Sentences with phrase «old company sells»

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The company sold only 4.3 million handsets to customers, and the vast majority were older models, not the BlackBerry 10 handsets that were supposed to reinvigorate the company.

At 27 years old I had sold a company for eight figures.

Few, if any, companies think as big as Tesla: To say the 15 - year - old company is merely reinventing the automobile industry would be selling it short.

Sold by San Francisco entrepreneur David Friedberg to Monsanto in 2013, the agricultural data company meshes old ideas into a new, valuable package that attracted $ 109 million in four investment rounds.

Parsons» company, Indosole, which produces and sells a line of sandals and shoes made entirely of repurposed old tires, has achieved a great deal of visibility thanks in large part to its community of customers, who support and advocate the company's quest to save one million tires from landfills.

Krispy Kreme was founded in 1937 by Vernon Rudolph who, according to the company's website, sold his specialty yeast - risen, glazed donuts to grocery stores in the old section of Winston - Salem, North Carolina.

For companies old and new, this evolution from selling products to selling services — leveraging the proliferation of internal and external data across the value - chain, to redefine or create your brand, product or service and create unique relationships — is a powerful concept.

Mixpanel is a eight - year - old company that sells analytics software that helps companies see how their users interact with their web and mobile apps.

Cesar Del Valle, a 33 - year - old trep, sold his lighting and production company in Southern California to cover costs as a student at ESADE Business School in Spain.

If you want to work at whiskey company WhistlePig, which sells luxury, 10 - year old rye, you're first going to have to learn how to feed big, burly pigs and read historic philosophy texts.

Thanks to the treaty, she says her four - year - old El Monte, California - based company is able to sell products at a cheaper price than it would cost customers to rent tuxedos and formal dresses for little tykes.

EquityZen, a four - year - old New York - based company, provides a platform on which private company investors can sell their shares to accredited investors.

Name: Melanie Perkins Company: Canva Work - life balance philosophy: We are what we repeatedly do, and being consistent with perseverance and hardwork have seen me from being a 14 - year - old starting my first business of selling handmade scarves, to a 19 - year - old starting Fusion Books, to where I am with Canva is today.

The startup competes with some of the software products sold by older and bigger technology companies like IBM (ibm), NetScout Systems (ntct), and CA Technologies (ca).

Señor Paleta, founded in 2014, has grown from a tiny operation selling at festivals and private events into a profitable company, surrounded by new and exciting businesses springing up in the area's century - old buildings.

These are older debts that have been sold by whatever company or creditor that incurred them and so I don't know what kind of impact they truly will be having.»

The 128 - year - old beauty company, known for products such as Skin - So - Soft and ANEW skincare, has been hit by a triple whammy: the rise in sales of low - priced beauty products at mass - market chains such as Walgreen (WAG) and Dollar General (DG), the apparent obsolescence of its direct - selling model for beauty items, and ill - advised forays into fashion, jewelry and pricier skincare products that alienated many customers.

Floorfashions Floor Coverings This five - year - old company — which sells carpeting and tile to builders and managers of institutional property — has outgrown its original space, which includes a cramped showroom and a jammed just - in - time warehouse.

As a reporter at CNBC Make It, I've covered some of the most incredible — including a 28 - year - old whose company has made millions buying things at Walmart and reselling them on Amazon and an entrepreneur who started selling board games out of his living room.

The duo fixed and sold old computers in high school, ran a web development company out of their dorm rooms in college, and worked together at O'Kelley's first advertising startup Right Media post-grad.

As it has expanded into mobile, analytics and second - screen viewing, the seven - year - old social network has snapped up companies that can help it further its goals, from under - the - radar outfits such as Ubalo to larger companies such as Crashlytics, which reportedly sold for nine figures.

In addition to selling fruit and veggie drinks, Bolthouse grows and packages fresh carrots — an old - fashioned, weather - sensitive farming business that Morrison suspected would be a turnoff for any packaged - goods company, including her own.

«Someone handed me a check that set me for life — and I was miserable,» George Jacobs told me a few years ago, referring to the $ 20 million the 50 - year - old serial entrepreneur made when he sold his company American Limousine in 1998.

