Sentences with phrase «in the company of all»

Several years ago, tickets were snapped up at more than $ 1,500 apiece to spend a weekend with him (in the company of 125 other attendees).

Other times, they're in the company of other female friends.

When Branson isn't risking his body in a hot air balloon or a wetsuit, he looks after it by playing daily tennis matches and swimming, kitesurfing, and paddleboarding in the waters off Necker Island, often in the company of friends like Google co-founder Larry Page and President Barack Obama.

Slack offers work - based messaging and chat software that has gained traction in companies of all sizes.

Truly successful Millennials realize they don't have to spend their valuable time in the company of difficult people.

Instead, Xiao was rolled out of the Four Seasons in a wheelchair, in the company of unidentified men.

According to former Night Stalker CW4 Michael Durant (and recounted in his book, In the Company of Heroes), the DAP was developed in - house by the 160th using existing Black Hawks.

There are already two Chanel stores in Toronto, but they're exactly where you'd expect them: Yorkville and the Yorkdale Shopping Centre, in the company of other luxury retailers.

For their book In the Company of Giants, authors Rama Dev Jager and Rafael Ortiz asked Steve Jobs about putting together a team.

Not exact matches

''... Because we can't hold public stock as a fund, it's sort of a bummer for me when the company goes public, because then it moves on to someone else's plate and we don't hold the stake in it.»

The study was funded by EnCana, the drilling company whose wells the EPA had initially blamed for the contamination.Though the role of fracking remains contested, the advising scientists recommend that the EPA should qualify its conclusions about the risks posed by acknowledging gaps in the existing data and concerning cases like Pavillion.

In the case of Netflix, investors cheered the company's international growth on Tuesday, and more or less ignored the fact that it missed its U.S. forecasts.

Although the name has changed, it's still the same industry once denoted as «leveraged buyouts» — that is, the business of buying companies with a thin slice of nonpublic equity and mountains of debt, in which fund managers grab richly generous (to themselves) fees.

Giving employees equity in the company can make them feel as if there's less of a divide.

The merged company must also disclose the terms of all content licensing and TV programming deals to Cade, which will assess if they undermine competition in the market.

«We see a lot of companies come in with a lot of capital — really good business - minded people — but they're not enthusiasts or enthusiastic about the product they're selling,» says Cobb.

«We are acting with a renewed sense of energy and purpose to turn our business around,» Steve Easterbrook, the company's newly appointed president and CEO said in a statement on Wednesday.

The company is pursuing a range of growth opportunities, including a Sydney city campus for Macquarie University and a new business in Hong Kong to recruit students in China on behalf of education institutions in Australia and the UK.

In my last column, we discussed three types of customers, categorized by the type and strength of the attachment they have to your company.

Nearly one in five small business owners are mashing social media into the daily (and hourly) lives of their companies, with the most popular sites being Facebook and LinkedIn.

Pacioli, a Franciscan monk who published the first balance sheet in 1494, understood the power of data to transform the way companies make decisions.

Many manufacturers already sell «reef - friendly» sunscreens, and companies can deplete current inventory ahead of the ban in 2021, Downs said.

This year, it's private companies that have seen their valuations slashed, and private company shares aren't in the 401ks of most investors.

GE is piggybacking along to the tune of at least $ 2 billion a year in extra equipment sales — a significant boost even for a company of GE's scale.

While Lyft never operated services in China, the complication adds heat to a U.S. market some say is winner - take - all, where one company has a valuation more than 10 times that of the other.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov called for «digital resistance», saying he was prepared to give out millions of dollars worth of grants in bitcoin digital currency to individuals and companies that run proxies and VPNs to support internet freedom.

During the credit crunch, alternative lenders — cash advance companies, accounts receivable funders, factors, and micro lenders — took advantage of the slowdown in bank loan volume.

While it received approval to dig a two - mile test tunnel beneath the headquarters of Musk's space travel company, SpaceX, in Hawthorne, California, the Boring Company will have to convince a number of local governments that its tunnels will be useful in order to conduct enough research and development to make an operational tunnel network a rcompany, SpaceX, in Hawthorne, California, the Boring Company will have to convince a number of local governments that its tunnels will be useful in order to conduct enough research and development to make an operational tunnel network a rCompany will have to convince a number of local governments that its tunnels will be useful in order to conduct enough research and development to make an operational tunnel network a reality.

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

That's wonderful, that means you are in a rarified group of profiled companies that are exciting to the VCs,» Ellenoff says.

Among the investors that contributed to Wiivv's $ 3.5 million seed round in December was MAS Holdings, a Sri Lankan company that is one of the largest manufacturers of apparel and footwear for brands like Nike, Victoria Secret and Lululemon.

«Microsoft and Apple are similar in that they're global companies with the same ruthless pursuit of monetary goals, but the perception of Apple is still very different,» says Marcus Giesler, a marketing professor at the Schulich School of Business.

For instance, if a company has a different Twitter account for each of its products in different countries — and then different Facebook pages on top of that — the number of accounts the company has to maintain can add up quickly.

But the company's real engine of growth is in the fledgling wholesale and design side of the business — something that never would have happened had White not been paying attention to his customers» needs.

Today, Chinese companies must design, manufacture, and sell their products in order to capture greater portions of their value.

Which means this uptick in Art of the Deal - style pushiness — if it's a real phenomenon — probably isn't a good thing for the men employing it, their negotiating partners, or their companies.

Less celebrated are these innovative companies» contribution of powerful but low - tech productivity hacks to help managers and owners get more done in less time.

Marissa Mayer of Yahoo famously rolled back the company's telecommuting allowance in 2013, citing that employees are more collaborative and innovative when working in proximity.

We also have the ability to work in a variety of roles throughout our careers and we don't have to leave the company to do so.»

Despite all of the problems the PlayBook caused, RIM can't ditch it, even after the company took a US$ 485 - million pre-tax charge in the last quarter to write down the value of its inventory.

The company maintains that it settled with the government «in the interest of moving beyond disagreements» about whether McKesson was in compliance.

In BlackBerry's case, however, investors have sent the company's share price up more than 12 % so far today after a dismal set of earnings were released this morning.

It was his means of staying awake and focused during 100 - hour work weeks during the process of building and launching his companies, he told Inc. in 2007.

GLOBAL resources - focused technology company Outotec is looking to cash in on a Curtin University invention following its acquisition of Perth - based Scanalyse.

That explains why Restaurant Brands International (RBI), the Oakville, Ont. - based parent company of Tim Hortons and Burger King, will shell out US$ 1.8 billion in cash to acquire Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, an American fried chicken chain.

For hundreds of entrepreneurs in Austin, he offered the potential for their startup to win funding, and the kind of high - profile attention that could bring their company to the next level.

Denton seems relieved and pleased to embark on a new way of doing business, albeit with an outsider sitting in one of the company's five board seats.

When Fortune introduced its list of the 500 largest U.S. companies by revenue, in 1955, it included five U.S. automakers.

In the beginning that approach worked out well, but eventually they had to start paying for those endorsements and the size of the company didn't match up.

Reflective of Far Eastern companies facing roadblocks in reaching the U.S. market, Chinese mobile maker Huawei has faced troubles in the U.S. recently as a deal for it to sell its Mate 10 Pro smartphone collapsed.