Sentences with phrase «others up the chain»

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The restaurant chain joined a handful of other small - cap stocks that have pushed up their stock price by announcing a link with Bitcoin or blockchain in the past year.

Along with the hardware sellers, railroads, trucking companies, logistics firms and others that make up the supply - chain of the economy also faced the challenge of providing essential goods to Texas, the second - largest U.S. state.

But with the enthusiastic response they received — and the stampede north by many other U.S. chains — In - N - Out may want to consider setting up shop in Canada for real.

But while other trusts hold residential, office or industrial properties, all of which are subject to the ups and downs of the economy and real estate markets, Crombie generates 30 % of its revenues from a supermarket chain.

«Following today's announcement up to 100 million cups will be recycled this year alone and if the nation's other coffee chains sign up, there is no reason why all takeaway cups could not be recycled by as early as 2020,» Costa Managing Director Dominic Paul said in a statement.

They chose the mass - merchant and superstore channels, where they knew they'd find higher - ups from Comp USA, among other chains.

But for small music - store chains, there's bad news, too: national chains are buying up or displacing smaller players, and music stores are losing market share to record clubs and other retailers, such as warehouse clubs and discount chains.

While Australian companies in some of these industries are restricted to setting up shop in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, others, such as hotel chains and operators of care homes, can do business anywhere in China.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Moog's technology chief George Small said the aerospace industry, like other highly regulated sectors such as the medical and nuclear power industries, was expending considerable effort on tracking parts across the supply chain to keep up with quality and regulatory demands.

Netflix and other streaming services have largely rendered the stores obsolete, with even big chain Blockbuster closing up shop recently.

The deals, praised by investors who sent shares up nearly 15 % in after - hours trading, splits the troubled casual - dining restaurant chain from the faster growing and more profitable packaged foods business that sells sausages, macaroni and cheese, and other foods under the Bob Evans, Owens and Country Creek brand names.

Nothing quite like Bravo Bucks is in effect at Phase II, a chain of eight personal - training centers based in Raleigh, N.C. Phase II's CEO, Wade Harris, is pumping up his customer service in other ways.

While other international coffee chains like Costa Coffee scramble to seize market share, independent coffee shops have also sprung up and are proving to be a magnet for young affluent Chinese seeking to «be different».

For that, the strategy has been to go a little more upscale and try to capture some of the market that Chipotle and other companies have carved out — or what marketers call «going up the value chain.»

The company will use these funds to ramp up retailers» acquisition and to build integrated technology solutions for many other parts of the value chain, besides bulk ordering by buyers and order processing by Prozo.

Though some designers are purposely starting to send less of their inventory to off - price chains, such as Ralph Lauren and Hugo Boss, there are still plenty of others willing to step up fill the gap.

Companies in technology, investment and other industries now say that the measures the administration is taking to help them may actually end up doing irreparable harm to supply chains they have built up over decades.

... well the same logic applys to god... i enjoy dropping these logic bombs on people and see how they react and hope that maybe that logic bomb will eventually set up a chain reaction in their consciousness... or maybe I am an egotistical f c k who just likes to have an unassaiable argument which with to beat others over the head with... maybe I am wrong to do so because the Human Condition is so cold and bleak in its finality that people need the cushion of god to go on with their everyday lives.

Bill began to think of setting up a chain of profit - making hospitals, of raising money, of subsidizing missionaries, and of writing a book of experiences that would carry the message of recovery to other cities and other countries.

But from the perspective of the world as an interlocking harmony of rhythms, one's action is the setting up of a chain of vibratory processes within which other people move.

The grocery chain isn't the first to offer up fry - shaped crunchy tater treats (UTZ's Potato Stix are among the others), but it's probably among the healthier versions.

Besides turning up in grocery stores, gluten - free items have started appearing on restaurant menus: in pizzerias and bakeries in New York City and elsewhere, and in the Legal Sea Foods chain, among others.

Coconut oil contains lauric acid and medium - chain saturated fatty acids (MCFAs), it is thermogenic which helps to burn more calories to speed up metabolism and aid weight loss amongst other health benefits!