It's his job to meet with toy inventors who hope to sell their ideas to the company; he has demonstrated an uncanny ability to tap into one of the world's great mysteries: what makes an eight - year - old's brain tick.

For those who insist that Jim Koch — the company's 67 - year - old founder, chairman and controlling shareholder — would never sell his baby, don't be so sure.

Chen, an energetic 58 - year - old Hong Kong native, who immigrated to the United States in 1973, was named executive chairman and interim chief executive of Blackberry on Monday as the company unexpectedly abandoned a plan to sell itself.

HARTFORD — Old and new collided at the General Assembly's transportation committee Wednesday as traditional automakers and Tesla Motors, for a second year, debated a proposal that would allow electric car companies to sell directly to consumers, instead...

The eight - year - old company had sold over 20.8 million devices as of March 31, of which more than half were in 2014 as the wearable technology craze took off.

«That's designed and sold by a small company called Sphero that's less than five years old.»

The company's experience was in selling older products with a well - established market, not new drugs.

The company that owns the department store chain, Hudson's Bay, said Tuesday that it was selling off the flagship store to WeWork, a seven - year - old start - up whose office - sharing model is helping to reinvent the concept of work space.

McCraith mentions that the company began to sell more than a million cases a year of Old Milwaukee for 15 years straight.

Though rumors of a sale began circulating in February, the 100 - year - old, family - owned jerky company announced yesterday that it's selling all of the assets and operating divisions to Premium Brands Holdings.

However, the company's original product line continues to sell the most because «our recipes are truly old sausage recipes,» he says.

For 38 years (as old as I am), Anchor Brewing Company has come out with this Christmas ale, sold only from early November to mid-January.

See our monitoring reports for examples of how companies mislead parents to boost profits and sell unnecessary products, such as follow - on formula and milks for older babies.

The he company makes a similar product for older toddlers aged 1 - 3 years that sells for $ 1.34 per ounce on the company website.

In the event Old Town School goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets, users» personal information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred.

This century - old company currently operates in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada, and its products — dressers, chests, and more — are available wherever juvenile products are sold and online.

«I'm sure you know about the privatization of the power sector; your old friends NEPA or Power Holding Company of Nigeria have been sold to a number of interest groups.

ALBANY — A $ 500 million deal to sell disgraced former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's old company collapsed Sunday night after state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office sued the fallen film producer and his company.

Van der Heyden isn't the only European researcher to get such a hard sell from Pan European Networks (PEN), a 6 - year - old publishing company with offices in Congleton, U.K., and Brussels that promises to provide opportunities for «leading figures from across Europe» to get attention for their work or ideas.

The group included Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, whose estimated personal wealth is greater than $ 46.5 billion, and Niklas Zennström, the upstart CEO of the Internet - based phone service Skype Technologies, who recently sold his three - year - old company to eBay for $ 2.6 billion.

Since 2003, Discover has been reporting on a biofuel company that turned turkey guts, garbage and old tires into oil, which it sold to refineries for vehicle fuel or to electrical utilities to help power generators («Anything Into Oil,» May 2003).

Inserts can be anything from an old cotton tshirt, receiving blankets, flour sack towel, or pre-fold inserts that many cloth diaper company's sell.

The 78 - year - old outdoorsman — who started the multimillion - dollar company by selling rock climbing gear out of his car in 1960s California — has been a vocal advocate for environmental causes throughout his career.

«I've been looking for a good cotton travel blazer for two years, since two other well - known companies stopped selling their long - time standards and my old ones wore out.

In Korea, the government gives tax breaks to export - only companies, like Wishtrend, a four - year - old Korean beauty company that sells only to the U.S. — it doesn't have to pay taxes in the country at all.

Super Comfy Old Navy Top / / Leggings / / The Cutest Boot Socks (Sold Out online, but available in Old Navy stores) / / Frye Boots / / Reversible Tote / / Blanket Scarf (Same Company, Same Scarf)

My mom worked for a magazine merchandising company and was able to bring home old magazines that didn't sell.