Sentences with phrase «less than most companies»

Time and again I've been able to show how, using traditional permanent products, a person can have a $ 50,000 level premium fully guaranteed product for less than most companies charge for a $ 15,000 final expense policy.

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The company is also tied less to the housing market than most would think because the company targets the mass consumer.

Perhaps the most prominent example of a company employing plus - sized models is Dove's «Real Beauty» campaign, which encourages women to celebrate their wrinkles, freckles and less - than - svelte physiques.

Federal regulations mandate that most contracts valued between $ 3,000 and $ 150,000 should be reserved for small businesses, generally defined as companies with fewer than 500 employees and less than $ 7 million in annual revenues.

In a little less than two years, Halo Top's relentless sales growth has afforded the founders something most entrepreneurs only dream of: They run a profitable company, at scale.

Long delayed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Title III was the most controversial provision of the JOBS Act because it allowed non-accredited investors — generally defined as individuals with less than $ 1 million in assets who earn less than $ 200,000 per year — to invest in private companies as shareholders.

Those proposals speak less to debt settlement companies themselves, in most cases, than they do to so - called «lead generators» — companies that advertise debt settlement, sign - up potential clients and then sell their information to back - end service providers.

Debt: If your company has been in business for less than three years, has no record of regular profitability or has a negative net worth, most banks won't take your call.

Less than a year later, after a bad quarter, the company cut off funding for most of the initiatives.

«We'll jump on a problem with a lot less resentment and foot dragging than you would find in another company,» says chief financial officer Thomas Downing, who spent most of his career working for other companies.

The company's share price provides the most visceral evidence: it peaked in 2008 at $ 149.90, and has since crashed by 95 %, dropping to less than $ 8 at press time.

According to the GFP Index, Fortune's «most admired» companies have twice as many women at the senior management level than less reputable companies.

More than 80 % of members of a U.S. business lobby in China say foreign companies are less welcome than in the past, a survey released on Wednesday showed, with most saying they have little confidence in China's vows to open its markets.

Our most recent research shows companies that rate most highly according to our new «For All» standard grow revenue three times faster than their less - inclusive rivals.

Today's «Big Five» possess less than 5 % of global reserves — national oil companies control most of the rest.

By May 2011, Yipit, itself a New York - based daily deals start - up that collects data on the industry, was tracking more than 500 of these companies, most of which were less than three years old.

As I will discuss, the risk of distortion and inaccuracy is amplified because start - up companies, even quite mature ones, often have far less robust internal controls and governance procedures than most public companies.

Supporting Thames Valley companies 21 years on The world's most successful growth market and home to no less than 63 Thames Valley - based companies, AIM turned 21 in June.

I know first hand of one of the world's most celebrated wealth management companies that charges clients roughly 1 % of assets each year, and then parks a great deal of the money into S&P 500 index funds with expense ratios of 1 % to 1.25 % (compared to less than 0.10 % for an industry leader such as Vanguard).

Less than 1 in 3 (31 percent) said that Facebook is a «responsible company because it tries to do the right thing most of the time even if that gets in the way of it making profits.»

No sooner than last week, China published its official rules about ride - hailing companies, and at a first glance they are less restrictive than most feared.

These shares usually have less voting rights than the Class A Shares, which are the preferred share by most investors, although the company or corporation has the right to designate which classification of shares has the most voting rights and when they are issued to the shareholders.

A number of the most successful technology companies raised less than $ 10 million including eBay, Oracle, Cisco, Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, VMware and others (according to research from Altos Ventures).

The company aims for 3 - 5 % organic sales growth per year going forward, with the U.S. retail segment having 2 - 3 % growth (representing most of the company), the international segment having 5 - 7 % annual growth (representing less than a quarter of the company), and the U.S. professional segment having 10 - 15 % annual growth (representing only a small portion of the company).

Insurance companies, she said, would most likely receive discounts to make the drug cost less than $ 800.

Munk founded his most significant venture, Barrick Gold Corp., in 1983 and built it into the world's largest gold mining company in less than twenty - five years.

