Sentences with phrase «most of the acquisitions»

In contrast, most of the acquisitions I've been involved with had favorable results.

The emergence of further interest in Vocus brightens buyout prospects for a firm which has seen its share price slide in the wake of a May profit warning as it struggles to make the most of acquisitions bought in a three - year $ 2.4 billion shopping spree.

He points out that art museums often buy works from Frieze, as well as from other fairs such as Tefaf and Art Basel, and that the Tate still buys most of its acquisitions elsewhere.

Having advised on most of the acquisitions within this space in India over the last few years, I expect this sector to be active over the next couple of years as well.

«If you were to look over the last 10 years, most of the acquisitions (in the real estate industry) have been by Royal LePage, and with very good success I might add,» says Soper.

Not exact matches

Since 1985, the U.S. has been the largest acquirer in Canada (accounting for 60 % of all acquisitions) while Britain, France, Japan and a handful of other developed countries accounted for most of the rest.

If we were to focus solely on Google's most recent acquisitions, we would find a host of smaller companies that were purchased for their innovative products.

The most recent example, of course, came on Tuesday, when Facebook announced a $ 2 billion acquisition of the virtual reality startup Oculus VR, but it's just the most recent in a string of Facebook's recent buyout offers, from it's failed $ 3 billion bid for Snapchat to its jaw - dropping $ 19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp.

The co-working and co-living startup reached a $ 20 billion valuation in July, making it New York City's most valuable startup and spurring a number of acquisitions.

Many businesses spend tons of money in market research, but they tend to forget to include the most important factor to their customer acquisition and product development cycle — their customer's opinion.

Most companies spend a lot of time — and money — thinking about customer acquisition.

Because Samsung Pay will be compatible with most existing magnetic stripe terminals as well as NFC terminals (as a result of its acquisition of LoopPay), it is going to drive significant payment volume, particularly in the next 5 years.

Scott Berg at Needham suggested it could be «the most expensive transaction ever of a public software company,» and Tillman highlighted that it was Salesforce's largest acquisition to date, far ahead of its $ 2.8 billion acquisition of Demandware in 2016.

Most companies do a good job of celebrating the acquisition of new business, new clients, or simply put, sales.

Most of all, large acquisitions can be quite complex.

Asked what most influences their decision to accept or decline a position, 56 percent of professionals said it's the company's «talent brand,» according to a new LinkedIn survey of full - time employees and talent acquisition managers.

Most companies were able to hold out through the price troughs of 2015, Jefferies equity analyst Jason Gammel said, but 2016 could set the backdrop for further acquisitions by year - end.

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Content marketing, if done correctly, can be one of the most profitable customer acquisition channels for your business.

Last year's surprising acquisition of Country Style Food Services Holdings, Ontario's second - largest coffee chain, boosted MTY's store count by nearly 50 %, and the most recent addition — Quebec hot - dogs - and - fries specialist Groupe Valentine, a deal that closed earlier this month — has brought the total to more than 1,700 restaurants that ring in about US$ 400 million in annual sales.

Perhaps the most disruptive aspect of Amazon's strategy, as evidenced by the Whole Foods acquisition, is building a new ecosystem for consumers.

She was recognized for her role in leading one of the most successful food manufacturing companies in Latin America, as well as her leadership of Kellogg's largest acquisition in the region (Ritmo Investimentos - Parati) and for championing Kellogg's efforts in sustainability.

«The acquisition of Invertex will deepen our bench of digital talent and further our capabilities in computer vision and artificial intelligence as we create the most compelling Nike Consumer Experience at every touchpoint,» commented Nike Chief Digital Officer, Adam Sussman.

Macy's fueled that growth by getting ahead of its rivals in e-commerce, and by undertaking several major acquisitions, most notably its 2005 purchase of May Department Stores.

Any acquisition by Google, which operates the world's dominant search engine and some of the most popular web properties, would be likely to raise regulatory scrutiny.

While most companies are happy to outsource these services, Blau says the acquisition fits with Apple's philosophy of owning its products beginning to end.

Most of that growth came from its acquisition of Avintiv, a manufacturer of polymers for diapers and other health and hygiene products.

