Sentences with phrase «national companies like»

The company's 31 employees work hard to produce sprouted grains and sprouted - grain flours for customers around the country and around the world, including national companies like Kellogg, which plans to use To Your Health sprouted grains in a new Kashi brand cereal.

At the same time, Brooklyn is evolving from a borough of local businesses to a home of national companies like Etsy, Kickstarter and Vice Media, with an emphasis on technology.

Residential solar installation also makes a lot more sense for local installers rather than a national company like Sunrun.

Bloggers have to weigh the convenience of a hosted solution like Blogger with the price for that solution — being at the mercy of a trans - national company like Google.

Adding a highly respected and award - winning national company like Amica to our carrier panel is really exciting for us,» said compare.com CEO Andrew Rose.

Not exact matches

A company that became a national phenomenon with retail alchemy — a rare ability to attract millions with hip designer items at clear - out prices — has seen that delicate formula stifled by excessive caution and a strangling bureaucracy, even as competitors emulated Target's approach, and fast - fashion retailers like H&M, off - price chains such as T.J. Maxx, and dollar stores all muscled onto its turf.

He has lectured and consulted for companies like Google, National Geographic, the Jewish National Fund and major organizations in the USA, Israel, Europe and Austrailia.

For all the heady talk about universal health coverage and / or «Medicare for all,» companies know they're stuck holding a good chunk of the national $ 3.3 trillion medical bill — a bill that has been growing like a parasitic «tapeworm,» as Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett described it in the companies» joint press release.

Several young companies with roots in Silicon Valley are trying to elbow their way into a business long dominated by national governments and aeronautics giants like Boeing.

As marijuana legalization slowly passes state by state and lawmakers discuss national reform, companies are calling into question prohibition - era policies like employee drug testing.

This could mean companies that would traditionally fall outside the guidelines — like Vale SA, which is publicly traded but partly owned by the Brazilian government, or China's Huawai, which is privately owned but closely associated with its national government — would suddenly be branded as SOEs.

''... I used to joke with my colleagues that Larry & Sergey go out on their yachts - tie them together, sit back on the same recliners you'll find on their jumbo jet, each on his own yacht / set of yachts, smoke cigars, and put up pictures of Googlers with little snippets like «was a GM at muti - national telecomm company, got a Harvard MBA and is now answering Orkut tickets.»

Some of the strongest national brands and companies, like BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, aren't largely known to be Canadian outside our borders, and there was only so long the country's space reputation could rest on the shoulder of the Canadarm.

«Nearly one in five job ads for China's 2018 national civil service called for «men only» or «men preferred,» while major companies like Alibaba have published recruitment ads promising applicants «beautiful girls» as co-workers,» Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, said.

Founded in 2014, the Birmingham Ala. company allows customers to shop at national and regional retailers like H - E-B, Meijer, Costco, Whole Foods and ABC Fine Wine & Spirits through its app.

There are some who say students should be willing to repay the loans, regardless of whether private companies like National Collegiate can produce the documentation.

The federal government routinely asks large companies like Apple (AAPL) for user data and cooperation in national security investigations.

In a state like California or Texas, these companies tend to be gargantuan in size even from a national or international perspective.

America's largest companies have a long way to go before they can achieve equal pay — the National Women's Law Center reports American women make $ 0.80 for men's $ 1.00 — but companies like General Motors and PepsiCo are making changes that pay women and men equally for the same work and foster pathways to higher - paying leadership positions.

They take two forms: national value brands, like the Sweet and Fresh douche Lepone inherited when he became CEO of the merged company, and store brands.

However, a researcher at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, Brooke Williams, uncovered that Pfizer, among other companies like General Motors and ExxonMobil, had given between $ 10,000 and $ 25,000 to the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The FAA, with the help of a consortium of aviation experts, government agencies, and companies like Amazon (amzn) and Google (goog), debuted the national drone registration system in December 2015.

That's one reason why NASA, various universities, drone startups like AirMap and Skyward, as well as big companies like Google (goog) and Amazon (amzn) are trying to build a national drone traffic management system.

Operating conditions have proved hostile for some large companies, with the Chinese government aiming to create «national champions» in high - margin and high - tech industries like pharmaceuticals and automobiles.

The company now offers products for every exterior surface of a building, working on projects ranging from bungalows to shopping centres to flashy Mercedes - Benz dealerships to public buildings like the National Library and Archives of Canada.

And what's even more interesting for existing media companies, a traditional title like National Geographic has been able to build a relatively huge following with millennials through social media, using many of the same techniques BuzzFeed and Vice employ.

These companies include the likes of Sophos, whose marketing materials boasted that it protected the U.K.'s National Health Service, which suffered terrible attacks on Friday:

Earlier this month, for instance, the EU introduced new guidelines that encouraged national and local authorities to ditch the patchwork of regulatory actions that apply to sharing economy startups like Uber and Airbnb, saying that the current rules have created uncertainty for companies and consumers alike.

