Sentences with phrase «more years in the industry»

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And bucking the trend in a retail industry where many rivals are paring their store fleets, Walmart said it plans to open a few more stores: it expect to open fewer than 15 SuperCenters in the U.S. next year, a small uptick to be sure, but additional physical facilities to support its roughly $ 15 billion a year e-commerce business.

Some industry observers predict that retail will change more in the next five years than it has over the past century, and that the extinction of brick - and - mortar stores isn't far off.

I'm not sure that in the past year or, honestly, in the past decade or two, there has been a single deal that will be regarded as a more impactful transaction across multiple industries and the entire omni - channel economy than Amazon's recently announced acquisition of Whole Foods.

The booming tech industry in Texas's state capital gets most of the attention, but the education, health, and leisure - and - hospitality sectors have added more than 11,000 jobs in the past year.

For more than five years, researchers have been able to demonstrate that women - led tech businesses, though rare in the industry, tend to outperform their male - led competitors.

More than $ 2 billion in private investment has flowed into space industry companies this year, with 59 firms contributing capital.

With a burgeoning tech industry that's expected to grow by more than 15,000 jobs over the next four years, Vancouver makes the ideal location for the first Red Academy, but Gilbert says she and Mansell hope to take the concept beyond B.C. and open locations in other major Canadian cities.

Now in its 16th year, the programme attracts more than 80 entrants across all industries and showcases the acute business acumen of our state's professional talent.

Henry Blodget: So you've made a comment recently that this industry has changed more in the last three years than in the prior 30 — which is extraordinary.

Earlier this year, after more than a decade in the hospitality industry, award - winning Perth chef Daniel Sterpini made what could be considered an unusual career choice.

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In order to meet payroll for her 52 employees and eke out a profit that she admits is on the low end for the industry, Antonetti says she budgets no more than $ 60,000 a year for advertising.

Holmes and Theranos made waves in Silicon Valley and the diagnostics industry two years ago, when investors lined up to boost the valuation of a company that claimed it would soon offer more than 1,000 varieties of blood diagnostics tests without the need for a syringe.

The year I attended, so did more than 61,000 other people, many of them in the tech industry.

Gahn has more than 20 years leading business development initiatives in South America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa in industries including maritime, aviation, mass transit, critical infrastructure security and defense.

The president of General Motors said Monday that he expects the automotive industry to «change more in the next five years than it has in the last 50.»

The former finds inspiration from a carbonated soft drink industry that has seen 12 straight years of sales declines in the U.S. as consumers buy more bottled water and other healthier drinks.

According to Headlines & Global News, the film industry ended the year with more than $ 11 billion in domestic box office sales, buoyed by heavy hitters like Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Deadpool and Zootopia.

Led by an expert team with more than 25 years experience in fitness franchising, StretchLab is revolutionizing the stretching industry by offering franchise opportunities across all major markets - making the benefits of stretching accessible to all.

While hybrid electric and full electric vehicles have become more common in recent years, the aviation industry has been slow to embrace e-planes, partially because of the weight and cost of lithium - ion battery packs.

Thus far, the industry has announced plans to close 6,700 stores this year, more than any other year on record, and there's still two months left in 2017.

Hourican has more than 20 years of experience in the retail industry and most recently served as Executive Vice President, Retail Pharmacy, CVS Pharmacy.

A key theme in this year's presidential race is competitiveness of American industry, though candidates like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders tend to use more colorful language when describing their belief that the United States has lost its economic edge.

And when Boehner resigned late last year, OpenSecrets data showed he took more money from the tobacco industry than any other lawmaker during his 26 years in Congress.

The Association of Enterprise Opportunity, the industry's trade group, says members help 300,000 businesses each year and have lent more than $ 2 billion in the U.S. over the past 10 years.

SmartBall was originally introduced to deal with leak problems in the water industry more than five years ago, but the team quickly saw opportunities to expand.

Housed in a former Bethlehem Steel facility that is more than 100 years old, the National Museum of Industrial History is a shrine to America's industrial history, displaying industrial artifacts from a variety of industries.

