Sentences with phrase «making big acquisitions»

«I find it very difficult to imagine how Amazon will enter the space without making big acquisitions.»

Eventually the operations hit peak efficiency, at which point in order to keep growing you need to bring in more customers, open more restaurants (franchises) or make another big acquisition.

Amazon.com Inc. is making its biggest acquisition since the 2009 purchase of Zappos.com, agreeing to pay $ 775 million for Kiva Systems Inc., a maker of robots that move items around warehouses.

On a recent conference call, the CEO explained a $ 700 million share repurchase as follows: «The reason that I made the biggest acquisition in the history of the company this last month was because the company is so cheap.»

In addition, they have done a fine job to date of whipping up enthusiasm for the stock and they demonstrated financial acumen by using the over-valued shares to make a big acquisition.

Verizon Communications made the biggest acquisition of the year to date with its purchase of a 45 % stake in Verizon Wireless from Vodafone of the UK in September.

The Match Group has made some big acquisitions in the dating space — including OkCupid for $ 50m in 2011 — but none as big as this massive $ 575m deal for Plenty of Fish.

This REIT is making a big acquisition, culminating in a name change.

And Microsoft is rumoured to be interested in making a big acquisition.

Westfield Group appears ready to make some big acquisitions, now that it has secured a $ 4 billion global syndicated line of credit from 34 banks.

Not exact matches

The one virtue of startups that these big companies do seem to value and appreciate above all (and one that makes acquisitions so attractive rather than internal R&D efforts) is the freedom we have to embrace rapid change, the ability to adapt and pivot, and the understanding that things may never be perfect at the start, but that you'll never get started at all if you wait until they are.

In the true indie spirit, though, none of the company's principals are much interested in making the big money through getting bigger or selling out in an acquisition, like many of their forebears did.

As you look across the robotics landscape, there are a number of notable names that may come to mind, from the «cute» robots that consumer electronics companies roll out for the holidays to the big acquisitions being made by Silicon Valley companies, including Google.

S. at a tax rate, giving them a bigger incentive to make acquisitions.

The acquisition will instantly make Circle a rising threat to Coinbase, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S., as well as Bittrex and Kraken, the runner - ups.

A big player in Atlantic Canada, Imvescor made its move into Central Canada with the acquisition of Baton Rouge.

Both companies have made big recent acquisitions in this regard, while networks are urging viewers to «join the discussion» in real time.

I think that will change in 2018 and Apple could make one or two big acquisitions.

The deal was part of a broader trend of Chinese resource companies making foreign acquisitions as part of a global strategy to gain better access to the key commodities needed to fuel China's economy, the world's second biggest.

But one big downside is that as Salesforce has grown via (many) acquisitions, Force.com's proprietary nature makes it hard to bring those new technologies in - house and integrate them.

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

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That's put downward pressure on sales and led some observers to wonder just when Gilead would use its massive cash reserves to make a big - name acquisition.

There's a perception that it's missing the boat — it's not big in the tablet market right now — but it has so much cash it could easily make an acquisition to get into that field.

• The acquisition instantly makes Circle a rising threat to Coinbase's GDAX, which is currently the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States.

McKay has made expansion into the US a priority, beginning with RBC biggest ever acquisition, a $ 5 billion purchase of LA - based City National Corp..

Nonetheless, HBC has proven adept at spinning off real estate of prior acquisitions to rake in billions to make its next big deal.

This deal was worth $ 175 million, making it LinkedIn's biggest acquisition at that point.

The price tag of the Heinz deal makes it the biggest food company acquisition ever.

Delaney said he sees two events unfolding: «The existing players... will adopt this rule, make changes to their business models as needed, and they'll work hard to keep every one of their customers because one of biggest costs that financial services companies have are what's called customer acquisition — meaning the money they spend for customers,» he said.

The acquisition initially made Bank of America the biggest home lender, but it has been shedding market share as it wrestles with delinquent loans and lawsuits related to mortgage - backed securities.

The three CEOs, over the span of a dozen years, followed a strategy that has become the norm for many big companies during the past two decades: large stock buybacks to make use of cash, coupled with acquisitions to lift revenue.

One of those big hires was Emilie Choi, who joined Coinbase this March to do stuff like this: Make acquisitions.

In the last few years, Facebook has made 14 big acquisitions, and spent over $ 25B on them.

Chinese companies, for their part, are making big - ticket foreign acquisitions, buying up natural resources and letting foreign profits accumulate overseas.

Big - ticket deals and personal investments aside, Chen and his firm also made some smaller, slightly unusual acquisitions.

A former top executive behind China's biggest acquisition of an overseas carmaker is setting out to make history twice, raising $ 1 billion in an initial fundraising round as the latest homegrown electric vehicle startup to challenge Tesla Motors Inc..

With the acquisition of Great American Cookies in 1998 by the company that made chewy mall cookies big business, Mrs. Fields is now peddling her baked wares in more than 90 percent of the premier shopping malls in the United States.

As opposed to an environment driven by clients» needs, «It was a world of mergers and acquisitions, and the word on the street was that the bigger the bottom line you make, the better job security you have,» he recalls.

«Firstly, we made a conscious decision to expand our retail presence through the acquisition of Big Daddy's,» Bishop notes.

Bega made a big expansion into consumer goods in January, 2017 with the acquisition of Vegemite and other brands from Mondelez International in a $ 460 million deal.

Foster's, which was taken over by SABMiller in 2012, spent up big on wine assets in the United States in 2001 with the acquisition of Beringer but made big writedowns over the next decade.

The acquisition of Nordic Paper makes Shanying one of Chinas biggest paper and packaging manufacturers with global focus.

There were some minor acquisitions made earlier, but 2013 - 2014 was the year of the «big moves».

They made a couple off - season acquisitions since the big Chicago Hoops League wrapped up..

Quickly before we get to the one big acquisition they made in the off - season..

Their biggest offseason acquisition ended up being the real Ubaldo Jimenez, or at least the version that made people want to give him millions in the first place.

1) offload the deadwood at the risk of breaking even at least before the end of July to reduce the squad # and lighten the wage bill (2 things more important than making # # #) 2) make the proper acquisition to not only lift the squad but also to protect in the case you still have to sell players like Sanchez or Ox It was a summer where the fans gave Wenger one last chance to tweak his approach sell who needed to go and make proper big signings... he failed in both.

One of the big moves the Los Angeles Clippers made prior to the lockout - shortened 2011 - 12 NBA seasons was the acquisition of guard Chauncey Billups.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...