Sentences with phrase «largest number of firms»

The largest number of firms that admitted they have yet to finish implementing a compliance regime was in Quebec, where there were 32 such companies.

Despite these criticisms, the proposed act has received tremendous support from a large number of firms currently active in the virtual currency industry.

This score takes into account the relatively low monetary startup costs and a large number of firm births in the sector.

The overwhelming majority of people involved in the US solar sector are involved with installation and maintenance; a large number of firms also manufacture subsidiary products, such as racks for mounting the panels.

But as an ever - larger number of firms produce more and more material, it can be harder than ever to capture the attention of your desired audience.

Recent surveys have found that lateral hiring continues to be a top growth strategy, yet a large number of firms indicate disappointment in their experience with laterals.

A large number of the firm's lawyers have held senior positions at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and advised on high - profile cases such as Enron and Worldcom.

A quick review of the Canadian legal landscape confirms that a large number of firms — even at the national firm level — have not yet done so.

Although a few firms accept applications all year round, a large number of firms open for applications in September and close between the end of October and November.

The capital of America is never behind any other state in terms of having a large number of firms.

In slightly over a decade, background checks have gone from a luxury to a necessity, from a primarily government run endeavor to a substantial private sector business with a large number of firms providing service, and from a mostly expensive time and labor consuming task to, in some cases, a totally automated paperless solution.

Not exact matches

Crowdinvesting platforms are a recent development, and an interesting option for funding that, to some extent, lets you call the shots by spreading the equity over a larger number of investors (as opposed to securing the full investment from a handful of investors or a VC firm).

Bitcoin futures contracts are available through a number of brokerage firms, the largest and most noteworthy of which is TD Ameritrade.

Firmer proof of its staying power can be found in how seriously big, established competitors like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook are taking it, and in the large number of startups hoping to eat some portion of Slack's lunch.

Dallas - based cyber threat intelligence firm iSIGHT Partners, working with the U.S. Secret Service, says it has determined that malicious software has «potentially infected a large number of retail information systems.»

While sales and revenue grow, the number of composite businesses in this industry is predicted to decline by 3 percent through 2016 as smaller firms consolidate or become independent advisers helping larger companies.

To serve that market, however, the firm drew upon the presence of large numbers of Japanese students in the Vancouver area, offering them jobs in its West Coast call centre.

Just over 28 % of woman and minority - owned firms in the private equity market in 2017 targeted buyout investments, the largest segment of the broader private equity universe regarding the number of firms and dollars invested.

The same day, the Walgreen Company, the drugstore chain, ended months of speculation by signaling that it would forgo such an arrangement, but a number of large American firms are still considering these transactions.

So, a number of firms large and small have made changes to their fee structure in part of fiduciary rule this was a rule crafted by the Obama administration and came into effect last April.

London's FTSE with its large number of global miners and oil firms, was down for its 10th straight day, its worst run since 2003.

Most industrial structures in the long - run end up with a relatively small number of large firms, not so many mid-size firms, and lots of little firms.

Barbell industry structures consist of a relatively few giant corporations on one end, a narrow middle consisting of a shrinking number of mid-sized firms, and a large and growing number of small, micro and one person (solopreneur) firms on the other end.

[3] The number of large companies based in California, and those local firms that seek to challenge today's leaders for top position, shows how competitive and active the California business scene is in 2014 and will likely continue for decades to come.

That is the same position held by America Movil, Latin America's largest telecom firm by number of subscribers and the crown jewel of Slim's empire.

Former McKinsey employees, for instance, consistently approach strategy from a unique consulting perspective; they take pride in the number of the firm's alumni who become CEOs of large companies.

To date, the company has raised more than $ 8 billion from a number of investors, including Benchmark and Google Ventures, as well as large financial firms like Goldman Sachs and TPG Growth.

In some cases, where ownership is dispersed among a number of different owners — such as a large law firm or medical group, for instance — the bank will consider and sometimes accept a limited guarantee shared by all business partners, says Battles.

A number of international companies, including Cisco Systems Inc, the world's largest networking gear maker, and German software giant SAP, have agreed to the reviews, though others, including cybersecurity firm Symantec, have refused because of security concerns.

It envisions a barbell structure for most industries, with a few giant corporations on one end, a relatively small number of mid-sized firms in the middle, and a large group of small businesses balancing the other end.

Last week, cyber-intelligence firm ISight Partners said a new piece of malicious software known as Kaptoxa has «potentially infected a large number of retail information systems.»

Just over 27 % of woman and minority - owned firms in the market in the first half of 2017 targeted buyout investments, the largest segment of the broader private equity universe in terms of the number of firms and dollars invested.

Schumer broadly called these firms «body shops,» correcting a characterization he made last week describing firms that use large numbers of H - 1B visas as «chop shops.»

Having been in corporate America, if we didn't have someway of evaluating personel, with their backgrounds at the firm formatted in some uniform way, how would we ever keep up with individuals and their experience and achievements that lead them to be being considered for a position, particularly in light of a large number of people.

A study of Australia's largest food firms shows nine out of 10 are at least partly owned by foreign companies... but with Murray Goulburn about to be sold to Canadian rival Saputo, that number will soon be zero.

As he shared with Yahoo Finance, Wank's firm has also been seeing a large number of start - ups in the healthier eating and drinking space.

Before opening her own firm, Bailey - Chapman held a number of public affairs and advocacy leadership positions including vice president of public affairs for Penn National Gaming, the country's second largest gaming company, where she oversaw a multi-state government affairs team and managed several local and statewide referenda campaign efforts.

«Winning firms have demonstrated that they are able to keep workplace safety front and center, and the large number of applications for the award process shows that safety truly matters to IDFA's members,» said Dave Crowley, senior environmental health and safety director for HP Hood LLC and chair of IDFA's Environmental Worker Safety Committee.

In addition to the obvious problems - when most services are provided by a small number of large bus companies - the OFT's five - month probe found many people complaining about «predatory behaviour of incumbent firms designed to eliminate competition from new entrants».

The collapse of liberal consulting firm Fizgibbon Media last week stunned many in the progressive movement, but the reasons behind it didn't surprise a tragically large number of women in the field.

While a number of large firms announced reductions in cash bonuses for 2011 (with several firms reporting reductions in the range of 20 to 30 percent), personal income tax collections indicate a smaller decline in the overall cash bonus pool.

Because we know that so many jobs in the future are not going to come from a small number of large firms but a large number of small firms.

«Physicians Reciprocal, like other large companies in New York, contracts with a number of heavy - hitting lobby firms, including two that are tied to the environmental firm in the Skelos probe.

Looking ahead, DiNapoli noted that a number of large financial firms have announced plans to reduce costs, which could lead to fewer employees in New York City and smaller bonuses next year.

Since polling large numbers of people is expensive, firms normally aim to ask around 1000 people, and adjust their responses to match the profile of the general population, usually based on results from the previous general election.

In fact, it appears that there has been a large surge in the number of disgruntled Ph.D. s finding relief writing patents at law firms.

Indian outsourcing firms, for example, currently use large numbers of H - 1B visas to bring workers into the country to train for jobs that are then moved overseas.

Because of the limited number of participants, however, further larger studies will be needed before any firm conclusions can be drawn about the effects of ancient grains on heart health.

The firms using the largest number of H - 1B visas, the type of immigration document that admits highly skilled temporary residents to the U.S workforce, are not supposedly talent - starved American technology companies but Indian - owned firms in the business of outsourcing work from American companies to the subcontinent.

After an initial public offering, firms tend to introduce a larger number of innovations and a larger variety of each innovation — think different flavors, or different package sizes.