Sentences with phrase «goals of the company from»

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• Mikey's, a Scottsdale, Ariz. - based baked goods company, raised $ 5 million in two tranches from Factory., and will commit its full complement of resources and relationships to help Mikey's achieve its strategic goals.

People at all levels are clear on what's expected from them and how their efforts feed into the broader goals of the company.

Today, mere months after the moms in the Dallas store told him they wanted more organic foods for their babies, Cornell has a goal: He wants organic items to account for 60 % of the company's baby food sales within two years, up from 40 % now.

With the scope and reach of a political platform, the company publicly declared goals for itself on practically every major social issue it touches, from local sourcing and carbon emissions to ethical recruiting and the treatment of workers in its suppliers» factories.

MedMen, the cannabis company with west coast locations from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, wants its flagship store in New York City to contribute to their larger goal of destigmatizing use and moving beyond «stoner culture.»

Alongside partner nference (an AI platform company whose stated goal is «automated extraction of knowledge from the commercial, scientific and regulatory body of literature»), the organizations are launching a new firm called Qrativ with the help of $ 8.3 million in Series A financing.

However, as there are lots of options for a business to choose from, you need to come up with a good strategy that will not only achieve your company's goals but will establish a good customer relationship.

Quarterly bonuses are granted to all full - time employees based on the company's achieving its quarterly goals, and every August, the company hosts an employee - wide meet - up called Seismic Activity in its San Diego headquarters, bringing together all employees from across the globe for a week of team building and celebration.

Procter & Gamble is a good example of how a company can overhaul its promotion practices to better align with inclusivity goals: Through an extensive leadership development strategy, it raised its percentage of women managers from 40 to 44 percent between 2008 and 2013.

I must admit the buzz around the title social entrepreneur immediately makes me think I need a board of directors, bigger budgets and big goals — three key elements that are missing from many startup companies.

With so much of the company's branded merchandise such as beer openers, glasses and T - shirts being made in China, Chiodo says his goal with that market is to reach sales that balance out the cost of the goods he's purchasing from that country.

Goals that are consistent with the company mission and build from one success to another are absolutely imperative for maintaining high levels of employee engagement.

The goal of the report is not to dissuade companies, researchers, or the public from AI, but to highlight the most realistic concerns so people can better prepare and possibly prevent future cyber attacks or other problems related to AI.

The Virgin Group has started many businesses with the goal of prioritizing people, the planet and profit equally, and they thrive despite occasional economic dips and competition from much bigger companies that were specifically built to bring in cash.

With presentations from five private companies and five public companies in the technology sector, this event attracts Canadian and U.S. investors with the goal of raising institutional and VC investment dollars, and enhancing the capital ecosystem for technology companies in Canada.

Does your decision to own an office flow from a key part of the company's goals?

The level of transparency is mind - blowing: from Marc sharing his yearly objectives on company - wide TV (where all employees can view and participate), to every single employee's annual goals posted for all to see — it's phenomenal to walk into a meeting with someone where you know what's important to them, and be able to share how your common goals can be accelerated by working together.»

Al Goldstein, co-founder of Avant, explains why his company name changed from Avant Credit in order to reflect new long term goals.

According to Wired, the company's goal is to reach $ 800 million in digital revenue by 2020, a 60 % increase from its reported current digital revenue of $ 500 million.

For the founders of Uniqul, the goal is to speed up the check - out process from approximately 30 seconds to fewer than five seconds, the company says on its website.

The outdated tagline and disconnect between the company's products and message within the spot, ultimately distract from the goal of empowering women.

While the 25 companies we dig into in this issue aren't necessarily (or always) delivering on that goal, each is rethinking the way it develops what it makes or sells — often from the point of conception — with the aim of connecting with customers on a much deeper level.

An even more important goal, one that Trapani and Shindler aim to achieve within the next five years or so, is to hire a chief financial officer who will be capable of, among other things, maximizing the income potential from the company's various financial accounts and perhaps restructuring its real - estate holdings.

UNLISTED company Western Areas NL will launch a big drilling program on potential sulphide nickel targets once it achieves its goal of raising $ 5 million from a float which closed on July 7.

According to a research paper from the American Psychological Association, setting specific goals led to a higher performance 90 percent of the time for companies studied.

Achievement of these goals was considered by the HRC as very challenging, even aggressive, given the expected modest economic growth for 2007 for the financial services industry, the impact and duration of the on - going flat / inverted yield curve (meaning short - term interest rates that are virtually equal to or exceed long - term interest rates, thus lowering profit margins for financial services companies that borrow cash at short - term rates and lend at long - term rates), potentially higher credit losses, fewer available high - quality, high - yielding loans and investment opportunities, and a consumer shift from non-interest to interest - bearing deposits.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

«We are wary of the current level of management turnover at LULU, as it could lead to instability at a time when the company is looking to drive its next leg of growth as it works toward its goal of becoming a $ 4B brand by 2020 (from ~ $ 2.6 B currently),» Randal Konik, an equity analyst at Jefferies, said.

