Sentences with phrase «more pressure on these companies»

Behind this call is her expectation that this current era of loose monetary policy and tumbling interest rates may be coming to an end, which would put more pressure on companies with low credit quality.

An expanding skills - gap and shrinking workforce are putting more and more pressure on companies to hire, engage and retain top talent.

Inderbitzin says the rising cost of fuel has made the company's operations more difficult, putting more pressure on the company to provide the same level of service to customers without passing along the added costs to them.

The arrival of the internet has enabled people to put more pressure on companies to «do the right thing.»

Soft productivity suggests not only slower growth, but more pressure on companies» margins should wages continue rising.

And Stevanovski told us: «The certification is not yet a differentiator, but going forward there will be more pressure on companies to have the right policies and procedures in place to protect customer data as GDPR comes into force.

As gateway cities like New York continue to outperform suburban leasing markets, they are putting more pressure on companies to either relocate or establish tech - savvy teams in cities — or be left behind.

Not exact matches

Toyota Motor (tm) on Thursday said that company President Akio Toyoda met with U.S. Vice President - elect Mike Pence in Washington earlier this week as the incoming U.S. administration pressures automakers to build more cars locally.

With this space getting so much interest by all communities, there was a lot of pressure to grow quickly & companies began focusing on metrics such as onboarding more & more vendors, increasing queries per day by discounting.

The committee's ranking member, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D - MD), along with Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I - VT) have been putting pressure on pharmaceutical companies to disclose more information about how they set prices.

He said the pitch is having more success with traditional venture firms who've missed out on crypto to date — particularly bitcoin, ethereum and companies such as Coinbase — and are feeling the pressure to get in on the craze.

As a private company, Nordstrom would likely be able to focus on initiatives such as investing more in e-commerce, closing underperforming stores and expanding its off - price chain, Nordstrom Rack, without pressure from shareholders.

«What we see in the Valley here is there's so much pressure on companies to bring in more perks, more benefits, more unique types of offerings to retain and recruit employees,» Maass said.

Accounting firm EY says debt levels and an ongoing focus on costs is placing more pressure mining services companies in Western Australia.

On Monday, the state planner issued new rules for companies which are planning to issue bonds to put more pressure on debt - laden local governments to get their finances in ordeOn Monday, the state planner issued new rules for companies which are planning to issue bonds to put more pressure on debt - laden local governments to get their finances in ordeon debt - laden local governments to get their finances in order.

Twitter shares have been under severe pressure of late, down more than 40 percent in the last six months as uncertainty over the company's leadership structure and growth potential weighed on investors.

Both companies are seeing more pressure on their primary card - processing businesses as new entrants such as Stripe gain market share.

Trump, who takes office on Friday, has repeatedly singled out and criticized U.S. companies across industries for not doing more to keep jobs in the United States and has put pressure on them to hire more U.S. workers.

Mr. Balding cited the downward pressures that have been building on the Chinese currency in the face of outflows, as citizens and companies rush to get their renminbi offshore and convert it into more international currencies, like the dollar.

As more small employers opt for low - cost investments, the more pressure that will be placed on fund companies to be competitive on fees.

More facts came to light on Monday, when pressured by local media, the company revealed that the breach occurred after an unknown attacker hacked the personal computer of a Bithumb employee, from where he stole the details of over 31,800 Bithumb users — about 3 % of the platform's entire userbase.

Corporate political activity accounts for 26 percent of all ESG resolutions, with slightly more than half of them focusing on pressuring companies to increase disclosure of how companies lobby elected officials and regulators and insight into the reasons behind the lobbying.

The Chamber said in a letter to the PCAOB in May that its members believe the PCAOB, the independent auditing regulator established by the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002, is imposing new «burdens» on business by using the inspections process to pressure auditors to ask more of companies.

Higher interest rates will begin to compress multiples in the long run, and put pressure on high - debt companies over a more immediate timeframe.

It makes sense that such intense competitive pressure drives startup founders to pitch their company to prospective hires in ever more grandiose terms, exaggerate how well their company is «crushing it,» and make their company culture sound like the happiest place on earth.

«We would have hoped to have done more dairy plants,» he said, «but milk prices are under pressure, which has caused dairy companies to concentrate on their core business rather than production residues.»

Although awareness of the externalities of agricultural products was rising, more pressure was required on food companies.