But when a plot of land on that road finally went up for sale, Kennedy, the founder of Noodles & Company — a $ 120 million national restaurant chain headquartered nearby — discovered it was too close to the street for his liking.

Staffers liked that he wasn't afraid to openly skirt their parent company, always pushing to focus on local issues rather than Tribune Publishing's national strategy.

Large multinational customers prefer a provider that can give them infrastructure at national or global scale, and if you're a company with one or two regional locations, you're mostly stuck competing with public cloud giants like Amazon and Microsoft for the dollars of local small and mid-size businesses.

He says the money Xiaomi stands to make doesn't interest him in and of itself; those in his orbit say it's more what the money represents — the company joining the ranks of China's so - called national champions, the likes of Jack Ma's Alibaba, Pony Ma's Tencent Holdings Ltd., and Robin Li's Baidu Inc. «I wanted to lead a Chinese company,» the 48 - year - old says, «to become No. 1 in the world.»

At a time when cybersecurity is an increasing concern, franchise partners like Freund utilize CMIT's national reputation and brand recognition to deliver cutting - edge protection for companies who want to know that a trusted business partner will take care of their IT needs.

I have a long track record of stepping in as a director and helping clean up companies like Federal - Mogul, Motorola, XO Communications, Philip Services, National Energy, and Yahoo.

But Elliot Weissbluth, CEO of HighTower Advisors — a nine - year - old national financial services company with more than $ 30 billion in assets under management that has long adhered to the fiduciary standard — says it's like the difference between getting dietary advice from a butcher or from a registered dietician.

Whether you want to be a successful local moving company like, Moving Service Beaverton or a national interstate moving company like United Van Lines, you will have to start out small just like them.

But they have become increasingly popular over the last decade with the growth of national funds affiliated with big financial services companies like Fidelity, Vanguard and Charles Schwab.

It started with social media calls for companies — like Hertz, MetLife, and Delta — to end their partnerships with the National Rifle Association.

EBITDA is the cash flow proxy above, and debt is slowly declining even as the company grows its casino base with projects like MGM Cotai and MGM National Harbor.

The latter means that foreign companies should be treated like national firms.

«We are always in competition with other companies, not only in the grocery store arena, but also with the national chains of pizzerias, like Pizza Hut or Domino's,» he says.

Based in Texas City, Texas, the company today markets and distributes beers across 17 counties in Southeast Texas from national suppliers like ABInBev and Constellation to national, regional and local craft brewers.

Last week we went to Orlando for my company's annual National Sales Meeting, where thousands of Insight Globalites congregate for a cult - like meeting where we all chant how great IG is, drink more alcoholic beverages than necessary, and eat entirely too much junk food.

The facilities that bought and processed his apples and those of other Sonoma County farmers went under as national produce companies turned increasingly to the cheap concentrate from China, and by 2004, Manzana Products Company, a large gray aerodrome - like facility, was the last processor in town.

«We're pleased that the National Organic Program has recognized that these ingredients play a necessary role in helping processors like dairy companies create desirable organic products that meet consumer expectations,» said Emily R. Lyons, IDFA director of regulatory affairs and counsel.

Peter Laufer: Yes, except in the environment that we have and the type capitalism we practice the regulatory agency in question which is the USDA, the United States Department of Agriculture; the National Organic Program, the NOP, is serving business at least as much as it's servicing the rest of us and maybe more and it's the position of the USDA that if companies like Trader Joe's or others decide that the origin of their products is a proprietary business tool, then they are successfully able to hide behind that claim and not tell you where something you're going to buy and eat came from.

In 2005, after Sarah launching products, creating brands, and sharing her energy at places like Yahoo!, Microsoft, the World Bank, AIESEC, and The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), Sarah founded sweetriot, a mission - based company in NYC, which strives to build yummy, healthy, social responsible treats in a different way for a different generation.

He has 20 years of national ad agency experience, with several Cannes Lions, Effies and Clios to his name, for brands ranging from industry leaders like Coca Cola, Southwest Airlines and Stonyfield Farm, to successful next generation companies like renewable energy start - up Southwest Windpower and social enterprise Better World Books.

I think the sign off from CRA above says it all... Just like when you read a voter ballot on propositions, I go straight to the source of who is behind the voice, and CRA consistently has used this «trace» argument time and again, just like the chem companies do with the lead in lipstick (I just attended the Teens Turning Green national summit, and found the debriefing almost verbatim to the CRA «counterpoint» above... it's only a «little» lead, not enough to... blahdeblah, times «x» amounts of applications per day times «x» amounts of other products with «trace» amounts, ad infinitum...)

Sometimes companies listen to our concerns and sometimes they don't, but even a «loss» is a win when individuals like 100 Days of Real Food and the Food Babe can get the national media to shine a spotlight on important food issues many consumers know nothing about.