Sentences with phrase «of companies as a whole»

Close to 40 % became shareholders, a development that seemed to inspire workers to look beyond their own wages and working conditions and consider the health of the company as a whole.

This not only helps smooth the workflow during summer vacations, but gives the student a broader understanding of the company as a whole.

As a representative of the company as a whole, Jill felt it was her personal responsibility to get the customer the items she was expecting.

«Because of Know Your Company, we now know how truly deeply our staff is interested in, cares about and wants to help drive the strategic vision and direction of the company as a whole.»

As the economy grows over time, the stock - market, which reflects the value of companies as a whole, tends to rise and many companies are able to increase their payments, or dividends to shareholders.

But, if I were in the seat of the competitors, I would tell my municipal divisions to ignore the problems of the company as a whole, and keep writing good business at pricing levels below that of BHAC.

The activist, Jaguar Financial Corporation, says the group want a sale of the company as a whole or in parts, and the replacement of co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, RIMM's two largest shareholders.

«Dishonest» is really the only word I can find that describes my opinion of the company as a whole.

Mr. Kumar discusses recent developments of the company as a whole, what is going on in India, and his career in financial services.

I'm confident that these changes will benefit the bottom line of the company as a whole, and I have let [Supervisor's Name] know how extremely helpful you've been to me and our team over the course of the past few weeks.

Objectives: To obtain a position in which I can bring my vast experience, in many positions previously held, in manufacturing and management, while improving the betterment of the company as a whole.

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It's now not only Allen's top holding, but the biggest position of T. Rowe Price as a whole, a company with almost $ 950 billion under management.

For Lululemon, this recall is nowhere near as damaging as the whole sheer pants debacle of 2013, but because the company is still under the microscope after that event, the media has pounced on this story and created a batch of bad headlines.

According to Jeff Cheal, director of personalization, campaign and analytics strategy for the global software company Episerver, companies are trying to glean as much data as possible to both give individual customers a more personalized experience, but also to better understand the customer base as a whole.

He isn't that concerned with capturing a lot of market share out of the gate, he says, but has loftier ambitions to reduce the cost of capital, foster new companies and ultimately increase the equities pool in Canada as a whole.

Today, each of the startup's farms features vertically stacked trays where the company grows carrots, cucumbers, potatoes, and, its main product high - end baby greens, which it sells to grocers on the East Coast including Whole Foods, ShopRite, and Fresh Direct, as well as to dining halls at businesses like Goldman Sachs and The New York Times.

Sooner or later, every successful company confronts the dilemma of hiring an ad agency (for the purpose of this screed, we'll use that term to describe marketing services companies of all stripes, such as creative ad shops, digital agencies, PR firms — the whole hairball).

The system also allows the job to be tracked from acceptance, through production and delivery.CJ King is currently providing door - to - door UK turnaround in four working days on jobs that would normally take two to three weeks in the UK.By implementing a high level of integration and standardisation over the whole prepress, print and finishing process, the company is able to run large jobs over multiple presses achieving identical results, as well as short runs without delays in changeover and make readies.

Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are, well, just what they sound like: groups of employees that function as (you guessed it) a resource, for members of such groups but also for companies as a whole.

«I think as soon as the [federal] budget is introduced,» says Kane, «we're going to have a whole set of new rules to help Canadian technology companies bring in highly skilled workers.»

Michal Kauffman writes: By Stage 4, in addition to the panic the company may be feeling as a whole, all sorts of competing interests come out of the woodwork when it comes time to actually move forward with significant investments and real money: from the European tech team that is jazzed about the acquisition, to the U.S. tech team that's threatened by it, to the corporate VC team that hates it because it will undermine a competing investment in their portfolio, to the Services Division as a whole worried about their jobs if the acquisition goes through and much of their work gets automated, etc....

As Dave Hackenburg, who runs an industrial pollination services company in Pennsylvania, says, «If you start shortening lives of bees, just by a few days, young bees have to go to the field earlier, and the whole thing gets messed up.»

At work, the link between an employee's day - to - day work and the success of the business can be less obvious but employees must understand the importance of their contribution to the success of their department and company as a whole.

Great Wall may want only Jeep, but FCA will want to sell the whole company (with the likely exceptions of the Alfa Romeo and Maserati brands, which could be spun off as Ferrari was in 2015.)

