Sentences with phrase «own companies in»

I also had a painting company in college where I went door to door selling painting services.

Oscar is New York's first new insurance company in 15 years, and it's on a mission to make health insurance truly consumer - friendly.

He wanted his right - hand man, Jake Cohen, to visit the company in New York.

That one collapsed before it ever really started when a friend who had started a burrito company in Buenos Aires gave them some critical advice.

Combine that with weak commodity prices, flat global trade and the governance risk associated with companies in many of these countries, and safety - minded investors are perhaps best served by limiting their exposure to the grouping at this time.

She held various senior positions at Petro - Canada until she left the company in 1991, going on to serve on numerous corporate boards and start a governance consulting firm.

Without giving away any trade secrets, a good CPA will tell you when certain financial ratios or metrics are better or worse than similar companies in their stead.

Venter, who is one of the first people to sequence the human genome, co-founded the company in effort to discover early genetic markers for a variety of disorders.

D.R. Horton, the country's largest homebuilder, has been increasingly focused on its entry - level segment, which the company in January said should grow strongly over the next three years.

If Mr. Musk were somehow to increase the value of Tesla to $ 650 billion — a figure many experts would contend is laughably impossible and would make Tesla one of the five largest companies in the United States, based on current valuations — his stock award could be worth as much as $ 55 billion (assuming the company does not issue any more shares over the next decade, which is unrealistic).

A lot of U.S. housing stocks have skyrocketed as the American recovery has taken hold, but there are still some companies in this sector that will continue to climb.

These are the 500 fastest - growing companies in Canada, measured by their revenue growth over the last five years

While the government has been elusive in defining the word, «cluster» is taken to mean a group of companies in the same industry and location, such as fintech in Toronto or artificial intelligence in Montreal.

The second quarter GDP numbers showed that companies in most industries were spending, and imports of machinery and equipment — a proxy for investment — are strong.

Some started their companies in vans, others have been disciplined overachievers all their lives.

Whichever way voters go as polls close in the California's Democratic primary, some employees of tech companies in the Bay Area have already cast their votes with their dollars, reports The Hill.

While that has worked nicely — companies in the sector have seen gross margins expand by 16 % in 2011 to 21 % in 2013 — some experts think housing prices could fall in the near future.

«We find the best people in the world and either bring them to Canada to have them work for us in Nova Scotia — we speak more than 10 languages in our facility here — or we base them throughout the world to represent our company in all the countries in which we operate,» says Deveau.

However, The Pink Ceiling does have male employees, and there are male - founded companies in the Pinkubator.

To that end, Blue Ant — named after a fictional marketing company in a William Gibson novel — is in the midst of a two - year buying spree that began with the acquisition of GlassBox TV, the venture - capital - backed firm that first caught MacMillan's eye back in 2011.

Siemens, the largest engineering company in Europe, has 70 joint ventures in China.

Apple, the largest publicly traded company in the U.S., is scheduled to report fiscal second quarter earnings and revenue Tuesday after the close.

Prochazka co-founded the company in Edmonton, Alta.

Shell is listed on the London Stock Exchange with a market cap of 193 billion pounds — more than any other listed corporation on the exchange and one of the highest of any company in the world.

Blue Collar Millionaires: Denise Burgess is the CEO of Burgess Services, a construction company in the Denver metropolitan area.

The only people starting companies in that kind of bust period are really serious about it.

Aronson had already established a refining company in Florida, but business was tough.

With the short list of 10 companies in hand, we scrutinized each company's website to compare and contrast the options offered.

The fastest - growing company in Austin is MKS2 (No. 92), a cybersecurity and IT services provider.

-- Eric Lupton, president of Life Saver Pool Fence Systems, the largest pool fence company in the United States

A second Nike executive is leaving the the company in the wake of complaints about inappropriate behavior at the sneaker giant, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

The disruption caused by Uber and other companies in markets such as Kenya and South Africa demonstrates this point: The digital dividend can be a potent force when companies harness it correctly.

Jeff and Aimee Dougherty are the owners of JD Custom Displays, a custom retail display company in Fullerton, California.

In this case, he takes a very talented protagonist, Kathryn Petersen, and drops her into a Silicon Valley company in turmoil.

• Align Capital Partners completed the majority acquisition of Barrow - Agee Laboratories, a Memphis, Tenn. - based company in the food safety and testing industry.

Last year, 65 companies in the Global 500 reported combined losses of $ 184 billion.

Despite all that, short - term profitability isn't why Axel Springer would be interested in buying Business Insider (a company in which it already has a small stake, since it participated in the financing round earlier this year that valued the company at $ 200 million).

«But there [are] a few important things: Facebook has not been an uncontroversial company in the past.

A few companies in the Journal article seem to have found some creative ways to get around this, using the data they've vaccuumed up to enable new insights about employee health.

Companies in healthcare, energy, education, transportation, retail, technology, agriculture and every other sector would have direct access to the talent they need to grow.

They outsourced the watch design and production to a company in China that failed to deliver and — Tan writes — walked away with a good portion of their money.

BEIJING, May 3 - Smartphone and connected device maker Xiaomi filed for a Hong Kong initial public offering on Thursday, in what is expected to be the largest listing by a Chinese tech company in almost four years.

Accounting firm KPMG is launching a business «accelerator» that is designed to assist early - stage technology ventures and bring them together with major companies in the energy and resources sector.

The most powerful companies in the world aren't able to ward off copycats.

Tehrani targeted the most conservative companies in the business, ones that had no presence in a particular class of disease targets, to entice those who might jump on the bandwagon later.

Everyone is an asset and a major contributor to the company in their own way.»

But the study results indicate that companies in these localities didn't significantly reduce jobs after implementing paid leave.

The first is a fully digital design process that allows Levi designers to sketch new finishing styles using high resolution tablet computers and software developed by the company in house.

Nonetheless, expect to see less place for every day items at CVS stores eventually and more room for the higher value health care services, a move telegraphed by the company in 2014, when it changed its name from CVS Caremark to CVS Health.

The Company considers EBITDA to be an important measure used to evaluate operating performance, and the measure is frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of companies in the industry, but this figure should not be considered in isolation.