Sentences with phrase «owned by a competitor»

And am I the only one who can just hear the cries of «foul» BN would send up if Amazon suddenly decided to quit selling books by Sterling because it is owned by a competitor?

I don't think anyone is going to be able to point to the code of conduct and say «the word technology is in there, so it's not my fault I sent the due diligence over email while sitting in a cafe in the building owned by a competitor.»

Many of our patent attorneys are regularly involved in patent oppositions before the European Patent Office both defending granted European patents on behalf of our clients and attacking granted European patents owned by competitors.

Smaller Passaic brokers weren't happy with the proposed financial arrangements with Garden State, and they were also reluctant to hand over control of their listings to an MLS owned by competitors, Forbes said.

Why would any agent from any other brand ever recommend, promote or suggest their clients go to a Network owned by a competitor.

Not exact matches

You had a first - mover advantage in Canadian tea market but now that your brand is more established, you're up against the biggest competitors, like Teavana (owned by Starbucks).

Competitors United and American launched their own versions this year, taking it a step further by prohibiting basic economy passengers from using overhead bins.

But it's also the case that large, established providers can design and develop aggregated solutions that are right in their wheelhouse and then help to amortize and distribute some of their own investment by licensing or otherwise making these tools available to others in the marketplace — including many of their own customers and even in some instances competitors.

It's even more important than how good you are at picking yourself up off the floor and getting back in the game after getting punched a few times by a client or a competitor — or one of your own folks.

Levy suggests the best way to begin if you're doing this on your own is to start by opening up a new Excel worksheet and creating the following columns outlining your competitors:

Also, while Planet Labs can beat older competitors on price, those expensive features do matter, said David Friedberg, chief executive of Climate, an agricultural data analysis firm owned by Monsanto.

That runaway growth has been very good for Green Mountain, but it has also lured in new competitors, from the Tassimo system made by Kraft Foods to the Nestlé Nespresso system to Starbucks» own Verismo.

Finances aside, Target's bigger challenges are stubbornly centred on unhappy customers whose loyalty has been stretched thin by a series of supply - chain snafus and prices that many perceived to be out - of - whack with both big - box competitors and the company's own reputation as a quality discounter.

Better known as a home for looping GIFs, the social blogging service, owned by ailing tech giant Yahoo, is clearly playing a bit of catch - up by getting onboard with what its bigger competitors have tabbed as the Next Big Thing.

China became a world - beating manufacturer by undercutting competitors; now Bangladesh is beating China at its own game.

Take my word for it, if you're not out there and in control of your story, to the extent that it's even possible any more, the vacuum will readily be filled by any number of other people — employees, ex-employees, competitors, advocates for a million causes, etc. — with their own good and bad axes to grind.

While two of its competitors are looking to sell their business, privately owned mining contractor Byrnecut Mining is diversifying its activities by establishing a new engineering and repair business in Pinjarra.

In Bargaining for Advantage, Shell urges the reader to figure out his or her own hard - wired approach to negotiation, perhaps by way of a psychological test like that Thomas - Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, which will tell you whether you are a «competitor» or a «collaborator.»

By using her speech to shift attention to a competitor, Adele attempted to show how the process had humbled her — by forcing her to consider why she shouldn't have won, and to think about the impact those like Beyonce have had on others (instead of trying to magnify her own impactBy using her speech to shift attention to a competitor, Adele attempted to show how the process had humbled her — by forcing her to consider why she shouldn't have won, and to think about the impact those like Beyonce have had on others (instead of trying to magnify her own impactby forcing her to consider why she shouldn't have won, and to think about the impact those like Beyonce have had on others (instead of trying to magnify her own impact).

In fact, by investing in its own fleet, Uber will have done exactly the thing Justin Fox knocks it for not doing now: spending its billions on something that represents a meaningful defensive moat to would - be competitors.

One of many tools provided by the Mountain View search giant, Google Alerts can help you stay on top of your own (and competitors») business reputation.

Like competitors Postmates and UberEats, among others, it provides a sleek mobile app and website for customers to browse and order, and handles the delivery by employing its own drivers — as contract workers, of course.

At issue is what is known as a «One Touch Make Ready» ordinance passed by Louisville, which would allow competitors to install wires on utility poles owned by AT&T without prior approval.

Cisco has been busy creating its own lineup of products that the company claims gives consumers as many options as the products sold by competitors.

The letter, written on Jacobs's behalf by his own lawyer, Clayton D. Halunen, describes how Uber's web scraping was used to lift competitor ride sharing companies» driver information, pricing structures and incentives.

Atlassian has about $ 250 million in annual revenue, a devoted customer base of 40,000 businesses, but it has never had a sales force, and it claims to sell its software more cheaply than competitors by allowing customers to pick and choose their own products via the Web.

Westland Last year, around the time Bezos committed to investing as much as $ 5 billion in India to compete with Asian - grown competitors like Alibaba, he purchased this Indian book publisher, owned by outsourcer Tata Group, for $ 1.4 million.

