Sentences with phrase «of hundreds of millions of dollars a year»

Many of the hugely successful companies that make profits of hundreds of millions of dollars a year could have afforded to raise their workers salaries a mere $ 1.00 or two over the past 20 -30 years!!

Councilman Steve Matteo (R - Staten Island), who voted against the bill passing through the Sanitation Committee, called the fee a «tax» that «nickels and dimes» New Yorkers — to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

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Fast - growth companies like Airbnb and Uber have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding in the past few years, which has pushed their valuations into never - before seen territory for startups.

Among the most imaginative deals was a package that gave him a bonus despite the fact that his casino empire was losing tens of millions of dollars a year, and an agreement to that had the casinos spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on Trump Ice bottled water for the mini-bars.

During the 13 years Trump spent as chairman, the company lost a total of $ 1.1 billion and declared bankruptcy twice — all while Trump essentially paid himself roughly $ 82 million and also had the company pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy Trump Ice bottled water for their mini-bars.

Major consumer products companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year constructing, assigning and fielding market research projects and then summarily reviewing and incorporating the survey and research results into proposals, pitches, and other internal presentations to a variety of audiences.

Lilly faced a devastating clinical setback last year with a late - stage failure for its experimental Alzheimer's treatment, the studies for which cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars.

Starting with just a few hundred dollars and no marketing budget, Michael Epstein founded a manufacturer, distributor and retailer of consumer electronics that achieved a million dollars in sales in its first year and continued to expand, generating tens of millions in revenue.

-- Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam, a data center backup company founded in 2006 that now employs more than 1,500 employees around the world and brings in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, with its sights on reaching $ 1 billion in revenue in the next five years.

The space industry started the first quarter of this year the way it ended the last — with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of private funding flowing into commercial space companies.

Shifting to alternate - day delivery or community mailboxes for every home could yield operational savings in the hundreds of millions of dollars per year.

The fund is reportedly being raised to help Sequoia compete with Japanese tech giant SoftBank, which announced a huge new $ 100 billion (# 75 billion) fund last year that is now being used to back promising tech companies worldwide with tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars.

A similar law enacted about a year ago in North Carolina prompted the relocation of sporting events and economic boycotts that were estimated to have cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars.

• Expanding upon data gleaned from the «black budget,» the NSA is found to be paying hundreds of millions of dollars each year to US companies for access to their networks.

Peter Rahal, who along with Jared Smith founded RXBar, recalls a pivotal moment that set the philosophy of their nutrition bar company — one that would eventually be acquired by Kellogg for hundreds of millions of dollars last year.

Building on their firsthand experiences, Hammer and Champy show how some of the world's premier corporations use the principles of reengineering to save hundreds of millions of dollars a year, to achieve unprecedented levels of customer satisfaction, and to speed up and make more flexible all aspects of their operations.

Today WeatherTech does hundreds of millions of dollars in sales, employs nearly 2,000 people, and has enjoyed double - digit growth rates every year since 1987.

Two years ago it was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on venture capital investments in food delivery, group buying, and house cleaning — not to bet on the next big thing, but to add users for its payment system.

-- Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam, a data center backup company founded in 2006 which now employs more than 1,500 employees around the world and brings in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, with its sights on reaching $ 1 billion in revenue in the next five years.

It is still not clear to me, but the company had only raised less than $ 2 million and after more than a year of fighting against a larger company, and after many hundreds of thousands of dollars, they finally settled out of court.

Over two years later, after many failures and many hundreds of millions of dollars, Musk's Falcon 9 rocket finally achieved vertical landing.

The firm's influence - seeking has grown along with its U.S. sales, which went from hundreds of millions of dollars in the early 2000s to some $ 9 billion last year.

The 32 - year - old chief executive of defunct Mt. Gox pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges relating to the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoins and cash from what was once the world's biggest bitcoin exchange.

The Justice Department said AT&T would use Time Warner's films and movies to force rival pay TV companies to pay «hundreds of millions of dollars more per year for Time Warner's networks» in its lawsuit filed late Monday in federal court in Washington.

Global Mail Ltd., a $ 13 - million deliverer of international mail (# 35 on this year's Inc. 500 figures each «little» slipup costs it hundreds to thousands of dollars to fix.

«Class actions succeed in bringing hundreds of millions of dollars in relief to millions of consumers each year and cause companies to alter their legally questionable conduct,» the study said.

Over the past five years, Imperial Oil, ExxonMobil, BP and Chevron have all pledged hundreds of millions of dollars for drilling rights to parcels of the Beaufort Sea.

As Fortune has noted in the past, Spotify's biggest problem is that it is still losing hundreds of millions of dollars every year, and the main culprit is the massive payments it makes to the music industry for licensing fees.

Last year, a string of strong hurricanes that hit airlines» hubs cost airlines hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, but clearing runways from a snowstorm is a much faster process than recovering from the floods, power outages, structural damage to airports and other infrastructure damage that 2017's storms caused.

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«We went from thousands of dollars, to hundreds of thousands of dollars, to last year, when we broke $ 6 million in sales,» says Mohamedali.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed insurance benefits have been provided to beneficiaries over the past five years, due solely to their efforts.

Adding thousands of new greeter positions could cost Wal - Mart a few hundred million dollars each year, but even a 10 % drop in theft would probably offset those additional costs.

The moves are expected to cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars in the short term but lead to annualized savings of $ 25 million beginning next year.

Security experts estimate that ransoms total hundreds of millions of dollars a year from cyber criminals, who typically target Windows users.

Nowadays, it seems, a new business is apt to be a Compaq or MIPS kind of thing, hitting the ground fully capitalized, fully researched and developed, fully located, fully staffed, and fully positioned to rake in a few hundred million dollars within the first three years.

If a trader does well, he can make hundreds of millions of dollars in a year.

The success of these all - but - unknown companies in raising millions — or hundreds of millions — of dollars is all the more striking given that many of these firms did not exist a year ago, while others do not even have a functioning prototype.

Graziosi, who's generated hundreds of millions of dollars with his brands, companies and investments, with a 15 - year television career, argues that creating a true vision for your future by looking backwards will get you exponentially better results than setting goals in the traditional sense.

Yielding hundreds of millions of dollars per year, the established «kings» of the space have the same business model we intend to execute... so our upside is well beyond the numbers shown in our financial projections.

In the last year, Vice has secured $ 500 million in financing and signed deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars with established media companies like HBO that are eager to engage the young viewers Vice attracts.

«What I am struck by is that Uber is not significantly worse than companies that have been around twice as many years and have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity in the last three years and have diversity departments of a dozen people,» Klein said, speaking of Uber's much larger tech brethren such as Facebook, Apple and Google.

There is also the risk that allowing poorly substantiated claims to stand may affect a company's status in Ottawa, where hundreds of millions of dollars in regulatory fees are sent each year.

Wells Fargo has struggled to recover from a massive consumer sales scandal last year that resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties and the resignation of then - CEO John Stumpf.

The pace has continued this year, with several firms announcing new funding rounds in the tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars.

Turing's price increase could bring sales to tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars a year if use remains constant.

In the past few years, Applico's Platform Innovation ® work has created hundreds of millions of dollars in enterprise platform value.

In fact, hundreds of million dollar and multi-million dollar properties are lingering on the market, sometimes for years.

People who make in the high hundreds of thousands of dollars a year or just over $ 1 million a year could see the biggest benefits.

With support from FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, hundreds of communities have spent tens of millions of dollars each year to purchase flood - prone properties from willing sellers.