Sentences with phrase «including global expansion»

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The speech to the «Oil and Money» conference in London presents an overall vision for transforming Canada from a continental energy player to a global energy powerhouse, a vision that includes improved trade relations with Asia and a major expansion of infrastructure — pipelines, in other words — to get Alberta oil to far - flung markets.

Exports and business investment in Canada have been held back by competitiveness challenges and trade - policy uncertainties, which include escalating geopolitical conflicts that risk damaging global expansion, the bank said.

Weber will be based out of EBTH headquarters in Cincinnati, OH, and will oversee all marketing initiatives across the company, including digital strategy, expansion initiatives, advertising, and customer acquisition, with the chief responsibility of driving profitable growth and global brand awareness.

Co — authored with web - comic creator, Zach Weinersmith, and author, Phil Plait, the «Science Pack» is a $ 10 expansion pack dedicated to all things scientific, including global warming and evolution, and went on sale earlier this year.

«These include the growth of contactless payment options, including card - based and mobile tap - and - pay methods, the global adoption of EMV chip technology and the continued expansion of online commerce.»

The strong expansion projected for the global economy in 2018 and 2019 includes growth by the advanced economies of 2.5 % this year, easing back to the 2017 rate of 2.2 % in 2019.

The new funding, led by Goldman Sachs and Princeville Global (with participation from existing investors, including Venrock, Shasta Ventures and Tenaya Capital), will be used to continue the company's rapid expansion in the U.S. and abroad — and brings the company's total financing to $ 160 million.

Other highlights for the year included the introduction of GVBOT's Pillar Partners, the expansion of the Company of Young Professionals program to Richmond, North Vancouver, and the Tri-Cities, a new advocacy initiative with the Canadian Global Cities Council, and the WE FOR SHE Conference on gender diversity.

We believe our global opportunity is significant, and to address this opportunity, we intend to continue to invest in sales and marketing efforts, distribution channels, and infrastructure and personnel to support our international expansion, including establishing additional sales offices globally.

Didi has raised nearly $ 20 billion including a $ 4 billion round for global expansion which closed in December.

Canada's Global Markets Action Plan identifies about 20 countries as target markets, including China and India (these two markets are Canada's second - and 14th - largest trading exchange, respectively excluding services and direct investments), and specifically targets the expansion of SME sales to emerging markets.

RBC Global Asset Management Inc. (RBC GAM Inc.) today announced the expansion of its corporate class funds, including the addition of US$ priced options on...

2016.01.25 RBC Global Asset Management expands suite of US$ investment solutions for Canadian investors RBC Global Asset Management Inc. (RBC GAM Inc.) today announced the expansion of its corporate class funds, including the addition of US$ priced options on...

Some of the dominant themes that drove the market include a synchronized global economic expansion, strong earnings growth, ongoing low inflation, central bank policy, and tax and regulatory reform.

I'd add this to the list of factors supporting more exposure to equities, including our expectations of a synchronized global earnings recovery and sustained economic expansion.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

This analytical research report on the global nutraceutical excipients market is a complete package, which includes intelligence on key participants underpinning the market expansion.

In their research, Smith and her colleagues found that this decline follows the global expansion of hominins over the late - Quaternary, including the Pleistocene and Holocene Periods.

She has since led the organization through extensive growth and expansion — reaching more than 250,000 students and 2,000 educators from three offices nationwide since founding — and expanded programs to include global project based learning, arts and media integration, professional development and international exchange and service learning.

SEATTLE --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Apr. 17, 2013 --(NASDAQ: AMZN)-- Amazon.com, Inc. continued the global expansion of its Appstore today by announcing that developers can now submit their apps for distribution in nearly 200 countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, India, South Africa, South Korea, and even Papua New Guinea and Vatican City.

, capitalizing on this combined expertise, specializes in franchises for the entertainment industry, including animation and live - action feature films, plus television, DVDs, video games, merchandising and related ancillary markets, all of which contribute to global expansion.

This announcement is the latest in a series of global expansions, including the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, China and Japan.

In the digital world, in 2010 we've seen a proliferation of available e-book titles (the Amazon store roughly doubled its catalogue to over 750,000 e-books), e-books starting a global expansion (including the launch of the Amazon UK Kindle Store), and we've even seen e-book sales on Amazon overtake hardcovers and overtake all print books for best - selling titles.

But, barring any drastic moves in the final trading days of 2015, the most widely held classes of assets, including stocks and bonds across the globe, were basically flat... While that may be disappointing news for people who hoped to see big returns from at least some portion of their portfolio, it is excellent news for anyone who wants to see a steady global economic expansion without new bubbles and all the volatility that can bring.

Starwood's Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts is undertaking an ambitious global expansion this year, with ten new hotels planned in key locations including India, Australia, Thailand and Indonesia.

Exhibitions include Dos Mundos: Worlds of the Puerto Ricans 1973, Mira, Mira, Mira, Museum of the City of New York 1974, Ten Japanese Artists, 1975; Legacy of James Vanderzee, 1977; Sacred Artifacts: Objects of Devotion, 1982; Disinformation: The Manufacture of Consent, 1985; Repulsion: Aesthetics of the Grotesque, 1987; Foreign Affairs: Conflicts in the Global Village, 1988; Dia De Los Muertos, 1988; Prisoners of Image: Ethnic and Gender Stereotyping, 1989; Mon Reve: Haiti after the Duvaliers, 1989; Artists of Conscience, 1992; Peoples Choice: Komar & Melamid, 1994; Expansion Arts, I, II, III, 1995 - 1998; (Mickey) Mouse: An American Icon, 1998; The Artists as Patron, 1999; Honeymoon Series by Yoshio Itagaki, 2000; Between the Real and the Unreal: Recent works by Simen Johan, 2000, Genochoice an installation by Virgil Wong, 2000.

