Sentences with phrase «head office move»

Calgary's energy - focused economy may be facing its challenges, but the city was still a draw for multinational diamond miner De Beers, which moved its 67 - person Canadian headquarters to the city from Toronto this summer — the highest - profile head office move between the two cities since Imperial Oil's trek west in 2005.

Not exact matches

Gillam says he employs a «partnership model» that allows his team to become what he describes as a «virtual extension» of the client organization, with head office staff on - site to make things move along smoothly.

But when Mr. Fields couldn't move fast enough to head off slippage in Ford's profits, the board dismissed him last May and handed the reins to Mr. Hackett, a former chief executive of Steelcase who is credited with turning around the office - furniture maker.

TORONTO — Sears Canada (TSX: SCC) is cutting 245 jobs, mostly at its head office in Toronto, and moving some of the work overseas.

Recognizing the region's potential, in 2010 GardaWorld moved its headquarters, previously split between Washington and London, to Dubai (the head office for the parent company, Garda, remained in Montreal).

The suit says that after Ms. Pao filed a formal complaint about Mr. Nazre with Mr. Schlein, Mr. Lane and Mr. Doerr, the partners promoted Mr. Nazre to be the head of the firm's green technology unit, making him her direct boss, and moved him to an office directly across from hers.

The problems began when Global assigned one of its correspondents to explain why U.S. - based Burger King Worldwide Inc. had, earlier that day, announced plans to buy Tim Hortons Inc. and move its head office to Canada.

In the last 18 months, we've increased our volume by over 100 % and have recently had to move to a bigger head office to support our growing team.»

Before joining Edward Jones, French served as an investment advisor for BMO Nesbitt Burns for three years before moving to the firm's head office in Toronto to support the development and growth of the firm's fee based and managed programs.

The Board's head office was moved to Calgary and its permanent members were required, by legislation, to live in or around the city.

When Kraft Heinz relocated its head office to the Aon Center in downtown Chicago following the merger, the company's R&D center moved to Glenview, Illinois.

In 1998, Stephanie moved to Dewar's and within a short time was placed in charge of the Spirit Quality Laboratories at the Company's head office in Glasgow.

Dan Gilbert addressed these rumors head - on, claiming that the ownership and the front office were in agreement on the first overall pick, which caused Wiggins to move to -350 to become the first overall pick this evening.

Jeremy Corbyn's office has defended his decision to hand a key job to the former head of Sinn Fein's London office after the move sparked fury among some Labour MPs.

During April Head Office will move from Victoria Street to new quarters in Brewers Green, and annual conference 2013 (and 2015) will be held in Brighton rather than Bournemouth, following complete refurbishment of the conference centre.

1980 Joins Treasury after studying at Oxford University and the College of Europe in Bruges 1989 Joins the cabinet of Sir Leon Brittan, European commissioner 1993 Returns to Treasury as an assistant secretary to the Defence Team 1995 Sojourn at French Finance Ministry as chargé de mission direction de trésor 1997 After a year back in the Treasury, moves to Cabinet Office as deputy head of European Affairs Secretariat 2003 Becomes deputy director - general, immigration and nationality, at the Home Office 2004 Joins Foreign Office as director - general, globalisation 2010 Appointed permanent secretary at BIS

A trickle of companies fleeing the restive Spanish region of Catalonia threatened to turn into a flood as a second major bank and two more firms said they would move their head offices to other parts of the country.

As New York moves to decriminalize low - level offenses, arguing enforcement is «rigged against communities of color,» other large cities are coming under pressure from the Justice Department — now led by former head of the U.S. Attorney's office in Brooklyn, Loretta Lynch — to do the same thing.

The move tears up reforms introduced by Mr Cameron in 2011, when he split the roles of Cabinet Secretary, head of the Home Civil Service and permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office on the retirement of Sir Gus O'Donnell - now Lord O'Donnell - but Downing Street rejected suggestions that it was a mark that the previous changes had failed.

Cuomo has already moved to usurp some of the powers of his old office by establishing the state Department of Financial Services, an uber - Wall Street watchdog headed by his longtime aide Ben Lawsky.

Cuomo's reluctance to let go of the AG's office was made clear in 2011 when he moved to create an uber - financial oversight agency — the Financial Services Department — and installed his longtime top aide Ben Lawsky at its head.

Sullivan, head of the Office of Mental Health, said the move would allow the state to save millions of dollars and redirect that money toward other local services geared toward treating children in their own communities rather than a hospital setting.

«People can trust our prime minister to deliver on a referendum but we need to be in office to do that, and that will be one of the choices at the next election The way to resolve this issue is to bring it to a head, put it to the people, and then our country can move on.

Patricia Brown, head of NIH's Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, says the agency will be talking with all sides as it moves to comply with Congress's call to explore ways of cutting red tape.

