Sentences with phrase «including national companies»

The company's 31 employees work hard to produce sprouted grains and sprouted - grain flours for customers around the country and around the world, including national companies like Kellogg, which plans to use To Your Health sprouted grains in a new Kashi brand cereal.

That also includes national companies hiring those people.

Not exact matches

Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people familiar with the process said.

National Australia Bank is included in 3 lists - Banks & Non-Bank Lenders, Business Bankers and Public Companies - non WA.

The Special Counsel's office indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies in February for committing federal crimes while trying to sow discord in the U.S political system, including during the 2016 election.

Of the 246 companies on the index, 12 are Canadian, including Royal Bank of Canada (TSX: RY), Canadian National Railway (TSX: CNR) and Telus Corp. (TSX: T).

A tech company's ability to operate doesn't just depend on abiding by China's laws, but it must also not contravene seven «bottom lines,» which include respecting the socialist system and the advancing the country's national interest.

The law allows companies to directly share information with the Department of Defense, including the National Security Agency (NSA), without fear of being sued.

After all, these companies employ more than 2.2 million people, according to the National Minority Supplier Development Council, which works with corporations to include minority - run businesses in their supply chains.

The company's data - as - a-service program charges $ 2,500 a day, and customers currently include commercial fisheries, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Department of Homeland Security.

The company's data - as - a-service goes for $ 2,500 a day, and customers currently include commercial fisheries, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Department of Homeland Security.

The company's technical innovations, sustainability efforts, and programs for employees have earned it multiple awards, including Chrysler's Technology Role Model Award, the White House's Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership, and the National Governors Association's Distinguished Service Award.

In honor of National Small Business Week, which ends Saturday, companies including Dell and Capital One are offering up discounts, as well as opportunities for mentorship to interested small business owners.

Lentzsch participated in the company's $ 2.45 million seed round — along with former Orbitz chairman Jeff Clarke — helping lead to dozens of deals with national carriers, including Greyhound.

While trying to market the company, she met her eventual co-founder Mary Biggins, who previously built marketing campaigns for brands including the National Football League and Disney.

October: A survey of national trends affecting America's gross creative output, including the work that the Fortune 500 and the government are doing with innovative small companies.

National Cyber Security Partnership Resources include an online CyberRisk profiler and a risk checklist, both designed to help visitors pinpoint and improve their company's security weaknesses.

Following the revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency had secured all - but - unfettered access to user data held by the largest U.S. tech companies, including Microsoft, Google and Yahoo, politicians and businesses around the world were struggling to figure out what exactly this news meant for them.

Some 20 Fortune 500 companies call Georgia home, including UPS, Coca - Cola, Delta Airlines, Home Depot and National Cash Register.

Two months ago Exxon invited companies including China National Petroleum Corporation's engineering arm to bid for construction...

How you conduct yourself offstage carries just as much weight, according to Tabrez Ebrahim, co-founder of Evanston, Ill. - based NuMat Technologies, a clean - energy technology company that has won about $ 1.3 million in contests this year, including top honors at the U.S. Department of Energy's first National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition.

Over the next three decades, Forzani grew the company into a national chain that now includes the Sport Chek, Sport Mart, and Athletes World brands in its portfolio.

And he doesn't mean 200 customers; he created the company for people who could provide publicity, including editors at national publications.

Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.

These companies include the likes of Sophos, whose marketing materials boasted that it protected the U.K.'s National Health Service, which suffered terrible attacks on Friday:

Several of those groups, including the National Restaurant Association, the Retail Industry Leaders Association and the Food Marketing Institute, had been fighting hard for what they referred to as «transition relief,» extra time for companies that must provide health insurance to their workers under the new law to implement the changes without having to fear financial penalties for not doing so properly.

He says developments of this kind should be funded by the National Sciences and Engineering Council, which would have included a peer review — something he thinks the company would have failed.

In June, the Redstone family holding company, National Amusements Inc., sent a letter to Viacom saying it had decided to replace five members of the board, including Dauman.

Companies in Silicon Valley and beyond are taking note, including Pinterest, which took inspiration from the National Football League for its latest diversity initiatives.

Adding 21st Century Fox's premier international properties enhances Disney's position as a truly global entertainment company with authentic local production and consumer services across high - growth regions, including a richer array of local, national and global sporting events that ESPN can make available to fans around the world.

