Sentences with phrase «of failed deals»

For example Wenger was never economical with money until Kroenke arrived — He probably overspent on both Nasri and Arshavin, but then after Kronke's arrival we get a sequence of failed deals — Hazard, Mata, Cahill, Higuain, Suarez, Benzema etc etc..

In the wake of the failed deal Sysco had to pay a $ 300 million break - up fee Sysco's sales were flat and it worked to reduce costs, including through cuts to its workforce.

Nintendo 64 exists because of the failed deal between Nintendo and Sony to create the SNES - CD System.

Not exact matches

Aetna's net income was $ 1.21 billion, or $ 3.67 per share, in the first quarter ended March 31, compared with a loss of $ 381 million, or $ 1.11 per share, a year earlier that was related to costs for its failed deal to buy Humana.

Rep. Sarbanes said he was concerned by the U.S.'s lack of tools for dealing with tech companies that fail to prevent the misuse of users» data.

The Stop Mega Cable coalition — of which the Dish Network is a member — released a statement saying the agreement is «an important first step,» but fails to deal with some of the group's criticisms.

Asset managers say they've seen a notable number of companies fail to close dollar - denominated bond deals of late.

Enbridge's Northern Gateway project, in the works since 2005, was likely dealt a fatal blow on June 30th when the Federal Court of Appeal threw out its 2014 conditional approval because the Crown (read: Harper government) failed in its «duty to consult» aboriginals as required by the Constitution.

The banking system has been weak for years as most institutions have failed to deal with the high level of bad debt in the wake of the financial crisis.

Toys «R» Us was optimistic at the start of its bankruptcy proceedings that it would only close a limited number of locations, but is now reportedly planning a liquidation of its U.S. operations after failing to find a buyer or reach a debt restructuring deal with lenders.

On the campaign trail, she announced her opposition to the deal, citing failings such as its lack of support for U.S. workers.

The reason most organizational programs abort is that they fail to deal with our life patterns, which are at the foundation of workplace anxiety, tension, and conflict.»

From I Can Haz Cheezburger's Ben Huh's first failed dot com to Frank Jadhavji of electronic deal site Just Deals.com dealing with $ 300,000 in stolen merchandise, these five entrepreneurs had the guts to get up and try again.

If Democrats and Republicans in Washington fail to strike a deal by midnight tonight, then large swaths of the U.S. government will shut down.

In early January, Ant Financial, the electronics payment affiliate of China's Alibaba Group, and MoneyGram, a Texas - based money transfer company, announced that it had been forced to abandon a proposed deal after failing to win approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a congressional panel that reviews foreign purchases of American companies.

Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of digital agency VaynerMedia, explains why awards are an unwelcome distraction, how he deals with burn - out, and answers Ashton Kutcher's question about which social networks are destined to fail.

«Shark Tank» Host Kevin O'Leary, O'Shares ETFs, discusses Amazon's acquisition of Ring after he failed to get a deal with them on the show back in 2013.

Unlike some of the promising treatments that have failed in 2017 that deal with the so - called «amyloid hypothesis» (the treatments target amyloid beta deposits in the brain that accumulate in people with Alzheimer's disease), approaches that try to prevent nerve cells from dying wouldn't have any impact on that buildup.

According to social media strategist Brandon Harig of Identify, «Companies who fail to provide guidelines for how their employees should conduct themselves online are dealing with a ticking time bomb.»

Jan 18 (Reuters)- Investors have shrugged off the latest threat of a federal government shutdown, saying they are not worried about a major pullback in shares even if U.S. lawmakers fail to strike a deal.

Unfortunately, bad things have a way of snowballing — or «going viral» — on the Internet, so it's possible that a bad hit to your reputation can become a big deal if you handle it poorly or fail to handle it at all.

But a review of past deals suggests Stephenson has his work cut out for himself, and there could be parallels to the disastrous failed AOL acquisition of Time Warner at the turn of the century.

As Vancouver Sun investigative reporter David Baines revealed in a series of articles, Eker has invited the likes of Milowe Brost, who is currently in prison awaiting trial over an alleged $ 400 - million Ponzi scheme in Alberta, convicted white - collar criminal Nick Thill, Michael Ruge, who was banned for life from dealing in securities by the BCSC, and Nick Lathigee, head of the failed Freedom Investment Club, to present at his «Millionaire School» events and received commissions for steering investors in their direction.

The United States, Mexico and Canada failed to resolve any major differences in a fifth round of talks to rework the NAFTA trade deal, drawing a swift complaint from the Trump administration on Tuesday that the lack of progress could doom the process.

These are failings that not only undermine this particular editorial, but a great deal of anti-Trump criticism.

Pascual said he does not believe the absence of a NAFTA agreement would result in new tariffs on the energy sector, should the three countries fail to agree to a revised deal.

