Sentences with phrase «into profitable companies»

He turned Scott Paper and Crown Zellerbach into profitable companies by ruining thousands of lives, selling off the corporate scraps, and making millions for himself in the process.

But a few startups succeeded and grew into profitable companies.

Over the past few years, however, many universities have been working aggressively to build a bridge between these disparate groups in an effort to turn academic research into profitable companies.

He scaled it into a profitable company with several employees.

Señor Paleta, founded in 2014, has grown from a tiny operation selling at festivals and private events into a profitable company, surrounded by new and exciting businesses springing up in the area's century - old buildings.

Iacocca is largely credited with turning Chrysler back into a profitable company.

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.

How to Create a Company Philosophy: Don't Put It Off Understandably, many companies set their sights on becoming profitable and delay the task of thinking hard about what they stand for and building that into their business.

Months of deliberations behind closed doors at Shell headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, had led the top brass at the world's largest non-state-owned oil company by sales to conclude that the energy industry was changing fundamentally — in a way that could turn the profitable oil - sands operation into a liability.

Founder and CEO Phil Roberts spent the early part of his career at Arco Petroleum Products, converting the company's standalone gas stations in California into highly profitable convenience stores.

The logic of his argument — which was purely a «counterfactual» hypothetical — is that investors would stop pouring money into marginally profitable «zombie» companies, leaving only the gazelles to speed ahead.

Harford will have to help figure out how to turn Uber into a profitable business, or at least stymie the company's losses.

My point is this: No matter how passionately you believe in your business, you've got to make the numbers work before you can turn your dream into the reality of a large and profitable company.

One of the best examples of a visionary CEO is Steve Jobs who transformed Apple from a niche computer company into the most profitable company in the world.

It will not fall back on the «traditional» methods, said the CEO, who took the helm last May and has turned it into a slimmed down, more profitable company.

He wanted to transform the company into a rational modern business and create profitable new ventures that would diversify it beyond the terminal.

In a conference call Wednesday night, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company currently believes the fourth quarter will be profitable excluding non-cash stock - based expenses, and added there is a «chance» Tesla will be profitable even taking those things into account.

The company hopes its «Squarescription» will tap into the same market for having personal care products delivered to the door that has proved so profitable for the likes of Dollar Shave Club.

Without good employees that buy into the company, it doesn't matter how profitable you are.

Elon Musk is not a man to miss an opportunity, and he's just discovered a profitable way to deal with all the waste rock The Boring Company has piling up: turn it into Lego!

Even companies that garner lots of eyeballs on the world's biggest video site — and Machinima says it generates billions of views a month — have had a hard time turning that into a profitable business, because ad rates are low and much of the money they do make goes back to YouTube.

The reason they became so profitable and influential, while other companies faded into obscurity, was their readiness to iterate and change according to the needs of their customers.

Develop and market profitable new products and services that actually turn hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance — and improve the perception of your company

Turning illiquid private - company stock into cash by selling shares to the public required engaging a top investment bank, which typically wouldn't take a company public until it had had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue.

Over time, we transformed the market into one of the company's most profitable.

It has come a long way from its beginnings as an online bookstore — it is now not only a one - stop shop where you can buy Tuscan milk, underwear, and an array of Amazon - built gadgets, but also an incredibly profitable technological services company that is making inroads into health care, banking, and brick - and - mortar retail.

Any app that you use, there are people in behind that maintaining it, putting new ideas into it, making your interaction with that company better and stronger and more profitable.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Through his leadership, Sendouts transformed into a fast growing and profitable entity that was ultimately acquired by Vista Equity Partners and integrated with Bullhorn, one of Vista's portfolio companies.

With decades of experience in both the business and environmental spheres — helping companies braid them together profitably for more than 15 years — Shel helps you identify profitable business opportunities within your organization's existing expertise and interests that help turn hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance.

Her case demonstrates how immensely profitable borrowers like her are for the company — and how the renewal strategy can transform long - term, lower - rate loans into short - term loans with the triple - digit annual rates of World's payday competitors.

Unlike Google and Facebook, which have highly profitable advertising businesses, Amazon's retail business has operated on thin profit margins that quickly vanish when the company begins spending heavily, pushing it into the red.

Many tech companies are not even profitable, and if they are, much of their excess capital is plowed back into research and development.

This will make the most challenging of offshore operations, using the deep and ultra deep water rigs owned and leased by companies like SeaDrill, Transocean, Ensco and Rowan, increasingly profitable moving through 2012 and into 2013.

Working with a barter exchange network can help turn your excess inventory or your slow times of year into a more profitable source of revenue for your company.

We make it as simple as possible to get you the funding you and your company needs in order to grow into a profitable and thriving business.

Today we are digging deeper into one of those stocks: KLA Tencor (KLAC: $ 90 / share), the most profitable company in the industry and this week's Long Idea.

The Hualong One, developed by two state - owned companies, is one multibillion - dollar facet of the Communist Party's aspirations to transform China into a creator of profitable technology from mobile phones to genetics.

This company has spent 16 years turning those (often empty) slogans into a powerful — and highly profitable — business model.

Khan eventually turned this company from a sinkhole into a success inside of a year's time Khan turned the company from losing profits to a very profitable company.

How many men would love to be rich, single and ownersof not only a profitable NBA franchise but also the hottest casino in Vegas?Joe, 51, and Gavin, 50, are the president and vice chairman, respectively, ofthe Maloof Companies, a billion - dollar family business that grew from a generalstore in northern New Mexico into a beer distributorship and then expanded intohotels, banking and entertainment.

Recently, it was highlighted how these multi-billion pound profitable companies send texts to between twenty and fifty young workers at a time, making them race into work to cover shifts.

«To be asked to dig deeper into the pockets of their constituents so a huge, profitable energy company can keep three outdated nuclear plants open is simply unfair and wrong - headed, especially when many areas of the state will not receive little, if any, of the energy produced by the plants.»

Positive Screening: Investor looks for profitable companies that integrate environmental social governance (ESG) issues into their business practices and operations.

Fears of data leaks and of losing control are the key reasons why companies are hoarding data rather than sharing or trading it openly and transparently or turning it into profitable information - based products and services.

Over the last two decades Dr. Miller and his exceptional team have built Invivoscribe into a closely held, highly profitable, vertically integrated international network of ISO 13485 manufacturing, ISO 15189 clinical testing, sales, marketing and distribution companies located in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Under this reuse system, everyone benefits: the consumers who send in their trash and the company that turns it into profitable material.

The SAD is hugely profitable for the big food companies — cheap sugars, flours, oils and meat turned into a myriad of products that cost only pennies to make and sell at huge profits.

Move your assets to turn an upstart into the most profitable company in the world.

Genre house Cinepix recognised a keen horror voice in Mihalka, who delivered a lean, mean slasher thriller that became one of the production company's most profitable properties; Paramount picked it up for US distribution and turned it into the sleeper hit in February «81.