Sentences with phrase «first is the acquisition»

The first is the acquisition of Atto's Non Non Biyori manga.

The first is the acquisition of Arden Asset Management, a long - time institutional fund - of - hedge funds manager, by Aberdeen.

The first is the acquisition stage.

Not exact matches

KPMG has acquired West Perth accounting and advisory practice Hayes Knight (WA), saying this will be the first of a series of acquisitions to bolster its private client practice nationally.

To that end, Blue Ant — named after a fictional marketing company in a William Gibson novel — is in the midst of a two - year buying spree that began with the acquisition of GlassBox TV, the venture - capital - backed firm that first caught MacMillan's eye back in 2011.

Perth - based Volta Mining, headed by former DMC Mining founder and managing director David Sumich, is venturing into central West Africa with the acquisition of its first iron ore project.

Shapiro said Seeso will launch more than 20 original programs in its first year alone and that more new shows and acquisitions will be announced soon.

Back in 2005, when Mayer was still at Google, she was in charge of the acquisition of Dodgeball, Crowley's first start - up.

Spirit estimates the acquisition will be accretive to adjusted non-GAAP earnings per share in the first full year after closing.

It's just WeWork's second pureplay co-working acquisition, the first being Singapore - based SpaceMob.

«It was very important to make a turn and buy CardConnect, buy BluePay,» the CEO said of First Data's recent acquisitions.

Even before the added revenue from their numerous acquisitions is taken into account, the company boasted 24 % revenue growth in the first half of 2011, outpacing every other agency holding company in the world.

That's a little over a year after Apple completed its acquisition of the music company, and five months since its replacement first appeared on the scene.

But for the first time, CEOs tell us that «customer acquisition» is the biggest barrier to business growth.

«In the first 60 days, I was able to increase profits by 50 percent and reduce the cost per acquisition by up to 70 percent,» DeVita told me.

The departure of Thurston is also notable as he first joined the company in 2013 after the $ 150 million acquisition of MapMyFitness, a fitness technology company that Thurston co-founded.

As Automotive News first reported on Aug. 14, there have been signs that at least one Chinese automaker has been exploring the idea of an acquisition of all or part of FCA.

First there was the acquisition of Instagram, and then the launch of Paper.

If I were to allow for an acquisition, the first things that would happen is they would get rid of me — because everybody knows nobody needs a wacky entrepreneur around.

The banks» recent first - quarter earnings were generally strong, but their capital - markets divisions, which provide services such as advising other companies on mergers and acquisitions, are already suffering.

For the first couple years, Sam felt like he was learning a lot, but just couldn't grow his consulting business in terms of revenue and client acquisition.

Chances are, it's your culture that made you an attractive acquisition target in the first place, Erramouspe notes.

But investors shouldn't get too excited about a possible move on Corus, because Shaw must first close the Canwest deal before seriously looking at other acquisitions, and there is no obvious need to privatize Corus.

Some other names from our lists last year that are cropping up again in the first samples are Freehills mergers and acquisitions lawyer Rob Franklyn, criminal lawyer John Prior from Williams Ellison, and Mallesons Stephen Jaques banking lawyer John Naughton.

BRUSSELS, April 18 - EU antitrust regulators are set to hit French telecoms and cable group Altice with a hefty fine for concluding its 2015 acquisition of PT Portugal without first waiting for official approval, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

The company, whose brands include Vans, The North Face and Timberland, said on Monday it is buying the maker of Dickies hospital scrubs and Kodiak boots for $ 820 million, its first major acquisition since its transformative deal for Timberland six years ago.

«It is possible that the acquisition of COL is the first step in separating UTX into two entities: a Commercial Operation and a Defense and Aerospace Group,» Howard Rubel, equity analyst at Jefferies, said in a note last week as speculation about a deal being struck by the two companies increased.

There's reason to believe the DSS deal may just be the first of many acquisitions that will see Cott's customer base — and profit — grow.

