Sentences with phrase «first the company pays»

Would the first company pay you $ 250,000 for your services?

As explained above, first the company pays at the time of death of the policy holder and because of its Waiver of Premium (WOP) feature it continues to invest in the fund on the behalf of the policyholder.

Not exact matches

Details of 401 (k) offered: Lowe's explains on its website that employees are eligible to enroll in a 401 (k) plan where the company will match the first 3 percent you save each pay period at 100 percent.

The company recently forged ahead with a sequel for the fantasy thriller Bright despite the fact that the first movie (which Netflix paid a reported $ 90 million to acquire) similarly bombed with critics.

This belief is held by other companies, as well: The Container Store is known for giving its new employees 300 hours of paid training in their first year at the company.

The new rules, which go into effect Dec. 1, specifically target bloggers who write product reviews and receive pay or free products from the companies — the first time endorsement rules have been revised since 1980.

The move makes Portland the first city in the nation to impose a tax on companies based on CEO pay.

At first glance it would appear that the company's strategy of celebrity endorsements is paying off.

Much of the rent and the consultants» work were paid for in DenOptix stock, meaning that the company spent only $ 45,000 of its precious cash during its first year of business.

And with a simple Google search of a business often yielding reviews of a company within the first few results, businesses need to be paying attention more than ever to what consumers are saying about them online, Caver said.

Since HBO first went on the air in 1972, it has been tied down by cable companies who require viewers to pay for expensive packages even if they just wanted the HBO channel.

The deal marks the first time BAM has paid a media or entertainment company for the keys to its digital kingdom.

Any game developers or companies that ship a product using the technology pay Epic a 5 % royalty on gross revenue after the first $ 3,000 per quarter.

With no paid advertising, the two - person team of Joe and Andrea Raetzer built a company that saw an average month - over-month growth rate of 37.5 percent since its first crate.

My first company had created inventory control software for small local businesses — a safe bet that made me enough immediate income to pay for college and an apartment, but little more.

The company — which owns multiple dating websites, including OKCupid, Tinder and Match.com — said its average paid - member count increased 36 percent in the first quarter.

He says the company's first employees were two interns who started with three - month gigs but then never left, even though GiveForward couldn't pay them until the year - and - a-half mark.

Paypal was one of the first major fintech companies, and their CEO, Dan Schulman, has echoed similar sentiments about startups leading the charge to democratize financial freedom: «The simplest transaction - receiving a paycheck, paying bills or sending money to a loved one - can be distressingly inconvenient and disproportionately expensive.

He notes that in 1995, the first year after Berkshire finished buying its 200 million shares of Coke stock, the company paid Berkshire $ 88 million of dividends.

Without significant revenue growth the company has been unable to offset the interest it pays on its heavy debt load, but First Data has hinted that an IPO could be on the horizon, Bloomberg reports, which would raise some much - needed funds.

Jao says the law firm that counsels Retention Science provided it with discounted advice that the company didn't have to pay for during the first two years of getting off the ground.

Like many first - time founders still getting a handle on their company's business cycles, Carson had failed to plan for the delay from when she made her products to when she could deliver them — or, more crucially, get paid for them.

And those tactics may be paying off: Despite the retail crisis in America, Amazon could become the first company with a $ 1 trillion market cap, NYU professor Scott Galloway said on Recode's podcast on Monday.

Many people turn only to the first page of Google search results, which means that a company can purchase ad space using pay - per - click campaigns for the CEO's name to «push down» the top results if they are negative.

The Wednesday news was the first time the company revealed how many people paid for the premium service.

The company will pay its first dividend in June and recently announced a $ 15 billion share buyback.

The firm paid $ 125 million to Sarepta Therapeutics to get its hands on a «priority review voucher,» which can be used to reduce the Food and Drug Administration's review period for a drug from 10 months to six months, thereby potentially giving the company a crucial first - to - market advantage.

