality design and concept firm, AvroKO.

Aaron Malinsky, the retail developer cleared last year of charges that he bribed State Senator Carl Kruger with more than $ 472,000, is returning to real estate with a new firm.

As much as I'd love to be able to give you a firm answer, I can't accurately predict how libraries will respond to free, or lower - than - retail, or even higher - than - retail.

According to market research firm IHS iSuppli, the yet to be released e-reader costs Amazon about $ 84.25 each, which means the online retailer is losing more than $ 5 with each Kindle that it sells.

But are things at the retail chain so bad that it would contemplate a takeover bid from an asset management firm with less than $ 1 million in discernable assets?

HFT players (quant firms with more capital and computing power than any retail trader) program the algorithms to buy or sell a currency pair (or other instrument).

So when the fund analyst comes along, whether for a buy - side firm, an institutional fund analyst, or retail fund analyst who does more than just a little number crunching, you realize that the fund analyst likely knows less about what you do than one of your junior analysts.

«Pet retailers have the best advantage in that nothing is cuter or more appealing than pets,» says Shama Hyder, founder and CEO of Zen Media, a web marketing and digital PR firm.

As was widely reported, the Phoenix - based, big - box pet specialty retailer, which operates more than 1,300 stores in the U.S. and Canada, recently agreed to be acquired by a group fronted by BC Partners Inc., a U.K. - based private equity firm.

The first survey, conducted by the Hay Group, a Philadelphia - based consulting firm, revealed that retailers are far more optimistic than they were in 2009.

Next, in the first layer of product displays, pet stores should focus on «fashion» merchandise, with the express intent that this merchandise will change more frequently than anything else in the store, says Jay Highland of Chute Gerdeman Retail, another retail design firm that contributed to this month's cover Retail, another retail design firm that contributed to this month's cover retail design firm that contributed to this month's cover story.

Analysts predict modest holiday spending Retailers have less than two weeks to prepare for Black Friday — one of the busiest shopping days of the year — and are already drawing shoppers with early holiday promotions, according to data from the market research firm Nielsen.

The firm also revealed that more than 30 million game copies were sold in retail stores globally and through digital downloads on PlayStation Store as of August 10.

Big - ticket restructuring work is also high on the firm's list of specialisms, having advised Edcon — South Africa's largest non-food retailer — on restructuring more than 20bn rand of debt, one of the largest recapitalisations of 2015.

A national retail law firm would need a much different model than a national corporate law firm, particularly if improving access to justice is a goal.

That is why you rarely see law firms (other than, perhaps, contingency based practices such as personal injury) in ground - floor retail space.

On a smaller scale, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner did the same and examined more than 250 websites doing business in the province, including charities, private colleges, law firms, credit unions, retailers, property management companies and health care organization.

Given its potential scale, the investment community has shown more interest in the retail market, rather than products aimed at larger law firms, although it's inevitable that some of the technology will seep through into the business - to - business world.

Because if you're skilled in accounting, sales, retail management, graphic arts, childcare and customer service, a firm that's hiring for an accountant isn't going to care about anything other than your accounting skills, as they relate to the job responsibilities of the position.

A level requirements for some roles in retail banking and insurance are lower than investment banking and investment management, while accountancy firm PwC decided in May 2015 not to count UCAS scores when recruiting for graduate talent.

Some firms, such as Sears, Roebuck & Co., Dillard's and Saks Inc., are wrestling with the common problem that the firms» real estate is worth more than the retail operations.

The Ohio city is a market that is more sophisticated than folks on the coasts might think, says Wendy Liebmann, president of New York consulting firm WSL Strategic Retail.

A recent study by Alexander Babbage Inc., an Atlanta - based research firm, found that of more than 1,800 U.S. retail centers larger than 300,000 square feet that it observed, 608 have Facebook pages and 557 have Twitter feeds.

Australian firms have spent more than $ 3 billion on U.S. retail assets in the past two years, according to Real Capital Analytics, and that doesn't take into account mergers such as the Centro / Kramont deal.

Office sales in the U.S. reached $ 94.1 billion year - to - date through October, which is significantly higher than the $ 66.7 billion in retail sales and double that of industrial sales that occurred in the U.S. during the same period, according to data from Real Capital Analytics (RCA), a New York City - based research firm.

«Today tenant quality is becoming increasingly paramount in retail,» says Alan Esquenazi, principal at Florida - based CREC, a real estate services firm, noting that the health of grocers and their ability to adapt to e-commerce threats is more important than ever.

That is much higher than the national asking cap rate of 6.18 percent for retail properties overall in the second quarter, according to The Boulder Group, a brokerage firm that specializes in single - tenant net lease assets.

«The mood is still very good, as good or better than it was in Las Vegas,» according to Jerum, who notes that his firm is seeing steady demand from both big - box retailers and restaurant operators for the project it's handling at Steelpoint Harbor, a 2 - million - sq.