Uber, on the other hand, has teamed up with a number of companies, which include United Airlines, Starbucks, Morgan Stanley and the National Football League in order to promote its ride - hailing service to as many mainstream consumers as possible.

The company, which also publishes Scotland's Daily Record and regional titles including the Manchester Evening News, saw print advertising revenues drop 17pc across the four months but said the fall was less severe at 15pc in the second half of the period amid «improved national advertising performance.»

TELUS is Canada's fastest - growing national telecommunications company with 13.7 million customer connections, including 8.1 million wireless subscribers, 3.2 million wireline network access lines, 1.6 million Internet subscribers and 1.0 million TELUS TV customers.

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Protective Life and Annuity, Birmingham, AL; Pruco Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ and Pruco Life Insurance Company of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, member companies of Prudential Financial, Inc., Newark, NJ; VOYA Life Insurance Company, Minneapolis, MN, VOYA Life Insurance Company of New York, Woodbury, NY and Security Life of Denver Insurance Company, Denver, CO, member of the ING family of companies; Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company, Harrison, NY, and Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, IA, both AEGON comCompany, Urbana, MD, and William Penn Life Insurance Company, Garden City, NY, both Legal & General America companies; United of Omaha Life Insurance Company, Omaha, NE, a Mutual of Omaha affiliate company; Fidelity Life Association, A Legal Reserve Life Insurance Company, Oak Brook, IL; Genworth Life and Annuity Insurance Company, Lynchburg, VA and Genworth Life Insurance Company of New York, New York, NY, member companies of Genworth Financial, Inc.; Lincoln Life & Annuity Insurance Company of New York, Syracuse, NY and The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Fort Wayne, IN, both insurance company affiliates of Lincoln National Corporation, whose marketing name is Lincoln Financial Group; First MetLife Investors Insurance Company, New York, NY, MetLife Investors USA Insurance Company, Irvine, CA and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, NY, all three members of the MetLife family; Protective Life and Annuity, Birmingham, AL; Pruco Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ and Pruco Life Insurance Company of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, member companies of Prudential Financial, Inc., Newark, NJ; VOYA Life Insurance Company, Minneapolis, MN, VOYA Life Insurance Company of New York, Woodbury, NY and Security Life of Denver Insurance Company, Denver, CO, member of the ING family of companies; Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company, Harrison, NY, and Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, IA, both AEGON comCompany, Garden City, NY, both Legal & General America companies; United of Omaha Life Insurance Company, Omaha, NE, a Mutual of Omaha affiliate company; Fidelity Life Association, A Legal Reserve Life Insurance Company, Oak Brook, IL; Genworth Life and Annuity Insurance Company, Lynchburg, VA and Genworth Life Insurance Company of New York, New York, NY, member companies of Genworth Financial, Inc.; Lincoln Life & Annuity Insurance Company of New York, Syracuse, NY and The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Fort Wayne, IN, both insurance company affiliates of Lincoln National Corporation, whose marketing name is Lincoln Financial Group; First MetLife Investors Insurance Company, New York, NY, MetLife Investors USA Insurance Company, Irvine, CA and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, NY, all three members of the MetLife family; Protective Life and Annuity, Birmingham, AL; Pruco Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ and Pruco Life Insurance Company of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, member companies of Prudential Financial, Inc., Newark, NJ; VOYA Life Insurance Company, Minneapolis, MN, VOYA Life Insurance Company of New York, Woodbury, NY and Security Life of Denver Insurance Company, Denver, CO, member of the ING family of companies; Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company, Harrison, NY, and Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, IA, both AEGON comCompany, Omaha, NE, a Mutual of Omaha affiliate company; Fidelity Life Association, A Legal Reserve Life Insurance Company, Oak Brook, IL; Genworth Life and Annuity Insurance Company, Lynchburg, VA and Genworth Life Insurance Company of New York, New York, NY, member companies of Genworth Financial, Inc.; Lincoln Life & Annuity Insurance Company of New York, Syracuse, NY and The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Fort Wayne, IN, both insurance company affiliates of Lincoln National Corporation, whose marketing name is Lincoln Financial Group; First MetLife Investors Insurance Company, New York, NY, MetLife Investors USA Insurance Company, Irvine, CA and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, NY, all three members of the MetLife family; Protective Life and Annuity, Birmingham, AL; Pruco Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ and Pruco Life Insurance Company of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, member companies of Prudential Financial, Inc., Newark, NJ; VOYA Life Insurance Company, Minneapolis, MN, VOYA Life Insurance Company of New York, Woodbury, NY and Security Life of Denver Insurance Company, Denver, CO, member of the ING family of companies; Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company, Harrison, NY, and Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, IA, both AEGON comcompany; Fidelity Life Association, A Legal Reserve Life Insurance Company, Oak