Sentences with phrase «many times companies»

MacMillan soon began to gut Alliance Atlantis's production unit in 2003 to focus on the franchise, which became the company's single - most - profitable venture by the time the company was sold.

Sysco says he suspected the technology would need to gain FDA approval from the time the company launched in 2005, because it was designing an app that physicians would prescribe like a drug or device.

When Schindele was told of the problem, he ordered the function to be fully activated, which revealed for the first time the company's pitifully low in - stock percentages.

In this kind of environment, taking the title is no small thing, says Derrick Stewart, a three - time company champ.

An anonymous donor contributed $ 1 million to a pool that will fund free access to NYTimes.com for students across the U.S., the New York Times Company said in a press release, Thursday.

That's because it was only 3:30 p.m.. By the time company co-founder Gabriel Alenius and his colleagues at the Scandinavian design agency settled their tabs and walked out into the sunlight, it was just 5 p.m. «We were finished our beers already.

A lot of times companies or brands are taken over or go public and they're suddenly under pressure to make it new and fresh to placate investors.

There's no firm rule for valuing private companies, so your boss may be willing to sell for some multiple of his annual earnings (say, three to five times the company's bottom line).

As for Meetup, Heiferman told the Times the company had broken even and had not collected outside money in years.

Investors, which now included Knight Ridder, Hearst, and the New York Times Company, occupied four of seven board seats.

The last time the company did something similar was in 2008, when the then struggling chain shut down all U.S. locations to retrain employees on improving the «Starbucks Experience» by boosting technical abilities and customer service.

That same year, after exploring a sale of the company, Segal announced that he would once again step away from the business, handing the reins to his wife, Jane Silverstone Segal, now chair and CEO, and long - time company president Emilia Di Raddo.

That marks a drastic change from the past few years, during which time the company lost more than half its workforce.

And indeed, the last time the company did cut its revenue forecast — in September 2012 — it did hit the market.

«The first time a company stands up to charges and takes a position that it's not going to plead guilty, I think there are a lot of inherent challenges that could make securing a conviction very difficult,» says Morrison.

We've long believed that over time companies tend to get comfortable doing the same thing, just making incremental changes.

They intuitively know — in my view — that you don't have to reinvent the wheel every time your company launches a new initiative, and that you can learn from other companies» efforts, successes and mistakes by mining the treasure trove of knowledge that is the Internet.

By the time a company completes a project outside its niche, the real competitors in that space will have already developed superior solutions and brought them to market.

More important, it was the first time a company contacted me about serving as a communications consultant.

By the time the company abandoned print, those editions accounted for less than 1 % of the company's revenue.

By the time the company went public in 1992, Starbucks had 165 stores.

Why He's One to Watch: Mullenweg, 24, turned down a $ 200 million offer for Automattic, opting instead to raise $ 29.5 million from The New York Times Company and two venture capital firms.

The Wednesday news was the first time the company revealed how many people paid for the premium service.

This will be the first time the company will employ a reused Falcon rocket recovered from a previous launch.

And each time the company appeared in print or on TV, inquiries shot up.

This time the company dredged up the stubborn mature fine tailings after just three years of settling in the pond, added a polymer and pumped it onto a sloping beach to dry — which it now did, to a chunky clay, in a matter of weeks.

A spokesperson for Fiat Chrysler stressed to Fortune that this wiring disconnect would only occur in a very specific type of impact, and at this point in time the company has not received any customer complaints.

It may be weird when these vehicles first appear on the street, but over time the company expects people to get used to them.

The next time your company is about to splurge on the latest hot tool for crunching data, take a deep breath and channel your inner lawyer.

This is the second time the company has made the Inc. 5000, coming in at number 458 this year.

Says Hochberg: «That's the only way you're going to have a meaningful stake by the time the company exits.»

Or, next time your company purchases a piece of large equipment or real estate, do it through a limited partnership that you set up with your children.

«We believe the best digital advertising will increasingly take the shape of high - quality visual programming, and we are building out T Brand Studio's services and capabilities to deliver on that promise,» said The New York Times Company executive vice president and chief revenue officer Meredith Kopit Levien in a statement.

This isn't the first time a company from an unlikely industry has pointed to Netflix as a competitive threat.

Whereas Wired the print publisher would likely be valued at from one to three times the company's 1995 revenues of $ 25 million, Wired the new - media company was now shopping itself around at more than 17 times revenues.

A contact - to - order ratio is the number of times a company's customers contact it before placing an order, compared with the number of orders a company receives.

He said that every time your company triples in size, everything breaks.

Nordstrom reported fourth quarter earnings on Thursday that fell short of earnings expectations at a time the company is looking to raise financing for its management buyout.

The only time companies will ever say «yes» to those ideas is if they come from people that have shown their value to the company — «A-level» employees who have great morale, a fantastic work ethic and have shown that they understand the company and provide great value.

J.P. Morgan raises its rating to overweight from neutral for New York Times Company's shares, predicting strong profit growth over the next two years.

But late last year, the Bechtel family and top managers decided to tell their story to Fortune by granting extensive interviews for an in - depth corporate profile — the first time the company has ever lifted the veil.

At the same time, it exposes brands to vocal and widespread criticism each time a company does anything remotely wrong.

It wouldn't be the first time the company was taken aback by its own popularity among investors.

Furthermore, CtW noted, Baldocchi, Flynn, and Friedman have collectively chaired the board's three committees for almost the entire time the company has been public.

«By the time companies get to market these days, the value [in a company] has largely been realized by private investors,» says Roger L. Kay, president of Endpoint Technology Associates, a Massachusetts - based consultancy firm.

From 2002 to 2010, Mike was the About.com (then a division of the New York Times Company) «Guide to Economics».

Henry, a local hero after bringing three baseball championships to long - suffering Boston fans, bought the Globe for a mere $ 70 million from The New York Times Company.

For example, a 20x P / E ratio means that investors are paying 20 times the company's annual earnings.

Indeed, he said that New York Times Company Chairman Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. was «doing a fine job» in terms of the company's business operations and his management decisions.

It is not uncommon that by the time a company is able to announce a new initiative, it's already too late for new vendors to even be