Sentences with phrase «of acquiring firms»

I don't need to tell you what the divorce statistics are like; and in corporate - land, McKinsey has published an estimate that only 23 % of acquiring firms recovered their acquisition costs within 10 years...» More here on why MacEwen thinks merger failures have a lot less to do with dollars than they do with (cultural) sense.

We're exploring possibilities [of acquiring firms] ourselves.

Both of the acquired firms have promising projects in Nunavut.

Most of the time, the teams of acquired firms end up working on in - house initiatives by Apple.

In each of our acquisitions transactions, we take great pride in maintaining the integrity of your company as well as that of the acquired firm.

Not exact matches

• MTech Acquisition, an Orlando - based blank check company formed to acquire a cannabis - related firm, filed for a $ 50 million IPO of 5 million units.

«Outsourcing to a trucking firm would allow UPS to enter into the final - mile business without committing its own capital up front to expand its fleet or acquire end - of - line, final - mile infrastructure such as terminals,» R.W. Baird analyst Ben Hartford said.

In 1998, he spun ImmGenics Pharmaceuticals out of research at UBC and raised $ 20 million before the firm was acquired by Abgenix Inc., a collaborator out of California.

Whenever Tencent sees a game they like — based on specific metrics, of course — it decides to either build it itself and improve on it, or invest and acquire the firm behind it.»

One such firm, Datalogix, was acquired last year by Oracle for a rumoured high nine figures, a tidy sum for a black - box process that, at the end of the day, can essentially only correlate interest and purchase behaviour.

• Houzz Inc acquired IvyMark, a New York - based provider of business management software for interior design firms.

• Kuvare, a portfolio company of Altamont Capital, Makena & Access Holdings, acquired United Life, a Cedar Rapid, Iowa - based insurance firm.

• Castle Harlan acquired the North American production equipment manufacturing assets of Exterran Corp., a Houston - based oil and gas firm.

At one point, nearly a third of the Fortune 500 firms were acquired.

Acquiring new customers via email marketing has quadrupled since 2009 and now comprises some 7.5 percent of all gained customers, according to a recent report from Custora, a New York City - based marketing analytics firm.

• On Location Experiences, a portfolio company of RedBird Capital Partners, Bruin Sports Capital, and 32 Equity, acquired PrimeSport, a Atlanta - based firm providing direct access to sports and entertainment events.

Typically, an inversion results when a U.S. firm acquires a foreign firm, and in the process of the transaction, reincorporates so that the foreign firm is the parent company and the U.S. firm is a subsidiary.

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington is reporting that an investor group consisting of venture capital and private equity firms are combining resources to make a bid to acquire the Internet phone company from eBay.

Rosalind Resnick, the founder and CEO of Axxess Business Consulting, a New York City consulting firm that advises startups and small businesses, is the co-founder and former CEO of NetCreations, a two - person homebased web design firm that grew to a $ 58 million public company and was acquired for $ 111 million in cash in 2001.

They also provide a community for startups that many don't have access to unless they are the darling of the huge firms, and have taken part in several rounds in famous companies, including Instacart, Coinbase and Screenhero, acquired by Slack to fuel their videoconferencing surge.

It rebuilds the interiors of regional jets that have been acquired by firms for their own use, and provides maintenance services.

By 2009, when it acquired Accurate, the firm had invested most of that fund in three businesses.

Inversion is a process whereby a bigger organization targets and acquires a smaller firm that's located in a more corporate tax - friendly country, with the deal structured so that the smaller company becomes the controlling partner of the larger firm.

For example, giant tech firms often struggle to keep up with the ingenious pace of new tech startups — some find a solution in acquiring the agile business, rather than trying to compete directly.

«Particularly with oil prices hitting lows at some point in the first quarter... lots of sub investment - grade firms could be under a lot of stress, and for those with stronger balance sheets, those companies could take this as an opportunity to buy and acquire assets,» Deshpande said in a phone interview.

The firm reached $ 17 million in annual revenue before being acquired by California Cryobank, one of the world's largest sperm banks, in a multimillion - dollar deal in December.

The Chinese firm agreed to acquire control of Brazil's ride service 99, the companies announced earlier this month.

When Oracle announced it was gunning for the software firm with an unwelcome $ 5.1 - billion offer, observers were stunned at the audacity of the move, which came as PeopleSoft was in the midst of inking its own $ 1.8 billion deal to acquire smaller software firm J.D. Edwards & Co..