The deal is Albertsons» first big strategic move since Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods Market earlier this year.

When I was researching and strategizing for my first product launch, this post by Realtime Board served as a springboard for planning our overall marketing and user acquisition strategy.

It also said it could sell the 24 - hour news channel to Walt Disney if its bid to acquire the 61 percent of the company it does not already own is approved, regardless of whether Disney's proposed acquisition of Twenty - First Century Fox's assets proceeds.

This was the first full quarter since SoftBank completed a $ 32 billion acquisition of Britain's most valuable technology company ARM, but SoftBank's earnings are still highly dependent on Sprint and the performance of the domestic telecommunications business.

SAP had been slow to move into the cloud, said Reuner, but after making the shift with acquisitions such as procurement software company Ariba in 2012, the first quarter of 2017 saw it sell more subscriptions than expected, with new cloud bookings increasing by 49 percent to 215 million euros ($ 244.9 million) and shares hitting a record high.

First I had CRM moved under me and we were able to segment our audience much better and get into more sophisticated targeting, so that went well, and then acquisition marketing was moved under me, and that's how I really became a CMO.

Prior to Marriott, Sorenson (whose first name is pronounced «Ar - nee») was a partner at the law firm Latham & Watkins in D.C., where he specialized in merger and acquisition litigation.

Vertical mergers have been subject to the Clayton Act since it was passed in 1914, but the first such case wasn't brought until 1949, involving DuPont's acquisition of GM stock.

Rowe's first acquisition target was IDB Mobile Communications, a troubled company co-owned byWorldcom and Teleglobe.

That acquisition is expected to close in the first quarter of 2012.

The acquisition, first reported by The Wall Street Journal last month, is principally aimed at turning the discount Saks Off Fifth chain into an ecommerce powerhouse among such off - price chains as Nordstrom's Rack, Neiman Marcus» Last Call and even T.J. Maxx.

With the deadline looming to win a regulatory approval that seemed unlikely for the $ 9.4 billion deal, first announced almost two years ago, Walgreens said on Thursday it was scrapping the planned acquisition of Rite Aid as a whole and would instead simply buy 2,186 Rite Aid stores, or about 45 % of its fleet, three distribution centers, and related Rite Aid inventory for $ 5.175 billion.

The move represents the first major acquisition for Britain's biggest mortgage lender, which is part - owned by the government, since it was bailed out during the 2007 - 09 crisis.

Its goal is to take the original idea and search for a repeatable and scalable business model — first by finding product / market fit, then by testing all the parts of the business model (pricing, channel, acquisition / activation, partners, costs, etc..)

The acquisition, which still needs shareholder and regulatory approval, is slated to close in the first quarter of 2013.

The private sector is deploying more capital — according to Thomson Reuters, global merger - and - acquisition activity in the first quarter of the year is up 10 % over a year earlier — and U.S. consumer housing starts are up.

Representing one of its first major overseas acquisitions, the company's wholly - owned subsidiary, Woodside Energy (USA) Inc. reached agreement with the Marathon Oil Company — part of the USX - Marathon Group which is a unit of the USX Corporation in Pittsburgh — for the acquisition of interests in a number of deep water exploration acreage blocks in the Gulf.

More than half of the $ 1.2 trillion worth of acquisitions in the first quarter — the fastest start to a year ever — have been worth in excess of $ 5 billion.

The acquisition gives him immeasurable power in Hollywood and is the first step in his plan to control the world's biggest film company by revenue.

The two largest transactions for the first quarter were Blackstone's $ 17 billion acquisition of the financial terminals and data unit of Thomson Reuters and Carlyle's 10.1 billion euro acquisition of Akzo Nobel's speciality chemicals unit.

The total compensation is tied to the closing of Disney's planned $ 52.4 billion acquisition of film and TV assets from Twenty - First Century Fox and meeting performance targets.

Within the first two years after the acquisition, there were at least four separate CEOs — including Zennstrom himself, who took up the role twice.