Sentences with phrase «last year industry»

A recent report stated that last year the industry made over $ 194 million, was valued globally at $ 748 million and is forecast to make a whopping $ 500 + million by 2018 with a global value of around $ 1.9 billion.
Last year an industry group sued the agency to force it to consider data from those tests in evaluating pesticide risks.
Exports last year the industry group put at $ 670 million in beef and $ 240 million in sheep meat would get a boost from the addition of 15 beef abattoirs to the list of permitted exporters and the establishment of new protocols around the slaughter of Australian sheep and goats, it said.
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It's no secret that the venture capital industry, as an asset class, has seen spectacularly mediocre returns over the last 10 years or so.
Read how novice inventor Lesli Jenkins Wang got the conservative medical industry to accept her Free2GoRollator late last year.
Despite the shuttering of many Canadian retailers over the last year, the country's retail industry is getting ready to turn over a new leaf.
«While we do not believe that either of these new sweeteners / flavoring agents will be the natural, great - tasting and calorie - free «silver bullet» that the industry has been waiting for, we believe it is possible that they will be able to drive interest, engagement and potentially sales growth because of the massive consumer / societal need to reduce sugar and enhance healthiness,» Ali Dibadj, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein, said in a note last December that previewed sweetener innovations expected this year from Coke and Pepsi.
The energy industry disputes this assumption, as methane rates have consistently declined over the last 20 years and shows no change.
A whopping 51 million passengers are expected to fly U.S. airlines between Friday, Dec. 15 and Thursday, Jan. 4, up 3.5 percent from last year, according to Airlines for America, an industry group that chalks up the forecast to low fares and a strong economy.
New vehicle sales in Western Australia registered a slight increase in March compared with the same month last year, while sales for the 12 months to March were up 5.3 per cent on the prior year, according to the latest data from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries.
Earlier Wednesday, research firm NPD Group estimated that the industry's sales increased by 5 % last year, boosted by Star Wars toys — a property that is closely associated with Mattel rival Hasbro (has).
He says he recently attended one of the largest industry trade shows, Mipcom, and ended up talking to the same people he'd last encountered six years ago, most of whom were still thinking in terms of selling programs region by region to established channels as opposed to «worldwide deals for rights to be exploited via the Internet anywhere.»
While they acknowledged that methane emissions by the energy industry have decreased over the last few years, they still expressed a belief that it needed to be regulated, so they put together new rules that would force energy companies to decrease their methane emissions by 40 % to 55 % over the next 10 years.
Huajian is Ethiopia's largest shoe exporter, shipping out $ 19.3 million worth of goods last fiscal year, according to Ethiopia's Leather Industry Development Institute.
Hong Kong unveiled plans last year to encourage biotech companies to list in the city by loosening listing rules to much fanfare from the financial industry and investors.
As a record number of people took to the skies in the U.S. last year, the airline industry found customer satisfaction edged lower.
«Trump's current approach is basically ignoring an entire industry that has grown up over the last 10 years or so and is quite robust,» Liz Delaney, program director at EDF Climate Corps, told Business Insider.
The oil industry crashed, and he took a buyout last year.
Stephanie Oh fought for a few years in her early 20s to break into the music industry in New York City, but last year grew disenchanted with her stagnant career in administration of music - talent management firm.
Industry - wide, female founders received 2 % of all venture funding last year.
According to one industry analyst, the two companies combined have about 75 % of the $ 70 - billion U.S. digital advertising market, and between the two of them, they accounted for virtually all of the growth in the industry last year.
The space industry started the first quarter of this year the way it ended the last — with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of private funding flowing into commercial space companies.
There was a lot of buzz last year about account - based marketing (ABM), and as an industry, B2B marketers have MarTech to thank for that.
Air freight demand last year grew at its fastest clip since 2010, according to the International Air Transport Association, an industry group.
Henry Blodget: So you've made a comment recently that this industry has changed more in the last three years than in the prior 30 — which is extraordinary.
UBC's Sauder School of Business, meanwhile, reorganized its program offerings last year into functional streams like entrepreneurship, and product and service management — specialties that have focus but can be applied across a variety of industries.
Sometimes it's an obvious misstep — bankrupt airbag supplier Takata ranked last in the Harris poll this year after the largest recall in the history of the auto industry (and 22 deaths due to the company's products).
I speak at various Internet and Web - hosting industry events and the fact that I was on the list last year has been mentioned several times at those events.
(Even worse, the Fonds and its sponsor union were linked to organized crime last year in evidence presented to the Charbonneau inquiry into corruption in Quebec's construction industry.)
The global drug industry brought in a whopping $ 602 billion in sales last year, with North America accounting for almost half of that amount.
The significant growth in mobile marketing / advertising over the last five years has proven that the mobile channel represents the future of the industry.
Last year's conference was the first time that OPEC met with executives from the U.S. shale industry.
Some details about how the province will tax and regulate the industry, originally expected last year, were released in Tuesday's provincial budget, though they have yet to be finalized.
A survey of 34 executives from leading US fashion companies last year found that, for the first time, fewer US brands were looking to China for products, even though the country remains the top sourcing destination for the industry worldwide.
It's the biggest health reform legislation passed by Congress since Obamacare and has galvanized a similarly motley crew of industries and lobbying outfits — including big pharma (the legislation's most ardent proponent), patient advocacy groups, mental health organizations, and medical researchers — who fought for its passage over the last three years.
It's an 11,000 - word gem that reads like 3,000, a clear, precise, and brutal evisceration of Facebook and the havoc it has wrought on the news industry — and itself — for the last two years.
The world's biggest beer makers have been angling to tap rising interest in the craft category, which generated $ 19.6 billion in retail sales last year and now accounts for 11 % of the total beer market, according to industry trade group the Brewers Association.
Rdio went bankrupt last year in large part because it couldn't afford to make the licensing payments the record industry requires of streaming services.
While industry analysts aren't calling for sharply higher prices, they say the market is vulnerable to more erratic pricing because global supply has drained dramatically over the last year as demand has grown.
Those pundits who have spent the past 10 years predicting the end of the industry should remember the last time it was in meltdown: 1982.
The chicken producer plunged into crisis Monday after police said BRF executives conspired with laboratories to falsify test results and cover up a salmonella outbreak, the latest fallout from a food - safety investigation that threw the country's meat industry into disarray last year.
The entire U.S. venture industry invested $ 84 billion last year, a 22 percent increase from the prior year and the most for any year since the dot - com bubble of the early 2000s, according to the National Venture Capital Association.
Last year, the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC), a nonprofit advocacy group, studied the student loan debt relief industry.
The bankruptcy last year of Toys R Us, one of the world's largest toy retailers, threw a further wrench into the industry.
The president of General Motors said Monday that he expects the automotive industry to «change more in the next five years than it has in the last 50.»
It forced AT&T to scrap a plan to buy T - Mobile USA in 2011 and last year successfully battled in court to stop two insurance industry mergers, among others.
«This acquisition will significantly expand our presence in the U.S. branded organic and natural foods industry, where sales have been growing at a 12 percent compound rate over the last 10 years,» said Jeff Harmening, General Mills executive vice president and chief operating officer.
Last year, former Areva Group North America president and CEO Jacques Besnainou and Powerlink Transmission Co. president and CEO Fred Buckman became directors, adding energy industry expertise to the previously investor - dominated board.
I know it sounds corny, but it's how you stay out of problems,» says Waugh, who last year was named an officer of the Order of Canada for helping to strengthen the banking industry.
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