Sentences with phrase «half of the profit»

A 2 & 20 is typical (a 2 percent annual fee on an investment, plus a 20 percent share of profits at the fund's end date).

Let's say after paying all its costs, advertising, payroll, taxes, and more taxes, a small business has a margin at the end of the day of 10 % (that's pretty good nowadays, especially for a smaller business); that means your 3 % credit card fees are costing them 30 % of their profit!

It's the issue of profit maximization that goes unchallenged.

«If corporate America wants to make a positive difference on gun violence, it should donate a portion of its profits to mental health treatments and school safety initiatives.

The financial crisis of 2008 taught them that blind pursuit of profit can have catastrophic consequences for society.

Managers covered their expenses with the fee — typically 2 % of assets — and created wealth on the «carry,» their 20 % share of the profits.

Kickstopper has documented several of these projects, which are experiencing varying results of profit so far.

An easy way to identify winners is to find companies that generate all, or most, of their profits in the U.S..

Cottonwood Heights, Utah - based Cotopaxi — named after a volcano in Ecuador that Davis frequented as a child growing up in South America — is an outdoor gear and apparel retailer that donates 10 percent of all profits to charitable causes in the developing world.

We make most of our profit in Q4 historically, which is holiday season.

Companies will benefit because more of their profits come from the U.S..

New York - based Verizon Communications owns 55 per cent of Verizon Wireless, which means that only that percentage of its profits flow to its bottom line.

So unlike Amazon, which investors don't expect to make mounds of profit, many traditional retailers don't get the latitude from Wall Street to take big risks and make the major moves that would modernize them.

As mentioned above, using stock compensation to paper over a lack of profits and strategic vision is probably likely to backfire.

Rather than the traditional standard of units sold that beverage retailers use to track the success of a product, Campbell talked about his product in terms of its profit margins for the retailer.

«A guy's going to have tighten up his belt and pull his socks up if this type of weather picks up,» Sawyer said, adding that less of a profit for farmers can strain the local economy.

Such a slowdown would mark the end of a good run for companies in the S&P 500 that have enjoyed seven straight quarters of profit expansion.

«Simply put, firms have been investing a smaller share of their profits in upgrading and expanding their capital stock.»

Any excess power could also be sold back to the main grid network — which actually could generate a small flow of profit.

For example, try designating an internal team to crack a business problem using a social solution and reward them with a share of the profits based on achieving clearly defined targets.

It's also a good choice for people who care about the company they support, as Tom's of Maine funnels much of its profits to charities and encourages employees to spend a percentage of their working hours doing volunteer activities.

Taylor believes pot smuggling will continue because of the profit incentive, which will end only if the drug is legalized across America.

Major energy companies are called «Big Oil» for a reason, as the vast majority of their profits comes from the upstream divisions, which explore and produce oil.

In one study of S&P 500 companies, the share of profits going to stockholders has increased from 50 percent in the early»80s to 86 percent in 2013.

Ellen R. Wald, author of «Saudi, Inc.: The Arabian Kingdom's Pursuit of Profit and Power» explains the crown prince's motivations for these meetings.

This is one in a series of profiles of the PROFIT 500 — Canada's Fastest - Growing Companies.

He accused the company of «outrageous behavior in putting its pursuits of profits ahead of its duty to prevent the endangerment of the people,» and «bidding lower and lower for contracts in order to compete.»

We can get money back for consumers, but we don't call that a fine, we call it redress or disgorgement of profits.

I credit making wise decisions in marketing as a primary reason I went from selling zero units to several hundred thousand units within two years, operating only off of profits all before the exposure that Shark Tank brought.

Or some entrepreneurs have exit strategies and others may refuse acquisition proposals regardless of the profit they will personally make.

He estimates Amazon could make $ 600 million of profits a year if it builds an online hotel business roughly half of Expedia's size.

The firm attributes 30 % to 40 % of its profits to the U.S., and trades at a bigger - than - average 75 % discount to tangible book value.

These entities will become «legal containers for the accrual of profit.»

If you're able to make some sort of profit doing something that you're passionate about, isn't that a success story?

If you can design digital items, you can sell them for a share of the profits on a site like CafePress.

Recent research from the DEA indicates that the cartels are now producing white - powder heroin from opium cultivated in Mexico, which could allow them to wrest control of the production process away from South Americans, target new customers, and keep more of the profits from heroin sales.

Stephenson says in the next 12 months institutional and retail investors will be looking to take some of their profits from the red - hot commodities boom and invest in the biotech sector.

Earlier this year, for example, it launched a program in which more than 420 of its most active and influential community members sell products to their friends and followers; in turn, they receive a cut of the profits, as well as rewards that include sneak previews of products and trips to New York to visit Glossier and have dinner with Weiss.

He gave it a name and a face: a modern Robin Hood helping the working class by stealing from himself — and perhaps from shareholders of other companies whose bosses are now also putting employees ahead of profits: #imwithdan!

You have tested your pricing in the marketplace to allow for just the right amount of profit.

But in October — less than three months after its launch — Jet changed its business model and dropped its $ 50 membership fee it once said would be its sole source of profit.

Tim Cook told Irish state network RTE in an interview broadcast Thursday that the money, part of profits from 2014, should be brought back to the U.S. next year.

To attract the best salespeople, Chris Taylor, cofounder of $ 18.5 - million International Postal Consultants Inc. (IPC), which sells international - mailing services, uses a system whereby salespeople earn «royalties» on their accounts: in addition to a commission, salespeople receive a percentage of the profit an account brings in for the life of the account.

The banking system was hyper - competitive and quick to take risks in pursuit of profits; policymakers aggressively pushed homeownership through measures such as tax breaks for mortgage interest payments; and weak recourse laws let mortgage defaulters off the hook.

Yupeng Liu (right) at one of PROFIT 500 winner Just Quality International's processing facilities (Photograph by Will Figg)

About 40 percent of the profits went to Dan and Lucas as dividends (Dan put his in an emergency savings account for the company).

That's one reason why City Girl Coffee Company, run by Alyza Bohbot, gets its beans from women - run farms and cooperatives and donates 5 % of its profits to organizations that support women in the coffee industry.

They're American, European and Japanese, so the decisions, the IP and the bulk of the profits ultimately return there.

Saje Natural Wellness CEO Kate Ross LeBlanc in one of the PROFIT 500 company's Vancouver stores.

How will this affect tax issues, such as the repatriation of profits, deductibility of expenses and personal liabilities?