Sentences with phrase «own publicity»

April 24 (Reuters)- Burger King owner Restaurant Brands International Inc and its franchisees will spend C$ 700 million ($ 546 million) over four years to revamp coffee chain Tim Hortons, following a round of bad publicity over its management of the Canadian chain.

There's even a chance the dreamy Prime Minister will provide some free publicity, as Justin Trudeau did for Microsoft Corp. when it opened an office in Vancouver last year, for example.

He saw the PC mogul wading into crowds of shareholders and signing autographs at the company's annual meeting, noting how a larger - than - life CEO could inspire loyalty and garner loads of free publicity.

The first publicly - traded medical marijuana producer in Canada has found other ways to generate publicity

In the early stages of business, almost any publicity is good publicity; however, this shouldn't be taken to an extreme.

No matter how innovative or astonishing the product or services your company offers, without proper marketing and publicity, the company might as well not exist.

In 2011, Sony Pictures executives asked the Andalusian enclave if they could paint the town blue as a publicity stunt for those famous blue cartoons, the Smurfs.

Uber, of course, has promised to clean up its corporate culture after a spate of bad publicity about sexual harassment and a damning video of CEO Travis Kalanick cursing out a driver.

How local and national publicity helped Julien Leitner, the 14 - year - old founder of the Archimedes Alliance, spark change and move the world, $ 2 at a time.

Lady Bird Johnson once said a first lady must be a «showman and a salesman, a clotheshorse and a publicity sounding board, with a good heart, and a real interest in the folks» from all over the country, rich and poor.

To anyone who has ever looked at orthodox industrial publicity pictures the photographs on this page * will come with surprise and, presumably, delight.

Often the only obstacle between your business and free publicity is your own fear of rejection,» suggests Darius Eghdami, CEO of FansUnite.

Since Inc.'s world eschews flash, pure entertainment, and publicity in favor of thoughtfulness and helping others entrepreneurially, you'll be forgiven if you don't know our community's internet influencers quite as well.

The best form of publicity for your application, as for any business, is third - party endorsements.

Companies often favor arbitration, because it can be less expensive than a public trial and can allow them to avoid bad publicity.

Electric car company Tesla announced its compensation plan for founder Elon Musk yesterday, and like pretty much everything else the company does, it was calibrated for maximum publicity value.

But no matter what publicity route you choose, first make sure your product or service is completely ready and available for purchase in order to maximize returns from the coverage you receive.

Their primary goals are favorable publicity (no surprise) and spreading the wealth around, meaning spreading your wealth around.

Maryam Henein, the director of Vanishing of the Bees, a 2010 documentary that explores the environmental ramifications Colony Collapse Disorder, dismisses the personified bee being backburnered as little more than a clever «healthwashing» - reminiscent corporate publicity stunt.

Target your local areas properly and do not offer a particular service to those who have no use for it in the first place; this is obviously a waste of your time and theirs, and you will unintentionally create negative publicity as a result.

«Write to Play» heralded Playworld's first - ever social media giveaway, and the results are impressive: Not only did its Facebook fan base increase from 600 to more than 9,000 during the two months the contest ran, but as finalists rallied to gain community support for their campaigns, many local news outlets reported on their efforts, earning Playworld significant free publicity in the process.

There's no such thing as bad publicity, blah blah blah.

Additionally, we will be working more with promotions, publicity and marketing of events, companies and expos nationwide.

After bad publicity during the 1988 Seoul Olympics, South Korea - which had been allowing adoptions to the U.S. since the 1950s - temporarily banned overseas adoption.

And it doesn't necessarily have to involve damaging a company's reputation in a material way; in some cases, bad publicity and its inherent potential damage is sufficient to warrant just cause.

While there were dissenters, the Supreme Court found that Skilling's negative publicity didn't prevent him from receiving a fair trial — especially because Houston was the fourth - most - populous city in the country, allowing for a large jury pool.

Since its launch in September 2014, MetaStable has delivered such eye - popping performance that it apparently lets the numbers mostly speak for themselves; it shuns publicity and never announced its recent fundraising round.

Some businesses still worry about bad publicity from using a factor.

Biderman was a relentless publicity hound, publishing a book about marriage, posing for unfortunate pictures, and saying many things he probably wishes he hadn't, such as: «We have done a really great job of making sure our data is kept secret.»

Two years ago, German security firm SerNet GmbH figured a punchy name for their bug discovery would give the company a publicity jolt.

Free publicity, if there is such a thing!

Ironically, his refusal of Darby's proposal to help him gain publicity has resulted in more attention than her posts and videos ever would have garnered.

This is good news for Western Australian companies such as Clickstream and ineedhits.com, which are reaping the benefits of renewed business confidence in the Internet as an effective publicity medium.

This is the value attributed to factors such as social sharing and publicity as well as other forms of organic digital media exposure.

His clients, most of which are American, see the immediate value of the cost when they realize the impact it has on publicity and staff retention.

Whereas once it seemed like Facebook could ride out any bad publicity on the strength of its inexorable growth as a business and cultural force, it's increasingly operating in an environment where billionaire technology moguls like Michael Bloomberg and Pierre Omidyar are publicly criticizing it and even calling for it to be regulated.

This will be all over the news channels, imagine the negative publicity,» Nathalie Kosciusko - Morizet, head of the conservative opposition in Paris, told Europe 1 radio.

Publicity for the game, developed in the company's Montreal studio and six other worldwide outposts, has started rolling with the release of a new game trailer.

Startups should be careful to follow state and federal statutes otherwise the penalties could be great and the unwanted publicity significant.

Take it from Bullpen Capital Partner Paul Martino who says decades of watching CEOs run companies gives him a unique perspective on Uber's publicity problems.

Vonn says her hope is to «get women in ski racing more publicity and give them the push they need to make more money.»

The Republic rescue has paid off handsomely in publicity, just as Porat predicted.

The latter occasionally means money, but it always means connections, publicity and respect.

She was a photo assistant at Sports Illustrated and head of publicity for a book publisher.

People who can deliver an enormous amount of negative publicity.

From a publicity standpoint, IKEA has been acting downright goofy of late.

It wasn't all about the bad publicity that private equity got during the 2012 campaign, though many weren't thrilled about that.

Although the incident comes at the height of the busiest time of the year for cruise bookings, a period known as Wave Season, travel agents weren't bracing for a downturn in business Monday, in part because the incident had yet to get major publicity, said Mike Driscoll of Cruiseweek, an industry newsletter.

Since our election to the 30 Under 30 list, we received a large amount of publicity from news organizations, new clients, and potential buyers.

In addition to the cost of staging the event itself, there are also associated advertising, publicity, and administrative costs to consider.