A statement released by the group upon its launch states: «Reducing food loss and waste can be a triple win: it can save money for farmers, companies, and households; wasting less can feed more people; and reductions can alleviate pressure on climate, water, and land resources.»

He has a sell call on Metcash, noting the company's core grocery business is structurally challenged, with continued store roll - outs and discounting by Coles and Woolworths putting more pressure on independents.

Reducing food loss and waste can be a triple win: It can save money for farmers, companies, and households; wasting less can feed more people; and reductions can alleviate pressure on climate, water, and land resources.

This would make the tax system more honest; it would be a big deterrent against any future tax - rises; and it would add pressure on the oil companies to be fair.

Under growing pressure from lawmakers and the public to reveal more about the spread of covert Russian propaganda on Facebook, the company said it's turning over more than 3,000 Russia - linked ads to congressional committees investigating the Kremlin's influence operation during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The chief secretary to the Treasury says he will put pressure on oil companies to pass on more of the oil price drop to consumers at the pumps

ALBANY — A group of Senate Democrats and one Republican are calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to pressure General Electric to do more to clean up PCBs that the company dumped in the Hudson River for decades.

Spurred in part by the influx of millennials in the workforce as well as increasing pressure on offices to better address employee wellbeing, dressing down the business suit has become de rigueur in companies across the world — even JP Morgan Chase & Co have introduced a more business - casual dress code.

The promise of control is part of tech companies» assault on our desire for stability, just as the supposed surplus of options in the market acts as pressure to keep consuming more and faster, so as to not miss out on technology's chief bounty.

Hex3, the company behind a successfully Kickstarted pressure - sensitive stylus called JaJa — which got a pretty solid review from my colleague Darrell Etherington last year — has launched another stylus crowdfunding project, called Nota, that's aimed at making scribbling on a tablet more precise.

No one is really happy during this transitional period and the public needs to be educated on exactly what is happening before more newspaper companies fold under the pressure.

RIM's main challenge will be to attract more support from application developers as the company is going through a tough period, with considerable pressure on its smartphone business.

One of North American Life Insurance Company's strategies has always been to focus more on the long - term, and less on being driven only by short - term earnings pressures.

As investors discover how much more they have to pay on the actively managed mutual funds that many plans use as their only investment options, companies will feel pressure to turn to lower - cost alternatives that better preserve their workers» retirement savings.

You can pay $ 100 or more for a blower test — a company comes in, creates a zero - pressure environment in your home, then turns on a big fan, and searches your home for leaks — or you can turn on all the exhaust fans in your home, light a candle, or incense stick or use a draft detector and follow the smoke.

He adds: «It's a little more complicated than that in certain scenarios, like for example, the producing role that Creatures originally held went to The Pokémon Company, and a percentage of the rights went with that so there are certain complications, and it depends on the project, but there is no situation where Nintendo and The Pokémon Company will put pressure on Game Freak or something like that.»

While Greenpeace is right to put pressure on these companies to be more transparent about their energy use and where they're getting that energy from, the organization is stepping into sticky territory by coming up with their own numbers for that purpose.

To ease pressure on the sources of the most coveted woods, like pure black ebony from Madagascar, Taylor Guitars, a top competitor of Gibson, bought a lumber mill for ebony in Cameroon and the company's president, Bob Taylor, launched a campaign to convince the industry, and guitar buyers, to get more comfortable with the streaked varieties of this wood from sustainably managed forests there.

The recommendations will add further pressure on companies to disclose ESG data — and thus enabling the market to arrive at a more informed view on how climate change will impact different businesses and sectors.

Significant reductions in energy use are an obvious outcome (with corresponding pressure on energy companies), but even more exciting are the social and economic benefits of being able to preform significantly more work with our existing energy resources.

According to the company's SEC filings, food price increases during 2013 have made them more wary of the effects of global warming on their food, and the company expects there to be «additional pricing pressures on some of those ingredients, including avocados, beef, dairy and chicken during 2014.»

Jane Dale Owen, granddaughter of one of the founders of Humble Oil, the parent company of ExxonMobil, made a strong appeal to shareholders to put more pressure on corporate leadership to divert its resources to cleaner more renewable forms of energy.

With the world getting warm and fossil fuel companies planning on burning more, you'd think shareholder pressure would be mounting.