Sentences with phrase «on global giants»

Kobo is the upstart Canadian e-book retailer that has been taking on the global giants as the e-book market has enveloped the planet.

Alibaba isn't shy about taking on global giants in everything from cloud computing to video streaming.

Mr Kershaw credited the performance to M&C's client base, which includes more local brands and is less reliant on global giants than WPP.

Not exact matches

According to a leaked memo obtained by BuzzFeed, an Australian agency owned by the global advertising giant Omnicom — which handles advertising and marketing campaigns for all of the major Fortune 500 brands including McDonalds and Apple — has advised its staff that many of the firm's clients are asking that their ads not appear on Breitbart.

The oil and gas giant announced that it was unloading its oil - sands assets, for $ 7.25 billion, so that it could double down on businesses «where we have global scale and a competitive advantage.»

Officials from 195 countries, from giants like the U.S. to the tiniest impoverished states, agreed on the world's first global climate - change deal on Saturday evening, committing the world to drastically cutting back carbon emissions and transforming the planet's energy mix over the next several decades.

Page also served as an adviser «on key transactions» for Russia's state - owned energy giant Gazprom before setting up his own energy investment fund, Global Energy Capital, with former Gazprom executive Sergei Yatesenko.

James Cowan's current Canadian Business cover story, on how McDonald's Canada is helping to turn around the ailing global burger giant, is an in - depth look into one of the world's biggest business turnaround stories.

The global software giant's new mobile - optimized cloud streamlines the process of creating, editing, sharing and signing documents on the fly.

Since investment banking giant Lehman Brothers fell nine years ago this day, signaling the start of a time when six homes were foreclosed on every minute, global consumers have been spending a lot of time on Netflix and a nice bit of cash on video games.

While automakers around the world covet Jeep for its strong growth and fat profits, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV sees potential for much more, banking on the rugged brand to vie with global giants like Toyota, Volkswagen and Ford.

As the CEO of Marsh and McLennan, a giant global consulting firm, he advises the men and women leading Fortune 500 companies on the importance of what's known as «leading with purpose.»

The price of bitcoin, the world's most well - known virtual currency, lost almost one fifth of its value to $ 15,800 this week after peaking as high as $ 19,666 on Sunday, as feverish demand ebbed slightly after the exchange giant CME Group and its rival Cboe Global Markets listed bitcoin futures.

Global banking giant J.P. Morgan has forecast an average price of $ 70 a barrel in 2018 on the back of global economic growth boosting the demand for eGlobal banking giant J.P. Morgan has forecast an average price of $ 70 a barrel in 2018 on the back of global economic growth boosting the demand for eglobal economic growth boosting the demand for energy.

But Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager may be tempted to train her fire on European companies after a string of investigations of U.S. global giants that, especially after Tuesday's Apple (aapl) verdict, has enraged the United States.

Separately, CDP said French cosmetics giant L'Oreal and Anglo - Dutch consumer goods group Unilever (ul) were the top performers on the global ranking, scoring straight «A» s on a scorecard that rates corporate policies on preventing climate change, ensuring water security and protecting forests.

CNBC's Jackie Deangelis reports on third - quarter earnings for oil giants Exxon Mobil, Chevron and ConocoPhillips and what they mean for the global oil market.

Today the picture is pretty for Anisa, which expected $ 30 million in annual sales for 2012 while taking on global cosmetics packaging giant Albéa.

McDonald's (mcd) on Wednesday said that it would begin curbing the use of important human antibiotics in its global chicken supply in 2018, as the fast - food giant joins a broad effort to battle dangerous superbugs.

The global consulting giant makes its living telling other companies, governments and organizations how to be more innovative, and right now McKinsey is run by a Canadian, Dominic Barton, who also heads Ottawa's Advisory Council on Economic Growth.

He was hired from Credit Suisse, where he was head of global internet investment banking and was perhaps best known for his leading role on the initial public offering of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group in 2014, the largest share sale ever.

That's according to a speech Keith Weed, the global consumer goods giant's chief marketing officer, is set to give at the annual Interactive Advertising Bureau conference in Palm Desert, Calif., on Monday.

The social media giant hired the accounting and consulting firm Deloitte to tally up the company's impact on the global economy.

Manipulation on the part of global corporate giants like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon using not only filters but also psychology sophisticated «manipulators» like «reciprocation» «commiting», «social proof» and many others.

Global banking giant Goldman is setting up up a trading desk focused on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, according to a report from Bloomberg.

In this current age of corporate activism, global retail giant Amazon has been on the front lines for equality in Washington state, leveraging the company's wealth and influence to drive historic social change.

(Meanwhile, President Xi Jinping's tightening grip on his country's tech giants may hurt their global competitiveness.)