In our valuations, most oil companies are priced less attractively than other businesses are, and we are comfortable continuing to own just the few we have.

Most leasing companies won't lease you equipment valued at less than $ 3,000, so start there.

Plus, with the lower costs of telematics and tracking hardware, coupled with lower monthly service fees offered by most companies, there is really no reason not to get into fleet tracking, even if you have a fleet of less than five vehicles.

No less a value conscious investor than Warren Buffett commented on this shift at the most recent Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, where he pointed to the fact that the largest companies in the S&P 500; Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and Google generate far more cash per dollar of earnings than companies of the past.

In the same way that the energy industry today is mistakenly identified with «Big Oil» (Exxon, Chevron, et al.), when it is in fact conducted predominantly by smaller independent companies most readers will have never heard of, modern capitalism is not largely the purview of Apple and Walmart, but rather of small, privately owned businesses with less than one hundred employees providing services or products the public wants or needs in order to support the families of the owners and provide jobs for their workers.

The whipped, bite - sized cakes feature high - quality dairy protein and much less sugar than most confectionery options, according to the company.

Because the company has less than 20 employees, Landskroener says a real «team spirit» is one of the most important things for Palmetto Foodservice to have.

Less than 32 hours ago I began a whirlwind 2 days in the company of some of the world's most recognized sommeliers, press, vintners, and winemakers as the Sonoma County Vintners (SOCO) presented its First Barrel Auction.

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

And then there is the much bigger rump that could not get access to good schools (down under Labour), good apprenticeships / sponsoring companies, also down under Labour and lastly betrayed by a Labour Govt that seems to think spending vast amounts of money on snooping campaigns to catch benefit cheats is a better investment than educating and reskilling the un-employed, who on going out to do the jobs that must be done find themselves up against foreign labour sometimes willing to work the most brutal conditions (and maybe less than min wage because it is still better than home).

Many of these are listed (often by companies and foundations) in the folder in the corner of the financial aid office where most students are either unaware of its existence or feel that the pursuit is not worthwhile, as many of these awards are for less than $ 1000.

Companies that produce solar - thermal chillers say that they use 30 — 90 % less electricity than the conventional air conditioners that operate in most buildings, depending on the type and size of the installation.

The most recent Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) conducted by the National Science Foundation (NSF) found approximately 1,500 companies engaged in nanotechnology with approximately 1,100 of these classified as small businesses (less than 500 employees).

Complicating matters is the fact that most water alkalizers are being marketed by multi-level marketing (MLM) companies with less - than - stellar ethics.

No recalls occurred in the United States, but because most modern companies use some form of this method and exercise less than - perfect quality control, the safety of commercial soy sauces can not be assured.

Sony may be the company with the most at stake in Blu - ray, but they've been less shameful in promoting it than most of their fellow movie studios.

Leaving aside low completion rates, the reasons for which are complicated, most MOOCs today have been built with far less attention to learning design than have courses from established K — 12 online learning companies.

Most companies use productivity measures to inform the subjective assessments of supervisors, with some companies permitting less subjective judgment than others for fear of bias or favoritism.

To put it another way, most teachers are getting less from their employer than if they worked for a private - sector company where workers got Social Security and a 5 percent match on 401k contributions.

Audi expects the car to do 0 to 62 mph in less than 2.5 seconds — putting it in the company of the most elite performance cars.

The Outlander remains the company's most popular SUV, and to help keep it moving out the door, Mitsubishi lowered the starting price of this top - of - the - line GT model to $ 27,795, about $ 1,700 less than last year.

The compact Range Rover 2WD will be the company's lightest and most fuel efficient model ever made, and it is expected to emit less than 130 grams...

It's been less than two weeks since Volkswagen announced that it will skip the 2018 Paris Motor Show, and Lamborghini has now revealed that it will join its parent company in not setting up a booth at one of the world's most important car shows.

Inc., Magazine's annual list represents an overview of the most robust companies in America, despite the current, less - than - robust economy.