Sentences with phrase «large handful of companies»

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Here are a handful of companies expecting to profit from the largest generation ever advancing toward old age.

Kenneth Carleton Frazier, chairman and CEO of Merck & Co., is a true American success story: a self - made millionaire, and one of a handful of African - Americans leading the largest U.S. companies.

While larger sums of money are thrown around in San Francisco, New York, Boston and a handful of other major U.S. cities, Bott and Tammy Riddle, director of the IT cluster at the Cincinnati USA Partnership for Economic Development, say that what sets Cincinnati apart is its unusually supportive ecosystem for new companies.

Indeed, about 90 % of the company's $ 5.3 million revenues (2012 figures) came from 120 different countries, but its primary customers are a handful of huge multinational printing equipment producers, like Cannon and Samsung, as well as some large distributors and dealers of printers in both the U.S. and Europe.

Until this summer, Dallas was America's largest city with no bike - share system; the arrival of several thousand bicycles operated by a handful of private companies has given it, overnight, one of the country's largest fleets of shared bikes.

While there are lots of potential ways we could help working mothers, one that may seem counterintuitive is to focus less on the handful of women at the top — just 28 of Canada's 500 largest companies are headed by women — and to emphasize instead the successes happening in the middle.

They came back with a handful of suggestions, and John Bankemper, a 30 - year veteran of the company and president of the skylight division, was particularly impressed by two: a large text box touting the company's lifetime warranty and a circular cutout that let shoppers look at the skylight without opening the box.

Other important factors include how much the industry is regulated, whether it is dominated by a handful of extremely large companies, and the steepness of the financial barrier to entry.

In the past year, Beijing has shut down a handful of popular live - streaming apps, passed a law that forces foreign companies to store data in China, closed trading on its largest Bitcoin exchanges, and cut access to tools that help people access Facebook, Google, and other blocked services.

Last week, The Wall Street Journal published a critical account of Price's track record in Hollywood, noting that the company had spent billions on programming, but with a handful of exceptions, hadn't won plaudits or large audiences.

Similar proposals, also called «Aiming for A,» received well over majority support at a handful of European companies where they were submitted in 2015, due in large part to the fact that in each case the board recommended shareholders vote in favor.

There was a handful of companies that were interested in acquiring us we're gracious to be able to choose who we want to partner with and we decided to become a part of ISS (Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.)-- which is probably known to this podcast as the largest provider of top government research and services proxy (3:23 inaudible).

However, the Kauffman report shows that for each pool of startups that reaches the five year anniversary mark, a handful go on to become very large companies and generate thousands of jobs.

Northern Fish's seafood is sold to large broad line foodservice companies such as US Foods or Sysco and a handful of high - end restaurants.

Alison, the wife of my lead at work, someone that I have met only a handful of times at company parties, took it upon herself to give us a large set of cloth diaper goodies that expanded our initial set and gave us the opportunity to explore a larger portion of the cloth diaper world than we would have been able to otherwise.

For a handful of large U.S. companies and organizations, employee benefits are extending beyond the three - legged stool of health care, retirement and vacation to include clean energy delivered to employees» homes at little or no upfront cost.

One of only a handful of colleges in the country to secure Ofsted's «outstanding» grading in the last academic year, Gateshead College delivers apprenticeships and other vocational training with hundreds of companies around the region, including large multi-nationals and SMEs.

large investment banks have staff who just focus on a handful of companies or one sector each and every year and know them intimately.

And so, accordingly, it tends to attract pretty dissimilar investor constituencies, who may only focus on: i) a handful of the largest caps, regardless of valuation & exposure, ii) stocks which (may) offer cheap / alternative access to overseas growth (a surprisingly large number of Irish companies are UK / Europe / globally focused), iii) stocks offering domestic exposure (notably, economic pure - plays are actually pretty rare), iv) a listed commercial & residential property sector that's only emerged in the past couple of years, and finally (& perhaps most notoriously) v) a (junior) resource stock sector that's been decimated in the last few years.

So because the TFSA is part of a larger portfolio, it only has a handful of companies in it.

He would like scoring companies to share all the factors they use in determining a score - such as, is a handful of credit cards with small balances better than one or two with large amounts due?

Since then, he has achieved a better - than - average investing record by buying large stakes in a handful of well - established companies.

I owe much of how I have learned to handle this handful to Julie and her methods and recommend her to others who want to enjoy the company of a happy, playful and loving canine companion, whether large or small.

Again, the point here is that while a handful of companies whose profit margins are improved by being able to pollute may be hindered by air pollution controls, the economy at large sees substantial benefits from everybody else not having to breathe unhealthy air.

Even more good news for corporate securities lawyers: A handful of large companies are reportedly planning IPOs in the coming months.

Steph is a seasoned procurement professional with over 15 years» experience gained in the Financial Services sector as head of legal procurement for a FTSE 100 company, and is one of only a handful of legal procurement specialists in the UK regularly working with the largest and most sophisticated of law firms.

In the case of United States v. Scheinberg, against the founders of the three largest online poker companies, PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Cereus (Absolute Poker / Ultimatebet), and a handful of their associates, which alleges that the defendants violated the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) and engaged in bank fraud and money laundering in order to process transfers to and from their customers.

Many of the larger agencies out there only represent a handful of companies.

There are a handful of high risk providers that are often subsidiaries of a larger company, including:

Similarly, by some estimates the average smartphone leverages more than 200,000 active patents from more than 30,000 patent holders, the largest being a handful of companies like Qualcomm, Ericsson, and Nokia, all of which have been willing to license their patents to all smartphone OEMs.

While there are a lot of applicant tracking systems on the market (Taleo being the largest), they usually outsource the resume parsing aspect to a handful of companies you've never heard of: Daxtra, BurningGlass, Sovren, TextKernel, Trovix.

Reverse engineered legacy eCommerce platform and aided in creating a new Global eCommerce system utilizing the Yii Framework, which is used by a handful of large company's, (Go Pro, Yamaha, Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Magic Jack, Body Armor).

Tire Warehouse's pioneering approach to tire sales and service has enabled us to grow from a handful of stores in the early 1970s to become an integral part of the county's largest company...

However, Kok points out that large companies with lots of properties have a bigger challenge executing a green strategy than an owner with only a handful of properties.

A handful of brokers from large companies have split with NAR on the issue, declaring their support for national bank ownership.

The report says a dominant handful of large insurance companies and public pension funds will continue to command ownership of the nation's trophy commercial assets — downtown office space and regional malls.

It says that compared with the U.S., capital has remained disciplined in Canada with a handful of large institutions and development companies dominating the country's five primary real estate markets: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, and Edmonton.