Moody's studied 37 oil and gas companies in Canada and the U.S., concluding that although the oil industry has dramatically slashed its cost of production in the past three years and is currently in the midst of posting much better financials this year, there is little room left for more progress.

The economic slowdown that still grips much of the globe is keeping a damper on many industries — the moguls heavily invested in commodities or energy were more likely to be laggards this year — but telecom, real estate and consumer staples performed well and pushed many members» net worth higher.

With the two facing greater rivalry in the entertainment realm from technology like iPads, though, they could argue there is more industry competition than several years ago.

Perhaps more than any other single policy of the last seven years, it was the nearly $ 1 trillion from the two American Reinvestment and Recovery Acts that played a major role in assisting those industries, and bolstering the economic health of small business owners.

«For example, high - quality engineers or scientists may be more interested in joining a company started by an entrepreneur who previously started a company in a good industry and year if they believe (justifiably given the evidence) that this track record increases the likelihood of success,» they write.

When CVS wanted to make clear to Wall Street and Main Street it was pivoting its business much more toward to the health industry in 2014, it went as far as changing its name to CVS Health from CVS Caremark, and to drop tobacco products, a $ 2 billion a year revenue generator, from its stores.

«More importantly, entrepreneurs who invest in a good industry - year are more likely to invest in a good industry - year in their next ventures, even after controlling for differences in overall success rates across industrMore importantly, entrepreneurs who invest in a good industry - year are more likely to invest in a good industry - year in their next ventures, even after controlling for differences in overall success rates across industrmore likely to invest in a good industry - year in their next ventures, even after controlling for differences in overall success rates across industries.

More than $ 3.3 billion was invested in the U.S. last year on commercial space companies, says Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, a trade group for the nascent industry.

The new company will be led by the president of EQT's midstream business, Jerry Ashcroft, who has more than 15 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, according to EQT.

SIFMA plans to perform an industry - wide drill every two years, with more limited attack simulations in the interim, said Schimmeck.

This year, the industry group expects sales of one million drones that meet the minimum weight requirements for registration, or 145 % more than in 2015, the association said.

The number one industry set be transformed by A.I. appears to be healthcare, with $ 400 million invested by health care companies in the technology as of last year, a figure that's projected to grow to $ 3 billion or more by 2020, according to data from the Beacon Center for the Study of Evolution in Action.

More than three decades after the launch of the first space shuttle mission (and three years after the last one), investment in new human spaceflight systems is back with an intensity the aerospace industry hasn't seen since the heady days of the Space Race.

Career services offices are responding by offering more intensive career prep to students, from career workshops as early as freshman year to hosting industry panels in growing areas of finance, such as investment management.

Now, however, he is regarded as an industry figurehead, and he has been included on Worth Magazine's Power 100 list, Investment Advisor's list of top 25 most influential people in the industry and many more in recent years.

Marijuana could get more expensive after a series of massive fires in Northern California wiped out as much as a year's supply for some industry growers.

Entrepreneurs who succeeded by investing in a good industry and year (e.g., computers in 1983) are far more likely to succeed in their subsequent ventures than those who succeeded by doing better than other firms founded in the same industry and year (e.g., succeeding in computers in 1985).

Jeff Concepcion, president and CEO of Stratos Wealth Partners, has more than 30 years of experience in the financial services industry.

But if foreign consumers, and especially businesses, believe data held with those companies is vulnerable to snooping, Kroes thinks they could quickly lose their edge in an industry estimated by research company Gartner Inc. to be worth more than $ 135 billion a year.

In recent years, it's become all the more important for the U.S. defense industry to tap into America's commercial tech sector.

But in pioneering and perfecting the global hunt for ways to produce clothing more quickly and cheaply, Li & Fung, which had $ 20 billion in revenue last year, has been described by critics as the garment industry's «sweatshop locator.»

The growth of the venture capital industry — VCs raised $ 28.5 billion last year, up from $ 3.8 billion in 2002 — coupled with a tepid market for initial public offerings has made the competition among VCs for good deals more intense than ever.

Already a popular practice in the beverage industry, the pace of endorsements and investments by famous names has accelerated in recent years as more celebs look to make money from the increasing popularity of liquor and wine.