Sentences with phrase «global expansion which»

Didi has raised nearly $ 20 billion including a $ 4 billion round for global expansion which closed in December.

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Still, Didi's global expansion comes at a difficult time for Uber, which is grappling with mounting losses and stricter regulatory scrutiny at home and in Europe.

Similarly, while Hastings set the vision for the company's global expansion, lower - ranking executives take the lead on deciding which markets to enter when.

Exports and business investment in Canada have been held back by competitiveness challenges and trade - policy uncertainties, which include escalating geopolitical conflicts that risk damaging global expansion, the bank said.

The economic growth and population expansion in China and Asia in the past decade has generated enormous demand, which far exceeds supply on a global basis.

Ant Financial, which grew out of the Chinese payment service Alipay, wanted to buy MoneyGram to accelerate its global expansion.

And our BlackRock GPS, which combines traditional economic indicators with big data signals such as Internet searches, still points to above - trend growth as the global economy transitions from catchup to steady expansion.

The MPW International Summit is the cornerstone of the global expansion of Fortune Most Powerful Women, which started as a conference 18 years ago and has evolved into the preeminent community of women leaders in business and beyond.

Airbnb, which operates in more than 65,000 cities, has enjoyed tremendous growth as it pushes ahead with its plans of global expansion.

Fears of a global trade war have risen after Trump imposed hefty import tariffs on steel and aluminum earlier this month under Section 232 of the 1962 U.S. Trade Expansion Act, which allows safeguards based on «national security».

The relationship, which came about because Virtue's global reach fit well with Lululemon's hopes for expansion, is ongoing, Stump said, noting that Virtue is expected to handle Lululemon's holiday work.

It also provides expansion into other areas of the world through the emergence of global real estate platforms, which allows developers and investors alike the chance to further capitalize on opportunities.

They are, in fact, a very powerful tool of the Chinese government's industrial policy which is aimed at ruthless expansion (emphasis added) of its global economic empire».

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The project of making the world a better place will be carried forward by global capitalism, which has an intrinsic momentum, along with the legal and bureaucratic apparatus of transnational institutions and structures, which have their own logic of expansion and colonization.

They started it on a course of geographic expansion which in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries attained global dimensions.

The announcement follows a strategic investment into Meadow Foods in 2016 from Paine Schwartz Partners, a global food and agribusiness investment company, which was intended to support Meadow Foods» strategy to grow through organic expansion and acquisitions.

During a presentation in London yesterday, Deglise released findings from a biennial study by Vinexpo and the IWSR into global wine and spirits trends, which showed, in particular, the expansion of the sparkling wine market worldwide.

The review will assess whether a strategic partner has the capacity to accelerate growth and fuel A2's global expansion ambitions, which are particularly focused in the Chinese infant formula market.

This analytical research report on the global nutraceutical excipients market is a complete package, which includes intelligence on key participants underpinning the market expansion.

Welch's — which is owned by the US National Grape Co-operative — has unveiled its new global ingredients strategy, with expansion in Japan and an examination of the potential in China high on the agenda.

Traditionally, this has been largely market - seeking FDI as Chinese firms have sought overseas bases from which to pursue ambitious global expansion strategies, with the EU being seen as a key opportunity.

«We think, but have not yet been able to establish, that this is connected to independently observed poleward expansion of the Hadley circulation,» Emanuel says, referring to a large - scale pattern of global winds, which in recent years has also moved further poleward.

But land, water and fertilisers are already in short supply in many areas, and expansion of agricultural land will put further pressure on biodiversity, increase greenhouse gas emissions, and perhaps bring us closer to ecological tipping points that could strain the global life - support systems upon which agriculture itself depends.

A further 25 days in medium containing FGF2 and Noggin mediated the derivation and expansion of RPCs which had a similar global gene expression pattern to cells of the embryonic day 14 (E14) mouse retina.

In particular, IIASA researchers will focus on how potential phosphorus market crises might put pressure on the global food system and create environmental ripple effects ranging from expansion of agricultural land to phosphorus price - induced changes in land management, which could exacerbate the already existing imbalance between carbon, phosphorus and nitrogen.

The present work is an opinion in which we try to explain some of the reasons which led to the gradual escalation of violence in México in a way that leads us to rethink the future of the country as a problem that is not isolated and whose global effects translate into respect and safeguard human dignity; start from the premise that some of the approaches discussed here are value judgments proponent, of which the reader may or may not share, which will be logically deductible certain descriptive judgments of the events of the last decade, and how these have led to an expansion of violence.

The new plant is a part of its global expansion process which has already seen them setting up a joint venture facility in China, earlier in 2014.

It was at the 2016 Detroit Motor Show that the company introduced the world to the SLC and within six months of its global premiere, the car comes to India, which shows how aggressive the German carmaker is when it comes to expansion of its product portfolio.