«Out of Site: Fictional Architectural Spaces,» site - specific installation blending digital technology, virtual reality, urban and suburban growth and global expansion by artists including Ricci Albenda, Nina Bovasso, Victoria Haven, Stephen Hendee, Julie Mehretu, Adam Ross and Shirley Tse.

Such options include the inevitable expansion of Canada's own tar / oil sands (Keith Kloor has nicely knitted several views of this option), ever more coal production and the global push to tap greatly expanded reserves of natural gas.

On decadal and longer time scales, global mean sea level change results from two major processes, mostly related to recent climate change, that alter the volume of water in the global ocean: i) thermal expansion (Section 5.5.3), and ii) the exchange of water between oceans and other reservoirs (glaciers and ice caps, ice sheets, other land water reservoirs - including through anthropogenic change in land hydrology, and the atmosphere; Section 5.5.5).

I am active in groups that are focused on halting the expansion plans of the fossil fuel industries including the Keystone XL pipeline and yet the climate movement is still figuring out how a focus on local damages and pollution translate to action on the global long - term issue.

This sentence is on page 8: Gregory et al. (2013) provides graphically a time series of global mean sea level (GMSL) rise due to thermal expansion from 1860 based on a simulation by the CCSM4 AOGCM, with volcanic forcing included, starting in 850.

Norton Rose Fulbright has announced the expansion of its global diversity and inclusion advisory council (GDIAC) to include the United States.

A team of lawyers from offices across the Firm's global network negotiated 150 sophisticated finance documents with around thirty financial institutions — commercial banks, Islamic finance banks, public investment funds and development funds and governmental export - credit agencies (including Japan Bank for International Cooperation — that are providing financing for the expansion.

In the course of Peter's tenure as Chief Executive, the practice has won a number of awards and rankings, including top 5 rated legal practice in the Acritas Global Elite Law Firm Brand Index (2014 - 17); the Managing Partners» Forum Exceptional Achievement Award (2014, 2013); City A.M. Law Firm of the Year Award (2012); the Financial Times Innovative Lawyer Innovation in International Expansion Award (2011); The Lawyer Law Firm of the Year Award (2011); Legal Business Most Enterprising Law Firm of the Year (2010); The Lawyer HR Awards Innovation in Talent Management & Retention (2010); and The Financial Times Innovative Lawyer Resourcing Award (2009).

Prior to joining Drinker Biddle, Jane served as Global COO for a Global 20 law firm and held other senior strategic operations positions at its legacy firm, including a key role in growth and integration strategies during the firm's global expaGlobal COO for a Global 20 law firm and held other senior strategic operations positions at its legacy firm, including a key role in growth and integration strategies during the firm's global expaGlobal 20 law firm and held other senior strategic operations positions at its legacy firm, including a key role in growth and integration strategies during the firm's global expaglobal expansion.

The European Centre of Excellence in Dublin is a key part of the company's expansion of its global cross-border litigation services, which includes offices in London, and a data centre in Hong Kong.

During his long - standing career as the global head and founding member of his unit since 1999, Pagano has managed and been involved in a number of complex and transformational M&A transactions, including the acquisition of Ally Financial's Canadian operations and the US$ 4.5 bn takeover of Citi National, which served as a major expansion for the bank into the US.

With multi-currency support, BTCC is eyeing a global expansion of their services, including the bitcoin debit card.

Payza, a global payments platform, announced a cryptocurrency exchange expansion to include the «most popular» Bitcoin alternatives.

«This is in line with our global expansion efforts that will see us opening hubs in strategic locations around the world including New York, London and other cities in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Asia.

Coinffeine, an open source, peer - to - peer (P2P) Bitcoin exchange platform, announces its global expansion plan by launching the world's first decentralized Bitcoin exchange platform in more than 70 countries including Russia, China, Indonesia and Brazil.

«Today's consumer expectations include a global service capacity and this expansion together with the First National Real Estate of Australia and New Zealand alliance will strengthen the offering of Aventure members.»

March 6, 2014 CoreNet Global Economic Index Q1 2014 Corporate real estate executives at Fortune 1000 companies are optimistic about a range of economic factors — including increases in jobs, corporate expansions, and the overall global economy — for the first quarter of 2014, according to a survey conducted by CoreNet GGlobal Economic Index Q1 2014 Corporate real estate executives at Fortune 1000 companies are optimistic about a range of economic factors — including increases in jobs, corporate expansions, and the overall global economy — for the first quarter of 2014, according to a survey conducted by CoreNet Gglobal economy — for the first quarter of 2014, according to a survey conducted by CoreNet GlobalGlobal.

However, real estate firms are battling a series of trends that include the rise of Internet technology, ongoing industry consolidation, continued global expansion and a growing demand for more services.

David Mosley serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of E Smith Advisors, a partnership with Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) and sets the strategic direction for growth and expansion of the professional portfolio, including partnerships with national and global corporate entities committed to diversity and inclusion in commercial real estate.