Sentences with phrase «of the few companies of»

DIS really is one of the few companies of such massive size and long history still being able to deliver double digit eps - and dividend growth rates in the future.

Not exact matches

That means Theranos is using full blood draws, from patients» arms, rather than a few drops of blood from pricking patients» fingers, which up to that point had been one of the company's key competitive advantages.

«As companies grow larger, there are fewer and fewer funds that can write those kinds of tickets.»

But few of Facebook's 2.2 billion users have departed so far, based on the audience and revenue growth the company reported last week.

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.

A Babson College study reported that in 1999, fewer than 5 percent of venture capital investments went to companies with a woman on the executive team.

Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.

The loss was less severe in Toronto where fewer of the company's shares are traded.

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

ONE of Perth's newest, and smallest, law firms is working with some of the world's biggest companies, capitalising on a niche area in which few other businesses in the Asia Pacific region have experti

In a report for the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration, Nicole and Mark Crain of Lafayette University explained that the per - employee cost of federal regulatory compliance was $ 10,585 for businesses with 19 or fewer employees, but only $ 7,755 for companies with 500 or more.

When companies create ridiculous and demoralizing rules to halt the outlandish behavior of a few individuals, it's a management problem.

Trump had previously celebrated the support of the Merck CEO, one of the few African - American chief executives of a Fortune 500 company, in his manufacturing initiative.

Ultimately, Belt and Road should create a total of $ 10 billion to $ 20 billion in additional annual sales for the companies over the next few years, PwC estimates.

When pressed, Benioff offered a few possibilities: He says that companies will need to explore «new models of education,» for instance, and consider how to allocate a universal basic income.

In most cases, companies in this situation experience fewer cases of abuse of sick days off because when employees do not show up for work, then they do not get paid.

Service businesses are best valued on revenue and profitability since there are few hard assets, while production assets of companies in manufacturing tend to be substantial drivers of valuation along with revenue and profitability.

It was just a few weeks ago that Whitman was gunning to be the CEO of the embattled ride - sharing company Uber — despite saying several times that she didn't want the role.

While even a few years ago it would have been deemed unethical to «buy» media coverage (unless of course it was clearly labeled «advertorial»), today, there are entire companies dedicated to enabling brand leaders to buy coverage from so - called social influencers.

And there are regrettably few women on the list — a reflection of how few female CEOs lead major public companies in Canada.

What we have attempted to build at all of the Penske companies is a culture that focuses on a few common core principles that I believe help drive our success.

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Quebec, for example, launched a program in 2015 that covers 50 % of the costs of applying for a patent (or up to $ 25,000) for companies with fewer than 250 employees.

If you are one of the few or only one working for your company, of course you won't have anyone to delegate to, but you also have fewer responsibilities to delegate.

As for the Philadelphia incident, Johnson sees an opportunity to improve the company, a few hours of lost sales notwithstanding.

«We have strong concerns that the combined company's unmatched control of popular content and the distribution of that content will lead to higher prices, fewer choices, and poorer quality services for Americans,» they wrote.

That could lead to a chaotic last few weeks of 2017, as companies try to best position themselves.

A 2016 global fraud study found that businesses with fewer than 100 employees suffered the same median level of theft — $ 150,000 — as much larger companies.

Fully 29 percent of adult workers at companies with fewer than 25 employees were uninsured in 2007.

Jill Barad ran the toy company for a few years in the late 1990s until she was ousted following a widely panned $ 3.5 billion acquisition of software company Learning Co..

Work on major LNG projects involving Western Australian companies is progressing with $ 580 million worth of contracts awarded in the past few days.

Whether you're running your company out of your dorm room or Skyping your partners in four different time zones, here are a few tricks to help the little guys compete against the big fish.

Many web development companies will provide an overview of the scope with a few pages to illustrate a specific template to follow.

A few of the best ones will find a way to get there, but most young companies will have to fold their product or service into someone's else's success story.

TaskUs boasts more than 200 customers — many of them the hottest startups in tech — but up until fairly recently few of them wanted to say much about the company, or even admit that they use its services.

Over the last few years, youth marketing has become an integral part of every top company's strategy.

Among human resources outsourcing companies, few provide as wide a range of services as Insperity.

More than three - quarters of companies in the commercial leasing space have five or fewer employees.

firm to Enron and cutting the stock price in half over the following few days (the report, though hyperbolic, helped trigger greater scrutiny of the company.)

It's also helpful to create a list of values you want your company to impart (fun, positivity, knowledge, resourcefulness) and to choose a few that best represent it.

Even more impressive, companies with fewer than 20 workers account for 90 percent of all U.S. companies.

When a company grows very fast, like BlackBerry did, a few heroes of the company make most of the decisions, but they may not be documented or logical decisions.

Your company benefits because you and your employees could learn how to adopt practices with a number of advantages (such as decreased stress or fewer people needing to take sick days).

Imagine your communities with fewer places to work — after all, there aren't a whole lot of large companies willing to relocate to a town of just 5,000 people — with fewer employed people.

These are just a few of the many entrepreneurs straddling the line of profitable company and social impact.

Most companies experience cash flow challenges within the first few years of operation and, for a large percentage of those businesses, the obstacle of high operating expenses and compounding debt proves to be too much -LSB-...]

Theranos, a company founded by Stanford sophomore Elizabeth Holmes in the fall of 2003 (she dropped out a few months later) has generated a lot of buzz for developing a revolutionary approach to the blood test.

A few years ago, we marveled at how the Inc. 500 — our annual ranking of America's fastest - growing private companies — sustained momentum during economic adversity.

According to a Harvard Business Review Analytic Services Report, fewer than half of all companies in the Harvard survey said they measured employee progress toward a goal.

These founders eagerly plot out five - year financial projections before they've even developed a product or service; a few theories about the fates of those impacted by a company's success are not any less likely to hold water.