Sentences with phrase «over the company about»

Mr. Duffy and a cousin took over the company about 10 years ago.

Not exact matches

But over the past year, the company has endured a series of embarrassments: soft sales, see - through pants and insensitive comments about plus - sized woman by founder Chip Wilson.

The trick here is having control over who's able to post Tweets to the company account as disparaging remarks about customers are most likely to be made by bored, uncommitted hires.

-- Blodget said on the conference call that the company still has about $ 22 million of the $ 50 million in financing that it has raised over the past couple of years.

Apple's iPhone event today was as much about the highly - anticipated iPhone 8 and iPhone X as it was an homage to the company's impressive feats with consumer technology over the last 10 years.

But foreign companies are unhappy over requirements that they share key details about their technology to Chinese partners.

The company will begin bankruptcy proceedings, it said, after losing clients and facing mounting legal fees resulting from the scandal over reports the company harvested personal data about millions of Facebook users beginning in 2014.

She repeated the phrase when a reporter asked for her thoughts about calls for her family to relinquish their influence over the group of companies they control.

The company went on to sell over 2,000 sweaters in 2017, before it completely sold out about two weeks before Christmas.

Michael Dell doesn't talk specifically about the companies he's interested in, but according to an April 2012 Forbes interview, Dell said he, personally, looks at over 250 companies every year that might fit into the company's acquisition strategy, even if the company only acts on a few.

The two companies have been talking about a potential movie for over a year, the report said, and it builds on a previous deal between Nintendo and Universal to build Nintendo - related rides and attractions at various Universal theme parks.

The stock has soared more than eight per cent over the past week on speculation the company could buy the retail operations of oil and gas giant Hess, which owns about 1,350 gasoline stations in 16 East Coast states.

In a conversation with Fortune, Gupta talks about the evolution of the venture ecosystem over the last decade and his firm's contrarian approach when it comes to investing in early - stage companies.

The company operates in over 70 countries and produces about 3.7 million barrels of oil a day.

The company currently carries a market cap a little north of $ 14 billion, down about 45 percent since Dorsey took over as interim CEO last June.

Ramona Persaud, manager of Fidelity's Global Equity Income Fund, likes the company's «shrewd» instincts and its knack for delivering a return on capital «far superior to the market,» an average of about 27 % over the past five years.

And, over the past two years, the company has laid off about 12 % of its workforce, or 12,500 employees, many of whom joined Shell figuring they'd have a job for life.

Bark & Co. is mum about its subscriber numbers, but Strife says the company has shipped a total of over four and a half million boxes.

The most common problem when hiring freelancers is a lack of information within the company about the past relationship with their freelancers; who the company used for the particular type of project, or how the freelancer performed previously — did the freelancer deliver work on time, did they go over budget etc..

About Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation is a leading global pure - play vacation ownership company, offering a diverse portfolio of quality products, programs and management expertise with over 65 resorts.

The co-founders wanted $ 200,000 for 12.5 percent, but after the other sharks backed out over concerns about the company's product and high price, they were left with just O'Leary's offer.

Diply — which creates and aggregates highly sharable clickbait - y content geared towards millennials — attracts over 41 million unique visitors each month, about 60 % of whom are located in the United States and 15 % in the U.K. Just 7 % of visitors to the site are from Canada, but that hasn't deterred the company from keeping London as its home - base.

Investor concerns about regulatory action sent Amazon shares down 3.3 percent over Wednesday and Thursday, knocking $ 24 billion off the company's market value.

Helped in part by the reduced rates, the 10 largest tech companies are estimated to generate about $ 800 billion in free cash flow over the next three years, Materne said.

IN 10 years, CJ King and Co Pty Ltd has grown from a small annex behind a North Beach home to what it claims is the biggest full colour printer in the Southern Hemisphere — a $ 1,500 investment that is now turning over $ 10 million a year.With the assistance of Austrade and the WA Department of Industry and Resources (DoIR), the company is taking on the UK market, already with some success.One of the remarkable things about this success story is that it has been achieved through a consummate belief in a philosophy to use standardised, leading - edge technology and to supply just the print trade and other on - sellers.

I started pitching him on our company and bragged about how we have great scientists from all over world.

The CEO, who took over the top spot in January 2013, had heard about the incident on the radio that morning as he drove to work, unaware that it would have anything to do with him or the company where he's worked for 28 years.

Besides figuring out whether a family member can take over the company's operations, succession advisors say clans must also come up with a consensus about a transfer of ownership, as well as implement a plan that allows the founder to extract their equity from the firm.

The board also promised to establish «a new mind - set» at the company, with «more capacity for criticism» — seemingly conceding there was something poisonous about the culture Winterkorn presided over.

In 2013, for example, Magnetar and several other hedge funds sued over the acquisition by 3M (mmm) of biometrics company Cogent, seeking about 55 % more money for their shares in the target, which they claimed were priced too low.

A company that, say, releases several lines of detergent without making clear distinctions about why customers would want one brand over the other could be throwing money away, he says.

According to a report from Goldman Sachs, venture capital in companies pursuing regenerative medicine increased from $ 296 million in 2011 to $ 807 million in 2016, growing about 34 % year over year.

Massachusetts» attorney general has already said she would investigate Facebook over the matter while a coalition of 37 state attorneys has sent Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg a letter urging him disclose more information about his company's data collection and security practices.

Now comes word of more legal woes: The cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles have sued the company over allegations that it overcharges consumers, as well as makes misleading claims about the safety of its service.

It's a truly neutral network in that they hydro companies that supply people with power don't care about and have no say over how it is used.

Over the years Alfa has come out on top in bitter power struggles even with people closely linked to Vladimir Putin: it defended its telecoms empire against Leonid Reiman, Putin's communications minister, who ultimately left the government after a string of disclosures about his links to an offshore company.

Other exciting elements of the proposed new law include spies being able to legally hack people's computers in bulk, forcing broadband companies to keep records of which sites everyone visits, and compelling organizations to hand over bulk datasets about their customers.

That cost to small companies was about $ 11 billion in 2011, also a 32 % increase over the prior year.

Over the past decade, about 150 companies have achieved skyrocketing valuations of $ 1 billion or more.

The money is small, as the company has paid out about $ 1 million in bounties over the past two years.

He expects the sector's earnings to grow by about 13.5 % a year over the next five years, with industrial and technology companies expanding at a faster rate.

With 60 employees and about $ 23 million in venture capital investment over the past three years, the Des Moines - based company has grown wiser from its investors, which include Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

Among many other results, he started a company from scratch in 2009 that now builds about 10 % of Americas new wind energy installations (on average over the past three years).

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued to block the deal over concerns about the companies» pricing power in the media market.

Looking at the strategy of the company, I think we've succeeded over the last year since we transitioned to Alphabet to be more disciplined about the bets we're supporting.

CNBC's John Melloy talks to Jim Lebenthal, CIO of Lebenthal Asset Management, about market catalysts, M&A and companies worth watching over the long term.

And iCloud, the company's service to back up photos, video, documents and user settings over the Internet, has laboured for years to meet Apple's «It Just Works» standard without ever living up to expectations (internal frustration with the situation boiled over last fall when Apple insiders talked — anonymously — to reporter Jessica E. Lessin at tech news site The Information about the business unit's disarray).

One year ago ExactTarget, an interactive marketing software company, went public with a market cap of over $ 1 billion (and I wrote about the mental journey from start - up to IPO taken by the company's founders.)

That amounts to about 1.2 % of all shares outstanding, which could be worth more than $ 300 million if the company is valued at $ 25 billion (its last reported private valuation) when it goes public — and a lot more than that over time if the stock goes up.

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.