Sentences with phrase «number of leading companies»

Donna is extremely experienced in this area, having helped prepare social media policies and employment contracts for a number of leading companies in the UK, many of whom have a large following online.

He has provided in - house training for a number of leading companies in the finance sector on the litigation process.

The exhibition, organised by IMMA's Collection Department, is supported by a number of leading companies — Anglo Irish Bank, KPMG, The Irish Times and Image Now.

«A number of leading companies have their fiscal year ends around that time, and so they'll be firing heavyweights in terms of their product releases to give as much boost to their fiscal year end as they possibly can.

This would bring our Company in line with a growing number of leading companies, including UPS, Merck and Microsoft that support political disclosure and accountability and present this information on their websites.

This would bring it in line with a growing number of leading companies, including Capital One, JP Morgan Chase, and Visa, that support political disclosure and accountability and present this information on their websites.

Doing so would bring Amazon in line with a large number of leading companies — including Exelon, Merck, and Microsoft — that support political disclosure and accountability and present this information on their websites.

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Chinese tech giants are now outright acquiring or taking majority shares in overseas companies, such as Ctrip's (China's leading online travel agency and number two market leader in the world, second only to Priceline) acquisition of the UK's leading travel search site Skyscanner, Tencent's 93 % investment in U.S. - based gaming company Riot Games and 84 % investment in Finland - based gaming company Supercell, and Alibaba's 83 % stake in Southeast Asia's online shopping site Lazada.

Last week, a study published by the Kauffman Foundation using census data from the past 50 years, revealed some eye - opening statistics about the number of immigrant - led companies in America.

In June, Uber closed more than $ 1 billion from a number of venture capital companies, led by Fidelity Investments, making it the priciest startup ever with a value or more than $ 18 billion.

«As part of the preparation of the new strategy, executives of Vnesheconombank met with representatives of leading financial institutes in Europe, Asia, and America multiple times during 2016,» the bank said, adding that the meetings took place «with a number of representatives of the largest banks and business establishments of the United States, including Jared Kushner, the head of Kushner Companies.

Plank likes his chances, in part because the wide appeal of Under Armour's locker - room aesthetic and barking brand voice could transfer to any number of connected products (think: Future Girl), but also because he now has more fitness data about users than even the leading tech companies.

In the past, Chadwick served as the finance chief at a number of high profile companies, including Skype leading up to its acquisition by Microsoft (msft) in 2011, at McAfee leading up to its acquisition by Intel (intc) that same year, and earlier at Cisco (csco).

The financial crisis led many companies to cut down their hiring and layoff large numbers of their workforces.»

Poised to secure GolfTEC's position in the $ 62 billion golf industry, Assell needed a million - dollar influx of cash to expand his market - leading, high - tech, golf instruction business - he wanted to double the number of company - owned stores and expand the company's franchise operation.

Then the phone company realized that all of Glickman's customers» calls went to the same area code and «exchange» — the three - digit number that leads off the seven - digit phone number.

Lower wages allowed for higher company profits, which in turn led to an increase in the number of IT firms that entered the market, thus spurring competition and innovation.

Last year the PR agency scored with about half the target media on the top 10 list; that led to a record number of inquiries from potential customers who had read about the company, helping to fuel 32 % sales growth in 1991.

MathSoft, a $ 10 - million Cambridge, Mass., software company, measures the return on its PR investment by the number of sales leads generated by stories that appear in the trade press.

While the company didn't publicly commit to a specific number of new jobs, it quoted market research that calculated that its expansion in the country will lead to 28,000 new jobs and $ 17 billion in new revenue in Canada by 2022, when calculating all things like contracts with Salesforce partners and tech bought by Salesforce customers.

The company, led by CEO Richard Levin, former president of Yale University, has also recently established partnerships with a number of governments and nonprofit organizations to bring education to those in the greatest need.

In the last few months, a number of the industry's leading companies have been acquired by or have made acquisitions of smaller companies.

Despite a heightened level of political uncertainty, a potential US - led trade war against China and fraught Brexit negotiations, companies have embarked on an unprecedented number of big acquisitions this year.

Late last year, Fusion seemed full of promise: the company was hiring a number of leading writers and editors, such as former Atlantic editor Alexis Madrigal and former Reuters writer Felix Salmon, and was spending fairly large sums of money in order to do so.

It's part of what led Starbucks to be named number 5 on Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies list for 2018.

To create the definitive resource, I spoke with 20 companies who have run successful equity crowdfunding campaigns, 12 leading platforms from all around the world, and a number of other experts at the forefront of the equity crowdfunding revolution.

