Sentences with phrase «lead groups based»

Then I sat back and thought some more and realized the initial reaction was based on the very assumptions people have who lead groups based solely on those things.

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Culture Trip, an online travel magazine, raised $ 88 million in a series B round of funding led by the venture arm of PPF Group, a Netherlands - based conglomerate.

One way to foster a supportive environment: funding employee resource groups (ERGs)-- employee - led groups formed on a voluntary basis around common interests and / or backgrounds.

Years ago, under Paul Martin, Finance stopped using its own forecasts, opting instead to base the budget on the average prediction of a group of outsiders, mostly the lead economists at the country's biggest banks.

• Great Range Capital led a group of investors that including The Bradley Family Office to acquire Labor Source, an Olathe, Kansas - based professional staffing company.

• Twin Brook Capital Partners was sole lead arranger of $ 131 million of financing to back an add - on acquisition by and recapitalization of The Wicks Group - backed Gladson, a Lisle, Ill. - based digital content firm.

• Rentalutions, a Chicago - based online platform for renters, raised $ 2 million in financing led by Cultivation Capital with participation from M25 Group and Sandalphon Capital.

• Costello, an Indianapolis - based deal management platform, raised $ 1 million in funding led by Dundee Venture Capital with participation from Elevate Ventures, M25 Group, and Service Provider Capital.

• PetSmart, a Phoenix - based pet retail chain operator owned by a group of private equity investors led by BC Partner, agreed to acquire Chewy, a Dania Beach, Fla. - based online pet retailer.

• An investor group led by Stone Point Capital and KKR (NYSE: KKR) agreed to acquire a majority stake in Focus Financial Partners, a New York - based wealth management firm, for around $ 2 billion.

In the period leading up to the 2008 global recession, KingFisher established a war chest that allowed it not only to ride out the downturn but also finance its subsequent purchase of two Washington - based manufacturers: Renaissance Marine Group and Hells Canyon Marine (KingFisher also employs approximately 200 people at its U.S. facility).

Jack Ma - backed Yunfeng Financial Group said it will lead $ 1.7 billion acquisition of U.S. - based insurer MassMutual International's Asia unit

The airline has raised nearly $ 300 million from investors, led by Branson's Virgin Group, which controls the British - based Virgin Atlantic airline.

To put that plan into action, Green needed to raise capital from a strategic investor, and on March 9, Indochino announced it had secured a US$ 30 million investment led by Dayang Group, a clothing manufacturer based in Dalian, China, and one of Indochino's existing production partners.

REBBL, the plant - based beverage company, has closed $ 10 million in Series D funding led by Boulder Investment Group Reprise (BIGR).

Less than 18 months after opening for business, this New York City - based company commands a heady $ 1.5 billion valuation and has raised $ 175 million from a group led by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, General Catalyst Partners, Khosla Ventures and Thrive Capital.

«When it comes to the corporate tax code, there are two major changes that will stimulate investment and lead to greater economic growth,» says Scott Hodge, president of the Washington, D.C. - based research group the Tax Foundation, in a statement.

In March they closed a $ 3 million Series A round led by Bellevue, Wash. - based Trilogy Partnership, with contributions from Seattle - based Madrona Venture Group.

But having market - based solutions that are trying to solve these problems will help the work that advocacy groups are leading.»

• Maxwell Financial Labs, a Denver - based B2B digital mortgage cloud software maker, raised $ 3 million in funding led by Anthemis Group and was joined by investors including Route66 Ventures and Assurant Inc..

As executive director of the Free Speech Coalition, a Los Angeles - based lobby group for the porn business, Duke, who previously worked for Planned Parenthood, leads many of the industry's anti-piracy efforts.

A partner in the firm and co-chair of Fox's Franchising, Licensing & Distribution Practice Group, Gerhards leads a team of more than 40 attorneys in 21 offices who represent franchise and distribution companies in industrial, retail, food, entertainment, service, technology and home - based businesses.

The San Francisco - based company reported financials to shareholders as part of a formal bid Tuesday night from a SoftBank Group Corp. - led consortium looking to buy a large block of stock.

Last year, a fund managed by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. led a round of financing with Toronto - based Hubba Inc., while artificial intelligence developer Element AI secured a $ 102 million Series A round of funding led by Data Collective in June.

Bengaluru - based aftersales car service provider Pitstop has raised $ 1.6 million (Rs 10.6 crore) in a pre-Series A round of funding from existing investors led by Singapore - based Goldbell Group and Blume Ventures, a company statement said.

It raised $ 150 million in an expanded round of funding led by the UAE - based private equity investor Abraaj Group in March 2016.

