Sentences with phrase «of little firms»

Most industrial structures in the long - run end up with a relatively small number of large firms, not so many mid-size firms, and lots of little firms.

The prospective buyer of our little firm called the two of us to a phone conference.

Not exact matches

Ford's board may have decided to leave out the cash base pay (which, prorated, would've been a little over $ 1 million) because unlike stock, a direct cash payment could make for poorer optics, said Alan Johnson of the executive compensation consulting firm Johnson Associates.

While part of his plans involve taking on a larger role at Initialized Capital, the VC firm he co-founded with Garry Tan, he also says that the decision involved the «promise he made to this little poppy seed.»

Not all powerful business families implode: When Paul Desmarais died last year, his sons, Paul Jr. and André, succeeded in dividing responsibilities over the vast financial services firm with little evidence of acrimony.

In late January, James Barty, the firm's head of global cross-asset and European equity strategy, warned that markets were «starting to get a little stretched,» while urging caution.

Henry Harteveldt, founder of travel consulting firm Atmosphere Research Group, called such fees «the little black dress» of the airline industry.

He's been with the firm for a little shy of two years.

Compared to larger firms, which must go through layers of management and bureaucracy to develop new technology, «we're like the little speedboat,» says CEO and founder Jason Smith.

For those who have run in previous versions of the Zante, the firmer ride and slightly less flexible feel may take a little adjustment.

No commitment was made regarding equity, the company claimed, and Bell was dismissed as the firm transitioned to a new line of business that she «put little effort» toward developing.

To many bankers and others in the industry, SBAExpress occupies the middle ground between a conventional bank loan and traditional 7 (a) credit — trotted out when a borrower is «just a little bit of a stretch beyond the normal credit limits,» according to Joel Pruis, portfolio management analyst at the Indianapolis consulting firm Baker Hill.

The U.K. government's proposed «snooper's charter» is already scaring tech firms around the world with its threat of forcing them to help break encryption in their communications services, but here's a wrinkle that's received little attention until now: It would also force them to give the country's spies a heads - up about upcoming product launches and upgrades.

Meanwhile, there's little evidence that low rates are actually boosting the sort of corporate investment that would help stimulate faster growth, though there is plenty of evidence that firms are using cheap money to buy back their own stock.

«The main issue is that consumers today are expecting more out of their mobile experience,» says Jennifer Peper, vice president of Aristotle Interactive, a Web design firm based in Little Rock, Arkansas.

The Toronto creative firm behind a few Colgate, Kraft and Revlon campaigns you might recall, had a little warped fun patting itself on the back — and the backs of its evidently very hard - working hirelings — in a hilarious video making the rounds this week.

A little less than one in three small businesses were found to offer health insurance benefits to employees, for example, as compared to the national average of 96 percent of larger firms.

It is competing with Barbie maker Mattel (mat) and Hasbro (has), the firm behind My Little Pony, for a slice of the $ 31 billion toys and games market in China.

I know people who are paying as much $ 10,000 a month to a PR firm and getting very little out of it.

Little is known about the game — it's clearly set in the spinoff series of «Call of Duty: Black Ops» games, it's got a firm October release date, and it's coming to the usual places (Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC).

Equally intimidating is the notion of raising capital: The Teaneck, New Jersey firm has operated for 17 years with little reliance on outside sources.

Today, small businesses of any size can easily establish a 401 (k) plan that's inexpensive, quick and simple to implement, requires little time to administer, and makes a firm stronger and more competitive.

The journey to the doors of huge tech firms has been ironic for Powers and Walker, since both of them knew so little of Silicon Valley during their student days.

Robert Kokonis, president of transportation consulting firm AirTrav Inc. in Toronto, expects to see fares drop between 25 % and 50 % on the routes targeted by Encore, though they might fluctuate over the next little while.

The firm's hard - driving, solution - oriented sales culture has produced a new set of clients in a space that may seem to have little in common with energy giants and others in infrastructure.

The CMA's ruling comes amid a growing debate on both sides of the Atlantic about the ethics of price hikes for old off - patent medicines that are only made by a few firms and where there is little competition.

Will Reynolds, CEO of SEER Interactive (# 25), left his job at a large firm because his boss would not allow him to leave work a little early to volunteer at a local hospital.

The hearings will likely produce additional drama amid the backdrop of little faith in both regulators and large financial services firms.

The firm looks for entrepreneurs who have built a working solution or prototype that has generated traction - be it in the form of traffic, engagement, revenues, customers, etc. - with little to no marketing spend.

But with little hesitation, she passes on the offer and jumps ship after being courted by the head (played by Mark Strong) of a much smaller firm with an anti-gun agenda.

Francisco Dao, the founder of StrategyandPerformance.com, a San Francisco - based executive coaching and consulting firm, says most executives these days have little incentive to promote an ethical workplace.

«Most of us will never run an IBM or a GE, but millions of us around the world run mid-sized entrepreneurial companies, some of which have the potential to become significant, lasting, and difference - making organizations,» writes Keith McFarland, author of The Breakthrough Company, which surveyed 7,000 companies to see what enabled «little firms to become big.»

The architectural firm Little Diversified Architectural Consulting helped design the pods based on the concept of tiny living, said Thomas Carlson - Reddig, the firm's global practice leader.

Ad tech firms are out of favor these days - too many players, too many unmet promises, too little transparency, too few successes, and too much money for nothing much to talk about in the way of results.

«Instead of senior executives being forced out or even criminally sanctioned, the firm receives a fine that amounts to little more than a slap on the wrist.»

Many even offer target date funds, which are an all - in - one investment consisting of a mix of stocks, bonds and other assets that is managed by the firm that runs the fund and require little to no management on your part.

Firms anticipate little momentum in input and output prices because of still - important competitive pressures.

The central bank knows that every period a fraction 1 / n of the sticky price firms will cut their prices by 5 %, and to offset this it loosens monetary policy just a little so that the flexible price firms raise their prices by (5 / n) %.

Trump railed against China on the campaign trail but has done little in the way of taking firm action against the country since his election.

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«Franchisors will have to put into place compliance networks,» said Michael Lotito, co-chair of Littler's Workplace Policy Institute, part of global employment and labor law firm Littler Mendelson, P.C. Lotito warns compliance - related costs may eventually trickle down to consumers.

However, as has become typical following the news of major activist involvement in a stock, shares of both firms soared more than 16 % in Thursday trading, taking a little of that potential upside off the table and incidentally earning Singer about $ 26 million on his newly - disclosed stakes.

Firms reported little change overall in the pace of past sales growth (Chart 1), with the balance of opinion hovering around zero for more than a year.

Investors have little way of knowing in advance when a sell - side brokerage firm will initiate coverage of a company, however, adding the risk that it may be a long time before other portfolio managers recognise a company and boost its shares.

«Most of the big projects that have gone up still have [loan] extension options available to them,» said attorney Timothy Little, head of the real estate practice at the law firm Katten Muchin Rosenman.

Offering only numbers is something that traditional brokerage firms do, and a lot of time is leads to deals that end up falling through the floor, because the amount of money a business needs often has little to do with why they need it or the reasons their current financial situation is the way it is.

Barnett contends that the criticisms of a strong patent - rights system overlook recent empirical evidence and have overestimated the impact and scope of problems including «patent trolls» (firms that own patents but do not manufacture products), «royalty stacks» (the total demands of multiple intellectual property holders for remuneration leave too little revenue left for the manufacturer), and «patent thickets» (complex and conflicting legal claims that increase transaction costs for manufacturers).

The little known, firm which commands a market cap of Rs 1,100 crore, has seen its share price more than double in the past one year.

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