One
industry study found that when listings were accompanied by high - quality photos taken with professional equipment, they spent significantly less time on the market and fetched a premium of $ 3,400 on average.
An insurance
industry study found drivers are four times more likely to get into an accident when they're on the phone.
One
industry study found that rashes increased from 7 % to over 60 % when disposable diapers were used!
To put this in perspective,
industry studies find a ratio over 49 per cent signals a struggle to pay down mortgage payments.
Livestock
Industry Study Finds Meat and Dairy Create More Emissions Than Miles Steak»n Bake?
Not exact matches
An Environmental Defense Fund - commissioned
study by consultancy ICF International
found that Canada's oil and gas
industry could achieve a 45 per cent methane emission reduction at an average cost of $ 2.76 per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent.
Laloux said that he
finds the situation at Zappos to be especially interesting, because while he's
studied some very successful self - managed companies around the world and across varied
industries, there's never been an attempt by a company as large as Zappos at making a transition to becoming one.
One
study, which looked at Canada's hotel
industry,
found a 25 % average return on investment for training programs, with some participating companies reporting returns as high as 300 %.
It's an interesting model for rapidly educating software engineers, particularly considering that a recent
study about the New York tech
industry found that half of New York City's technical work force doesn't have a traditional college education.
In fact, a recent
study in the American Journal of Public Health
finds that the EPA «has moved away from the public interest and explicitly favored the interests of the regulated
industries,» and is on the slippery slope to what scholars term «regulatory capture,» in which a government agency makes rules in the interest of an
industry it's supposed to regulate rather than the public.
A recent Airline Quality Rating
study found that the
industry is losing fewer bags — and bumping fewer passengers — while arriving on time more frequently.
Searching competitors» job listings can be a useful means of
finding that
industry information if you aren't in the position to purchase salary
study information or work with a firm that conducts compensation research.
However, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
studied structural separation (links to PDF) across various
industries several years ago and didn't
find that to be the case:
The Beer Institute
study found that the beer
industry as a whole — encompassing brewers, distributors, retailers and importers — contributed $ 252.6 billion to the U.S. economy last year.
In the manufacturing
industry, a recent
study by Boston Consulting Group
found that by 2025, robots will do about 25 percent of all industrial tasks — and that inexpensive robots are becoming increasingly available to smaller companies.
More significantly, Catalyst
found that unequal pay starts with the first job, and widens over time, even after accounting for job level,
industry, child bearing and career aspirations, according to the results of the
study by authors Nancy M. Carter and Christine Silva.
A recent
study from Babson College
found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC
industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.
For
industries like healthcare, Larsen points out that various
studies have
found that the most «satisfied» patients are also those who spent the most on prescription drugs and were 12 percent more likely to be admitted to hospitals.
For example, in the case of the dairy
industry, some of the problems
studies have
found include:
Generation Z, those born 1997 to present, now represent 27 percent of the U.S. population, a larger group than Millennials, and although only older Gen Zs are entering adulthood, their impact on the food
industry is already being felt,
finds a new
study by The NPD Group, a leading global information company.
Details on these and other
findings are contained in a new
industry study, which presents historical demand data for the years 2000, 2005 and 2010, plus forecasts for 2015 and 2020 by product and market.
CHICAGO (Reuters)- Women are under - represented among mutual fund managers, a new
study found, in a gender imbalance that poses challenges for an
industry looking to run more money from female clients.
The same
study that determined every trailer wrap generates 16 million views also
found that 97.5 percent of vewers were left with a positive impression of the
industry.
Studies of the economic impact of existing laws sponsored by groups across the ideological spectrum have
found that while the costs to employers of paid sick leave mandates tend to be low on average, they tend to be more significant in certain
industries, like food services, where paid sick leave is less common and workers typically are younger.
A 2015 McKinsey
study of 366 companies
found that corporate leadership in the top quartile for racial and ethnic diversity were 35 percent more likely to have financial returns above their national
industry median.
A key
study finding is despite all the noise about A.I. and other forms of automation technology disrupting
industries and destroying jobs, most small businesses see automation technology as creating opportunities for both their businesses and employees.
(Washington, D.C.: Committee on Education and the Workforce, February, 13, 2002), http://archives.republicans.edlabor.house.gov/archive/hearings/107th/eer/enronthree21302/kruse.htm Another
study comparing a matched sample of ESOP versus non-ESOP firms in with similar
industries and workforce sizes among closely held companies, again, using population data on all available US DOL data followed the ESOP firms before and after their adoption of the ESOP from 1988 to 1998 along with the matched firms and
found that 20 % of the ESOP firms had a defined benefit plan before adopting their ESOP, and 10 years later, after adopting their ESOP, they had defined benefit plans five times more than non-ESOP firms), 33.3 % of ESOP firms had a 401 (k) plan before adopting their ESOP with 52.4 % 10 years later (five times more than non-ESOP firms), and 35.7 % of ESOP firms had a deferred profit - sharing plan before adopting their ESOP with 51.2 % 10 years later (five times more than non-ESOP firms).
