Sentences with phrase «of large companies now»

An increasing number of large companies now track and report their direct and indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (known as Scope 1 - 3 GHG reporting).

Home price appreciation has resulted in most of these large companies now preparing their properties for sale.

About one - third of large companies now cover it in their insurance plans.

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Over the course of my career, I have worked as a software engineer for a $ 78B Fortune 40 company, and as a sales executive for companies that include a small regional integrator, a large telecom manufacturer, and now Digium, which offers unified communications solutions for small and midsize businesses.

The Taiwanese company, with revenues of more than $ 8 billion, was founded by the Wharton grad's father almost 50 years ago and now claims to be the world's largest manufacturer of athletic and casual footwear.

In the absence of a federal policy for paid sick leave, it is remarkable that a large Fortune 500 company like Microsoft is now performing the role of setting employment policy for other businesses.

The Montreal - based company said the CS100 is now expected to enter into service in the second half of 2015, to be followed about six months later by the larger CS300 aircraft.

Its social - media dashboard, a tool for connecting multiple social networks, is now used by 79 of the Fortune 100 (America's largest companies), the White House, the Prime Minister's Office and a slew of media organizations.

In Southern California, a company called Advanced Microgrid Solutions is spearheading a project that involves replacing the energy that was once provided by a large (now decommissioned) nuclear power plant with a series of solar arrays and batteries that AMS can turn on and off based on when the prices for conventional energy are low and when there's the most demand.

Now more mature, it's considering hiring more salespeople to better sell its products to large companies with which it acknowledged that is has limited experience in terms of direct sales.

Among the companies that have gone from doubters to believers are some of the largest on the planet: Ford, Lockheed Martin, Nikon, Cisco, NCR, Sikorsky, Celestica, Avaya and Schneider Electric are just some of the multinationals Kinaxis now counts as customers.

(If I owned, for example, $ 1,000,000 of «AAA» - rated bonds from a large US company I could very easily sell them at market price right now.

The $ 560 - million investment — the largest in the Canadian food industry — is the third and final phase of a sweeping $ 1.3 - billion restructuring strategy the company launched in 2006, which has since reached every corner of operations, from hog rendering to baked goods and now, finally, prepared meats.

It has now become larger than both Cyber Monday and Black Friday combined, and a closely watched barometer of the company's performance.

To be fair, Buffett himself isn't responsible for picking all the stocks that Berkshire owns, as his two deputies, Ted Weschler and Todd Combs, are now managing large portfolios of their own at the company.

I was visiting with an ex-student who's now the CFO of a large public tech company.

I recently spoke with a director of one of Canada's largest food companies about risk, which is particularly pertinent with an E. coli crisis now unfolding in Alberta.

Rayl, who oversees it, was one of Slack's original eight employees; her team is now the company's largest.

But now, just about two years later, and with Einhorn's stake in the company 40 % larger (excluding call options), shares of GM are 3.5 % lower from when Einhorn first initiated his most recent stake.

Now he's stepping down as CEO of the fast casual restaurant company — in large part to focus on a problem that extends beyond the restaurant realm: what Shaich says is short - term thinking in capital markets and the national debate.

Founded in 1802 as a gunpowder mill, DuPont is now the fourth largest chemical company in the world based on market capitalization as of 2017.

The company is now one of the largest makers of large - scale high definition displays.

The company moved into the large facility in 2012, helping transform San Francisco's Mid-Market neighborhood into a tech hub that now houses other promising tech firms such as Uber and Square, as well as a variety of smaller startups.

Intellifusion, a Shenzhen - based AI firm that provides technology to the city's police to display the faces of jaywalkers on large LED screens at intersections, is now talking with local mobile phone carriers and social media platforms such as WeChat and Sina Weibo to develop a system where offenders will receive personal text messages as soon as they violate the rules, according to Wang Jun, the company's director of marketing solutions.