Over her time at FDA, Woodcock has moved up, first by running the review group for biologics, then becoming the deputy director of biologics, then head of the Office of Therapeutics, and finally being appointed head of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), a division of FDA committed to ensuring that «all prescription and over-the-counter drugs are safe and effective.»

This could «reduce the risk to publishers of moving to an open - access business model,» says Stuart Shieber, who heads Harvard's Office for Scholarly Communication and is one of the drivers behind the initiative.

With the growth of ASG in the 80s, he moved to Melbourne to take up the position of general manager at ASG's head office in Surrey Hills, where he remained until his retirement in 2007.

The move on school funding follows a campaign by head teachers over cash shortages - with the National Audit Office saying that schools faced a # 3bn funding gap.

And in 2014 when Sir Michael Wilshaw, the Chief Inspector of Schools in England and Head of Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills), announced «there's a need for professional governance to move beyond the current «amateurish» approach to overseeing schools».

In what can only be described as a classic move of incredible arrogance, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, has named a non-certified individual to head up Malloy and Pryor's pet project; the Department of Education's «Turnaround Office» which has responsibility for overseeing state support for Connecticut 30 «alliance» districts.

But the 2013 move from Nissan corporate head office in Yokohama to set up headquarters in Hong Kong signaled a sea change for Infiniti's strategy, as did title sponsorship with Red Bull's F1 race team, and the hiring of former Audi of America chief Johan de Nysschen to head the new - direction Infiniti division.

He was the Book Manager of Eason's in Galway for five years, moved to Eason's head office to become a Book Buyer and rose to become Head of Buying and Marketing for Bohead office to become a Book Buyer and rose to become Head of Buying and Marketing for BoHead of Buying and Marketing for Books.

Despite the fact that her industry was booming in Vancouver — in addition to Lululemon, Arcteryx and Mountain Equipment Co-op have head offices in the city — Vilches decided to move to Calgary.

It left him unable to drive for long periods of time, so the cab company he was working for moved him to a desk job at head office — a job he still holds today.

-- James Runcie, head of the Office of Federal Student Aid, last week confirmed during a House Oversight Committee hearing that the department was moving ahead with the loan servicing procurement process.

Research Affiliates Expands European Footprint as Head of Equity Research Moves to the Firm's London Office

- Matthias Hempfling has joined as marketing and PR director - Kalpesh Tailor has has joined as head of communications - both came from Nintendo's European head office in Frankfurt - a number of key people were moved into new roles throughout the UK to amp up for NX and Miitomo - Hempfling will oversee all of UK marketing campaigns & will report directly to Nintendo UK general manager Simon Kemp - Tailor will report to Hempfling & will oversee all PR, social media and community activities for the UK - his team includes assistant PR manager Emma Bunce, social media and digital content manager Ashley Day and UK community manager James Bowden.

Jennifer Conner moved from Manhattan in 1997 when Sotheby's auction house transferred her from their New York office to become Senior VP & Head of Marketing for Europe.

In 1806 the head office of the British Linen Bank moved to St. Andrew Square.

Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the Government Economic Service and Adviser to the Government on the economics of climate change and development, is delighted to present his report to the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Economics of Climate Change: The Stern team has moved to the Office of Climate Change.

It is important to remember why cities were building highways like this through the fifties and sixties; why the federal government was promoting low density suburban development and why companies were moving their corporate head offices to campuses in the country: Civil defence.

This seems like the right move for my clients given where McGrigors is heading both in terms of its corporate team and the London office.

I moved to the Solicitor's Office and Legal Services for HMRC to take up the post of Head of Knowledge Management.

Brad Okun, the head of the tax practice and the former head of O'Melveny's New York office, and M&A partner John Scott also are moving to Paul Weiss.

Very much to their credit and my delight, Dick Wolf, Rene Balcer and the rest of the writers — the people who weekly call this fiction that's Jack McCoy into being — took his whole character with them when they moved him into the head office.

But just days before the new rules would have gone into effect, Morrice filed documentation with the SEC, which stated that Edgemont Mining, Interfac Mining, and Jupiter Resources had moved their head offices to Saskatchewan, and thus would not be subject to the new rules.

The seven partners, all of which are from Semple Fraser's Glasgow office, comprise a six - partner real estate team, which is moving across the city to MMS's Glasgow base, while Semple Fraser's head of corporate and renewables Bill Fowler is joining MMS in Edinburgh.

It has also pulled off some notable lateral hires for its London office, including Herbert Smith property litigation head Martin Smith and LG insolvency veteran John Verrill, whose move prompted the launch of the firm's City restructuring practice.

She started as a Legal Secretary in a Cambridge law firm where she gained an A level in Law in her spare time, before moving with her team to the London office of American firm, Dorsey & Whitney, where John Byrne was head of the office.

During his career with Simmons & Simmons, Ken spent three years as managing partner of the Hong Kong office, then five years as head of the London corporate and commercial department until he moved to Stevens & Bolton LLP in 2004.