Sentences with phrase «in public chains»

Not that in public chains eg Bitcoin, this isn't the case.

Not exact matches

That typically means heavy layoffs to reduce overhead, particularly in areas where the parent company can share services — like legal, public relations, and supply chain management — between its subsidiaries.

Many Chinese government offices have been public about their interest in taking advantage of the blockchain technology for tasks like tracking people and products moving through industrial supply chains.

Couche - Tard went public in 1985, then spent the next 15 years swallowing Quebec - based stores and chains whole, including Provi - Soir, repatriating the owl logo and putting that dependable wink in its eye.

Looking at chicken chains alone, besides Wingstop planning its IPO, Mexican chicken chain El Pollo Loco made its public debut in July.

But Meyer's sparkling Shake Shack chain, founded in 2004 and set to go public perhaps as early as this year, has entered the burger wars.

Shake Shack, a burger chain founded in New York City, has disclosed it expects to price the company's initial public offering between $ 14 to $ 16 per share in a deal that Reuters estimates could value the company at up to $ 568 million.

A merger with investment company 57th Street General Acquisition Corp. in 2011 gave the company a taste of that possible expansion, and the US$ 66 million deal led to America's largest cupcake chain to go public.

The chain was bumped to the # 3 spot in the industry by Wendy's at the end of last year, and the pressure to succeed is on as it prepares to go public again.

Again, the public at large isn't bothered — more than 10 million people used Airbnb in 2014 alone, and the company now boasts more rooms than any hotel chain in the world.

Since owner 3G Capital announced last year that it was taking Burger King public again, the chain has signed deals to open locations in Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa.

In 2012, 3G unveiled a revamped menu before announcing a deal to take the chain public again.

On Dec. 11, Hilton Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: HLT), which owns several hotel chains, went public and brought in $ 2.34 billion.

The Geek Squad has been described by Best Buy leadership as a key part of the chain's survival as a retailer in the age of Amazon, and public awareness that the friendly mobile IT support team could also be FBI snoops would be nothing short of devastating to that strategy.

«We ramped up our overhead so we could handle the explosive growth of a company that goes public,» recounts Thomas DeJordy, owner of Cafe La France, a Rhode Island - based restaurant chain that was supposed to do its IPO in 1996.

SoulCycle, which filed paperwork to go public but has not yet listed on an exchange, offers classes at its retail chains around the U.S. and in Canada.

Often these tokens are a sort of public IOU intended for redemption in a future new chain, or some other digital good.

Given the public nature of the block chain, the shared ledger where each bitcoin transaction is recorded, the system is more open and transparent in some respects.

«In fact, many public chains are struggling,» he added.

FRANKFURT (Reuters)- Shares in German - owned restaurant chain Vapiano VAO.TG are to be offered at 23 euros per share in its initial public offering (IPO), two people familiar with the placement said on Monday.

(Reuters)- U.S. supermarket chain Albertsons Companies Inc is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering in late September or early October that could value it as much as $ 24 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter.

Wingstop Inc.'s shares are headed for their biggest loss since the restaurant chain went public in June 2015.

In the days leading up to the holiday weekend, Coin Center briefed four major DC organizations on how blockchains work and about important considerations for making decisions as they apply to public chains.

Neiman, purchased by private - equity firms TPG and Warburg Pincus LLC for $ 4.9 billion in 2005, had been looking for an outright buyer for the retail chain while simultaneously laying the groundwork for an initial public offering of stock.

These transactions are verified by network nodes through the use of cryptography and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a block - chain.

21ST - CENTURY DETECTION AND PREVENTION Value Chain Track As the burden of chronic ailments increases along with our aging populations, public health experts are in near - universal agreement that we need to a far better job of preventing disease.

With nearly 8000 members working across the private and public sectors, SCMA is the principal source of supply chain training, education and professional development in the country.