Sydney - based Pacific Equity Partners and global giant The Carlyle Group agreed to pay US - listed Valeant Pharmaceuticals $ US930 million ($ 1.23 billion) for iNova on Thursday night, after winning a six - month auction for the business.

Put together with the North Sea assets acquired from Shell last year in a $ US3 billion deal, Santos» portfolio would catapult Harbour — managed by private equity giant EIG Global Energy Partners — to a size roughly on a par with Woodside Petroleum or British - listed Dana Gas.

Nevertheless, when the world economy has been in a dramatic downturn in recent weeks and some then global giants» assets are put on yard - sale, many people would expect that it might be a time for China's outward investment to come in a big wave.

Telecommunication giant IDT and global payment provider MercuryFX officially announced the new partnership with Ripple on Tuesday.

It's based on my experience leading global enterprise social business and digital marketing programs for IBM, where I led my amazing team in establishing the technology giant's social media strategy including employee advocacy, social media listening and monitoring, influencer and brand engagement guidelines, social media governance, policy and measurement standards to a global workforce of over 400,000 employees.

While we currently favour global exposure to the technology sector and selected opportunities within healthcare, we're also positive on financials — another giant within the Canadian market cap that we believe registers as fairly valued with the potential for decent earnings growth amid a synchronized and sustained global economic expansion.

Global banking giant Santander Group is reportedly launching a blockchain - based application for cross-border foreign exchange on Friday.

Backed by investment giants such as SoftBank, Tiger Global and Tencent and others, Ola raised $ 1.1 billion from investors late last year and is on course to raise a further $ 1 billion.

Global technology giant Google has released an enterprise chat builder app called DialogFlow on its cloud platform, the company...

Without the funds, Greece will almost certainly default on its next loan repayment, due at the end of this month, and risks ejection from the 19 - nation Eurozone which looms as a giant unknown to global investors.

«With the great strides we have made in our goal to be both a Quebec and Canadian player on the global stage, nevertheless we still have to deal with the reality of the current business environment in Canada, which presents real challenges to a company like ours,» the engineering giant's chief executive, Neil Bruce, said in prepared comments he made to the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations Tuesday.

While many global giants, including WeChat and Line are keeping a close eye on their userbase growth in the country, homegrown Hike messaging app is trying to capture the largest chunk of the local mobile messaging market, after crossing over 35 million active users mark recently.

Around the same time, Samsung, the electronics giant confirmed that they could plan on using Blockchain for their existing global supply chain.

Investors fear that the fate of global stock markets are too heavily dependant on a handful of tech giants, Apple among them...

Cargill, one of the largest global agricultural companies, has joined Bill Gates and other business giants to invest in a nascent technology to make meat from self - producing animal cells amid rising consumer demand for protein that's less reliant on feed, land and water.

Arguments from Treasury Wine Estates proponents such as Willibald Hajszan («Treasury Wines class action unrepresentative», AFR Letters, July 7), fail to acknowledge several issues in trying to discredit the current securities class action on foot against the global wine giant.

Shares in Treasury Wine Estates, the world's biggest listed winemaker and owner of brands such as Penfolds, Wolf Blass and Rosemount, have rocketed nearly 15 per cent this morning on rumors that global French drinks giant Pernod Ricard could be circling to snap up key assets of the business including its billion dollar US vineyards and wine labels.

Sydney - based Pacific Equity Partners and global giant The Carlyle Group agreed to pay US - listed Valeant Pharmaceuticals $ US930 million ($ 1.23 billion) for iNova on Thursday night, after winning a six - month auction for the business.

Food group and beverage giant Danone and Veolia, the global resource management group, have announced an innovative strategic partnership focusing on the water cycle, waste management, sustainable agriculture and energy efficiency, to meet the challenge of climate change.

The axing of Victoria Pale Lager, which was sold in an embossed VB stubby - shaped green bottle, is the first label to be discontinued by Foster's since it was taken over by global brewing giant SABMiller more than a year ago, as the brewer focuses more on its core beer brands.

After three and a half years as corporate affairs director at Pepsi, John quit the food and drinks giant in April of this year to take on a global role at private healthcare providers Bupa.

The development of the long - promised «digital era governance» was mired in a series of mega contracts: huge in terms of cost, scope and timescale, bigger than any attempted by other governments worldwide, and to be delivered by the same handful of giant global computer consulting firms that rarely saw any challenge to their grip on public contracts.

With ministers banking on rapid private sector growth to replace the estimated 490,000 public sector jobs expected to be lost, the Prime Minister backed a world of «unprecedented economic change» in which small start - up companies can become global giants in a matter of years.