Sentences with phrase «into global operations»

Often there are times when I don't need a massive stack of financial statements, insights into global operations or a tour of a manufacturing plant to get a sense within the first hour or two whether an investment is something that fits my style or requirements to own.

He founded IDEO in Palo Alto in 1978 and built it into a global operation with 600 employees and $ 130 million in revenue (he declines to divulge profits).

Since then Adyen has grown from a startup into a global operation, averaging double - digit annual growth since 2007.

Not exact matches

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

Vivek Vaidya of Frost & Sullivan also explains the importance of General Motors» operations in South Korea and how it fits into the company's global supply chain.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

That slight alteration was a small part of a big plan to turn the company from a cheque - processing business into a global financial technology operation.

Still, Deboo suggests that there's a sense Polman has morphed into the classic Davos Man, more intently focused on fixing global problems than the nitty - gritty details of operations.

«They've hammered that home and inculcated it into every aspect of their operations,» says Kozinets, who heads the global retail management specialization at the Schulich School of Business.

NEW YORK and LONDON, February 27, 2018 — Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., a global leader in alternative investing, today announced that one of its affiliates has entered into an agreement with Bluestone Group, the international financial services business based in the U.K., to acquire its Australasian mortgage lending and portfolio servicing operations («Bluestone Holdings Australia»).

With CCS, instead of releasing carbon dioxide from oil and gas operations into the atmosphere, where the emissions contribute to global warming, that CO2 is converted into liquid and pumped underground to be sequestered indefinitely in porous rock formations.

Prior to founding of The Value Alliance, Ms. Bloxham devoted nearly twenty years of her professional career in financial services posts encompassing the banking, investments and insurance sectors, holding executive positions at Prudential Financial Services and at Bank One (now merged into JPMorganChase), where she managed strategic, financial, operations, technology, and compliance functions and at KPMG where she ran a global practice.

TD is only the latest global financial firm to choose Dublin as its post-Brexit EU hub, joining 15 others that have announced their intentions to set up or expand their operations in Ireland in the first half of 2017, according to IDA Ireland, which promotes foreign direct investment into the country.

Put it altogether, and one can see what started as a two - person lobster operation has grown into a global seafood sales powerhouse.

We've done the hard yards to realign our activities around our core business — global commercial specialty insurance and reinsurance — and to embed the principles of operational excellence into our day - to - day operations.»

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 is a small operation, and we put all of our time and effort into these products, but we do want to become a global company.

Many of these new brands sell through Alibaba's cross-border e-commerce marketplace Tmall Global, which helps more than 6,000 international brands sell into China without having to set up operations in the country.

While this is partially explained by football's broadcasting boom, the internationalisation of the clubs» commercial operations, their investment into privately - owned and modern facilities, and overall more sustainable management practices, are also key reasons for this growth,» Andrea Sartori, KPMG's global head of sports and the report's author, was quoted as saying by BBC.

Atlantis is a global developer of renewable energy projects with more than 1,000 megawatts in various stages of development including the world's flagship tidal stream project, MeyGen, the first phase of which will soon be delivered into commercial operation in Scotland.

Huffington Post interviewed a number of industry executives including Matthew Pitt, operations director at Global Personals, who believes the market is difficult to get into unless you have a «very deep pockets and a differentiated dating offering».

When Min breaks into her psychiatrist's office, she finds out that she and Noah are involved in a global conspiracy that involves an asteroid, natural disasters and secret military operations.

jp, has raised fresh capital from Yorkville Advisors Global, the alternative investment firm that has committed to injecting $ 11 million into EZTD's operations back in November 2011.

IBM operations are categorized primarily into 5 segments: Global Technology Services (GTS), Global Business Services (GBS), Systems & Technology, Software, and Global Financing.

When the entire existing global building sector — 1.49 trillion square feet — is taken into account, annual building operations energy consumption and GHG emissions greatly exceeds the annual embodied energy and emissions of new construction.

New York, NY — October 28, 2014 — Bikeshare Holdings LLC today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Alta Bicycle Share, a global bike share operations leader with programs including Citi Bike in New York City and systems in Chicago, the Washington, D.C. area, the Boston area, the San Francisco Bay area, Toronto, Seattle, Columbus, Chattanooga and Melbourne.

Airport operations, planes and jets also release carbon into the atmosphere, a major cause of global climate change.

As detailed in the most recent installment of our ongoing investigation into how the Exxon Mobil Corporation has characterized risks to its business operations associated with climate change in its annual 10 - K reports to shareholders, year after year, the company has alleged that one of the risks to its operations is the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions as a public policy to mitigate global climate change, but has failed to list climate change itself as a risk when communicating with its shareholders (See previous segments of our investigation here: Part One (1993 - 2000); Part Two (2000 - 2008); Part Three (A)(2009), Part Three (B)(2010), Part Three (C)(2011), and Part Three (D)(2012)-RRB-.

