Sentences with phrase «of bad publicity»

The franchise sector has received a lot of bad publicity in recent years.

While much of the bad publicity about pit bulls centers on their fighting dog history, what's often left out of the equation is that they are true terriers.

First, it is quite likely that it would lose heavily and suffer a great deal of bad publicity.

I think this is kind of bad publicity - all these bad reviews.

They're never going to fix it, they just said they would to get rid of the bad publicity and stop people requesting refunds.

It's a very well - run company that has had a lot of bad publicity.

But with the sudden tidal wave of bad publicity over Facebook's data collection — and the selling of that data — it looks like a May preview of the new tech toys is now on hold.

If Ford seems like it's getting a disproportionate amount of bad publicity for its hybrids and infotainment systems, there's a reason: Ford is pushing harder than any other US automaker to redefine the car and the driving experience, especially in making entertainment and navigation useful and affordable.

The speed with which Primark has acted is not surprising given the amount of bad publicity generated.

April 24 (Reuters)- Burger King owner Restaurant Brands International Inc and its franchisees will spend C$ 700 million ($ 546 million) over four years to revamp coffee chain Tim Hortons, following a round of bad publicity over its management of the Canadian chain.

Since his hiring, Deitch has faced a wave of bad publicity for his populist approach.

Why Goldman Sachs, which has had its own share of bad publicity over the years and always talks about being in the business of making sound judgments, would actively participate in a deal for a major gun retailer is baffling.

The perfect storm of bad publicity helped cause a precipitous drop in Bitcoin value.

Uber, of course, has promised to clean up its corporate culture after a spate of bad publicity about sexual harassment and a damning video of CEO Travis Kalanick cursing out a driver.

It sounded counterintuitive, he said, but the big national chains, ever fearful of bad publicity, include harsh penalties in their franchise agreements for failing health inspections.

After a few years of disappointment, for both Arsenal and England, and with a few pieces of bad publicity following him around, the young Gunner Jack Wilshere has admitted that this season is an absolutely huge one for him.

Their business could have experienced temporarily lower sales than they had in the past because of bad publicity, legal issues, or simply lagging behind competitors.

RBC got itself a whole heap of bad publicity and angry customers last week, when word got out it was outsourcing a number of its IT roles to Indian firm iGate.

Adjustable rate mortgages — referred to as ARMs — have received a lot of bad publicity in recent years.

In June 2012 he ousted Abrams, a decision that attracted a wave of bad publicity when the New York Post reported — falsely, according to Buffett — that Abrams had been fired for spending company money on a Bermuda cruise.

At Tim Hortons, where the company is dealing with the fallout of bad publicity from its reaction to minimum wage increases in the country, comparable sales fell 0.3 percent in the quarter.

Munoz is under pressure to contain a torrent of bad publicity and calls for boycotts against United unleashed by videos that captured Dao «s rough treatment by airline and airport security staff.

This distances them in the eyes of consumers from the «corporate» feel of burger chains — and their legacy of bad publicity — says Sophie Carroll of Planet Retail, another research outfit.

I suspect that if it was making billions of dollars a year, rather than losing billions of dollars a year, then the investors might have been a bit more tolerant of bad publicity and sexual harassment and discrimination and privacy violations and theft of trade secrets and obstructing government authorities and I am sure I am forgetting some things.

American companies have been offshoring jobs for more than two decades, with multinationals such as IBM and Intel surviving many bouts of bad publicity due to offshoring and other controversial employment practices.

I don't know if it was the weeks and months of bad publicity leading into the event that set the bar so low, but I have been pleasantly surprised with how the week has gone so far.

«He apologised publicly for what happened at the time and has paid for what he did, in terms of the bad publicity he has received since and will no doubt continue to suffer in the future.

Defense attorneys on Wednesday speculated that the 84 percent reduction may be the result of bad publicity in The Post and other news outlets.

State political leaders are eager to look somewhat less beholden to real - estate cash; the industry knows that the recent run of bad publicity has weakened its hand, and it is eager to preserve the larger tax benefits of the program.

Storms of bad publicity hit the industry in the form of stories about arrogant executives and thousand - dollar pills.

When funding for Pauling's institute fell, as a consequence of the bad publicity, and when all his political acumen and pugilistic letters did not bear fruit, he threatened legal action.

Are genetically modified organisms (GMOs) really bad for the environment and your health or just victims of bad publicity?

Fellow new release I Know Who Killed Me, meanwhile, fell on its sword of bad publicity swirling around star Lindsay Lohan; a late scratch in some rural areas, the movie opened in just over 1,300 theaters, and grossed only $ 3.4 million.

Do you think Kaiser wants 45 straight days of bad publicity on «Nancy Grace?»

They are already recognized as the most promising Android brand, now they just need to deliver and avoid the massive dump of bad publicity that the Prime earned them (especially complaints of piss - poor customer support).

Whether it's the impact of bad publicity or the recession cutting into purebred dog sales, the number of commercial dog breeders licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture is declining, from 3,486 in 2009, to 2,904 in 2010 and 2,205 in 2011, according to USDA spokesman Dave Sacks said.

Quite a few people have recently been looking to Uber - alternatives given a slew of bad publicity for Uber.

Failure to do so can lead to fines and ultimately criminal sanctions against the business and also the individual, not to mention the risk of bad publicity should the business fail to compile to any minimum legal employment rights.

Rob De Luca, a spokesperson for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, said that the more likely deterrent to arise from cases like this is companies» fear of bad publicity.

This news comes on the heels of bad publicity that Faraday Future has been receiving, including a report that says the company is behind its payments to AECOM, the construction firm that was originally responsible for building the factory.

And a flurry of bad publicity that centered mainly on Wells has so far failed to slow down the stream of new unlisted offerings set to hit the market in 2004.

April 24 - Burger King owner Restaurant Brands International Inc and its franchisees will spend C $ 700 million over four years to revamp coffee chain Tim Hortons, following a round of bad publicity over its management of the Canadian chain.

Cage dryers have also garnered a fair share of bad publicity.

In the last few days, the new set of tougher math and English language standards for grades K - 12 has suffered a spate of bad publicity that could undermine its very purpose — and turn off an already skeptical public.

They are fearful of bad publicity.

A bad customer support experience post can go viral and be seen by millions of people in a single day, causing a company untold amounts of bad publicity.