Sentences with phrase «held company said»

The privately held company said it's received two new reports of customers choking.

BEIJING (AP)-- A Chinese investment holding company said it has signed a letter of intent to purchase oil fields in Texas for 8.3 billion yuan ($ 1.3 billion) through a limited liability partnership.

«The Board of WPP has appointed independent counsel to conduct an investigation in response to an allegation of personal misconduct against Sir Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive Officer of WPP,» the world's largest agency holding company said in a statement.

Not exact matches

«One never holds people necessarily responsible for their government, but one does have the ability to be very careful in what one does with the government itself,» said Smith, who became Microsoft's president in 2015, taking on a title that had not existed at the company since 2002, when Richard Belluzzo left.

Replicating that success with Indochino will require Green to hold onto the company's pioneering spirit, Vucko says: «No one's really scaled an omnichannel business before.»

Pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts Holding said Anthem, its biggest customer and one that has sued the company over claims of being overcharged, was unlikely to renew its contract after it ends in 2019.

The companies say that nothing is being monitored or recorded until the wake words are spoken, but once they are, Amazon and Google tend to hold on to that voice data to improve the services for you.

Discovery invested $ 100 million in a new holding company, Group Nine Media, that combines millennial - focused online publishers Thrillist, a food, drink and travel brand; video news creator NowThis, and animal video site The Dodo with its own digital assets, the company said in a statement.

Privately held National Amusements said last month that a merger would allow the combined company to respond aggressively to the challenges of the changing entertainment and media landscape.

Larry Puglia, whose T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund has trounced the S&P 500 with annualized returns of 18.5 % over the past five years (and 37 % in 2017 alone), says that some of the same companies he avoided around the turn of the millennium are now among the biggest holdings in his portfolio, including Amazon (amzn), Alphabet (googl), and Microsoft (msft).

Manafort used the shell company «MC Soho Holdings, LLC» to purchase the Howard Street condo, in Manhattan's trendy SoHo neighborhood, for $ 2.85 million in 2012, the indictment says.

Shapiro said NBCUniversal hopes to draw in users with already popular NBC titles like SNL and Parks & Recreation, but the company plans to hold onto those customers by recommending a range of additional content — particularly original and acquired programs exclusive to Seeso — as part of selections curated by real people.

For entrepreneurs interested in selling goods to bigger companies in the industry, the cluster has held approximately eight «supplier sessions,» where small businesses learn how they will need to tighten their standards to participate in the nuclear industry, Carlberg says.

ALMATY, April 24 - Canada's Centerra Gold said on Tuesday it had received an unsolicited bid for its Kumtor gold mine in Kyrgyzstan from Chaarat Gold Holdings but that it had informed the London - listed company that it was not interested in the offer.

Walgreens said it was temporarily holding off on any further expansion of its partnership with the company.

She said the company should have done more to address the hack and surveillance in its earnings report, or should have held an earnings call assuming that did not violate a quiet period around the planned sale.

• IBEX Holdings, a Hamilton, Bermuda - based customer service company, said it plans to raise $ 60 million in an IPO of 4 million shares priced between $ 14 to $ 16 apiece.

National Amusements, the Redstone family holding company, recently said it plans to remove Dauman from the Viacom board of directors, along with a number of other directors.

Thanks to the new law, the largest tech companies repatriated more than $ 470 billion in cash from their overseas holdings at the beginning of the year, Materne said, adding that the mass movement «should result in a bottomless well of capital to fuel a significant wave of software M&A.»

Jarden shareholders will receive $ 21 in cash and 0.862 Newell shares for each share held, the companies said on Monday.

Needham downgrades Lululemon to hold from buy, saying the company is facing tough year - over-year comparisons.

Freed from the demands of public market investors who tend to focus on short - term returns, some companies may find renewed life that harks back to when they were small and privately held, business experts say.

It's a far cry from the days — say 15 years ago — when less than a dozen banks held a corporate loan on their balance sheet, and companies could renegotiate the terms of their loan with a single creditor, or a small committee.

The senators said that despite the administration downplaying his role, Icahn has disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that he was a special adviser, meaning it is important to shareholders of the companies in which he holds stakes in.

While he won't divulge details, Eisenhardt says the privately - held company has in the past fielded interested investment and acquisition calls from «many players.»