Brook, IL; Genworth Life and Annuity Insurance Company, Lynchburg, VA and Genworth Life Insurance Company of New York, New York, NY, member companies of Genworth Financial, Inc.; Lincoln Life & Annuity Insurance Company of New York, Syracuse, NY and The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Fort Wayne, IN, both insurance company affiliates of Lincoln National Corporation, whose marketing name is Lincoln Financial Group; First MetLife Investors Insurance Company, New York, NY, MetLife Investors USA Insurance Company, Irvine, CA and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, NY, all three members of the MetLife family; Protective Life and Annuity, Birmingham, AL; Pruco Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ and Pruco Life Insurance Company of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, member companies of Prudential Financial, Inc., Newark, NJ; VOYA Life Insurance Company, Minneapolis, MN, VOYA Life Insurance Company of New York, Woodbury, NY and Security Life of Denver Insurance Company, Denver, CO, member of the ING family of companies; Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company, Harrison, NY, and Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, IA, both AEGON comCompany, Oak Brook, IL; Genworth Life and Annuity Insurance Company, Lynchburg, VA and Genworth Life Insurance Company of New York, New York, NY, member companies of Genworth Financial, Inc.; Lincoln Life & Annuity Insurance Company of New York, Syracuse, NY and The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Fort Wayne, IN, both insurance company affiliates of Lincoln National Corporation, whose marketing name is Lincoln Financial Group; First MetLife Investors Insurance Company, New York, NY, MetLife Investors USA Insurance Company, Irvine, CA and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, NY, all three members of the MetLife family; Protective Life and Annuity, Birmingham, AL; Pruco Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ and Pruco Life Insurance Company of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, member companies of Prudential Financial, Inc., Newark, NJ; VOYA Life Insurance Company, Minneapolis, MN, VOYA Life Insurance Company of New York, Woodbury, NY and Security Life of Denver Insurance Company, Denver, CO, member of the ING family of companies; Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company, Harrison, NY, and Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, IA, both AEGON comCompany, Lynchburg, VA and Genworth Life Insurance Company of New York, New York, NY, member companies of Genworth Financial, Inc.; Lincoln Life & Annuity Insurance Company of New York, Syracuse, NY and The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Fort Wayne, IN, both insurance company affiliates of Lincoln National Corporation, whose marketing name is Lincoln Financial Group; First MetLife Investors Insurance Company, New York, NY, MetLife Investors USA Insurance Company, Irvine, CA and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, NY, all three members of the MetLife family; Protective Life and Annuity, Birmingham, AL; Pruco Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ and Pruco Life Insurance Company of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, member companies of Prudential Financial, Inc., Newark, NJ; VOYA Life Insurance Company, Minneapolis, MN, VOYA Life Insurance Company of New York, Woodbury, NY and Security Life of Denver Insurance Company, Denver, CO, member of the ING family of companies; Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company, Harrison, NY, and Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, IA, both AEGON comCompany of New York, New York, NY, member companies of Genworth Financial, Inc.; Lincoln Life & Annuity Insurance Company of New York, Syracuse, NY and The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Fort Wayne, IN, both insurance company affiliates of Lincoln National Corporation, whose marketing name is Lincoln Financial Group; First MetLife Investors Insurance Company, New York, NY, MetLife Investors USA Insurance Company, Irvine, CA and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, NY, all three members of the MetLife family; Protective Life and Annuity, Birmingham, AL; Pruco Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ and Pruco Life Insurance Company of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, member companies of Prudential Financial, Inc., Newark, NJ; VOYA Life Insurance Company, Minneapolis, MN, VOYA Life Insurance Company of New York, Woodbury, NY and Security Life of Denver Insurance Company, Denver, CO, member of the ING family of companies; Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company, Harrison, NY, and Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, IA, both AEGON comCompany of New York, Syracuse, NY and The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Fort Wayne, IN, both insurance company affiliates of Lincoln National Corporation, whose marketing name is Lincoln Financial Group; First MetLife Investors Insurance Company, New York, NY, MetLife Investors USA Insurance Company, Irvine, CA and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, NY, all three members of the MetLife family; Protective Life and Annuity, Birmingham, AL; Pruco Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ and Pruco Life Insurance Company of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, member companies of Prudential Financial, Inc., Newark, NJ; VOYA Life Insurance Company, Minneapolis, MN, VOYA Life Insurance Company of New York, Woodbury, NY and Security Life of Denver Insurance Company, Denver, CO, member of the ING family of companies; Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company, Harrison, NY, and Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, IA, both AEGON comCompany, Fort Wayne, IN, both insurance company