Sentences with phrase «in smaller competitions»

Smith, the most accomplished of Irish athletes, competed for the second time since the Olympics in a small competition in Galway the first weekend in March.

Not exact matches

Killing the «honour all cards» rule would create endless aggravation at the cash register and stifle competition too (smaller, upstart banks like Capital One have become major players in Canada in part because no matter the bank's size or reach, customers can rest assured that stores are still guaranteed to accept their cards).

Small Businesses Do It Better was a competition winner in StartupNation's 2012 Home - Based 100, and has been highlighted on MSN Money, in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, GeekWire, BizSugar, Business2Community, Target Local, StartupNation, The Shark Tank, Quirky, Edison Awards, Barbara Corcoran's Facebook page, Mark Cuban's Twitter feed, and various other websites.

These perceptions on the part of your customers may not seem like a big deal to you but in competitive markets, small business owners must utilize every advantage to make their company stand out among the competition.

Though there's generally less competition for jobs in small towns, business owners need to be more careful about finding applicants who are truly qualified and most likely to stay in the position for longer than their counterparts in bigger locales.

«Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world's factories every day,» wrote Musk in a 2014 blog post.

We'll get to infotainment in a sec, but the 8.8 - inch screen seems small, by comparison with the competition.

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly advanced and more widely adopted, we'll start to see a lot of companies - big and small - turning to AI in order to come up with better data strategies and win customer adoption, and to better compete against their competition.

Because many companies employing low - wage workers face too much competition to pass the increased labor cost on to customers, a higher minimum wage would mean lower small business profits or costly investment in labor saving equipment.

That goal puts it in competition with a swelling number of other startups trying to tackle the speedy - delivery space, including Instacart, which recently raised $ 220 million; the New York - based WunWun, which delivers small orders without a delivery fee in under an hour; and Postmates, which does the same but with a $ 5 delivery fee.

In order to keep up with your customers and competition, you may want to consider a small business loan or line of credit to finance purchases or renovations.

«The continued growth of small and independent brewers illustrates that additional market opportunities and demand are prevalent, although competition in the sector is certainly growing and the need for brewers to differentiate and produce world class high quality beer is more important than ever.»

In no other industry do small - business owners sense the same degree of competition with Amazon.

Given limited resources, officials and observers said, the Commission's competition directorate is likely to focus on a fairly small number in the expectation that success — still to be tested in court — can deter others from going to extremes in reducing their global tax burdens.

How three mighty mites have managed to carve out niches in the face of competition from brewers big and small, Amazon, and SAP's Ariba software unit.

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Competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager said in a statement: «All companies, big or small, multinational or not, should pay their fair share of tax.

In addition to this public challenge, the company hosts inter-office competitions, breaking their staff of 16 into small groups and tracking the number of employees who cycle to work, offering lunch, a beer or latte to the winning team at the end of the week.

«People submit more and more domain - specific bots — in the car - racing competition you had people submitting bots that started hard - coding elements of tracks and cars and so on — and the actual AI part gets relegated to smaller and smaller roles,» Togelius says.

Investors haven't been happy that Dorsey is trying to be the big man at two public companies facing intense competition in a warp - speed tech industry, but Dorsey disclosed in Square IPO filings a side of himself focused on a very big financial contribution that requires a much smaller piece of himself: Roughly 20 percent of his personal holdings in Square stock would go to the Start Small Foundation.

Best Buy Co Inc, the No. 1 U.S. consumer electronics retailer, on Wednesday said it will shut 250 small mobile phone stores in malls as it looks for ways to operate profitably and turn around its business amid intense competition.

The Audience Network is in direct competition with services such as Google's AdMob and Yahoo's Flurry as well as other smaller ad networks that sell the ad inventory in publisher's apps on their behalf.

Breen and Dow CEO Andrew Liveris have vowed to cut R&D and break the combined company into three smaller firms, leaving it a weakened player in a competition against global chemical giants like Germany's BASF and Bayer, and China's Sinopec and Sinochem.