, capitalizing on this combined expertise, specializes in franchises for the entertainment industry, including animation and live - action feature films, plus television, DVDs, video games, merchandising and related ancillary markets, all of which contribute to global expansion.

He raised taxes at a time when the average family was near or in starvation mode, he confiscated all of the nation's privately - owned gold and then promptly devalued the dollar by 40 % (reducing the buying power of any saved dollars by almost half overnight), he raised bank reserve requirements numerous times (taking yet more cash out of the real economy so it could be hoarded in vaults), he actively supported a trade war with tariffs that created massive global imbalances (some would argue ushering in the rise to power of fascist regimes that would have had no chance in times of prosperity), and perhaps most damning, rather than plowing most of those raised tax dollars back into the stalled economy, he instead bought gold on the global markets for the government and sequestered it, keeping it from backing new dollars (monetary expansion, which most understand is required to turn a recession around) and instead further crushing the economy — and not just the US economy.

This global expansion pulled more readers into Kindle Unlimited, which is a good thing.

Walmart today announced a major expansion in terms of its global e-commerce presence: the retailer is entering a strategic partnership with Tokyo - based Rakuten, which will see the companies collaborat

This rapid expansion warrant some attention as it is compared with the total size of the global debt securities, which is estimated to be over $ 90 trillion, according to the Bank of International Settlements.

In addition to the program's expansion, Wyndham Rewards has also launched a new global rewards catalogue, which will allow members in all participating countries to redeem points for locally relevant items.

Korallus noted that a key priority of the strategy focuses on revenue generation, which involves growth in international sales; growth in revenue generated by the company's brand websites; expansion and strengthening of goldpoints plus (SM), Carlson Hotels» global loyalty program; and the deployment of Carlson Hotels» best practice revenue optimization capabilities.

Strategically, the tie - up with JAL is a logical step for Alaska; its merger partner Virgin America already has an interline partnership with JAL for connections at SFO and LAX, and Alaska recently started a big expansion of code - sharing with American Airlines, which has joint venture and Oneworld global alliance partnerships with the Japanese carrier.

The Heart of Thorns expansion for Guild Wars 2 contains guild halls, something which will offer buildings to house your guild in as well as customize the decoration of the interior, new missions, combat in arenas between guilds, and global leaderboards for guild PVP.

Since its launch in November 2013, PlayStation 4 continues to demonstrate record - breaking global expansion and growth, while PSN, which began full scale operation in November 2006, continues to expand with new offerings reaching millions of users every day.

On global vs. local, how about the global model prediction of a deepening and widening of the tropical atmospheric circulation, which leads to the Hadley cell expansion and the projection of the dry zones expanding polewards.

I played back some of the discussion with the visitors from China, Australia, Japan and Indonesia, which focused in part on the benefits coming from the explosive expansion of global information networks that feel so virtual during use --- but rely on vastly complex arrays of satellites, circuitry, data banks and large flows of electricity.

Extra policy and infrastructure support pushes a much more rapid expansion in the global electric car fleet, which approaches 900 million cars by 2040.

After the significant upwards revisions made to global solar PV manufacturing capacity expansion announcements in the first half of 2017, which we reviewed in a previous blog, the third quarter was characterised by much more tempered plans.

While the paper does not extend to the medieval maximum, from charcoal in lake bed studies it documents increased biomass burning and deforestation during agricultural and population expansion in the Neotropics from 2500 to 500 years BP, which would correspond with atmospheric carbon loading and global warming 1100 to 650 years BP.

For example, if a massive global nuclear expansion was one way of savagely reducing the amount of coal and natural gas burned in power stations (which it is) and the cost disadvantage of nuclear wasn't completely silly (which it isn't) then that could work.

Instead we hear about community organising and cooperatives, «affirmative action,» social justice, spirit fingers, noble Che Guevara, global authorities, expansion of entitlements and rights, which are ironically based upon the contraction of someone else's rights.

The current insufficiencies of the ETS have also spurred German politicians to make carbon pricing part of their electoral platform.The Free Democratic Party, for instance, calls for an expansion of the ETS to other sectors, which the party hopes would eventually lead to a global emissions trading system.

U.S. consumption of corn to supply domestic ethanol production created a global corn frenzy which drove up prices and spurred expansion of croplands around the planet.

If there is deep - water formation in the final steady state as in the present day, the ocean will eventually warm up fairly uniformly by the amount of the global average surface temperature change (Stouffer and Manabe, 2003), which would result in about 0.5 m of thermal expansion per degree celsius of warming, calculated from observed climatology; the EMICs in Figure 10.34 indicate 0.2 to 0.6 m °C — 1 for their final steady state (year 3000) relative to 2000.

Here's where I see a glaring gap and potential for a huge increase of hard good sales, which could result in decreased waste generation and costs worldwide: Instead of business as usual with continued global expansion that simultaneously increases profits and global waste, Starbucks has an opportunity to show social and environmental responsibility, increase profits, save money, and generate less waste by promoting branded reusable cups, straws, and cutlery.