Sentences with phrase «of a few companies with»

The rapid expansion of internet - connected devices will put even more power in the hands of a few companies with the biggest cloud services.

Fiscally conservative for decades, JNJ is one of the few companies with an AAA credit rating.

When the Navy needed someone to build 28 Virginia class nuclear attack submarines, as well as 12 Columbia class ballistic missile subs, General Dynamics was one of the few companies with the facilities and technical background to get the job done, so it won the primary contractor position on both.

Not exact matches

A Babson College study reported that in 1999, fewer than 5 percent of venture capital investments went to companies with a woman on the executive team.

Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.

ONE of Perth's newest, and smallest, law firms is working with some of the world's biggest companies, capitalising on a niche area in which few other businesses in the Asia Pacific region have experti

In a report for the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration, Nicole and Mark Crain of Lafayette University explained that the per - employee cost of federal regulatory compliance was $ 10,585 for businesses with 19 or fewer employees, but only $ 7,755 for companies with 500 or more.

Service businesses are best valued on revenue and profitability since there are few hard assets, while production assets of companies in manufacturing tend to be substantial drivers of valuation along with revenue and profitability.

Quebec, for example, launched a program in 2015 that covers 50 % of the costs of applying for a patent (or up to $ 25,000) for companies with fewer than 250 employees.

A 2016 global fraud study found that businesses with fewer than 100 employees suffered the same median level of theft — $ 150,000 — as much larger companies.

Fully 29 percent of adult workers at companies with fewer than 25 employees were uninsured in 2007.

Work on major LNG projects involving Western Australian companies is progressing with $ 580 million worth of contracts awarded in the past few days.

Many web development companies will provide an overview of the scope with a few pages to illustrate a specific template to follow.

Even more impressive, companies with fewer than 20 workers account for 90 percent of all U.S. companies.

Your company benefits because you and your employees could learn how to adopt practices with a number of advantages (such as decreased stress or fewer people needing to take sick days).

Imagine your communities with fewer places to work — after all, there aren't a whole lot of large companies willing to relocate to a town of just 5,000 people — with fewer employed people.

The two companies have been forced to follow in Adidas» footsteps as it has run away with one of the few sectors of the sportswear market that is growing rapidly: lifestyle running.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings sat down with Business Insider Poland's Adam Turek in Rome this week to discuss a few recent developments for the company, including its new partnership with the European cable network Sky and its decision to pull out of the Cannes Film Festival.

And while we don't yet have a lot of specifics on what the Amazon venture with JPM and Berkshire will entail — the companies smartly left the details vague — «we can make up a few things,» says Wolf.

Eighty percent believe they will stay with four or fewer companies over the course of their career.

Just a few months ago, this column's critique of one company's marketing professionalism was met with a vigorous defence on Twitter, even as the company was posting a recruitment ad for a marketing manager requiring just two to five years» experience (which didn't even have to be in marketing).

If you go to an Ivy League school, «there are prestigious companies that will take a chance on you even if you majored in classics or medieval history,» he writes, but «the problem is that while we need lots and lots of people with humanities and social science backgrounds, in today's increasingly anti-intellectual climate, majoring in philosophy is becoming a risk that fewer and fewer people can afford to take.»

At the moment, he estimates that only 5 percent of his customers order beverages through the app, but it's a number that's been picking up steam over the last few months; if the trend continues, and 5 percent grows to a more substantial slice of the pie, he says he'd push to renegotiate his terms with the company.

In the early days of the company, Rovello and Rosenblatt worked with a few contract programmers in Ukraine and eventually hired them full time.

With that, she's built a company that will do about a billion dollars of revenue this year, and it will be profitable in a few years.

Fewer companies died in the first quarter than is typically the case: there were 117,730 exits compared with an average since 2001 of about 121,000.

Over the past few months, the company has been hit with a barrage of bad press, including reports of several high - profile departures and growing financial troubles.

Bates, a Brit with a deep technical background and big - company chops, was perhaps one of the few executives — «a needle in a haystack,» Durban calls him — who could wrangle strong - willed engineers spread across half the globe.

And with a simple Google search of a business often yielding reviews of a company within the first few results, businesses need to be paying attention more than ever to what consumers are saying about them online, Caver said.

Most press releases are boring fluff composed of a few company statistics mixed in with some equally boring quotes.

He was repeatedly grilled by a shareholder about what he saw is a misalignment of interests with the board and management who owned few shares in the company.

A whole heap of the world's wealth is tied up with a select few companies.

«I was managing a subsidiary of the company with a few hundred employees and a big portion of the business, but still I was managing things pretty fast.

Be sure your package includes most or all of the benefits that Company A is currently getting from Company B — with a few new elements thrown in to show that you've done your homework.

He said he left with a different impression after seeing many new companies and many of the same companies he saw just a few years ago.

With the excitement of earnings season slowing down, Walmart will be one of the few remaining market - moving companies to report its latest quarterly results this week, along with a handful of other big retailWith the excitement of earnings season slowing down, Walmart will be one of the few remaining market - moving companies to report its latest quarterly results this week, along with a handful of other big retailwith a handful of other big retailers.

Here's a simple test: If someone sat down with you and asked you a series of questions about your company's revenue, expenses, and profits (or losses) for the previous month, quarter, and year, could you answer within a few minutes, using your accounting software?

She discovered those MLM companies — the multilevel marketing, where, pyramid - style, one person recruits another and gets a cut of their sales — and tried out a few with varying success.

To help these small businesses boost their brands and recruit highly - skilled applicants, LinkedIn has introduced a suite of paid services designed to help companies with fewer than 500 employees showcase their talent brand and conduct passive recruitment year - round.

Desautels is one of the few with an incorporated investment company authorized to attract outside money.

Vigorate — which has revenues in the $ 4 to 8 million range and ranked 255th on the 2013 PROFIT 500 — opened a Chicago sales office a few years ago to make further inroads with professional sports teams in the U.S. And in 2012, it set up a similar sales hub in Barcelona, reckoning, as Grieve explains, that the sprawling European soccer industry would also be receptive to the sort of digital marketing the company provides to North American leagues.

I used this approach with a friend of mine a few years ago for a website he was building for his tutoring company - Genesis Tutoring.

Any business that is offering business - to - business (B2B) services or products is most likely best served with advertising on LinkedIn, which can target specific professions, hierarchy levels, employees of a specific company or industries, just to name a few.

That, combined with the demand for income from investors and the fact that companies have so much cash saved up, makes Iyer believe that over the next few years dividends will once again make up a significant part of the market's total return.

In each of its participating cities, Uber partners with a couple restaurants each day to offer meals to its customers, which the company delivers via courier within just a few minutes.

The New York - based business has grown to 130 employees (at the time of the application the company had fewer than 100 employees) and works with clients that include big name businesses like Lufthansa, Microsoft, Hearst and Comcast, all while its core values have remained the same.

In a recent survey of 1,000 public companies by ShareData, a Silicon Valley - based supplier of employee - stock - plan software and services, 74 % of the companies with less than $ 50 million in sales, and 68 % of those with fewer than 100 employees, offered stock - option plans to all employees.

Executives of the company, which allows its more than 100 million users to send messages that disappear after a few seconds, are in advanced talks with fund managers, the person told Bloomberg.

«Amazon is one of the few companies that sees significant e-commerce dollars,» notes Greg Sterling, an Internet and mobile analyst with San Francisco - based Internet2Go — an Opus Research advisory service.

Now, none of these sound groundbreaking until you realize how few companies do any of them with real transparency, accountability or commitment, and how much of an impact these changes can have.