Sentences with phrase «made firm moves»

Tottenham made firm moves to land the 26 year old in the summer but this source believes they will try again in January.

Not exact matches

If an opportunity arises that's slightly outside that mandate, the VC firm's partners might have to get the approval of their investors before making a move.

The firm (which owns Canadian Business) has made a number of major moves leading up to and since then, including shutting down video service Shomi, paring down their print magazine portfolio and shaking up their management structure.

The move made plenty of sense, too: Since 2009, two - thirds of Benchmark's investments have been in start - ups within San Francisco, and the firm believes the number may only get higher.

It was a brash move for an exploration and production firm to tack on a high - end jewel retail arm, but it made perfect sense to the pragmatic Gannicott, who liked the efficiencies of operating in what he described then as «the two bookends of the diamond pipeline: mining and retail,» and who also saw the brand's prestige as having great potential in such emerging luxury markets as China.

An Israeli firm was making better software with cheaper implementation, so we bought it in late 2000, restructured, and moved all our customers onto that platform and our tech operations to Israel.

Dow Jones first reported the hedge fund manager's move, saying his firm made around $ 100 million in profit from its investment in the athletic apparel and shoe company.

With its $ 28.1 billion in revenue — the average McDonald's restaurant brings in $ 2.6 million in sales, compared to Burger King's $ 1.2 million, according to research firm Technomic — the company's scale makes it harder to move the needle.

The move positions Goldman Sachs to become the first large Wall Street firm to make markets in cryptocurrencies, whose wild price swings and surging values have captured the public's imagination but given pause to established institutions.

Circle, a cryptocurrency - focused financial - services firm, will announce today that it is buying crypto exchange Poloniex — a move that immediately makes Circle one of the largest and most influential companies in the industry.

«Once they made the decision to move their servers out of mainland China their prospects here dimmed considerably,» said Mark Natkin, managing director of Marbridge Consulting, a China technology research firm.

Results will not happen overnight, but if many months go by and the firm is making excuses week after week, and month after month, then it is probably time to move on.

The move may alleviate concerns over Chinese tampering; Taiwanese firm Foxconn, in comparison, makes both iPhones and the new BlackBerry Z3.

Instead of focusing on moving the business forward, my time was spent elsewhere, trying to make the firm look like a bigger entity than it actually was.

But the firm also made a big move into the natural gas space with its 2013 acquisition of Plains Exploration & Production Company.

We must remain committed to education, retraining, and help for displaced workers... We need to help displaced workers make ends meet between jobs and move people quickly on to the next opportunity... [C] ommunity colleges do a great job of providing the right skills to workers and the right workers for firms.

Qualcomm is likely to make aggressive moves to keep shareholders happy in the next two quarters while the company faces a possible hostile takeover attempt from Broadcom, research firm Nomura said Tuesday.

When the private equity firm that owned Bolthouse put it up for sale in 2012, Morrison decided to make her move — that is, if she could sell it to her board.

It allows a search firm to move industry specialists around depending on local needs and make its services consistent globally.

The investment bank has made more than any other Wall Street firm advising companies on moving their headquarters overseas to avoid U.S. taxes.

The firm has warned for months that increasing debt loads at companies could stir up trouble as interest rates move higher, making it more difficult for them to refinance.

Though some states are moving to protect VCs from having to make such disclosures, the issue has caused investment firms to be uncharacteristically publicity - shy.

Sublease spaces have asking rents about 17 % below that of direct space and is often move - in ready with furniture, making it more affordable for smaller or new firms.

Instead of leveraging the MBA to make one or even two career changes — such as securing a promotion or moving from a small financial services firm to Morgan Stanley (MS)-- triple jumpers shake up three variables all at once: country, job function, and industry — and they do all of this in a highly compressed timeframe.

Schleese's story, however, begins with a very different insight: Canadian - born Sabine and her husband Jochen, a German master saddler, moved to Canada to start a firm making saddles that wouldn't harm horses or their riders.

Century Aluminum — the last U.S. firm making the aforementioned high - grade aluminum for military applications — welcomed Trump's move.

«They're not making the dynamic moves that you're seeing other banks do,» said Schwartz, whose Toronto - based firm manages about $ 700 million.

Private equity firm KKR & Co LP said it would convert from a partnership to a corporation after US tax reform made the tax hit less painful, a move that it hopes will boost its share price by attracting more investors.

The consulting firm released its report late last week as a warning to banks, as many of those that have invested resources into exploring the technology have yet to actually move from an experimental phase to making use of the tools they develop.

