Sentences with phrase «made by the larger companies»

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Since women make up just 15.9 % of the board seats of Canada's 500 largest companies by revenue according to advocacy group Catalyst, investors looking to apply a gender - lens strategy may find better pickings south of the border.

The company and its eponymous product, created by serial entrepreneur and technology expert David Gurle, is scarcely out of startup mode, but already it's making waves as a potentially disrupting new force on Wall Street, thanks in large part to support from some of the world's largest investment banks.

In Google's case, the fact that the company is one of the world's largest advertising businesses and Chrome is the leading browser by market share makes some publishers and advertisers nervous.

Laloux said that he finds the situation at Zappos to be especially interesting, because while he's studied some very successful self - managed companies around the world and across varied industries, there's never been an attempt by a company as large as Zappos at making a transition to becoming one.

Made by a company called AvatarMind, iPal has pastel accents and a large touchscreen embedded where its heart would be.

By limiting supply to the market, the two cartels — BPC, a partnership between the largest Russian and Belorussian companies, and Canpotex, made up of Potash Corp. and junior partners Agrium and Mosaic — helped drive the average price of potash from a historic range of between $ 125 and $ 200 a metric tonne to, at one point in 2009, $ 825 a metric tonne.

Recently, Equilar, a research firm that focuses on board recruitment, put together a Gender Diversity Index and predicts that the board of directors on the Russell 3000 list — the 3000 largest companies based in the United States — will achieve parity, with a membership made up of 50 percent women and 50 percent men, by the fourth quarter of 2055.

Despite most the world's largest technology companies harking from the U.S., Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates highlighted the contribution made by the developing world in a speech Tuesday.

The new numbers from the agency show that these companies that outsource IT roles do make up a large portion of the H - 1B visas issued, according to analysis by Quartz.

Gold and nickel miner Independence Group has announced a $ 280 million capital raising to bolster its balance sheet, making it the largest raising by a Western Australian company for 2016.

According to a 2013 survey by staffing firm Robert Half International, accountants in a managerial role at large companies in Canada can make between $ 77,000 and $ 101,500 per year.

The other CEOs in the group saw how Steve could partner with a large digital technology company that generated printable content like Adobe or Microsoft, in a way that would make his business the standard by which people turned their online digital information into hard copy.

Use this to your advantage by making your company appear larger than it is.

Every action you make, from the large ones to the small ones are seen and felt by everyone in your company.

It also doesn't hurt that larger companies are more trusted by customers and investors, and hence getting bigger makes it easier to get even bigger.

Meanwhile Kia, which was Korea's second - largest car company until it was acquired by Hyundai in 1998, made its debut in the Top 100 at No. 87, ahead of Ferrari and Harley - Davidson.

He reports that he's already working with about 70 dispensaries, which, by his estimation, makes him the largest medical marijuana consulting company around today.

The fact that any company would have to make such a large acquisition (the deal increases Google's employee headcount by about 60 %), and the fact that this is far from the only large expenditure Google will have to make to fight such battles, really underlines just how messed up the system is.

In recent years, Fitbit — co-founded by James Park, the company's chief executive, and chief technology officer Eric Friedman in 2007 — has also landed large corporate partnerships with health insurance companies and wellness programs at major corporations to make its product the go - to device for such offerings.

Such policies might include providing more incentives for companies (both large and small) to invest in R&D and capital infrastructure, encouraging post-secondary institutions to better tailor their programming to meet market demand in terms of subjects and skills, and making Canada a more attractive country for foreign or start - up companies to invest in by deregulating industries that have no business being as regulated or as protected as they are, such as telecommunications, airlines, and broadcasting.

But Ballantyne says the company has decided to take a more direct approach by making an appearance at a large European show in early fall, the Spoga Gafa garden show in Cologne, Germany.

In 2014, the company grew by $ 700 million to achieve $ 5.8 billion in sales, making it larger than every pizza brand in the country, according to QSR magazine.

This differs from donation - based crowdfunding — made popular by sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo — whereby a company collects small donations from a large number of people and, in exchange, gives each donor some sort of non-monetary reward.

In its first year Better mortgage made over $ 525 million in loans, which is the largest amount by a fintech company in its first year post launch.

Their venture investors made money by selling their share of these successful companies at a large multiple over what they originally paid for it.