Stephen DiFranco is the founder of The IoT Advisory Group, a Silicon Valley firm that guides companies as they create, build, acquire and transact IoT business units.

This week brought the clearest demonstration yet of Chinese tech firms» global ambitions as Didi Chuxing raised $ 4 billion in new venture funding and signaled its interest in acquiring control of the largest taxi - on - demand service in Brazil.

After acquiring more than 65 tech firms in the past five years, the mercurial CEO announced in September that he would be «buying chip companies,» suggesting that Oracle is positioning itself for what Bill Tatham, head of Toronto - based enterprise software firm NexJ Systems, describes as «another level of world domination.»

UnitedHealth has struck a $ 4.9 billion deal to acquire the DaVita Medical unit of kidney dialysis firm DaVita in an all - cash transaction.

Craig Powell is CEO of Motus, a Boston - based vehicle management and reimbursement app, which was acquired in January 2018, along with its rival Runzheimer, by Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm.

Alibaba plans to acquire a one - third stake in Ant, which operates Alipay, while Singaporean state investment firm Temasek Holdings wants to be the lead investor ahead of Ant's anticipated IPO.

Starks first joined St. Jude in 1996 as part of the firm's purchase of another corporation, took over as CEO and president in 2004, and has acquired a string of smaller companies since.

That was shortly before Valeant began to unravel, originally due to a growing chorus of politicians pointing out that the firm had significantly hiked the price of a number of drugs it had acquired.

Ahern earned an electrical engineering degree from University of Vermont and with help from an unnamed angel investor who «bet on people heading in the right direction» started a company in 2002 — Industrial Defender, a cybersecurity firm that protects industrial control systems for the electrical grid, oil and gas, and chemical companies — which Lockheed Martin acquired in 2014.

That's according to Dave and Helen Edwards, co-founders of artificial intelligence research firm Intelligenstia.ai, who used a recent Quartz post to explain which skills are least likely to be automated — and what parents should do to help their kids acquire them.

Consider also a company like Horizon Pharma (HZNP), a biopharmaceutical firm that has acquired three other pharma firms since September of 2014.

Over the course of six seasons, viewers have watched the firm's partners battle for business, come to blows, grow big, get acquired, fall apart, relaunch as a start - up, lose key clients, gain even better clients — and most recently, merge with a rival.

• Alliance Source Testing, a portfolio company of Align Capital Partners, acquired Air Pollution Testing, a source emission testing firm with offices in Denver, Salt Lake City, and Anchorage.

Robert Coury, executive chairman of Mylan, led the pharma firm's unsuccessful attempt to acquire Perrigo, which was one of the largest hostile takeover battles of 2015.

Rajaratnam was found to have raked in tens of millions of dollars trading on secrets illegally acquired from a network of contacts inside firms like IBM, investment bank Goldman Sachs and management consultancy McKinsey & Co., whom he richly compensated for the leaks.

Private equity firm Apollo Global Management said on Sunday it had agreed to acquire ClubCorp Holdings, one of the largest owners and operators of private golf and country clubs in the United States, for $ 1.1 billion.

A divestment of Ortho - Clinical Diagnostics, which Carlyle acquired from Johnson & Johnson in 2014 for $ 4 billion, would show how buyout firms can turn unloved businesses of major corporations into lucrative investments within a few years.

Washington is accusing Chinese firms of stealing the trade secrets of U.S. companies and forcing them into joint ventures to acquire their technology — the crux of Trump's current tariff threats against China.

Listed real estate firm Agency Group Australia, formerly Ausnet Financial Services, has acquired three arms of struggling tech company Servtech Global Holdings for less than $ 1 million, while also announcing a $ 3 million capital raising.

«When you get resistance for a common infection, it's a big problem, which we're sort of ignoring a bit like global warming,» said Dr. Colin Broom, the CEO of Nabriva Therapeutics, a biotech firm developing a new antibiotic to treat community - acquired bacterial pneumonia.

He previously served as Managing Director and head of marketing and communications for GMI Ratings, a sustainability and corporate governance research firm acquired by MSCI.

Time Incorporated, the parent company of Time, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, among others, announced on Thursday that it will acquire the assets of Viant Technology, a New York data - driven marketing firm.