In June 2016, she moved into the role of senior editor, business of law, in ALM's Global Newsroom, where she helped lead nationwide reporting on law firm operations and competition.

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.

Europe Our European practice has recently focused on representing (i) the Fédération Internationale de Football Association («FIFA») in connection with U.S. and Swiss criminal investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world («Investigation»), including conducting an internal investigation on behalf of the organization; (ii) two major European banks, including by investigating whether the banks knew or should have known that accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes; (iii) a multinational logistics and transportation company based in Switzerland in a DOJ investigation of alleged violations of the FCPA; (iv) a Switzerland - based, international private bank, in connection with the global criminal investigations involving 1MDB, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund; (v) several major European banks in connection with the «Panama Papers» investigation focused on whether accounts at the bank held under the names of companies created by the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, were used to evade taxes, conduct business with sanctioned individuals or companies, or otherwise engage in criminal activity; (vi) ENRC, a large mining conglomerate formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange, in a high - profile investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office of alleged bribery in the company's operations in Africa and Kazikhstan; and (vii) several European banks in connection with the Petrobras and PdVSA investigations focused on whether accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes to Petrobras or PdVSA officials in return for contracts.

Medical personnel initiative is the first step in building - out a multi-faceted innovation platform to integrate Lyft transportation services into Generali Global Assistance's operations network

Vancouver, British Columbia --(Newsfile Corp. — November 7, 2017)-- GLOBAL BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. (TSXV: BLOC)(FSE: BWSP)(OTC Pink: BLKCF)(«Global Blockchain» or the «Company») is extremely pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Global Blockchain Mining Corp. has entered into an agreement to acquire a 49.9 % interest in Coinstream Mining Corp., («Coinstream») the world's first cryptocurrency mining company to employ the streaming model, providing strategic upfront capital and an additional payment upon delivery of the cryptocurrency, to select, proven, best - in - class operators and operations, in exchange for a stream of future cryptocurrency production, at a fixed GLOBAL BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. (TSXV: BLOC)(FSE: BWSP)(OTC Pink: BLKCF)(«Global Blockchain» or the «Company») is extremely pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Global Blockchain Mining Corp. has entered into an agreement to acquire a 49.9 % interest in Coinstream Mining Corp., («Coinstream») the world's first cryptocurrency mining company to employ the streaming model, providing strategic upfront capital and an additional payment upon delivery of the cryptocurrency, to select, proven, best - in - class operators and operations, in exchange for a stream of future cryptocurrency production, at a fixed Global Blockchain» or the «Company») is extremely pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Global Blockchain Mining Corp. has entered into an agreement to acquire a 49.9 % interest in Coinstream Mining Corp., («Coinstream») the world's first cryptocurrency mining company to employ the streaming model, providing strategic upfront capital and an additional payment upon delivery of the cryptocurrency, to select, proven, best - in - class operators and operations, in exchange for a stream of future cryptocurrency production, at a fixed Global Blockchain Mining Corp. has entered into an agreement to acquire a 49.9 % interest in Coinstream Mining Corp., («Coinstream») the world's first cryptocurrency mining company to employ the streaming model, providing strategic upfront capital and an additional payment upon delivery of the cryptocurrency, to select, proven, best - in - class operators and operations, in exchange for a stream of future cryptocurrency production, at a fixed price.

Having previously been responsible for managing the IT Contracting departments across all of Hays EMEA and UK&I, Daniel's role has evolved in to a global remit with the goal of increasing the efficiency of Hays current contracting operations as well as expanding into new markets.

My past military work experience and extensive training in mission critical environments has shaped me into a logistics leader with skills in global transportation and supply chain operations on a global scale.

My past work experience has shaped me into Logistics leader with skills in warehouse operations, distribution and global account management servicing a wide array of global corporations.

After your training, you'll work on projects with a variety of teams to gain insight into the operations of a global organization.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS * Acquired 200 + new hires per year to fulfill recruitment for new Securities Technology division integrated into Capital Markets operations, successfully reducing vendor spend by $ 3.8 M + through best - practice governance and performance management structures (with Wells Fargo) * Championed international partnerships between US and Europe based operations needed to support people growth among new Global Techn...

Specifically, this report seeks to bring the SDG targets for children in high - income countries into meaningful operation (while staying true to the ambitions of the global agenda) and to establish a point of departure for reviewing the SDG framework in these contexts.

Published December 2004, this book is a behind - the - scenes look at how a single - office operation expanded into a global network.