While a third of professionals in the Middle East say that they do not feel communication channels in their company are open, one way for you to create open communication between employees and management would be by holding regular meetings with employees and adopting an open door policy that encourages them to speak frankly without fear of repercussion.

Mehta said larger companies have such a strong hold on the market that it's nearly impossible for small consumer internet companies to build audiences.

Verizon showed interest in Yahoo's core business as early as December, when Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo said the company would «see if there is a strategic fit» for Yahoo's holdings, which include mail, news, sports and advertising technology.

On Monday, the search giant founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page said it's reorganizing, creating a holding company with that name to give more clarity to its various product lines.

SolarCity said Wednesday that it has purchased privately held financial technology company Common Assets LLC to provide the investment platform.

It's this last point that has the biggest effect on private versus public company returns, says Tim McPeak, director of financial institutions at Sageworks, a company that studies financial information of privately held companies.

Daniel Yoo of Kiwoom Securities says SK Hynix should show better first quarter sales as demand has held up for chips and the company should perform well in the second quarter as well.

CEO Lyndon Rive said in an interview that he expects the company will offer several types of products that investors could hold for different lengths of time, or even trade.

When asked what was holding these companies back from implementing more thorough security measures, most companies (29 %) said it was a lack of funds.

That could prove a perilous prospect for the ACA, based on the High Court's recent ruling in Hobby Lobby, which said that closely - held companies can exempt themselves from key parts of their coverage requirements, such as for birth control products and services, based on their religious beliefs.

Brendan Kennedy, the cofounder of Privateer Holdings, which owns various marijuana companies like Marley Natural and Canadian pharmaceutical - grade cannabis producer Tilray, says his companies are expanding abroad while the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Food and Drug Administration debate whether or not to treat the plant as a medicine or keep it in the same category as heroin.

«Language Line had been doing the same thing for a very long time,» says Klein, who had held CEO and executive posts at several medium - sized companies before retiring, albeit briefly, in 2010.

Abney said the company's brick - and - mortar and e-commerce retail customers are holding «Black Friday» sales earlier than normal this year and that UPS believes it is part of an effort by retailers to find ways to smooth out the pre-Christmas online ordering bulge.

Shares of Hertz Global Holdings fell more than 4 percent in extended trade after the company said John Tague will step down from his post as president and CEO of the company.

In last June's 5 - to - 4 Hobby Lobby ruling, which was divided along ideological lines, the high court said closely held companies have a right to special religious exceptions when it comes to the benefits they're required to offer their employees under the ACA.

«It's tricky if the founder is a visionary, highly charismatic, has a strong personality — those are big shoes to fill,» says Molinaro, who suggests companies shouldn't be holding on to former leaders in formal roles if they want their new CEOs to succeed.

Part of that is due to uncertainty in the markets, Bannister says, and firms are holding back more reserves in case companies already in their portfolios need more capital to get to the next fundraising round.

Macmahon Holdings has called out CIMIC Group for what it says is a low - ball takeover bid, saying the Spanish - controlled company should be aware of the improving market for mining services.

The Department of Justice recently vetoed Tribune Publishing's proposed acquisition of Freedom Communications, a holding company that owns the Orange Country Register among other papers, saying it would reduce competition too much in those markets.

Heavy earthmoving equipment supplier Emeco Holdings has shrugged off a credit rating downgrade from Fitch Ratings, with managing director Ian Testrow saying the market should focus on the big picture of the company's merger and restructuring plan.

The statement said 3G Capital, the majority owner of Burger King, would continue to own the majority of the shares of the new company on a pro forma basis, with the remainder held by existing shareholders of Tim Hortons and Burger King.

«Holding the company accountable is important, and I hope others will learn you can't sweep this kind of thing under the rug,» Warner, a member of the Senate Banking Committee, said in a tweet.

Most companies were able to hold out through the price troughs of 2015, Jefferies equity analyst Jason Gammel said, but 2016 could set the backdrop for further acquisitions by year - end.

«I don't think it's realistic for Trump to wage an all - out war against recreational marijuana,» says Aaron Herzberg of CalCann Holdings, a portfolio of cannabis companies and brands in California.

Some medical experts say that HVMN and other companies should be held to a more rigorous standard and that the FDA should start regulating these supplements.