Sentences with phrase «of doing business at»

The Competition Bureau says the rules promote the traditional commission - based way of doing business at the expense of consumer choice and flexibility.

Make a weekly or monthly creativity meeting a routine part of doing business at your organization, not a marginal activity.

US official: «Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA» http://t.co/dg6cA23GWj — Rob Harris (@RobHarris) May 27, 2015

«I think that shows Trump will not let past comments get in the way of doing the business at hand.»

With mounting energy bills eating into everyone's income and increasing the cost of doing business at home, it's a good time to look into ways to economize your home business.

Not exact matches

This program, with the creation of the accompanying Growth Plan has revolutionized how I do business at my spa.

This man's ground breaking expedition had nothing to do with business at all, but it illustrates the true essence of an entrepreneurial venture perfectly.

And with good reason; millions of entrepreneurs and businesspeople have embraced the idea that carving out a slice of an existing market can certainly be effective, but finding new opportunities — finding blue oceans — is even better, since those gains don't have to come at the expense of other businesses or other people.

They typically react (slowly at best) to three outside drivers: (a) their competition brings a new offering to market, and they need a quick competitive response; (b) their customers see and begin to adopt new processes and solutions, and the customers demand that their products and services conform to the new ways of doing business; or (c) they see a new tool, product, or service in the market offered by a new player and they quickly determine that this is a game - changer which they need to own (rather than try to build themselves) because they lack the internal capacity to do otherwise.

The wind is at our back in terms of the quality of the business, the equity of the brand, how we're doing in China.

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

You obviously know your business better than the celebrity knows your business so definitely challenge pricing if it does not seem of at least equal value (or value in your favor).

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

Developers also have a choice of business models — they can sell their products at console - like prices or give them away like Blot is doing, with an eye to generating revenue through micro-transactions or other methods, such as merchandise.

Financial data is always at the back of the business plan, but that doesn't mean it's any less important than up - front material such as the business concept and the management team.

As your business grew, at what point did you realize you couldn't make every decision... and was making the transition to a higher - level form of leadership difficult?

TRAVEL group Globetrotter doesn't necessarily share the sentiments of a recent survey showing business confidence at its lowest level since the GFC, and has launched a new business unit targeting empl

In fact, 60 percent of the new applications filled out by small business owners on Biz2Credit.com are done via mobile devices, often at night or during weekends - well outside «traditional banker's hours.»

Every dollar counts for business owners, so if you don't know where you stand on a monthly basis, you may not be around at the end of the year.

It's the great intangible, that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for a business owner: How do you get your employees to care about their work as much as you do?

If you want to reach local customers and keep them coming back to your business, text - message marketing is one of the most effective strategies for doing so: While email marketing messages are opened by less than 20 percent of recipients, text message ads are typically viewed by at least 95 percent of recipients, according to Mashable.

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The belief is that most online businesses will never be able to compete with the personalized service of a person at the counter waiting to help you, to ask you how your day is going, to help carry your bags to your car, to lend you a bathroom, and to sell you things you don't really need.

«The trajectory that I've seen from footage of reported Syrian SAMs don't match up with what I'd expect to see for intercept attempts against low - flying cruise missiles,» Justin Bronk, an air - combat expert at the Royal United Services Institute, told Business Insider.

Justin McLeod: It started just because I was coming out of business school at the time, and I was about to go back into management consulting where you don't meet that many new people, you're traveling a lot.

We had to look at every part of the business that didn't work.

Partners that are experts in a specific area can work at a high level of efficiency, help eliminate redundancy and lower the cost of doing business.

And when you start to dissect the so - called «elevator pitches» of star salespeople, like the ones who met you and managed to get you to do business with them, you'd be surprised at just how many follow the pattern I'm about to show you.

Indeed, the bulk of the provisions covering small businesses don't kick in until small business group buying plans roll out at the state level.

American companies used to do most of their business at home.

A lot of businesses do not offer this service and according to statistics from a survey, a whopping 58 percent of customers at small businesses ask them to accept credit cards.

There's a great deal to be gleaned from people who have actually done what you're hoping to do rather than from newbies who are inventing their «careers» as they roll along, hoping at the same time to get their businesses built and scaled before they run out of time, cheap money or good ideas.

«We had some extensive meetings with them, and we looked at their business model and what they were going to attempt to do, and it's not something I believed we should be a part of,» Mills says.

The first part of the suggestion comprises of obliging the financial sector to write off a certain (not huge) amount of their bad debt, while also driving down the costs of doing business a little more at the same time.

Another benefit is that if you do have another franchise or business in another location, you can have a web camera chat with them which is free, unlike a phone call where you just have a voice and a phone bill at the end of the month.

«I had to figure out something that made sense, and you don't know much about where's Luke's head is at coming out of «The Force Awakens,» Johnson told Business Insider.

I was at a conference for technology CEOs a couple of years ago, and a former head of Canada's civil service said the government has done all of the policies right, and now it's time for the business community to step up.

At the ery least, doing business requires a degree of mutual respect, embodied in our commitment to getting things from others by offering them what we think they want in return.

Don't let the moths eat away at the fabric of your business.

Stephen Sapp, an associate professor of finance - economics at the Richard Ivey School of Business, noted that the effect on Canada will likely be indirect if the slowdown in growth is confined to countries we don't trade with on a large scale.

As President Trump speaks at Davos about America being the best place to do business, Revolution LLC CEO Steve Case discusses the «Rise of the Rest» effort to encourage investment in startups and small businesses in the U.S.

Although poaching does happen, Alan Middleton, professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business at York University and former board chair of ABC Life Literacy Canada, says employees feel a greater commitment to workplaces that have invested in them.

Succession planning is tough for any business, but try doing it with billions at stake and tens of thousands of jobs on the line.

Joseph Tsai, vice chairman of Alibaba, said at the Delivering Alpha conference that Chanos «doesn't seem to try to understand the business and understand the power of the digital economy in China.»

When you're looking across a boardroom table at whatever collection of rumpled dreamers and smug hipsters made it this far, fall in love with who they are together, not what you think you as a business leader can make them do.

Although he did a decent business selling fish through his website, at farmers markets and to a handful of restaurants and grocery stores, Chaffin wanted to expand.

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I'm very inspired by Apple and if you look at our business model — we didn't steal Apple's — we definitely have a lot of inspiration with our «HQ Online,» which is our software that you can download and [where you can upload] your stats, and that connects to our online portal.

I've had people in my life who to some extent ran the business side of my life, or at least were partners and associates who thought in business terms much more than I did.