In most other areas of the country, large chains make up the landscape of convenience stores, so we have a very diverse group of customers.»

«These changes by Burger King Corp. will improve life for countless farm animals and encourage other companies to abide by animal welfare principles up and down their supply chain.»

Ultimately, it is up to you and other members of the food industry to address these claims and make the changes necessary to keep the supply chain sustainable for future generations.

Part of the answer is that certification is expensive for farmers, and often for other players further up the supply chain.

Costs further up supply chain: Other players up the supply chain who handle organic coffee must also be certified.

While some of the bigger food businesses handle supply chain internally, many others, including smaller and start - up businesses turn to the expertise of consultants with years of experience.

Opportunities to widen the focus of partnership with India in upstream and innovative research have opened up and will facilitate the transfer of new technologies to farmers and other stakeholders along the rice value chain.

Burners are seasonal and used mostly around the height of recruiting season, when local bag men need to communicate quickly with other shadow boosters across the state and region higher up the fiscal chain.

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Additionally it tends to open up in the wash (even the best ones) and snag and stick to other diapers in the wash creating annoying diaper chains and occasionally causing other diapers to nap up.

The Fresh Foods program was a food rescue program where a food bank truck picked up fresh fruits and vegetables, dairy products, and other perishable items at a local grocery store chain.

ease of setting up daisy chain actions and integrate sharing options and other things on thank you pages, after a user takes action

Some will fail and others will lose interest, but the rest may just start to change the ways things are done locally and up the political chain.

I imagine that there's a difference between (1) RULING that a law is unconstitutional (a perogative of the courts) and (2) CONCLUDING (i.e., RECOGNIZING) that one court's ruling declaring a statute unconstitutional is unlikely to be reversed by other courts further up the food chain.

Unfortunately for him and for many other people, he had picked up severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS — perhaps directly from an infected bat or from a small, arboreal mammal called a civet, common in one of Guangdong's famous «wet markets» that sell wild animals for food, or else from a person or chain of people ultimately infected from one of those animal sources.

The specific forms of each coccolith most likely evolved under pressure from zooplankton, the microscopic animal group a notch up the food chain that developed mandibles, claws, and other accoutrements for getting past the hard calcite coccoliths.

«People in certain fields rise up the managerial chain by being experts,» says sociologist Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D., author of A Survival Guide for Working with Bad Bosses: Dealing with Bullies, Idiots, Back - Stabbers, and other Managers from Hell (American Management Association, 2006).

When disturbed, a pyrosome emits a sustained bright glow to confuse and deter predators such as sea turtles, sparking other pyrosomes to light up in a chain reaction.

Sometimes one will start to eat another and then get eaten itself, and Soulsby notes that chains have been reported with of up to four fish simultaneously cannibalizing each other.

The report recommends beefing up forecasting systems for ocean and ice conditions, infrastructure for supply chains for people and equipment to respond, field research on the behavior of oil in the Arctic environment, and other strategies to prepare for a significant spill in the harsh conditions of the Arctic.

The flourishing of some species at the expense of others causes major species shifts at the base of the food chain, with likely consequences higher up the trophic web up to the fishes.

The problems could run all the way up the food chain: Reduce the menu for one animal, and you've reduced the menu for other animals, as well (fewer sea butterflies means hard times for the animals that eat sea butterflies).

That plastic can then move up the food chain as seabirds, seals and other marine predators eat those fish.

Because they are exposed to the surroundings more than are the atoms that make up the chain itself, these «charms» often determine how a polymer interacts with itself and other things in the environment.

New research shows that our taste buds can pick up on long chains of sugar that make up carbs like bread, pasta, and rice — and some are more attuned to it than others.

As we discussed in this article, it is just as critical for preventing acne as vitamin E or vitamin C. Glutathione can cut off chains of free radicals on the skin, and hoover up free radicals throughout your body and prevent them from depleting other important acne antioxidants like vitamin E and vitamin A.