Sentences with phrase «own biggest customer»

Pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts Holding said Anthem, its biggest customer and one that has sued the company over claims of being overcharged, was unlikely to renew its contract after it ends in 2019.

What could possibly be wrong with big customers (or high profile VCs) and why would any sensible start - up say no to one?

Evan Qu, a slim man sporting a designer shirt and Buddhist wrist beads, sells audio equipment; he thinks executives at his biggest customer, CCTV, the central broadcaster, will appreciate the environmentalist aura of the Tesla when he rolls up to their next meeting.

It was the app's biggest customer - facing activation to date, according to Adweek.

«The defense industry — the Department of Defense — is the single biggest customer in the world,» says Laingen, who estimates that the military awards some $ 150 billion in contracts each year, depending on the size of its budget.

Securing a big customer is often «fabulous» for a small business, at least from a revenue perspective, says Woyzbun.

Any size business is capable of landing a whale of a customer, but be prepared to devote time to your biggest customer

Portland's city government is another big customer.

CBS (cbs), the United States» most - watched television network, on Monday said it plans to buy its biggest customer in Australia, Ten Network, and launch its streaming service in the country.

Two, Dynamics has a huge library, and dedicated distribution channels, so like it or not, it's going to soon be viewed as a competitor by its biggest customers.

In the last few years, ironically, credit bureaus that handle reports on people refinancing mortgages have become big customers of factors because the banks to which they sell the reports are experts at cash management.

I bet that someday I'll come across a big customer problem that's not being solved or well served by the industry, come up with an innovative solution, and start my own company.

Small though a business may be, there's no reason it can't land a big customer.

But big customers can leech time and attention from other clients and, if they pull out, leave a small business in a rough financial spot, he says: «All your eggs are in one basket.»

«What if we lost our biggest customer — what would we do?»

Meanwhile, AWS bragged about landing Salesforce as a big customer earlier this year.

Facebook (fb) already claims some big customers.

When I look at what's happened to Canadian manufacturing over the past five, 10 years, I would say a big concern is the fact that the average manufacturer has one big customer — the United States — and it hasn't been doing very well.

One of Intel's biggest customers, Dell, may want to go public again, almost five years after going private, Bloomberg reports.

Constantly be growing your customer base, so that your biggest customers over time make up a smaller percentage of your overall sales and profits.

That's why he is focused on keeping costs down — there's that small team, big customer model again — and supplementing the wares with such loyalty - engendering value - added services as same - day shipping.

One of Nugville's biggest customers, Anglo Platinum, a Johannesburg mining company that has hundreds of suppliers in South Africa, had joined the Quadrem network earlier that year, so it made sense to follow suit.

It's started chasing bigger customers, winning larger enterprises from privately - held Magento.

«They went from being one of our biggest customers to barely doing business with them,» she says.

It said Alberta takes in 20 per cent of all bottles produced in B.C., making it the province's biggest customer.

«It's one of our biggest customers, and we want to retain their business.»

And that — ironically — means continuing to count two of Dell's biggest threats, HPE and Amazon, as its biggest customers.

Much of the company's revenue is coming from licensing the technology to big customers such as Salesforce and Hootsuite, although consumer brands, financial institutions and PR agencies are also subscribing to its $ 99 - a-month direct service.

«They're a big customer and we have to try and adhere to what they want.»

If the company loses it's biggest customer, for instance, you might be tempted to prop up the troops by saying something like, «It's not a big deal, we'll find another customer to take their place.»

At the same time Mobile Mini set up a self - service portal for big customers who wanted to manage hundreds of storage units at a time.

I didn't realize until I joined that the financial situation was so dire, but I was told that if we could build the product quickly, there were scores of big customers lined up to buy the product and save the company.

That includes initiatives in hot areas like blockchains, which many of IBM's biggest customers are dabbling in.

Axalta uses me for leadership conferences, annual meetings, internal groups, big customers... and I've done engagements for companies like PayPal.

«Being located in the same hemisphere as your biggest customer is a good thing,» he adds.

A Rusal spokeswoman declined to comment, when asked about the SUAL statement, as did Swiss - based trading and mining giant Glencore, also a Rusal shareholder and one of its biggest customers.

What are the signs that someone could become a bigger customer for you?

Imagination Technologies put itself up for sale after it lost 70 percent of its value after being ditched by its biggest customer Apple.

In June, Imagination Technologies put itself up for sale after it lost 70 percent of its value after being ditched by its biggest customer Apple, in a disappointing end to a once - great European tech success story.

All of these puzzle pieces could fit together and help you identify the bigger customer picture, if you're willing to spend time accumulating them.

The department stores that are Leota's biggest customers didn't want their shipments for two to three months — long after several bills were due.

We also crave truth in the workplace, an understanding that it was your skill or your attitude that landed the big customer or pushed a project forward.

While President Trump has called Lockheed's F - 35 fighter - jet program too expensive, the Commander - in - Chief remains an invaluable — if fickle — ally for the company, which counts the U.S. government as its biggest customer.

«In the coming year, I expect more of our big customers to migrate their Oracle databases and database applications to the Oracle Cloud.»

In the future he hopes to scale up by building more recycling plants — and thus producing the megasupply of processed plastics needed to attract bigger customers.

Plus, NBRI can collect data on an ongoing basis to help you better understand which response measures result in the biggest customer service improvements.

When banks are your biggest customers, you have to expect a little merger burn these days.

We were a hosting company for bigger customers and complex environments, and our customers were saying they wanted to try AWS even though they felt the cloud wasn't reliable.

As the world's third largest PC maker, Dell is one of Microsoft's biggest customers.

Among their biggest customers are VMware, AT&T, Tableau and Adobe.