Sentences with phrase «many industry giants»

In a time when tech companies are starting to behave like industry giants of the past, taking their interests — and their money — to K Street to influence legislation (consider Mark Zuckerberg's immigration lobby), it seems natural that several of these scrappy sharing - based start - ups are beginning to band together.

And with member nations ramping up their enforcement capabilities as we speak (the United Kingdom alone is hiring 200 enforcement staff), it is becoming clear that all companies, not just the industry giants, could be targeted.

The rising trend for taxes on sweetened drinks has prompted beverage industry giants like PepsiCo and Coca - Cola to spend billions of dollars on advertising and lobbying campaigns against the measures.

And while the iPhone ultimately beat their effort to market, the pair helped turn the once - unknown Asian computer company into a tech - industry giant.

Meanwhile, the 3 - D printing industry is also developing fast, with industry giants like Stratasys aquiring upstarts like Makerbot for $ 408 million.

In a little over a decade, it had expanded from a scrappy upstart into a thriving outfit with dozens of employees, a database of 1,500 contractors and such industry giants as Lowe's, Home Depot and Canadian Tire as clients.

McKesson, a pharmaceutical supplier, is a healthcare industry giant with annual sales exceeded by only a handful of U.S. companies.

That collaboration is especially important as big breweries are starting to quietly put out craft - flavored beers like Shock Top, which is brewed by Anheuser - Busch in Saint Louis, Mo., or Blue Moon, which is a MillerCoors product, though many fans of either beer don't realize either is made by the industry giants.

I compared my vision to the story of Red Bull in the Shark Tank: While I'm competing with industry giants (they were up against huge companies like Pepsi and Coke), success means that you have opened a new market (remember when there wasn't a section of energy drinks in every gas station and grocery store!?!).

When Musk entered the space and aeronautics industry, many industry giants considered him as one of the many millionaires who spend some good money on their hobby to fail only.

Industry giants like Thomson sold their travel holdings or pivoted into the guided tour space.

But the industry giants are starting to encroach with their own stevia - based desserts.

The two former lawyers might be killing it in their loungewear, but they are also now in the throes of discovering the consequences of irritating industry giants.

Which brings us to the second story, covering an Advertising Week Europe panel featuring three industry giants in R / GA chairman and CEO Bob Greenberg, Radical Media chairman and CEO John Kamen, and Bartle Bogle Hegarty founder Sir John Hegarty.

Australia «s Tatts Group and Tabcorp Holdings (tabcf) on Tuesday said they are in talks to create a A$ 9.34 billion ($ 7.1 billion) betting industry giant, hoping to join forces to fend off popular online rivals.

Lor's partners in the latter include three alumni of Veer, yet another Calgary - based digital - image vendor that was bought by yet another industry giant, Corbis.

And the effort will finally launch this weekend with anti-smoking ad campaigns funded by industry giants like Philip Morris USA owner Altria Group and Reynolds, reports the Associated Press.

Industry giants like Boeing and United Airlines prove that transportation continues to thrive there, while health care and education services are also gaining traction.

Partnerships with industry giants like Garnier and The Body Shop, and a global list of clients that seems to grow by the day.

The Saudi delegation is slated to meet with defense industry giants Lockheed Martin and Boeing.

Fairfax had been a key investor in the Mega Blox maker until it was sold to American industry giant Mattel in 2014.

Getting into Toys «R» Us is a huge win, says Windle, even for industry giants like Mattel and Hasbro.

At the same time, online photofinishers have seized upon technological advances to carve out an Internet - based niche in the photo - processing market, which has traditionally been dominated by industry giants like Eastman Kodak Co..

The Holland metro area is the birthplace of competing furniture industry giants Herman Miller and Haworth.

Rug seller Bob Shallenberger found software that lets his small business act like an industry giant without spending giant fees.

Dannon, a long - time industry giant, also opened up a shop in New York City earlier this month called The Yogurt Culture Company that serves both fresh Greek and traditional varieties.

«We take a very long view,» says Saputo, who has turned his family business into an industry giant through a series of relentless, though always thoughtful, acquisitions.

With industry giants like Live Nation and Under Armour already included as partners, you know this team is making all the right moves.

All the industry giants have been criticized for continuing to have such low numbers of women on the board, in management positions or even in the workforce in general.

Atlanta leads the market in groundbreaking wireless technology through a core of established industry giants and an explosive startup scene, including disruptive technologies such as the Internet of Things.

Allwork.Space: So your barbell model for coworking, where there are industry giants on one side, and small companies and independents on the other side, with few mid-size companies in - between, is holding up.

Luxury industry giant Compagnie Financière Richemont, which acquired a majority stake in Net - a-Porter back in 2010, didn't give her one despite that Massenet thought the deal undervalued NAP.

According to one such globally accepted metric for oil industry giants — enterprise value vs. earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA)-- in order for Aramco to reach a company valuation of $ 2 trillion, it needs to report an EBITDA of around $ 130 billion next year, according to Reuters estimates.

Even industry giants are closing hundreds of stores.

By way of comparison, industry giant Blackstone Group has $ 266 billion of AUM, Carlyle Group has $ 185 billion of AUM, and KKR has $ 94 billion of AUM as of Dec. 31, 2013.

Bitcoin is admitedlly becoming a common way of payment; after the two industry giants, Dell and Overstock, Rakuten Super Logistics becomes the third giant multinational accepting bitcoin has a method of payment.

Aside from industry giants, China's ambition to grow its winter capabilities is also an opportunity for small - and medium - sized businesses (SMEs).

Most people remember Ian as a witty writer and speaker — he coached me on my public speaking — and as a regular contributor to Barron's Roundtable, the Contrary Opinion Forum, «Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street» and other well - regarded investment publications and associations, along with industry giants such as Gary Shilling, Ned Davis and Ray Dalio.

The buyer also bags a big tax break, but barely gains ground on industry giants.

In the few years since The Yard first opened, the coworking industry has mushroomed, with Manhattan - based WeWork as the industry giant, with more than 110 locations around the world and an estimated valuation of $ 20 billion.

The team behind the company has developed some of the most innovative solutions being used by industry giants like Schaeffer, Kardex, WRH Walter Reist Holding, Ferag and Siemens - Dematic.

Cord cutting is quickly accelerating during the first quarter, with several industry giants reporting cord cutting numbers that a notably higher than what many Wall Street analysts expected.

It has a partnership with industry giant EMI, yet stays involved in every aspect of operations.

Hodge expects the company will keep growing at a consistent pace as foodservice industry giants continue to consume independent competitors.

Some food industry giants promote genetically modified food as the solution while others say introducing small - scale farmers to new markets could do the trick to increase food production.

Coopers is the largest Australian - owned beer company and commands almost 5 per cent of the national beer market, behind industry giants Carlton & United Breweries, owned by international conglomerate AB InBev, and Lion, owned by Japan's Kirin Corporation.

Beverage industry giant Coca - Cola has increased its spending on ad...

What kind of educational programs do you provide: The GCIA designs customized educational events where the members learn from industry giants while networking with peers and the leading foodservice manufacturers and commodity boards.

Some may be hesitant to embrace meat industry giants like Tyson getting involved in the plant - based sector, but we are reaching a time where the question of how we are going to feed a growing population that is set to reach nine billion by 2050 can not be ignored.

Rider - owned companies currently compete for an extremely small slice of the pie: Twin - tips account for some 40,000 of the 600,000 pairs of skis sold annually in North America, and more than half of those 40,000 are produced by industry giants, who, though late to the party, have overwhelmed the market with their production and distribution infrastructure.