Sentences with phrase «longer than the industry»

But the upside is that it will last three times longer than the industry standard.

Lee adds that shopping visits at Circle Centre are generally longer than the industry standard, which he attributes to its entertainment component.

Not exact matches

Not long ago, Google spent more than $ 400 million to buy industry - leading startup DeepMind, and scored a major tech and marketing coup when the computer AlphaGo defeated grandmaster Lee Sedol at the possibility - lush game of Go — an achievement hundreds of times more complex than when Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess.

Kenny G, who has enjoyed a solo career that spans more than 30 years, says musicians entering the industry now should control their expenses and convert their finances into long - term investments.

The wind industry has been established in red states for far longer than solar and has a longer track record of support from Republican lawmakers in those states.

As the industry's pioneer, LendingTree's been building a powerful brand for two decades, far longer than its current rivals.

In the long run, that's good for the industry, freeing up resources to spend on research and development rather than existing patents and legal fees.

Many insiders — Fortune spoke with 19 current and former McDonald's executives, as well as more than two dozen industry analysts and veterans — are starting to question if Thompson is up to the task and how long his tenure will last.

The results go a long way to fulfilling the promise that the likes of Spotify have been making for years — that, given enough time and scale, streaming can be even more lucrative to the music industry than their previous distribution systems.

Add a potential multi-billion dollar entertainment industry merger to the long list of economic casualties from the Brexit less than a week after the U.K.'s historic vote to leave the European Union.

Shares of Virgin America Inc, a low - cost airline partly owned by Richard Branson, soared more than 30 percent in their market debut, underscoring the buoyant mood in an industry that is emerging from a long spell of turbulence.

The answer, suggest institutional investors like Mark Wiseman, CEO of the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, is to align pay to longer industry and product cycles, and to use restricted stock units (rather than stock options) that vest over time — even after the CEO retires — pushing executives to think seriously about what happens after they're gone.

Since it first appeared more than a decade ago, approximately 30 percent to 40 percent of small businesses have adopted some form of Internet - based faxing, according to Peter Davidson, a long - time fax industry watcher and head of Davidson Consulting in Sturgis, Mich..

Perhaps more than any other industry, media companies have long been run by «moguls,» executives whose personality and fame was often larger than the size of the companies they run.

Many of the high - growth software companies that have been transforming the tech industry since their founding have been waiting to capitalize until much longer than we've previously seen — although I expect this tide will start to turn by early Q2, and we should see many of these high quality companies reveal their financial strength to the public world.

And in some industries, they can run longer than the creative content itself.

Those days are long gone, yet the notion that quantity is more critical to success than quality still permeates the inbound marketing industry.

He offers well - drawn portraits of record execs like Lyor Cohen, hustlers charged with making hits in an industry that no longer offers a clear path to doing so, and he understands better than most the industry - specific challenges Bronfman faces.

A viewpoint common in the energy industry, and articulated in a recent report by Calgary - based Altacorp Capital Inc., The Energy Reality, is that the transition to renewable energy will be much more expensive and take much longer than is now imagined.

While Chevron's takeover and BC LNG's contract move Canada closer to having an LNG industry, their experience suggests not all proposed LNG plants will get built in the first place, those that do will likely take longer than expected, and there will be hard bargaining between the suppliers in Canada and the buyers in Asia.

Apple originally had planned to pay music owners 71.5 % of Apple Music's subscription revenue after the trial period ended, Re / code previously reported, which was «a few percentage points higher than the industry standard,» to account for the longer trial period.

The announcement capped a frenetic and chaotic morning as Mr. Trump summoned more than a dozen executives from the steel and aluminum industry to the White House, raising expectations that he would announce his long - promised tariffs.

So on Thursday, when the New York Times published a story alleging that Hollywood mega-mogul Harvey Weinstein has been sexually harassing women for decades — essentially confirming what has long been described as an «open secret» among those who follow the entertainment industry — I knew that no one would understand the story better than Lui.

Luxembourg, a nation smaller than Rhode Island with a long history in mining, has bet 200 million euros — more than $ 225 million — on this industry that does not exist.