While most of our conversation revolved around start - ups, seeing as Monday's deal was Google's biggest acquisition ever, I thought I'd post a quick excerpt from our chat:

Content Marketing Growth Hacks [with Infographic] Technically, this article isn't about user acquisition, but great content marketing can be one of the most powerful drivers for conversion, so it deserves a place on this list.

This was the first full quarter since SoftBank completed a $ 32 billion acquisition of Britain's most valuable technology company ARM, but SoftBank's earnings are still highly dependent on Sprint and the performance of the domestic telecommunications business.

«The single most consistent reason for underperformance in media companies is bad acquisitions,» the authors of the 2009 book write.

After 2006 most growth came from line extensions of existing brands or from acquisitions.

The acquisition of Popeyes will add a successful, highly regarded brand with strong customer loyalty to RBI, one of the largest global quick service restaurant companies with two of the world's most iconic QSR brands — Burger King and Tim Hortons.

After a record - setting year of mergers and acquisitions, it shouldn't be much of a surprise that the Fortune 500 companies that grew revenue most in 2015 did so through M&A.

He says they were able to do it so quickly because most of the applications and the cloud's web hosting feature already existed, touch applications for tablets were already being worked on, and value - adds such as cloud - based access to fonts were ready via the October 2011 acquisition of Typekit.

Nevertheless, Williams did manage to finish a number of projects at Twitter: He migrated Twitter to a new data center and revamped its technology; moved headquarters as the company grew, landing in offices in downtown San Francisco; made six small acquisitions; and hired another 280 employees, including most of the current management team.

Anheuser - Busch InBev has led the charge, scooping up 10 tiny brewers, including the most recent acquisition of North Carolina - based Wicked Weed in May.

Custom strategies required a new approach to talent acquisition, departmental structures and most of our existing processes.

Under Iger, the Mouse House has made some massive bets, most of which have paid off (the acquisitions of Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Marvel, to name a few).

Even SoundCloud, one of the most popular streaming platforms on the Internet, has reported that they are quickly running out of cash and exploring potential acquisition deals (not so much out of choice, but by necessity) because artists have no way to monetize their audiences.

The New York City real estate mogul's portfolio includes a number of luxury hotel properties throughout Manhattan, including the Ameritania Hotel at 54th and Broadway, the Moroccan - themed Marrakech Hotel on the Upper West Side, and, his most recent acquisition, the newly renovated Sanctuary Hotel on West 47th Street, which was named International Hotel of the Year at the 2011 European Hospitality Awards.

The mobile ad and analytics company is one of Yahoo's most expensive acquisition to date under CEO Marissa Mayer.

Most of Japan's response has been geared towards Japan's acquisition of more military equipment and systems.

The company's acquisition of carbon steel company Severstal Dearborn appears to have precipitated its stock downfall last year, wiping out most of its 2013 gains.

ITA's flight search, pricing and reservation programs were some of the most advanced in the industry; at the time of Google's acquisition of ITA in 2011, ITA was licensing its software to major travel search companies like Orbitz, Kayak, TripAdvisor, and Bing Travel.

Readers are cautioned that these forward - looking statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results due a variety of factors, including, among other things, that conditions to the closing of the transaction may not be satisfied, the potential impact on the business of Accompany due to the uncertainty about the acquisition, the retention of employees of Accompany and the ability of Cisco to successfully integrate Accompany and to achieve expected benefits, business and economic conditions and growth trends in the networking industry, customer markets and various geographic regions, global economic conditions and uncertainties in the geopolitical environment and other risk factors set forth in Cisco's most recent reports on Form 10 - K and Form 10 - Q.

To begin the process of checking your ROI, and assuming you use Google Analytics (the most popular analytics tool online), first go to the acquisition tab (sidebar) in Google Analytics.

Logic drives us to the inescapable fact that — barring freakish anomalies — SEO is a superior acquisition channel... most of the time.

While in the past, HR managers did the tedious work like payroll, today they're some of the most essential people in any organization, being at the centre of big strategic moves like mergers and acquisitions and corporate recruiting.

Pfizer landed one of 2016's most sought - after biopharma deals with its $ 14 billion acquisition of cancer drug maker Medivation, beating out the likes of Sanofi.