affiliates of Lincoln National Corporation, whose marketing name is Lincoln Financial Group; First MetLife Investors Insurance Company, New York, NY, MetLife Investors USA Insurance Company, Irvine, CA and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, NY, all three members of the MetLife family; Protective Life and Annuity, Birmingham, AL; Pruco Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ and Pruco Life Insurance Company of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, member companies of Prudential Financial, Inc., Newark, NJ; VOYA Life Insurance Company, Minneapolis, MN, VOYA Life Insurance Company of New York, Woodbury, NY and Security Life of Denver Insurance Company, Denver, CO, member of the ING family of companies; Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company, Harrison, NY, and Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, IA, both AEGON comcompany affiliates of Lincoln National Corporation, whose marketing name is Lincoln Financial Group; First MetLife Investors Insurance Company, New York, NY, MetLife Investors USA Insurance Company, Irvine, CA and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, NY, all three members of the MetLife family; Protective Life and Annuity, Birmingham, AL; Pruco Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ and Pruco Life Insurance Company of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, member companies of Prudential Financial, Inc., Newark, NJ; VOYA Life Insurance Company, Minneapolis, MN, VOYA Life Insurance Company of New York, Woodbury, NY and Security Life of Denver Insurance Company, Denver, CO, member of the ING family of companies; Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company, Harrison, NY, and Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, IA, both AEGON comCompany, New York, NY, MetLife Investors USA Insurance Company, Irvine, CA and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, NY, all three members of the MetLife family; Protective Life and Annuity, Birmingham, AL; Pruco Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ and Pruco Life Insurance Company of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, member companies of Prudential Financial, Inc., Newark, NJ; VOYA Life Insurance Company, Minneapolis, MN, VOYA Life Insurance Company of New York, Woodbury, NY and Security Life of Denver Insurance Company, Denver, CO, member of the ING family of companies; Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company, Harrison, NY, and Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, IA, both AEGON comCompany, Irvine, CA and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, NY, all three members of the MetLife family; Protective Life and Annuity, Birmingham, AL; Pruco Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ and Pruco Life Insurance Company of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, member companies of Prudential Financial, Inc., Newark, NJ; VOYA Life Insurance Company, Minneapolis, MN, VOYA Life Insurance Company of New York, Woodbury, NY and Security Life of Denver Insurance Company, Denver, CO, member of the ING family of companies; Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company, Harrison, NY, and Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, IA, both AEGON comCompany, New York, NY, all three members of the MetLife family; Protective Life and Annuity, Birmingham, AL; Pruco Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ and Pruco Life Insurance Company of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, member companies of Prudential Financial, Inc., Newark, NJ; VOYA Life Insurance Company, Minneapolis, MN, VOYA Life Insurance Company of New York, Woodbury, NY and Security Life of Denver Insurance Company, Denver, CO, member of the ING family of companies; Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company, Harrison, NY, and Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, IA, both AEGON comCompany, Newark, NJ and Pruco Life Insurance Company of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, member companies of Prudential Financial, Inc., Newark, NJ; VOYA Life Insurance Company, Minneapolis, MN, VOYA Life Insurance Company of New York, Woodbury, NY and Security Life of Denver Insurance Company, Denver, CO, member of the ING family of companies; Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company, Harrison, NY, and Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, IA, both AEGON comCompany of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, member companies of Prudential Financial, Inc., Newark, NJ; VOYA Life Insurance Company, Minneapolis, MN, VOYA Life Insurance Company of New York, Woodbury, NY and Security Life of Denver Insurance Company, Denver, CO, member of the ING family of companies; Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company, Harrison, NY, and Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, IA, both AEGON comCompany, Minneapolis, MN, VOYA Life Insurance Company of New York, Woodbury, NY and Security Life of Denver Insurance Company, Denver, CO, member of the ING family of companies; Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company, Harrison, NY, and Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, IA, both AEGON comCompany of New York, Woodbury, NY and Security Life of Denver Insurance Company, Denver, CO, member of the ING family of companies; Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company, Harrison, NY, and Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, IA, both AEGON comCompany, Denver, CO, member of the ING family of companies; Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company, Harrison, NY, and Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, IA, both AEGON comCompany, Harrison, NY, and Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, IA, both AEGON comCompany, Cedar Rapids, IA, both AEGON companies.