Bengaluru - based SuperMarket Grocery Supplies Pvt Ltd, which operates BigBasket, had raised $ 150 million (about Rs 1,000 crore) in an expanded round of funding led by the UAE - based private equity investor Abraaj Group in March 2016.

In March this year, the company raised $ 150 million (about Rs 1,000 crore) in an expanded round of funding led by the UAE - based private equity investor Abraaj Group.

Yes, we have seen a few market leaders break down, such as 3d Systems Corp ($ DDD) or Ocwen Financial Group ($ OCN), but the majority of leading individual stocks are still holding above their 50 - day moving averages and trending higher (or forming bullish basing patterns).

In the office spaces segment, Mumbai - based on - demand platform for sharing and renting office space, MyCuteOffice has raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding from Lead Angels, an angel group.

Venturra Capital is a leading Southeast Asia - focused venture fund based out of Jakarta, founded by former Rocket Internet and Monk's Hill Ventures partner Stefan Jung, Google Indonesia CEO Rudy Ramawy and John Riady, Director of the Lippo Group, a diversified Indonesian super-conglomerate.

Rene started his career as a medical device industry analyst and was ultimately promoted to lead a global medical device market intelligence team based in Toronto, India and China, with the Millennium Research Group (MRG), a division of the Decision Resources Group (DRG).

Fosun RZ Capital (formerly called Fosun Kinzon Capital) is a leading China based venture capital firm that is part of the Fosun Group which is based in Shanghai.

Aberdeen Group provides you with the right kind of leads for the right stage of the sales funnel — from leads based on predictive models to machine and human - verified leads.

«We are pleased to see the Obama administration will not cause harm to citizens and states by shutting these businesses down, and hope this will lead to an expansion of sensible policies related to marijuana, such as allowing these businesses access to banking, and taxing them at a fair rate,» said Aaron Smith, executive director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, a Washington, D.C. - based trade group that represents what it says are the thousands of firms involved in marijuana production and sales.

The Hackett Group, Inc. (NASDAQ - NMS: HCKT), an intellectual property - based strategic consultancy and leading enterprise benchmarking and best practices digital transformation firm, has been invited to present at the 30th Annual ROTH Capital Partners Conference, which is being held on March 11 - 14, 2018 at The Ritz - Carlton, Laguna Niguel in Dana Point, California.

We added a few new names to the portfolio for the quarter: Grupo Televisa, a Mexican media company and the most dominant producer of Spanish - language content in the world; SMFG (Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group), the third largest bank in Japan; and Wolseley, the world's largest traded distributor of plumbing and heating products and leading supplier of building materials based in the U.K.

This is likely due to the significant advantage that Facebook has over Match Group, with its already vast user base of 2.2 billion users, Facebook has a significant lead over Match Group products in terms of a user's potential dating pool.

This fact combined with the attendant regulatory restrictions have led to the creation of two unique groups of Binary Options brokers that accept traders based in the United States.

COMPANY TO WATCH: FORD OTOSAN / TURKEY By Gordon Platt Ford Otosan, a joint venture between Ford Motor of the US and Koç Group, a leading industrial conglomerate based in Turkey, exports its products to more than 60 countries.

Leading Australian - based advertising business, Digital Classifieds Group, has bought a top Laos online classified business, including real estate listings.

The company announced on Monday that it would invest $ 4.6 billion in leading Chinese electronics retailer Suning Commerce Group, its biggest step yet toward integrating online and store - based shopping.

«We believe that strong communities create strong businesses,» says Paul Desmarais, Jr., Chairman and co-CEO of Montreal - based Power Corporation of Canada, whose holdings include Great - West Life, Investors Group and several other leading Canadian financial services companies.

Some 68 percent of successful marketers told the Lenskold Group that content engagement - based lead scoring had the biggest impact on revenue.

But for Seattle - based Blue Nile, one of the world's leading online diamond jewelers, being a part of Alibaba Group's 11.11 Shopping Festival, China's giant 24 - hour online sale held every Nov. 11, is a no - brainer.

This leads to the fourth and most promising possible solution to the problem of intergroup conflict, that is, the emergence of a single pluralistic world society, in which there will be ample provision for individual and group differences, but not on the basis of relatively independent culture groups.

On February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islam.

Ignore it, if your internal power position is strong; beat a strategic retreat, at least temporarily, from leading groups at all; or find a freer base of operations.

If international co-operation is to lead to true world peace, it must rest on the base of a confederation of commonwealths all of which are in turn based on «the actual and communal life of big and little groups living and working together.»

In my own life I have had struggles and it led me to some 12 step groups and its funny, but the 12 steps are really based on some pretty biblical ideas - equality of person before each other - in other words the social outcast is equal to the executive in the meeting.