I've spent the past decade building a company that is now the largest patient - physician platform in the U.S., and I believe one of the reasons why it was so successful was because of the company culture we put in place from the day the company was founded.

Of course, the company attracts a lot of talented individuals to the region so that there is now a large pool from which rival firms can poacOf course, the company attracts a lot of talented individuals to the region so that there is now a large pool from which rival firms can poacof talented individuals to the region so that there is now a large pool from which rival firms can poach.

I had spent the last decade in the enterprise software world working with large companies, but now it seemed as if the concept of the company was eroding.

Indeed, Perdue Farms is now one of America's largest privately held companies, generating more than $ 6 billion in revenue each year.

Indianapolis - based Logo Athletic, as the company is now called, is the second - largest licensee of the NFL, marketing a full line of jackets, sweatshirts, hats, shorts, and the like.

Smith was right to trust his hunch: The company, enjoying a five - year streak of 50 % annual growth, is now the second largest appraisal management firm in North America.

These companies are part of a larger trend towards a rise of artificial intelligence - based personal assistants like Siri & Google Now.

Khan now owns Flex - n-Gate, one of the largest private companies in the U.S., the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars, and Premier League soccer club Fulham.

He founded software development company Oracle in 1977, which is now one of the largest technology companies in the world.

By 1992 they had two small acquisitions under their belts and were ready to buy a larger plant — the one that the company now occupies — from a big player named MacMillan Bloedel (which is now part of Weyerhaeuser).

There has been a sea change in the interim, with a majority of larger international companies now considering China to be a market where they must prevail in order to have sustainable success on a global basis.

CGI is now the fifth - largest IT services company in the world — and the most profitable player in Canada's IT sector, with 2013 profits of $ 456 million.

Because China now has the world's largest population of Internet users (estimated at 640 million in 2014), no responsible CEO of an American technology company can afford to write off this huge market simply because of Beijing - imposed restrictions.

Simon notes that with today's technology, smaller businesses now have the capability of being just as powerful as larger companies.

Thirty - four - year - old Sørli and her two siblings are co-owners and directors of Canica, now one of the largest privately - owned investment companies in Norway.

Mutual funds have poured large amounts of capital into what they perceive as the next peer group of public companies and one insider described it to me as simply «buying their IPO allocations now since they will need to own the stock once it's public.»

Kiva Systems In one of its largest acquisitions, Amazon paid $ 775 million for this North Reading, Massachusetts, company that makes robots that pack and fulfill shipments for retailers — machines that now populate Amazon's warehouses to cut costs and increase margins.

The country's largest insurance company, Nippon Life, announced this month that a week of paid leave for new fathers is now mandatory.

(Vodafone, now one of the largest mobile telephone companies in the world, was effectively a startup when Ghosh came on board, as was Pepsi's Indian operation.)

Generation Z, those born 1997 to present, now represent 27 percent of the U.S. population, a larger group than Millennials, and although only older Gen Zs are entering adulthood, their impact on the food industry is already being felt, finds a new study by The NPD Group, a leading global information company.

Facebook, in other words, will have to grow its business several times over, and perhaps become an even larger company (it has roughly 2,000 employees now, to Google's nearly 20,000) to book that kind of income.

«Take advantage of large private company valuations and sell 100 % of FS for ~ $ 5 — $ 8 million now before the exuberance fades.

On Tuesday the e-commerce giant announced its largest expansion yet of a service called Prime Now Restaurant Delivery, which guarantees one - hour delivery from more than 115 San Francisco restaurants through the company's Prime Now smartphone app.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

The PROFIT500, now in it's 29th year, is by far Canada's largest annual celebration of entrepreneurial achievement, ranking Canada's Fastest Growing Companies by five - year revenue growth - nationally, regionally and by industry.

As a result, the CSI 300 Index and the SSE 50 Index, the two major gauges of mainland - listed larger companies, now trade at the highest levels relative to the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.