On the contrary, a tariff on Chinese solar module and cell imports would benefit First Solar by allowing it to continue to produce its own modules and cells in Malaysia while competitors grapple with higher import prices.

Through a merger between its flagship music streamer QQ Music and competitor China Music Corporation (CMC) in July 2017, the firm's new music unit Tencent Music and Entertainment Group (TME) managed to control a whopping 75 % of the market by combining the shares of Kuwo and KuGou — formerly owned by CMC — and QQ Music, according to a report by the Data Center of China internet (DCCI).

Best Buy has been able to avoid death by cutting expenses, aggressively matching competitors» online prices, and improving its own website.

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After you have calculated each competitor's score, you can determine your company's relative NPS by subtracting your best competitor's score from your own.

SolarCity was by then the clear industry leader, owning a third of the residential market and handling more installations than its next 50 competitors combined.

It also let users see reviews that have been removed by its (automated) «review filter,» which is designed to help prevent business owners from posting all too positive reviews of their own company or malicious reviews of competitors.

The answer to that question would be a book in its own right, but he built his wealth by turning gasoline into fuel while his competitors treated gasoline as a waste product to pour into the Cuyahoga River and watch it burn.

Founders wind up with punishingly low stakes in their own venture and growth stunted by lack of capital to scale — this causes death by atrophy or ugly exits that likely bring no treasure to founders and typically involve the company and / or technology disappearing or being assimilated into a better financed competitor.

Google is accused of giving its own service an advantage over those offered by competitors, which means shoppers would be more inclined to buy from Google and its partners instead of third parties.

The revenue growth stems from a 48 % increase in patient use of the company's products that suggests Abiomed is holding its own against competitors, including Thoratec, which markets Centrimag in the acute setting and was recently acquired by St. Jude Medical (NYSE: STJ).

In a world where your status can be determined by what you drink, owning well - known and pricey brands are a key element against your competitors.

«Instead, Google abused its market dominance as a search engine by promoting its own comparison shopping service in its search results, and demoting those of competitors,» she added.

With our own European culture well past its «best before» date, and with so many competitors in the field, the imagination, as represented above all by story and image, seems a more promising field than that of rational truth to those seeking a creative way forward.

Border Grill is an upscale, modern Mexican restaurant owned by Chefs Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken, also known as Two Hot Tamales on their classic Food Network show and competitors on Top Chef Masters.

There were 100 seconds in between Corbin and Heath Slater, so clearly WWE is going to play by its own rules when it comes to when a new competitor enters the Rumble.

As long as our competitors still spend much more money than us and we are still owned by Kroenke, it's hopeless.

In 1930, the company produced 842,000 cans of baby food; by 1931 the number had risen to 1,311,500 cans; one year later, in 1932, Gerber manufactured 2,259,818 cans of baby food.65 Despite competitors» quick development of their own mass - produced strained baby foods, Gerber dominated U.S. market share over such competitors as Clapp's, Heinz, Beech - Nut, Stokeley, and Libby.66 The new baby food products were so successful that by 1941 the Fremont Canning Company changed its name to Gerber's Baby Foods (and in the 1960s became the Gerber Products Company), and two years later it abandoned its line of regular vegetables to make baby foods exclusively.

«ASDA was extremely unhelpful when we raised this case with it directly, as with similar misleading promotions by Danone, Nestlé's leading competitor, which owns the Cow & Gate and Aptamil brands.

And what they say may be true... But context is often the key to putting forward a message, and Google creates a prominent platform for Wikipedia, and with most of its competitors essentially copying Google — perhaps due to its success; I'm not a «Master Mason» so I wouldn't know all the insider practices of businesses — doesn't Wikipedia end up being the defacto source for «Truth Creation,» that is, the go - to source for those who wish to access a truth becomes a go to source for those with an interest in governing by creating those things which people believe to be true, assuming most people live their own lives according to what they believe...

In another stroke of luck, New York dairy farmers have been well - positioned in recent years because they tend to grow much of their own feed corn, putting them at a competitive advantage over their larger California competitors: West Coast dairies are struggling with the high price of corn brought on by international demand, drought conditions and ethanol subsidies.

Or is it the case of Polo House Jetty Tincan previously owned by his uncle, Usman Dantata, who's License was revoked by NPA and reallocated to Dangote on the same day in order to prevent a sugar refinery to be sited there by a competitor.»

By harnessing its competitors within its own business operations and by looking strategically at customer value, Amazon.com has managed to raise the size of its current markets and to create entirely new markets both for itself and for its competitorBy harnessing its competitors within its own business operations and by looking strategically at customer value, Amazon.com has managed to raise the size of its current markets and to create entirely new markets both for itself and for its competitorby looking strategically at customer value, Amazon.com has managed to raise the size of its current markets and to create entirely new markets both for itself and for its competitors.