Sentences with phrase «of doing business continued»

So even thought the leaders were replaced, the way of doing business continued.

Since I increased charges in 2009, my profit margin decreased from 14 % in 2009 to 5 % in 2017 because the cost of doing business continues to increase while my charges remain unchanged.

The cost of doing business continues to escalate and those who utilize the internet to it's fullest likely are not saving all that much by reducing the amount of print advertising they do they are just reallocating it.

Not exact matches

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.

We do mortgages in the states of...» while you continue rattling off your well - rehearsed and scripted mini speech, the eyes of the person you are meeting and hoping to do business with are glazing over, trying to be polite while fighting the urge to yawn.

Another super informative resource: watch this episode of the Small Businesses Do It Better show with Sue Kirchner, who shares her tricks on writing content that continues to bring in traffic, where she gets most of her traffic from, which social network brings the most visitors to her website and her tips on getting press coverage.

Three high - profile business people have resigned from the board of Perth Modern School, just weeks after two other board members did not seek re-election, as the fallout from a governance dispute and a review by KPMG continues.

Namely, a customer base and some form of existing systems that could continue to be used (or upgraded) or easily replaced with more efficient technology or ways of doing business.

But while the middle class is being hollowed out, GDP continues to grow (if anemically) and those at the top of the business world are doing well.

Do you continue to work on the business overtime while letting some of your schoolwork slide?

The game itself is easy to play (although it takes a lot of effort to actually win), so the painless business model starts when you do a search and continues all the way through your first weeks or months of playing the game.

Stunned, the franchisee continued: «I have never, ever heard an American say that in my 40 years of doing business with Americans.»

«We intend to continue to do as well as we can in managing the internal affairs of the business.

«When a medical situation happens in the air, the flight attendants are not allowed to call time of death, so we have to continue doing everything we can to keep someone alive, even if they are already gone,» a JetBlue flight attendant told Business Insider.

It continues: «Such material misrepresentations and / or omissions were done knowingly or recklessly and for the purpose and effect of concealing Zynga's operating condition and future business prospects from the investing public and supporting the artificially inflated price of its securities.»

The first one is, I continue to be surprised that the businesses of Canada don't embrace digital marketing.

These exceptional business pros don't entertain negativity and continue to push on with a strong sense of organization, patience and fortitude — when business is slow and especially when it's flowing.

And of those businesses with more than 50 employees, 96 percent already offer health insurance and will likely continue to do so regardless of the fee, he says.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Rodin: This is something I continue to do, whether it's academic or business — there are a lot of really good, interesting ideas, but only a few really spectacularly important ones.

The BOE has come under pressure from bankers and financial lobbyists to fast - track licensing of European banks that want to continue doing business in London after Brexit to avoid cutting off customers and disrupting markets.

We do not see a material change to our thesis on the name, and think there continue to be questions on the overall trajectory of the business.»

This quiet hum of entrepreneurialism continues in Cyprus, but a flood of highly educated and often internationally experienced grads is starting to put pressure on the old ways of doing business and forcing new ideas through the cracks in the status quo.

«Since 1988 Ingvar Kamprad did not have an operational role within Ikea but he continued to contribute to the business in the role of senior advisor, sharing his knowledge and energy with the Ikea co-workers,» the company said on Sunday.

Bruno Pavlovsky, chairman of Chanel's fashion business, said the brand had been working with the tannery for 30 years and would continue to supply rivals as other Chanel suppliers already do.

Data and digitalization have transformed many industries, including oil and gas, and they will continue to do so, creating billions of U.S. dollars from the businesses of big data analytics and digital oil fields.

«This shows that we have a strong, vibrant bilateral economic relationship, and yet we still need to focus on leveling the playing field because U.S. companies continue to be disadvantaged doing business in China,» said William Zarit, chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China.

«The global economy continues to do well, and we remain optimistic about the positive impact of tax reform in the U.S. as business sentiment remains upbeat, and consumers benefit from job and wage growth,» Dimon said.

Instead of continuing to mine resources, fashion them into products, use the products and then throw them away (the «take - make - waste» model), individuals, companies and policy makers are increasingly looking to a less wasteful «make - use - return» model of doing business.

«It would be great for a Los Angeles - based tech company to really build a meaningful business and Snapchat continues to prove that they're willing to and have the technical ability to do it,» said Dana Settle, founding partner of venture capital firm Greycroft in Los Angeles.

I don't think that in this age of tech we need to continue sheltering large Canadian companies who are unwilling to change their business model to compete with th emore flexible and customer choice oriented services that are being mamde available.

I think that exploiting this hurricane of people who lost their house — houses to allow business as usual in Washington of getting an 18 month increase to our nation's debt limit passed, of continuing to spend money that we can't afford, that we don't have, makes absolutely no sense.

I highly appreciate you for your efforts regarding the webinar Festival of Traders.Trade keeps our economy open, dynamic, and competitive, and helps ensure that Singapore continues to be the best place in the world to do business.

The starting of a business is one of the most difficult things that most people go through and that is why a lot of people do not continue with their plans of opening their own business.

As we've said previously, we do have more inventory than we'd like in China and Western Europe, but continue to be comfortable with inventory levels in most of our businesses.

In doing so, the complaint continues, DOL's «actions have endangered the livelihood of tens of thousands of hard - working individuals and thousands of small businesses in an important segment of the insurance industry.»

«In this second phase I am personally following very closely the property insurers that have not yet settled important and necessary claims for vital service sectors, and they can be sure that I will see this through, whatever the consequences may be, including suspending the authorization of the insurers to continue to do insurance business in Puerto Rico, until they have settled all outstanding claims.

It is one of several resources investors should turn to when choosing whether to do business or continue to do business with a particular firm or individual.

«Technology is what is improving performance of the oilsands and is expected to continue to do so,» says Harrie Vredenburg, a researcher in the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business.

And as they're continuing to build their enterprises, they're putting money back into the economy by doing business with all kinds of other companies, hiring and supporting all kinds of worthy causes.

Related - party transactions represent another significant, continuing, and underappreciated risk of doing business in many different cultures and business environments.

Attending companies, nonprofits and government organizations, including senior officials from the U.S. Departments of Labor, Defense and Veterans Affairs, will continue to build on work that's already been done to educate the other 99 percent on the incredible assets post-9 / 11 veterans are to businesses, communities and the country.

«The global economy continues to do well, and we remain optimistic about the positive impact of tax reform in the U.S. as business sentiment remains upbeat, and consumers benefit from job and wage growth,» Dimon said in the bank's earnings release.

Nevertheless, innovators continue to face challenges from Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), companies that, in the President's words «don't actually produce anything themselves,» and instead develop a business model «to essentially leverage and hijack somebody else's idea and see if they can extort some money out of them.»

Hong Kong's trade minister has vowed that the city will continue to be a free and open place to do business, though he said this did not mean it would serve the interests of the US, which is inching closer to an all - out trade dispute with China.

Johnson & Johnson has built and / or purchased a collection of industry - leading businesses that generate large amounts of free cash flow and will continue to do so.

One of my biggest business lessons has been that despite what the market does, a company like AAPL will continue to churn profit regardless of what the market does.

These small businesses continue to provide six of ten jobs in B.C., and unexpected and / or sharp increases to the minimum wage can have a very real impact on their ability to do so.

We continue to do our best to optimize the returns of the Fund by purchasing undervalued companies that are growing their intrinsic value over time and that are managed by individuals who think and act like long - term owners of the business.

«I am very proud of the work we have done and will continue to do to ensure Ontario businesses thrive in today's global economy.