However, for a private
jet company like Netjets, in spite of being in aviation industry, economies of scale can create a moat.
Not exact matches
''... I used to joke with my colleagues that Larry & Sergey go out on their yachts - tie them together, sit back on the same recliners you'll find on their jumbo
jet, each on his own yacht / set of yachts, smoke cigars, and put up pictures of Googlers with little snippets
like «was a GM at muti - national telecomm
company, got a Harvard MBA and is now answering Orkut tickets.»
Jet membership benefits are staying the same, the
company stressed, including access to
Jet Anywhere, a program that gives shoppers money back in the form of
Jet credit when they shop on partnering retailer sites,
like Saks and Uniqlo.
And on Memorial Day weekend last month the
company offered a separate flight program called UberAIR from Boston to Nantucket — but it wasn't on - demand service
like that which Uber is known for, as passengers couldn't book a ride on a specific
jet.
Walmart has also been in steep competition with Amazon, leading the
company to try things
like opening FedEx Office locations inside stores and acquiring
companies like Jet.
But that volatility, as Ghosh
likes to note, is the upside of the integrated nature of the
company, which gives it a continued hedge against the differential in world oil prices through its downstream and midstream assets — on the midstream side, Husky operates a 2,000 - kilometre crude - oil pipeline system, and its downstream operations include upgrading and refining crude oil, and marketing gasoline, diesel,
jet fuel, asphalt and ethanol in Canada and the United States.
In numerous ways — from the Oaktree buyout to the buying up of enterprises with which his former
company was involved to the $ 2.7 million leasing of private
jet service for his own use — Ferro acts more
like a privately owned
company chairman / CEO than one heading a single - class public
company.
Larger
companies like J. Crew, Express
Jet, 1 -800-flowers and IRS outsource their customer service to third parties who then hire home - based workers to take calls.
James, also a physicist, heads his own
company, designing high - powered microwave systems for clients
like NASA, the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Lockheed and Boeing.
But if sonic booms can be reduced to 65 or 70 PLdB and
companies like Boeing see a market for ultrafast flight, Peter Coen, project manager for NASA's Fundamental Aeronautics Supersonic Project, expects to see supersonic business
jets flying by 2020.
«Oil
companies have processes to turn this [syngas] into gasoline, diesel fuel and
jet fuel,» said Rich Masel, CEO of Dioxide Materials and a retired professor, pointing out how
companies like BP PLC have operated synthetic fuel facilities for 20 years, albeit using natural gas instead of recycled carbon as a feedstock.
We work with private - sector
companies, media organizations, and federal agencies
like NASA,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the National Science Foundation to create research - and standards - based, media - rich materials that bring the outside world into the classroom and ignite students» imaginations.
The debt settlement
company will probably let them keep expenses they probably don't need
like cable TV, eating out, maybe even the
jet skis and BMW etc, etc (assuming the customer disclosed everything) while the debt settlement sales person encourages them to enroll in debt settlement as long as their is some justification and some degree of hardship.
Companies like Desert
Jet allow you to lease your plane out when it's not in use.
When other
companies like Squaresoft were abandoning Nintendo during the 32 - bit era, Rare was making amazing games for the Nintendo 64, such as Banjo - Kazooie and
Jet Force Gemini.
One
company is promoting high - flying kite -
like windmills to harvest the boundless energy in the
jet stream.
Companies like Louis Vuitton and Chanel are known for
jet - set couture and spendy bags, but the bulk of their revenue comes from selling less - expensive items.
But Samsung wasn't the only
company to inspire Xiaomi, with the smartphone maker offering the Mi Note 2 in a «piano black» version, which looks quite a bit
like Apple's new «
jet black» color option.
Jet Black iPhone 7 handsets are glossy, while the Black design is a more traditional matte finish, much
like the Silver, Rose Gold and Gold models offered by the
company.