From a sales perspective, our goal is to get to $ 1 billion a year in gross merchandise sales by 2010 (or possibly sooner), which is why at this stage of the company we have decided to reinvest most of our profits back into our growth.

Deloitte's fourth biennial cost survey from April 2016 shows that 65 % of companies adopting ZBB failed to meet their cost - reduction targets, while only 57 % of companies adopting other methods did not meet their goals.

Fresh from a tour of the Tesla factory at the end of August, Motley Fool analyst and Tesla owner Daniel Sparks says he knows what it will take to meet the company's annual delivery goal of 79,000 vehicles — a big increase in Model X deliveries.

And rarely, if ever, should the goal be the fast kind of «hockey stick» growth that is associated with the tiny slice of startups who receive the majority of coverage by tech - focused digital media covering startups: the extraordinarily rare company that obtains backing from a venture fund.

Selected companies gain exposure to a large number of investors from angel groups across the state who co-invest to meet the company's fundraising goals; the angel groups gain far more insights than they can generate on their own.

But Target sells everything from milk to stuffed animals to lawn furniture to electronics, so one of the company's primary goals is convincing customers that the only store they need is Target.

Following the lead of Yuri Milner's investment company, which put money into companies like Facebook and Twitter, they also have more modest goals: turn a profit, improve their cachet among the start - up community and — as is often the case — learn from the companies in which they are investing.

While Vanguard offers a robust lineup of mutual funds, you may find that funds from other companies can also suit your goals if you:

The goal is to understand the meaning of diversity in the workplace and learn from the most effective diversity programs — even as it is clear that what makes a company truly diverse has become increasingly complicated over the years.

The top reasons why millennials leave their companies are because they received a better offer from another company (30 %), their career goals aren't aligned to their company (27 %) and a lack of career opportunities (13 %).

The goal of the policy, of course, is to stop companies from using tax havens or transferring pricing rules to avoid paying taxes.

Tesla, after all, is facing two safety investigations and the continued insistence from some Wall Street analysts that the company would not reach its goal of producing 5,000 Model 3 by the end of the second quarter.

From our early roots of being the first company in the world to build a fully - integrated Bitcoin pilot system for a major bank, over the subsequent few years launching consumer wallets, exchanges, and merchant services to become the market leader in Southeast Asia and Africa, starting to build our UK presence in 2016 and now finally launching across the wider Europe: we are now one giant leap closer to our goal of bringing digital currency to everyone, everywhere.

I'm a huge supporter of micro-finance companies like Kiva, however, they serve another function and also have different goals from peer - to - peer lending platforms like Lending Club and Prosper.

In all Domtar has spent $ 1.8 billion dollars in acquisitions since 2011 and their CEO John Williams has told investors that the company has allocated an additional $ 1B for future acquisitions and the goal of 65 % of future revenues to come from Pulp, Personal Care, and Specialty Packaging.

Apart from releasing its goal of hitting a market cap of $ 650 billion to become one of the world's most valuable companies, the California - based electric car maker and energy company also confirmed that Elon Musk would continue to lead the company for the next decade.

Using a Lean Startup Methodology tailored for communities of color, DID excels at 1) finding Black and Latina women entrepreneurs with high growth companies and game changing ideas, 2) connecting them to an unmatched network of investors, mentors, and influencers, 3) developing their start - up toolkit and leadership skills, and 4) supporting their entrepreneurship journey from the build phase to exit with the goal of helping create companies that have a strong positive impact on the economic health of their local communities.

It's also a good point brought up in the comment below: what distinguishes Google from the crowd, isn't so much the amount of money it spends on perks, but how deliberate the company seems to be in connecting that spending to overarching goals related to employee productivity and organizational culture.

Most significantly, the game developer is seeking to impose a voting limit of 20 %; the aim of which, it states, is to encourage a more equitable share purchase price from any possible suitor and mitigate the risk of «chaos and potential confrontation» should it be targeted by a strategic investor whose goals conflict with the company's vision and growth strategy.

This year, the show mixed the ambition for money and celebrity in a Lord of the Flies environment for the StartupBus, which put 20 strangers on a charter bus for 72 hours, with the goal of launching companies from inside the bus.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) today issued the following statement from Pamela G. Bailey, GMA president and CEO, on the Interagency Working Group's proposed marketing restrictions: «America's food and beverage companies share First Lady Michelle Obama's goal of solving obesity within a generation, and are committed to providing consumers with the products, tools and information they need to achieve and maintain a healthy diet.»

The company's goal is for 20 percent of its growth to come from new products, and it achieves this because of its «great team and great facility,» he says.