Sentences with phrase «millions of dollars a year in»

(17) Others are beginning to question not only the accuracy but the honesty of such claims, even suggesting that by raising millions of dollars each year in the name of evangelism the broadcasters are perpetuating a massive fraud among well - meaning but naive religious supporters.

With an estimated 20 per cent of these products being leached by parallel importing, Foster's is losing tens of millions of dollars a year in sales.

A name switch would have saved the company tens of millions of dollars a year in licence fees to multinational Chevron Texaco.

Tourists love the horses, the industry generates millions of dollars every year in tax revenue, and employs over 300 people.

Instead, it spent millions of dollars a year in legal fees trying to fight for a cheaper option that now appears to have amounted to nothing.»

The move could save taxpayers millions of dollars a year in annual labor costs but also will reduce the size of an already depleted workforce.

Malloy announced on Monday that he has reached a deal with state employee unions that will save hundreds of millions of dollars a year in state spending.

In response, the Bloomberg administration is planning to replace the hodgepodge of agencies dealing with competitive contracts with a centralized office, potentially saving nonprofit groups hundreds of millions of dollars a year in administrative expenses.

Hawkins criticized Cuomo's underfunding of the MTA, including diverting tens of millions of dollars this year in earmarked funds.

This pollution also finds its way into underground aquifers that supply our drinking water, so reducing it is a human health measure and could also save municipalities millions of dollars a year in drinking water treatment facilities and operational expenses.

It's why the largest wireless operators are spending millions of dollars each year in lobbying to make sure rules for new spectrum auctions are written in a way that favors their interests, and it's why there has been so much wheeling and dealing around Verizon's move to buy wireless spectrum from a consortium of cable operators.

For many satellites, station - keeping eats up millions of dollars a year in fuel and labor costs.

Nonnative aquatic organisms cost hundreds of millions of dollars every year in the United States alone.

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan will be investing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in «whole - child personalized learning,» reports Benjamin Herold in Ed Week.

Chronic absenteeism and truancy costs school districts millions of dollars each year in lost income, and disproportionately increases the likelihood that certain groups of students will drop out.

This successful elimination of a feared disease, which required a worldwide immunization program, saves not only millions of lives but also hundreds of millions of dollars each year in smallpox vaccination programs and billions of dollars in health care expenditures.

Unfortunately, workplace injuries are extremely common in America and cost companies millions of dollars every year in compensation.

«Our strategy was, «If we don't have the money to market this game, why don't we let Sony market it for us, because they put in millions of dollars a year in marketing PlayStation Plus games and they do it month after month regardless of what the game is.»

These efforts cost banks, healthcare companies, and government organizations hundreds of millions of dollars a year in manual labor and redundant systems.

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The company's total revenue for the most recent fiscal year (in millions of dollars) and the percentage change compared to the previous fiscal year.

Fast - growth companies like Airbnb and Uber have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding in the past few years, which has pushed their valuations into never - before seen territory for startups.

Now, 14 years after inheriting her father's semi-successful company, she took in $ 10 million last year by overseeing a half - billion dollars of hotel construction and living the life she has always wanted.

«At 22 years old, I was in charge of an entire crew, and I was responsible for being part of the whole organization and unit that was repairing helicopters that are [worth] millions of dollars.

One of the most popular Kickstarter launches of the last several years was the Glowing Plant Kickstarter campaign, which raised nearly half a million dollars in 2013 to create a genetically - engineered plant that could glow in the dark.

Starting with just a few hundred dollars and no marketing budget, Michael Epstein founded a manufacturer, distributor and retailer of consumer electronics that achieved a million dollars in sales in its first year and continued to expand, generating tens of millions in revenue.

Lowry declined to give specific figures, but said the company's revenue was in the tens of millions of dollars last year.

-- Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam, a data center backup company founded in 2006 that now employs more than 1,500 employees around the world and brings in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, with its sights on reaching $ 1 billion in revenue in the next five years.

The high - powered jetpack was 40 years in the making, the culmination of millions of dollars spent and decades of trial and error by Mayman and his business partner, Nelson Tyler.

Shifting to alternate - day delivery or community mailboxes for every home could yield operational savings in the hundreds of millions of dollars per year.

In 2015, Ackman, the founder of hedge fund Pershing Square, announced his multi-billion dollar bet on Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx); he proceeded to lose nearly his entire investment, or $ 7.7 million every day for about two years, as Valeant stock sank 95 %.

According to the criminal complaint, McFarland told investors that Fyre Media, a web - based celebrity booking service, had earned millions of dollars in revenue in two years, while its actual revenue was $ 57,443.

But his latest company, WhistlePig whiskey, has been profitable since month one and brings in millions of dollars in revenue each year.

A similar law enacted about a year ago in North Carolina prompted the relocation of sporting events and economic boycotts that were estimated to have cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars.

«We're north of a million dollars in sales in less than one year,» says DeHerrera, who offers the high - end spinner directly to consumers through the Torqbar website.

Millions of Americans spend billions of dollars each year to participate in, and feel a part of, something more.

Jerome Boykin, Jr., the 24 year - old accidental entrepreneur, first contacted us in January to share his remarkable journey from unemployed and homeless to owner of a half - million dollar company.

The RBNZ's challenges became immediately apparent after the central bank decision, with investors lifting the local dollar to a one - year peak despite the easing and threatening to depress both exports and inflation in New Zealand's small open economy with a population of 4.7 million.

Engineering the technology to grow them big enough and pure enough required three years and tens of millions of dollars in investment.

Now, years later, they have transitioned and grown into being a company with millions of dollars in revenue from the product they initially designed to help them provide a better service.

Everyone's looking to cash in on the next Facebook or Google, where an investment of several million dollars turns into $ 1 billion within 10 years.

Jack Raudenbush, vice president of the $ 4.6 million company, which is based in Middletown, Pennsylvania, estimates that the change costs a few thousand dollars per year but calls it money well spent: «This was the type of plan our competitors had, and we needed to offer competitive benefits.»

«Let's face it: There is something wrong with our system when I can leave [Harvard] and make billions of dollars in 10 years, while millions of students can't afford to pay off their loans, let alone start a business,» said Zuckerberg.

«It's like I am being persecuted because of where I made a decision to invest my time and money for the past 40 years, and now I'm being labeled the bad guy, and grouped in with CEOs making millions of dollars a year.»

And these investors are dipping into some dogs of the market this year, such as telecom — 27 percent of million - dollar accounts said telecom was among the sectors with the most potential in the fourth quarter, up from 18 percent in Q3.

Within the first two years of starting FedEx, founder Frederick Smith found his company so many millions of dollars in debt, because of sharply rising fuel costs, that he was nearly ready to declare bankruptcy.

Growth: In 2016, the number of U.S. startups related to autonomous vehicles that landed VC deals nearly doubled to 14, and the total dollar amount invested shot up to $ 459 million from just $ 59 million the previous year, according to Pitchbook data.

Today WeatherTech does hundreds of millions of dollars in sales, employs nearly 2,000 people, and has enjoyed double - digit growth rates every year since 1987.

The other party in these disputes, such as the CBSA, have expenses as well and we can not forget the dollars spent for adjudication (the CITT's net cost of operations was over $ 12 million last year).

Over the course of her career, the 35 - year - old has earned tennis Grand Slam titles, Olympic gold medals and more than $ 84 million in prize money on top of a slew of endorsement deals and multimillion - dollar partnerships.

For large institutional traders, transactions a few milliseconds faster can mean millions of extra dollars in profit each year.