His equity offering experience includes public and private financings for a number of leading global technology, online gaming, media and telecom companies.

Canada is home to a number of world - leading cleantech companies that prove we have the talent to succeed.

In fact, a growing number of studies show that founder - led companies tend to outperform in the stock market.

While working with businesses, she realised the growing number of ASX - listed Chinese companies were struggling to connect with shareholders, leading to share price stagnation.

Over his investing career at GC, he was the lead investor and board member for a number of companies including Vitrue (acquired by Oracle), Highwinds (StackPath), Boxee (Samsung), Elemental Technologies (Amazon / AWS), HotPotato (Facebook), ThisTech (Comcast), The Honest Company, Bustle, Cozy, DECA / KinCommunity, NatureBox, RealtyShares, Singular and many others.

True, this has led to an explosion in new companies far beyond the levels seen previously, which is entirely expected — lower barriers to entry to any market means more total entries — but this has actually made it even more difficult for venture capitalists to invest in seed rounds: most aren't capable of writing massive numbers of seed checks; the amounts are just too small to justify the effort.

Led by Los Angeles and San Francisco, California claims a high number of ultra-wealthy families and, with the recent series of acquisitions and IPOs of California - based companies, that number is growing still.

For example, my company provides lead generation for a number of franchise concepts.

China once again leads the rankings geographically with the largest number of fast growing companies, 139 companies in the top 500 (up from 100 in 2014).

SeedUps Canada, a leading equity crowdfunding platform operating out of Calgary, is joining a growing number of platforms that are leveraging their own technology to self - crowdfund their company.

Three organizations led the round, Horizons Ventures, AXA Strategic Ventures, and Digital Garage, a number of the company's current investors upped their exposure with additional allocation, including AME Cloud Ventures, Blockchain Capital and Seven Seas Venture Partners.

These seemingly stunning numbers are leading to rapid profit growth (adjusted EBITDA) of 237 % and 90 % respectively in the company's Restructuring and Forensic divisions.

In one of the most publicised spats over executive pay in recent years, a number of BP plc shareholders voiced their displeasure over the level of pay awarded to Bob Dudley, the company's CEO, in the lead up to the Company's 20company's CEO, in the lead up to the Company's 20Company's 2016 AGM.

Former Uber engineer Susan Fowler's account of sexual harassment and sexism at the company set into motion a series of events that eventually led to the departure of a number of top executives including Kalanick's deputy SVP Emil Michael.

Expedition 15 to Seattle built upon the success of the previous year and included VIP tours of a number of leading entrepreneurial space companies, a Space Shuttle Trainer tour guided by a Space Shuttle pilot Greg Johnson, and special guests including Charles Simonyi, Michael Lopez - Alegria, Peter Diamandis, and key employees from SpaceX and Blue Origin.

The trip included VIP tours of a number of leading entrepreneurial space companies (including some of our portfolio companies), a high - altitude balloon launch with Stanford's Student Spaceflight Initiative, and special guests including Pete Worden and Steve Jurvetson.

As CEO of a number of public and private companies for over 20 years, he has led them from a loss position to profitability.

In our equity portfolios, we will therefore continue to steer clear of European companies that are exposed to both further dollar depreciation and the growth - trend reversal signalled by any number of leading economic indicators.

FLS Energy has developed solar energy systems for leading industrial and technology companies such as SAS Institute, Prestage Foods, and Kimberly Clark; universities and colleges such as Wake Forest University, Guilford College, and Appalachian State University; and a number of governmental institutions, hotels, and other commercial enterprises throughout the Southeast.

«Sir Martin Sorrell's resignation comes at a time when the company is already facing a number of operational challenges and introduces uncertainty over the strategy and ultimately the structure of the group going forward,» Christian Azzi, a Moody's assistant VP and lead analyst for WPP, said in a statement.

As Varun Bhanot, PR and business development lead at UK flexible workspace marketplace Hubble, explained: «Here at Hubble, we've had a number of corporations approach us for specific coworking space — some to use as a separate department arm for their company, others to set up a specific innovation lab to work on bleeding edge products.»

Investors have long known AWS was the fastest - growing part of Amazon, but seeing real numbers may lead some investors to call for it to be spun off into a separate company.

The mortgage company reportedly established the $ 4,250 monthly fee by projecting the average number of lead referrals it expected to receive from Keller Williams Mid-Willamette real estate agents, as per the MSA.

This represents a 26 % year - over-year decrease in the number of female - led companies that raised an A in the Bay Area compared with 2014.