The private equity firms are making an opportunistic move on Merck consumer health as they want to have options to build on the business they have with Stada, one of the sources said.

The funds were from Y Combinator's new Continuity Fund, which supposedly would be making pro rata investments at < $ 250 million valuations in all of Y Combinator's startups gaining additional funding, but the question as to whether or not Y Combinator has reversed its previously stated policy for the fund is less interesting than the fact the firm is also moving up market.

The suit says that after Ms. Pao filed a formal complaint about Mr. Nazre with Mr. Schlein, Mr. Lane and Mr. Doerr, the partners promoted Mr. Nazre to be the head of the firm's green technology unit, making him her direct boss, and moved him to an office directly across from hers.

DoorDash is ready to make a move on grocery delivery as a partner firm to larger companies.

Moving a firm like ours, with long - term employees who love what they do and have made our workplace their second home, was a daunting task.

The global consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) made an unprecedented move in 2015 by announcing it would help employees pay $ 1,200 per year toward their student loans for up to six years.

And US moves to stifle Chinese tech companies, such as a recent ban on selling American - made parts to smartphone maker ZTE, are only likely to confirm Beijing's view that it needs to do more to bolster its domestic industries, according to Louis Kuijs, head of Asia for research firm Oxford Economics.

Other Canadian fintechs that have made the move, or plan to, include Toronto - based Q4 Inc., an investor relations and capital markets software and analytics firm that in January launched a London office.

The supermarket's responses to Tearfund's campaign have been published online, with the stores making the firmest commitments rated green, those in the middle getting amber and those who did not move on the issue rated red.

O ye of little faith.Just trust me on this one.How many times have owners / presidents come out to say players won't be sold bla bla bla.What he said is just for formality sake.Have you forgotten what Aulas said about Lacazette?Listen Thomas Lemar has his heart completely set on a move to Arsenal.What has even made him firm and influenced his decision the more is the fact that are lot of Monaco players have left and likely more will be leaving.The guy just doesn't want to stay and will likely be an Arsenal player in the coming days.One thing slowing down the deal is Monaco want to be assured they can replace him.The deal is basically a done deal.As I said insider sources are twice as fast as the media.So whether the vice p. likes it or not he'll become an Arsenal player.Mark my words.

PSG and Atletico Madrid are both keen on Mata but are said to prefer a loan move until the summer before completing a permanent switch, though this isn't a deal that Chelsea are interested in and will hope that an interested party makes a firm offer this month

The young starlet is under contract under 2021 so Ajax are in a strong position to keep him or make their firm demands, and as noted in the report, having collected $ 40m for Davinson Sanchez in his move to join Tottenham this past summer, they'll be able to secure another good deal for themselves here.

Real have been firm in their desire to keep him, but a bid of # 20million or more could see him make a late move to the Etihad Stadium.

To be honest it's got to that stage in the saga where I think Arsenal need to be firm with the player, ask him to make his mind up and if he doesn't want to join, then the Gunners should move onto the next target.

saying that the keynesian conception is about spending what you earn is the opposite of what it stands for (its actually what you haplessly describe as the neoclassical position) beyond the even more meaningless claim that wenger adheres to it... keynes broke with the idea that the economy was simply a collection of perfectly informed individuals and firms responding rationally to price incentives generated by market forces and that the big variables that frame an economies performance — output, employment, price level, wages, etc — tend to move in cycles and are shaped by decisions and judgements made under hugely uncertain conditions that if left to markets generate bad outcomes..

He is keen to stay in London and join Arsenal or Chelsea, but with neither club showing a firm interest, and with the Frenchman's proposed move to Liverpool recently collapsing, Newcastle boss Alan Pardew was tipped to make one more attempt to sign him.

Nolan's move to West Ham in the summer was a surprise and one which instantly made the Hammers firmer favourites for the title with many, but it was not totally without precedent.

In addition to Klopp's previous firm denial of interest, the move doesn't seem to make a great deal of sense for either of the two clubs, or the player.

If your child is having difficulty at first, tape about a 1/2 ″ of the end of the shoestring with masking tape to make it firmer to grip, or start by placing pasta or beads onto a pipe cleaner before moving to string.

If you're going to have your baby in arms while performing some moves, just make sure he's able to hold his head up on his own (which happens around 3 to 4 months old) and that you've got a firm grip on baby's wiggly body.

By moving to a lobbying firm, Wilson follows in the footsteps of his former colleagues Craig Oliver, Ameet Gill and Caroline Preston — all of whom have made a similar move since Theresa May entered Number 10.