The company hopes to raise $ 5 billion in an initial public offering later this spring, which will make it by far the largest Internet IPO in history.

As expected, many companies are making their earnings numbers by excluding ridiculously large losses as «extraordinary», as if that somehow makes the money reappear.

The takeover of Kiva by the world's largest online retailer will add to investments Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos has made in the company's order - fulfillment centers, as Amazon seeks to get a bigger variety of products to consumers faster.

The addition of Business Insider's 76 million unique monthly visitors will increase Axel Springer's worldwide digital audience by two - thirds to approximately 200 million users, making the company one of the world's six largest digital publishers in terms of reach.

Add the fact that much of the earnings - per - share growth is created by making acquisitions of slower growing, lower P / E companies, and one might think that the new, larger level of earnings should be valued at a smaller multiple than the prior earnings were.

The newly elected Progressive Conservative government in Manitoba has moved quickly to cement its anti-worker bona fides with the radical right - wing by making it more difficult for non-union workers to join a union, and by opening up bidding on large scale public construction projects to non-union companies.

Customer Onboarding: Your Secret Sauce to Reducing SaaS Churn by Shayla Price of KISSMetrics A number of larger SaaS companies talk about the importance of on - boarding, and Price's authoritative post discussed in detail the refinements that SaaS owners can make to customer on - boarding, including feature education and upselling.

The social media company was able to make this change to the largest companies by market cap list thanks to a 30 % increase in stock over the last year, despite not being as large a company as WMT, reports Quartz.

[118] As of January 2014, Microsoft's market capitalization stood at $ 314B, [119] making it the 8th largest company in the world by market capitalization.

Represents company that invests in, develops and operates solar and wind power generating projects, including the investments made by the company, and the sale of various projects to large developers.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

We also have Bitcoin cash which was an initiative by I believe by you know at least backed by a bit made the largest bitcoin mining company which was basically an altcoin.

It is perhaps no coincidence that both funds are independently - owned by their founders and small enough to be called «boutiques», meaning they are able to make independent decisions without the dilutive interference which arises from large board meetings at larger companies.

Amazon is interested in buying Indian e-commerce company Flipkart, Reuters reported on May 2, citing unnamed sources, following a report by TV station CNBC - TV18 that Amazon had made a formal offer to buy 60 percent of its larger local rival.

Tribune Publishing also announced it received a $ 70.5 million investment from Nant Capital in a deal that makes the California - based technology investment firm the company's second - largest shareholder, edging past the 4.695 million shares owned by Oaktree Capital Management, which has pushed Tribune Publishing to negotiate a sale to Gannett.

From a capital - appreciation perspective, I would think it makes sense to invest in some small niche food companies that are doing good and you believe in - assuming they're publicly traded - in hopes that they would be bought by a larger one eventually, and one can make a nice profit!?

Viewing these companies as allies rather than merely as customers from whom to make as large a profit as quickly as possible, German bank officials sat on their boards, and helped expand their business by extending loans to foreign governments on condition that their clients be named the chief suppliers in major public investments.

That makes it a very valuable company regardless of whether it remains independent or gets acquired by a larger company.

During a press conference today in Beijing, Alibaba Group President of China Retail Marketplaces Jeff Zhang said the company hopes to use the 11.11 festival — the largest online shopping sale in the world — to encourage brands and retailers make the transition from traditional to omnichannel retailing by combining the strengths of the online and offline shopping experiences.

In this regard, the friendly bonus terms and conditions imposed by this company, in addition to the high bonuses that the platform offers have made the company a preferred broker among many traders in the USA, EU and the world at large.

Rosneft has taken over TNK - BP in a $ 55bn (# 36bn) deal that will make the Russian state - owned oil company by far the world's largest listed oil producer.

It is also true that large firms may support loss - making operations by compensating the losses elsewhere in the company accounts.

Over its 60 - year history, the Brampton, Ontario - headquartered company has become the country's largest chicken processor by making products that more than meet the needs of retailers and consumers.

It is a good thing that we ate a large lunch, because our next stop was to Avery Brewing Company, where Jeremy made me incredibly jealous by drinking several IPAs and sours: aka, my favorites.

The largest percentage of the company's sales are of corned beef wholesale to commercial customers nationwide and to consumers using mail order by Boyle's Famous Corned Beef Co. «We're pretty much the company that made St. Patrick's Day a corned beef day,» Christy reveals.