When looking at the results of this
study and trends in part - timers by
industry using the Labour Force Survey, SylvainÂ
found that six of seven
industries at the bottom end of average weekly wage increases have seen an increase in the proportion of part - timers.
A 2007
study for
Industry Canada
found that 42 per cent of small and medium - sized companies in Canada were unfamiliar with the term intellectual property, and that four out of five could not name an organization in Canada responsible for IP protection.
Take some of the
findings from the variable annuity
industry experience
study completed this year by Ruark Consulting, an actuarial firm in Simsbury, Conn..
Using standard statistical methods, it was
found that the average sales advantage for the ESOP firms in the
study was $ 44,500, or an average of an 8.8 % sales per employee advantage over their non-ESOP counterparts in the same
industry and of the same size; 2.)
The compensation
study also
found that as index fund ownership of a company rose, the pay of top executives was more closely tied to the performance of the
industry than that of their own company.
In Canada, the provincial government of Ontario appointed a royal commission to
study (among other things) «the increasing exhibition of violence in the communications
industry; to determine if there is any... relationship between this phenomenon and the incidence of violent crime in society...» Two of the commission's research
studies found that 24 per cent of the news items on television and in newspapers dealt directly with violence and 40 per cent were violence - related, while radio news was concerned with violence and conflict almost 60 per cent of the time!
In 1984 the
study committee held three public hearings, one focused on the research
findings (in New York City), a second on the views of the communications
industry (in Los Angeles), and a third on policy proposals and alternatives (in Washington, D.C.).
But the researchers, as well as
industry trade groups including the Grocery Manufacturers Association and the Food Marketing Institute disagree that this is the foregone conclusion for the
study's
findings.
Knowing that this IDFA represents $ 110 billion dollar
industry - I know that they have the ability to
find their way into these organizations (just like they have done in our government organizations - see my prior blog or read The China
Study).
AUSVEG, a representative organisation for the Australian produce
industry, said their
study found most now think Aldi's fresh produce is equal in value to that offered by Woolworths.
But Mr Sims said the
industry needed to listen to the concerns and stressed the ACCC had already
found enough evidence of anti-competitive behaviours to launch investigations into the sector which were being run separate to its on - going
study of the sector.
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Study Signals Strong Recovery in Early Findings The Wine Business Institute (WBI) at Sonoma State University (SSU) today released preliminary findings of its wildfire impact study of the North Coast wine industry, based on a survey of more than 200 vineyard and winery -LSB
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Findings The Wine Business Institute (WBI) at Sonoma State University (SSU) today released preliminary
findings of its wildfire impact study of the North Coast wine industry, based on a survey of more than 200 vineyard and winery -
findings of its wildfire impact
study of the North Coast wine industry, based on a survey of more than 200 vineyard and winery -LSB
study of the North Coast wine
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Technomic will provide an
industry update, present
findings from one of the research
studies that was voted on by members and share insights on issues facing the Canadian foodservice
industry.
The
study, commissioned by CST Wastewater Solutions,
finds industry is convinced about the potential financial viability of sustainable energy and water initiatives, if sanguine about the failure rate in Australia and New Zealand so far.
The
study, commissioned by CST Wastewater Solutions,
finds industry is convinced about the potential financial -LSB-...]
The most recent
study of Australasian business attitudes to environmental issues, commissioned by CST Wastewater Solutions,
finds industry is convinced about the potential financial viability of sustainable energy and water initiatives, if sanguine about the failure rate in Australia and New Zealand so far.
UNESDA, which represents the soft drinks
industry, said the Commission
study, «
finds hard evidence from a number of member states on the negative impact which food taxes can have on competitiveness and jobs, leading to an increase in administrative burdens.»
An independent
study in Australia
found that people who used traffic light labelling were five times more likely to be able to identify healthier food products than those who saw the single coloured counterpart promoted by
industry.
A new
study finds a liquid fertiliser blend using a common sugar
industry by - product has benefits for both farmers and the environment.
A new
study finds a liquid fertiliser blend using a common sugar
industry by - product has benefits for both farmers and the environment... More
Before each exhibition, Vinexpo commissions
studies on
industry - specific issues and presents the
findings in conferences around the world.
These
findings suggest but do not establish that
industry sponsorship of nutrition
studies is associated with conclusions that favor the sponsors, and further investigation of differences in
study results and quality is needed.
Objective To determine whether food
industry sponsorship is associated with effect sizes, statistical significance of results, and conclusions of nutrition
studies with
findings that are favorable to the sponsor and, secondarily, to determine whether nutrition
studies differ in their methodological quality depending on whether they are
industry sponsored.