If Republicans and Democrats fail to reach a deal before the end of the year, there is concern that the multi-billion hit to the economy could bring on a recession.

The deal with Time Warner failed and came to be regarded as one of the most disastrous business combinations in history.

Regardless of Microsoft's motivations, the rumored deal is surprising given that Mojang's founder, Markus «Notch» Persson, has routinely criticized big corporations (including Microsoft) for failing to support indie developers.

There's still a chance to do something effective, Johnson says, but it will require a strong and independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency and the dismantling of the six American banks that have grown too big to fail — and if he isn't the first to make the argument, 13 Bankers nonetheless lends it a good deal of substance.

Toys «R» Us Inc. is making preparations for a liquidation of its bankrupt U.S. operations after so far failing to find a buyer or reach a debt restructuring deal with lenders, according to people familiar with the matter.

Doing so would have been relatively inexpensive: According to Darren Rovell of ESPN, «Nike failed to match a deal worth less than $ 4 million a year.»

An offer for the studio from a group of investors led by former Obama administration official Maria Contreras - Sweet failed to produce a deal earlier this year, after New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a civil lawsuit against the company and demanded more compensation for Harvey Weinstein's victims.

The deal could still fail, mostly as a result of gamesmanship between Chinese and American politicians, but today's share prices offer a significant discount even if that happens and NXP must carry on as a separate business.

The concessions failed to change many minds, however, so when nine weeks later Graham announced the deal's death — ostensibly because Hydro - Quebec's due diligence revealed maintenance costs and civil liabilities that were riskier than it cared to assume — plenty of observers wondered whether New Brunswick politics, with a September provincial election looming, ultimately killed the sale.

For sure, Mr. Moore would be on surer footing here if the Conservative Party of Canada hadn't pleaded guilty to violating election spending limits in 2008 and if the Harper government wasn't the only government in this country's history to have been found in contempt of Parliament and if the RCMP wasn't said to be presently investigating Mr. Harper's former chief of staff and and if two Conservative MPs weren't presently in court with Elections Canada and if the Prime Minister hadn't left for Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't have.

While some trade experts warned that China has failed to deliver on such promises before, Mr. Trump insisted on Tuesday that he was encouraged about the possibility of a deal.

The failed deal led to the resignation of CEO Ron Sargent, which forced the firm to begin exploring options that include a sale.

Mr. Trump also spoke at length about the standoff with armed protesters who last Saturday seized the headquarters at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, suggesting that he would have called the leader of the group to try to make a deal to end it — and would have acted against them if negotiations failed because «you can not let people take over federal property.»

Oâ $ ™ Leary was a failed and unethical businessman, who sold a sham of a company to Mattel, the toy manufacturer, in what Businessweek later called one of the worst deals of all time.

MoneyGram and Ant Financial, the Chinese electronic payments company, said Tuesday that they had canceled the deal after failing to win approval from a Washington panel that reviews foreign purchases of American companies.

The crowd has already thinned somewhat in China, for instance, where a number of failing funds have stopped bidding on new deals as they concentrate on unwinding their dormant portfolios.

Tenneco Inc (NYSE: TEN)'s proposed $ 5.4 - billion acquisition of Icanh Enterprises LP (NASDAQ: IEP)- owned Federal - Mogul is likely to be accretive to its earnings per share, but the deal fails to address two ongoing investor concerns, according to Goldman Sachs.

Now, my understanding of your position is that you made that original prediction based on the belief that the PRC would be instituting reforms to deleverage aggressively and transfer wealth to the consumer (such that the incorrect prediction was more that you were overly optimistic about the PRC's willingness to head off these systematic risks) and that your current prognosis of ~ 3 % GDP growth has an entirely separate causative element; that is to say, your previous prediction was based on the idea the PRC would be enacting reforms to ward off systematic risks, whereas your current estimation of GDP growth is instead based on the drag produced by these very systematic risks the PRC has failed to deal with.

This founder, whom we'll call Tom Green, said that while exact dollar amounts and percentages fluctuated slightly based on how many founders a company had and how experienced those founders were (younger founders lost 1 percent or 2 percent more in equity for the same amounts of money), most of the deals were structured to favor Y Combinator with the assumption that most of the teams were just starting out and were likely to fail.

Following that, Anbang failed to complete several deals, including the proposed purchase of U.S. - based Fidelity & Guaranty Life for $ 1.6 billion.

«Christy Clark's government has known about this problem for more than two years but has failed the people of Spallumcheen by not adequately dealing with it,» said Heyman.

On the heels of a failed snap election in an effort to build a bigger majority and a personal mandate, Theresa May, the British Prime Minister, now faces the though job of trying to forge a coalition deal to stay in power.

I had to add this as one of the five reasons sales development teams fail because I have dealt with it at Imagine.

They failed to deal with some of the biggest obstacles to sustained growth — like the severe lack of electricity across the continent — and spur industries that would create jobs.