The quotes are based on a basic liability protection policy for the 2011 Toyota Camry across 12 insurers, including both national (such as GEICO and State Farm) and regional (such as Western National Insurance and Farmers Mutual of Nebraska) conational (such as GEICO and State Farm) and regional (such as Western National Insurance and Farmers Mutual of Nebraska) coNational Insurance and Farmers Mutual of Nebraska) companies.

Tovar has held a variety of roles over his 16 - year tenure including key management positions in Retail Brokerage Services at Jack White & Company and National Retail Services at TD Waterhouse and ultimately in TD Waterhouse Institutional in 2000.

Next month, the Treasury Department is expected to release a plan to further restrict Chinese investment in American companies, including industries such as semiconductors and artificial intelligence that are sensitive for national security reasons.

The chart below shows the ratio of market capitalization to national nonfinancial corporate gross value added (which includes estimated foreign revenue of U.S. companies).

The rest of his fortune is managed through closely held Cascade Investment, which controls stakes in dozens of publicly traded companies, including Canadian National Railway, Deere and Ecolab.

Amherst developed and pursued a comprehensive sale process, identifying and approaching a robust list of potential acquirers that included global Fortune 500 companies and national private equity firms, in addition to numerous middlemarket strategic and financial buyers.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

Brian Reid is chief economist at the Investment Company Institute, the national association of U.S. investment companies, including mutual funds, closed - end funds, exchange - traded funds (ETFs) and unit investment trusts (UITs).

Gun - rights organizations also weighed in, including the National Rifle Association, which argued that the case stood to «eviscerate» the gun companies» legal protections.

Recent developments, including ongoing investigations into bribery and corruption at the Company's subsidiaries in Mexico, China, Brazil, and India; new revelations of accounting fraud at the Company's China operations; a recent ruling by a National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge against the Company for its illegal discipline of employees; and, the NLRB decision to authorize a nationwide complaint against the Company for violations of the National Labor Relations Act, highlight the need for enhanced oversight of Wal - Mart's corporate culture and behavior.

Primary portfolio company Latch, the first enterprise access management platform for the multi-family residential market, has been at the forefront of many of these discussions as it continues to develop innovative partnerships with highly impactful partners, including national multi-family builders, couriers and ecommerce leaders, including Jet.com and AirBnB.

MaRS today announces that Wavefront, a National Centre of Excellence supporting the growth and commercialization of wireless companies in Canada, is providing the MaRS Commons with a mobile handset library that includes the most popular handsets available.

Among the concerns are a range of practices, including barriers to entry, subsidies and regulations that pressure American companies to hand over sensitive trade secrets, which China uses to make national champions of its homegrown firms.

The National Conference Host Committee, is chaired by Sharon Avent, President and CEO of SMEAD Manufacturing Company, and includes 11 other exemplary women's business leaders from the region: ARCTURIS; Creative Resources; Enterforce, Inc.; Global Capital, Ltd.; Innovative Office Solutions; INTREN; KNOCK, inc.; National Van Lines; Rose International, Inc.; Tembua: The Precise Language Solution, and The Bureau.

These factors include historical reliance on national banking institutions for investment guidance, a public company venture capital markets in Canada being down 75 % from its peak in 2011 causing risk capital investment fatigue and a need for education, success stories and media attention on equity crowdfunding.

These companies included Blue Rhino Corporation, the nation's largest propane cylinder exchange marketer / distributor; Platinum Service Corp., a developer of Boston Market restaurant properties located primarily in the Carolinas and Georgia; and National Packaging Solutions Group, a southeastern US manufacturer and distributor of industrial packaging.