Sentences with phrase «of large companies recently»

This reversal of the upward trend in corporate leverage may prove to be temporary, however, with a number of large companies recently undertaking share buy - backs.

Not exact matches

While some larger tech startups have recently delayed going public, Square's filing has been expected and records show the company previously filed a confidential declaration of its plans over the summer.

In late March, Tencent, the politically connected technology giant that recently became one of the world's 10 largest publicly traded companies, said it spent $ 1.8 billion buying Tesla stock.

The company, which sometimes conducts trades larger than $ 50 million, recently brought on three finance veterans to its advisory board, including Citigroup's global head of regulatory, market, and innovation strategy.

Also, let's not forget that Google recently purchased Waze for $ 1.1 billion, reaffirming the company's willigness to shell out large amounts of cash to boost its local division.

And yes, the Dow has a heavy component of large industrial and energy companies which have recently soared on expectations that President Trump and his administration will sponsor new infrastructure spending projects and oil pipeline expansion.

Critics of the proposed FCC rules, which had not been made public as of the writing of this story, fear they will still allow large companies to pay for more robust connections to consumers, as Netflix recently did in a deal with Internet Service Provider Comcast.

Speaking to the influx of investment by the world's largest technology companies into the U.K. as Facebook, Google and Apple all recently announced greatly expanded plans for London headquarters and staffing levels, Marshall said the technology sector is more able to cope with the uncertainty wrought by Brexit.

Large though that figure may seem, analysts say it's within investor expectations: Delivery Hero, which brokers deliveries from a network of restaurants or brings the food to customers» homes via courier, was most recently valued at between 3.5 billion euros ($ 3.9 billion) and 4 billion euros ($ 4.1 billion), when it raised funding from Naspers, a South African e-commerce company.

Many of the nation's largest tech companies are headquartered there, and one economist recently told Mercury News that the Bay Area's economy «is defying gravity.»

Recently, Michael Pehl of i - Cube, an IT - consulting - services company in Cambridge, Mass., began running a series of large billboards in the Boston area, including one targeting drivers exiting from Logan Airport that immodestly touts i - Cube as «An Incredible Place to Work.»

Recently, Equilar, a research firm that focuses on board recruitment, put together a Gender Diversity Index and predicts that the board of directors on the Russell 3000 list — the 3000 largest companies based in the United States — will achieve parity, with a membership made up of 50 percent women and 50 percent men, by the fourth quarter of 2055.

Some of the largest companies in the US are speaking out against a proposal by Bats, the stock exchange recently acquired by the Chicago Board Options Exchange, to shake up end - of - day trading.

The company had recently acquired a large competitor and had launched into a number of new geographic markets.

Nathan Gilliland was the founder of Boston - based biomass energy company Harvest Power and more recently served as an entrepreneur - in - residence with Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, one of the world's largest venture capital firms.

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.

When asked recently in a Compas Inc. poll whether the Canadian government should step in to block the sale of the nation's largest fertilizer company to Sinochem, CEOs agreed strongly, with a mean of 5.7 on a seven - point scale.

The idea that companies and society at large would benefit if everybody knows what everybody else is earning has been gaining traction recently, helped along by the availability of such information on websites such as Glassdoor.com, PayScale.com, and Salary.com.

Rubin gestures toward a very large Nerds box (the World's Largest Box of Nerds, in fact), a wall of Hello Kitty gear, and another featuring Marilyn Monroe T - shirts, lunch boxes, and even chocolate bars with her face on the wrapper (the company recently bought the exclusive candy rights to her likeness).

That kind of success has long attracted animus from the company's larger competitors, most recently in the form of a nasty letter from Match.com.

Hilton has the industry's largest pipeline of new rooms hitting the market, according to Beynon, who also likes the company's recently initiated dividend and share - buyback program.

«The small - business market was underserved until recently, but we've seen a huge increase in demand for our cyber products driven by a critical mass of incidents happening very publicly to large companies,» says Tim Zeilman, vice president at Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company.

The firm I represent recently completed an engagement with one of the largest private sector companies in India involving several of their senior vice presidents and other senior level managers.

The company has another $ 1.9 billion worth of renovations and new projects in the pipeline: Some 100 miles to the southwest of Roosevelt Field, Simon recently wrapped up a $ 200 million overhaul and expansion of the King of Prussia mall — adding space for 50 more stores in what's already the second - largest mall in the U.S.

