Sentences with phrase «lucrative business called»

In just two years, Proper Suit reached $ 1 million in sales, and its founders, now based in Chicago, have launched a second, potentially more lucrative business called Hall & Madden, a subscription dress - shirt service.

Not exact matches

While heartbreak has long been a lucrative business for attorneys, only in recent years have startups begun staking their own claim in the post-love period of canceled weddings, called - off engagements and, of course, divorces.

California's lucrative nut business is increasingly a target of sophisticated crime rings, and losses from cargo heists and a spike in thefts have led the industry and law enforcement to call an emergency summit.

The revelation that the Tatts board considered options including a demerger will be of little comfort to activist investors, such as Sandon Capital, which has called for the lucrative lotteries business to be spun out off Tatts.

Pro-life groups and other critics called the abortion giant — Planned Parenthood terminates more than 300,000 pregnancies per year — a rogue organization that misuses about $ 500 million a year in government funds to underwrite its lucrative abortion business.

In 1998, in the midst of a lucrative business career as the CEO of Lenox, Inc., he felt an unexpected, irresistible call to exchange «success» for service to those affected by poverty and injustice.

Perverse economic incentives: Incarceration has become big business, from prison unions protecting lucrative jobs, to companies being given monopolies within the prison system (Until the FCC stepped in, there were instances of charging over $ 1 a minute for calls).

In this respect, it certainly gathers some good / outrageous anecdotes — including the story of Merrie Buchsbaum, a jewelry maker who started her own business, developed a homemade line of stars - and - stripes earrings and necklaces called Americana, landed a lucrative contract at the Smithsonian Museum, and then saw her idea undercut by a Chinese manufacturer of plastic trinkets.

It's a lucrative business to be in — and therefore, one that sees many so - called eLearning companies mushrooming across the globe.

Analysts estimate the value of the K - 12 education market at more than $ 700 billion.2 Beyond their calls for students and workers to adapt to the global capitalist economy through increased competition and «accountability» in public schools, business leaders crave access to a publicly funded, potentially lucrative market — one of the last strongholds of the commons to be penetrated by neoliberalism.3

We offer a comprehensive business model for veterinarians looking to start their own lucrative house call practice or business people interested in getting into the $ 66 billion pet care industry.

It's the client whose business is the most irritating and the least lucrative who is the readiest to call you at home at night or on the weekend.

Bewkes sought to play down the threat posed by so - called «cord cutters» to the lucrative cable business by saying that only a small number of low - income people were ceasing to pay for tv.

Proposed remedies included fee - shifting, which would undercut the economic imbalance that makes trolling so lucrative, and the creation of expedited review procedures to challenge the validity of so - called «business method» patents, which the Patent Office began issuing by the thousands after 1998, and which can grant 20 - year monopolies on basic business practices.