It's suffering the same fate as most media companies — lower ad buys, ad pages sold at discounted rates, the closing of its Whole Living magazine and Every Day Food's move from print to digital all impacted revenues.

Conceived as a kind of online - only Whole Foods combined with a Costco - like warehouse club model, Green and fellow co-founder Gunnar Lovelace created the organic delivery company just two years ago.

Critics may complain that the company has strayed far from its wholesome roots but, without Whole Foods, it's hard to imagine many of the decades trends in food, from sustainable fishing to artisanal cheese, taking off as they have.

So as the idea developed, about 6 months after doing this kind of exploration where we'd meet continually with a whole bunch of different people, industry thinkers and stuff, it became clear that we could actually start a company around this and we could build the world's first social magazine.

Facebook hasn't started making money from its Messenger app, but getting more businesses to use it in new ways opens up a whole host of revenue opportunities, like making businesses pay to blast users with deal announcements or to appear as «suggested» companies to chat with in Messenger.

A look at this list as a whole reveals something altogether more interesting than who had the greatest number of grumpy customers: of the worst 20 companies in the index, seven were telecommunications companies, five were airlines, and four were public utilities.

Valeant, as the story unfolded, bought existing medications from other drug makers, as well as whole companies - then relentlessly hiked the prices of the drugs it acquired.

Moreover, while prisoners were generally taken, particularly if they were in large numbers — whole companies or even battalions of soldiers giving themselves up, as sometimes happened — it was an unspoken rule that soldiers who resisted too long or too hard had given up any right to quarter.

«Our whole company is focused on demonstrating the mainstream viability of urban talent, and so here's what happens if we get covered as a social story: we automatically become nonmainstream,» he says.

«Not as a spectrum buyer, nor as a spectrum builder... and, most emphatically, not as a buyer of a whole company.»

He also stated he expects the company, as a whole, to become profitable by the first or second quarter of 2015.

«You float out that much into a $ 450 billion market, it's going to make up a quarter of the market cap, so movements of that company would affect that market as a whole.

Some observers believe that this reduced dynamism — the replacement of existing companies with new ones — is hurting the economy because «the churning process replaces lower productivity businesses with new, more productive ones, thereby increasing productivity in the economy as a whole.»

The company said Whole Foods Market will continue to operate under that brand name and pledged to «preserve its high standards and commitment to providing the finest natural and organic foods,» and John Mackey will stay on as CEO of Whole Foods, which will remain based in Austin, Texas, where it was founded in 1978.

To get things started, he had some consulting gigs («major energy companies, I think you can say») as well as a DARPA grant, his 3 - D modeling software, and «a whole bunch of other ideas in the energy space.»

Second, just by being around their workers and observing their work, you'll become better acquainted with their function in the company as a whole and you might even learn how to do one of their jobs.

That's a small, subjective sampling of opinion, but given the skyrocketing growth rates of both companies, it's probably representative of the larger whole as far as service providers go.

-- when you take the time to answer the whole set you have a [clearer] view of who you are as a company and where you are going.»

And as the Guardian recently reportedly, these concerns are shared by a whole host of lesser known but still hugely influential technologists who, having less financial stake in talking up current realities than tech company bosses, are often even more frank about their worries.

The number of women, African - Americans and Hispanics employed at companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo lag far behind the U.S. work force as a whole; meanwhile, only 3 percent of venture funding is earmarked for female founders, and founders of color claim less than 1 percent, according to U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith.

«So, regardless of [each person's] vacation status, the company as a whole takes that period as a break.»

Public market investors generally want to understand your company as a whole — what your main businesses are, what your prospects for growth are — while strategic buyers may be more interested in specific parts of your company that are complementary.

Surely there will be some footage from the next Halo game, expected next year, and possibly an early look at an upcoming Gears of War installment, but beyond that, will the company refocus on games or continue trying to position the Xbox One as a living room device that the whole family will want?

The project was the brainchild of Robb, who was growing increasingly concerned by Whole Foods» reputation as a white, elite, expensive company.

So, if the top is where you want to be, you need to be comfortable challenging management in the interest of delivering for the company, while working to get buy - in from the organization as a whole.

It can be challenging to let go of your own ego, but if we can find ways to collaborate passionately and supportively with coworkers, customers and the industry as a whole, we'll find our companies transformed.