PPR SA (the world's third - largest luxury group behind LVMH and Richemont), for example, recently acquired skate - and snowboarding clothier Volcom Inc. for US$ 607.5 million and CEO Francois - Henri Pinault says he believes there still a lot of growth left in the company.

Caira, 59, was most recently global CEO of Nestle Professional and was also a member of the executive board of Nestle SA, the world's largest food and beverage company.

Xiaomi, one of the world's largest smartphone makers, filed on Thursday to list its initial public offering on Hong Kong's stock exchange, which recently loosened its rules to let companies retain more control.

Recently, reported U.S. earnings have been mixed, with some large companies surprising on the downside due to a combination of rising costs and weaker than expected sales, giving rise to concerns that the trend of total profits may be heading lower.

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.

PARIS (Reuters)- French drugmaker and healthcare group Sanofi is to buy privately - held U.S vaccines biotech company Protein Sciences for an initial amount of $ 650 million, as Sanofi steps up its acquisition program after recently missing two large deals.

But the company we keep is good, including Warren Buffett and most recently, Bill Gross of PIMCO (manager of the country's largest bond fund).

MGIC Investment Corp., which calls itself the largest mortgage insurance company in the U.S., recently changed one of their rules regarding down payments and loan - to - value ratios.

Unilever — one of the world's largest advertisers, and the company behind brands from Dove to Hellmann's — recently threatened to pull ads from Google and Facebook because of «toxic content.»

The acquisition was part of the larger change in control trend that has defined Canada's marijuana industry recently, with companies battling to gain market share before marijuana sales become legal later this year.

BFS has grown into one of the largest specialty finance companies by providing merchant cash advances and, more recently, business loans.

Recently, we asked 61 of Canada's largest companies whether, in their view, the business investment environment had improved, worsened or stayed the same over the past five years.

He said he believed that his company's approach — a combination of teaming up with hardware manufacturers, Otto's software expertise and a large network of more than 50 million monthly riders as recently as July — places Uber in the best position to be competitive with companies like Google.

Binance earns more profit than Deutsche One of the largest exchanges by volume, Binance, which recently relocated to Malta, posted a record profit of $ 200m in the first quarter of this year and only the second quarter in the history of the company.

President Obama's nominee for Commerce secretary served as chairman of the board of a solar energy company that recently received a $ 1.37 billion federal loan guarantee — the largest the Department of Energy has ever given for a solar power project.

The company also recently signed a joint sales and marketing agreement with International Spirits for national and international coverage and promotions of all brands, according to Large.

Supplying large CPG companies to small privately held companies, its products and services include traditional and organic frozen fruits and vegetables, frozen meals and side dishes, and a recently added line of frozen products produced under its own Path of Life brand.

Even as Canyon continues to grow rapidly (the company recently became the second - largest baker of gluten - free bread in the United States and is the top - selling line in the natural channel), the overall rate of growth for gluten - free products has slowed.

Angostura recently penetrated India as well, and Thomas says the country has the potential to become one of the company's largest markets.

In fact, the demand had grown so large, the company recently leased an additional 3,000 acres of groves just to keep up.

Accolade Wines, the second largest wine company in Australia, has a lot of work do to improve the performance of its recently - acquired Grant Burge Wines, which plunged to a loss of almost $ 10 million in its final year as a stand - alone firm.

Australian Country Choice's David Foote, who exports about $ 100 million in beef to countries other than China, has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with one of China's largest food manufacturing companies Bright Foods.

As a direct result of extensive customer feedback concerning the lack of bottle choice in the global wine industry supply chain, leading glass packaging company, Croxsons, has recently taken over a glass furnace at one of the largest glass manufactures in China to produce antique - green wine bottles.

Recently, we ordered a large amount of nuts, and dried fruit and such in bulk from a local company in Montreal.

In the past 12 months large cattle producers including Terra Firma's Consolidated Pastoral Company and North Australian Pastoral Company, and more recently smaller private operators such as media king Harold Mitchell, have all looked to sell stakes or take new equity shares in their business for the purpose of expanding.

But although 412 Food Rescue recently acquired a small refrigerated truck for highly perishable items, their model relies on a large network of 750 individual volunteers, much like the new crop of tech - driven companies around the nation that are finding ways to simultaneously reduce food waste and feed the food insecure.