But by 2015, the Google car project had come a long way: Google's vehicles had logged more than one million autonomous miles; car companies including Toyota Motor Corp. and Tesla Inc. announced their own plans to develop autonomous systems; and analysts predicted the technology would transform the auto industry.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

It was only with the construction of a national railway system in the middle decades of the 19th century, using coal rather than muscle as its source of mechanical energy, that transport could achieve advances to parallel those already long achieved in the branches of industry in which cheap and abundant heat energy was the key to rapid expansion.

With more than 400 active companies, our expansive membership of industry veterans, successful innovators and enterprising startups comprises the largest and longest - running network for entrepreneurs in the country.

To be sure, Zillow has long been a better bet than Redfin, which has admirably IPO'd with a business that basically adds a tech layer (and thus superior lead generation) to a traditional real estate agency; the reality is that simply adding a tech layer doesn't change industries — that requires new business models.

We all dream about the day that the tech industry will adopt a longer - lasting, smarter battery than lithium ion.

As a result, T - Mobile has added more customers per quarter than any other wireless carrier for several years running, as the resulting competition put an end to numerous, nasty industry tactics including overcharging for international roaming, to obnoxious fees and long - term contracts.

If there is no impediment to new supply of what you sell competition among suppliers will cause price to drop to a point where there is no long term industry profit greater than the cost of capital.

Four separate eBooks, 4 infographics and a series of long form interviews were developed on a common «Alice in Wonderland» theme involving more than 40 marketing industry influencers.

Competition between restaurants will tend to cause retail prices to drop to a point where there is no long term industry profit greater than the cost of capital, despite the drop in wholesale food costs.

I time the market in the sense that when I find a commodity where the selling price is less than the cost of production, in other words, an industry that's in liquidation, I know that either the material becomes unavailable or the price goes up and the longer the situation lasts, the more dramatic the response will be.

Dan Caplinger: One surprising area that has been extremely lucrative for long - term investors is the auto - parts industry, and, among its major players, AutoZone (NYSE: AZO) has scored impressive returns over the past decade, seeing its stock price rise from less than $ 100 to almost $ 700 over that time span.

The reason is that, after a number of false starts and a longer, deeper downturn than the industry has seen before, the industry is seemingly through the abyss.

In addition, the structure of compensation incentives in the investment management industry further encourages the short - term focus; a surprisingly large number of investment professionals have less than half of their compensation based on longer - term performance measures.

«The industry has long needed a crowdsale platform like TokenMarket to better manage, present, organize, and market ICOs — rather than them solely taking place in web forums such as BitcoinTalk, which are not really built for crowdfunding.

More importantly for a long - term investor, AZO is set up better than any other company in its industry to achieve sustained growth.

Every B2B lead generation effort that produces great business leads is also going to produce a certain percentage of «unqualified» sales leads, and as long as your «unqualified» sales leads are less than 10 % of total sales leads (this percentage may be higher, depending on your industry), you should accept this as a cost of doing business and move on to the next thing on your schedule.

Numerous studies in the SEO industry confirm that long tail keywords make up more than 70 % of all searches performed on the web, with only 30 % left for the generic 1 - or 2 - word phrases.

These would be characterized as «concessions» by Canada (Mexico already has a copyright term longer than the US) but would be easy changes to make given the benefits they would bring to Canadian copyright industries and rights - holders.

Travis Hoium (SunPower): I'll agree that First Solar has a lot more going for it today than it did just a few months ago; but long term, I'll stick with the industry's efficiency leader, SunPower.

While the stated objective of this trade policy is to «level the playing field» for American manufacturers — and many trade experts believe cheap imports have hurt the domestic steel industry — tariffs may do more harm than good over the long run.

As long as we want more than carrot sticks, brown rice and tofu, according to Marion Nestle's new book, food companies will continue to be as deceptive as big tobacco and as cozy with the government as the military industry.

For example, simple additions like reclose features can go a long way toward preventing premature spoilage and wasted food, but Tavill says the food packaging industry overall needs to start thinking of packaging as more than something to be thrown away after the food is eaten to improve its sustainability.

Combined, the management team has more than 150 years of industry experience, but they work closely with the newest employees and the long - time associates.

The four day long festival attracted more than 5000 local, national and international visitors, enthralling them with informative workshops, fireside chats with some of the best known exponents in the trade and keynote addresses by renowned speakers representing different industry sectors.

Mr Haddock said the wine business has longer cycles than many other industries and CHAMP had needed patience.