Rutledge, CEO of chicken - and - biscuit chain Bojangle's (BOJA), which began trading as a public company last May, began his career as a bus boy and has worked every position in a restaurant.

OntarioBuys makes investments to support innovation and to facilitate and accelerate the adoption of integrated supply chain, back - office leading practices and operational excellence by driving collaboration and improving supply chain processes in Ontario's broader public sector.

Centralized virtual currencies like Facebook Credits, Amazon Coins etc. have an administrator and a central repository, whereas decentralized virtual currencies do not have either, and every transaction is registered in a public ledger known as a block chain.

I am afraid that the way to compare the effectiveness and progress in different public and private chain will remain a manual and tedious network participate and feel comfortable in it, separating the main indicators of performance statistics.

But by looking at chains of transactions in the public blockchain, it's possible to identify transaction patterns, and with enough effort, often the real - world owner of a specific address.

One of its biggest moves since the chain went public in 2006.

We saw in 2008 how weak links in the mega banking chain spilled out across Wall Street because of the invisible linkages to other banks and financial firms unknown to the public — like the fact that the big insurer, AIG, was the backer for tens of billions of dollars of credit default swaps while having no money to pay off the bets it had accepted from the biggest Wall Street firms.

Last week we commented on the iconic coffee chain's fall from grace in the annual NATIONAL Public Relations and Leger's Corporate Reputation Study (to recap the company fell from 4th place overall to 50th in a ranking of the 100 companies Canadians most admire).

The patent, which was filed in September of 2016, heavily praises the technology behind the patent, stating in one instance that: «One advantage of block chain [sic] based ledgers is the public nature of the block chain architecture that allows anyone in the public to review the content of the ledger and verify ownership.»

Each transaction is recorded in a public ledger, called a «block chain,» to keep people from writing the digital equivalent of a bad check.

It was an exercise in delusion, if not hypocrisy, because all that we said about equality, life, liberty, public happiness, freedom, the right of assembly, participation, and the other noble principles applied in fact only to the white man, not to the majority of persons in this country, who at that time were red, or to a sizable minority who were black and in chains.

Waibel reinforced the importance of companies doing what they say they will do, ensuring they maintain integrity with the producers and others in the supply chain, and ensuring they are overseen through external assessments and public reporting.

Under a logic of «public - private partnership», the companies participating in Grow are fostering close ties with governments in order to increase their control over markets and supply chains.

The public appears to be demanding buffalo meat, and it's possible to find cuts of bison in upscale store chains like Whole Foods.

Through the Consumer Goods Forum, the CDP / We Mean Business Coalition, and the public - private Tropical Forest Alliance 2020, hundreds of major companies have committed to eliminating commodity - driven deforestation from their supply chains by 2020, including companies that account for 90 percent of the global trade in palm oil.

It depends on who you talk to — public health, business, supply chain, consumers — all are key stakeholders in food traceability.

Stuart says the money will help pay for more events to put the issue in the public eye, as well as fund the group's investigations into where waste occurs throughout the food chain.

McDonald's wants to familiarize with the public with these issues and how specifically the company is approaching enhancing sustainability in their coffee supply chain.

Metcash says, in the alternative, that there is a market approximately within the geographical region comprising NSW and the ACT for the supply of such grocery products to the consuming public by way of integrated retail chains and independent wholesalers supplying independent grocery retailers.

Beyond the food safety vulnerabilities, food fraud creates tremendous economic harm and undermines peoples» trust in the food supply chain, extending to companies, the food industry and even public institutions.

This is Rubbish works to reduce industry and supply chain food waste in the UK and beyond, using policy campaigns, education, the arts and public events.

These processes were spurred by FDI by global and regional multinational chains and domestic (private and public sector) investment in agro-processing in the 1980s and 1990s (18).

Through advocacy and communications, industry insights, and retailer and supply chain engagement, we are strengthening public understanding and appreciation of candy's unique role in a happy, balanced lifestyle.