«It is only appropriate for the Commission to adopt a process that reflects the reality that effective competition exists throughout the nation, and provides relief to operators both large and small,» said FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler in a statement.

Small wireless player Wind Mobile, part of a wave of new companies that have brought Canadians more competition in the cellphone market, has signed a deal to owned by a global telecom company.

That means the competition to invest in Silicon Valley's small handful of winners is even stiffer.

A PricewaterhouseCoopers report in 2014 found that the mega-carriers still face competition from smaller airlines, like low - cost carriers and ultra-low-cost carriers.

Lacavera wouldn't comment on how competition in Canada's wireless industry will be affected by changes to foreign ownership rules for small telecom companies.

Intense competition among small to medium - sized builders is resulting in competitive tenders and tight margins.

In fact, small businesses can be especially vulnerable to competition, especially when new companies enter a marketplace.

[3] This disparity might be attributed to less competition in smaller communities, which usually have to pay more to attract physicians.

In the fine jewelry market, LKG Designs Inc will face competition from national jewelry store chains and small jewelry stores, home shopping channels, department stores, discount chain stores, and the internet.

Those better rates, Stoller said, could allow Amazon to force smaller retailers to use their Amazon fulfillment services — and if retailers don't, then Amazon can discriminate against those retailers in the marketplace, crushing the competition.

On the other hand, Uber's market share in the country sank from 11.5 percent in 2015 to only 7.8 percent in 2016, during the wake of strong competition from smaller players, such as Ucar and Yidao.

With an oversupply of private equity firms seeking capital in the region and increased pressure from cash - rich corporates, competition for a smaller pie will only increase.

But even a small price increase could slow the industry's growth in states where solar already faces fierce competition from cheap natural gas, such as Florida, Georgia, South Carolina or Texas.

However, we expect smaller funds to outperform by an even wider margin in the decade ahead owing to the dramatic reduction in competition.

Historically, smaller venture capital funds have outperformed, and the survivors of the current shakeout are likely to outperform by an even wider margin in the coming decade due to reduced competition.

Waning investor interest and the weeding out of underperforming managers is reducing competition and setting the stage for a powerful rebound in venture returns over the next decade, particularly at the smaller end of the market.

While Tabcorp and Tatts Group try and get their $ 11.3 billion tie up past the competition regulator, Street Talk can reveal some of their smaller rivals in the horse and sports betting industry are mapping out their own futures.

The cost in the loss of competition is not enough to justify combining the two smaller cell - phone companies.

And while there's nothing wrong with this — it creates healthy competition — it means there are a lot of small business owners who launch businesses without skills that they would otherwise have been forced to have in previous decades.

It has been suggested, for example, that there is currently rather less competition in the small and medium sized business market than there is in the corporate area.

Judged by other measures of the exchange rate designed to capture competition with imports or against export competitors, it has shown a small increase in competitiveness.

And in some real estate markets where there is significant competition for listed properties, a 20 % down offer will appear stronger than an offer with a smaller down payment, and the listing agent may be more likely to consider stronger offers.

Instead of bowing out under pressure from national competition, local food delivery services in smaller markets across the U.S. are seeing sales lifts and renewed restaurant partnerships as Grubhub and Uber Eats show up on their scene.

(Uber, in a statement to the Boston Globe, said it would «vigorously defend the rights of riders to enjoy competition and choice, and for drivers to build their own small business.»)

Small and mid-sized businesses, family farmers, and others in the real economy are far better served by a simple, robustly regulated market where prices are transparent and competition is meaningful.»

Yet each company has different areas in which it focuses, and each has had a different experience seeking out new ways to grow even larger while fending off competition from smaller industry players.

This ideology insists that «everything from the necessities of economic competition to limited resources requires «cramming» future populations in ever smaller spaces.