Companies will have to start reporting the new pay ratio disclosures in the first fiscal year beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2017.

Walt Disney, one of the original naysayers, bought George Lucas» production company, Lucasfilm, in 2012 for over $ 4 billion, considerably more than they would have had to pay if they had just said yes to the first movie, whose budget was $ 11 million.

Comcast offered 12.50 pounds in cash per Sky share on Tuesday, well above the 10.75 pounds Twenty - First Century Fox Inc - run by Roberts» rival Rupert Murdoch - had agreed to pay for the British company.

«We bootstrapped for the first two and half years, and we didn't actually pay ourselves anything,» says Austin, adding that the company's first employees were two interns who started with three - month gigs but then never left, even though GiveForward couldn't pay them until the year - and - a-half mark.

The nordic country is believed to be the first to require both public and private companies with more than 25 employees to reach pay parity.

«This bid seems to defy logic,» Peel Hunt analyst Paul Morland told the Financial Times, characterizing the 79 % premium HP paid as «an «amazing» premium for a company whose earnings grew by just 6 per cent in the first half of the year.»

In the quarter, the Company paid $ 48.6 million in dividends and declared a first quarter dividend of $ 0.24 per share.

Mr. Maddox's recently approved $ 24 million pay package, which is exorbitant for a first - time untested public company CEO, demonstrates that very little has changed.

First, as happened in Australia and New Zealand, if ISPs and content providers believe they can reduce costs by peering (i.e. not have to pay transit to exchange traffic) they can use this as a competitive tool to pass on zero - rated content to their customers, as opposed to those ISPs demanding transit payments to deliver traffic, which was particularly common when the countries could be reached only via one company, the incumbent operator.

Britain's takeover regulator ruled that Walt Disney must make an offer for the whole of European pay - TV company Sky if it succeeds in buying Twenty - First Century Fox assets.

In an interview with the Post at a «Bing Sutt» - style Starbucks café in Central, which pays homage to the traditional 1950s Hong Kong coffee shop decor, Wong spoke of her vision since stepping into her role as the Seattle - based company's first China operations chief executive late October.

At the very Cupertino, Calif., venue where Steve Jobs pulled the first Macintosh out of a bag more than 30 years ago, the company announced today a brand new mobile payments system called Apple Pay.

Spotify's home country is the place where it first launched its streaming music service, and it's where the company has had its greatest success thus far in convincing consumers to pay for its offering.

First TPUB saw its parent company take both its real estate and digital properties, at split, and saddle it with a $ 325 million debt, due to a special dividend it paid upon division.

The Company matches 100 % of the first 3 % and 50 % of the next 3 % of pay that is contributed to the RSP after the first year of employment.

The Company matched 100 % of the first 2 % and 25 % of the next 4 % of pay that was contributed to the ESP.

By paying executives for performance that does not generate real cash flows, Valeant's board of directors created the misalignment that precipitated the executive behavior that got the company into so much trouble in the first place.

The company anticipates 30,000 sign - ups after four months, but is deluged by millions of customers; it pays out $ 40 million to its members in its first three months.

S&P 500 companies are expected to have seen a 17 percent boost in first - quarter profits, but the stock market largely paid itself for that earnings boost ahead of time.

Note that after seven years of paying a static dividend, the company increased the disbursement from $ 1.52 per year to $ 1.68 in the first quarter of 2012 (the first quarter 2012 dividend increase can be seen in the Quarterly Dividend box).

NEW YORK (Reuters)- When two former interns at the New Yorker and W Magazine sued parent company Conde Nast Publications on Thursday, legal experts said it could be the first in a wave of lawsuits challenging companies who pay little or nothing for student labor.

First, rather than giving workers a true chance to prosper, the companies keep tight reins on key aspects of the business, restricting workers» earning potential while saddling them with hefty lease payments and reducing pay to poverty levels.

Tesla's record net loss in the first quarter and fast - burn through millions of dollars is raising questions about the company's ability to pay all its bills.