Sentences with phrase «owned by private companies»

Listed below are the most profitable trophy properties still owned by private companies, according to Friedman Billings Ramsey research.

Some are managed by the government, while others are owned by private companies.

Piers Forster's team, for example, had problems getting «vital information» about certain technologies owned by private companies, who were only prepared to share them on the condition of confidentiality.

It also includes companies that file with a government agency but are owned by private companies, domestic or foreign, that do not file such financial statements.

Although Jack is now owned by a private company that contracts the program to corporations, seeing him lured Bruckner to Philadelphia: She needed virtual patients to model virtual shoes, and the center's programmers could build them.

They note that while the researchers» letter pledges that the work will not be patented or owned by any private company, «only a large agrochemical company would have the infrastructure to make the GM wheat commercially available.»

That bothers me, as does the policy where the results of publicly funded research is owned by the private company paid to carry it out.

The dump truck is owned by a private company.

Not exact matches

Everyone, including Western Power's separate generating and sales arms, plus the newly emerged private competing generating and electricity selling companies, would have been treated equally by the independent publicly owned networks» (transmission / distribution) arm.

In 2013, only 3.6 percent of households headed by adults younger than 30 owned stakes in private companies — a 24 - year low.

Meanwhile, the out - of - production Challenger business jet that crashed in Iran was owned by the private holding company of Turkish businessman Huseyin Basaran.

Based on the results, the company put together the infographic below, which looks at three critical areas of cloud security: Virtual Private Networks (VPN, which allows a computer or a Wi - Fi - enabled device to send and receive data securely across a shared or public network), bring your own device (BYOD) policies and a Domain Name System (DNS, the system that Internet domain names and addresses are tracked and regulated by).

This week, Rogers Real Estate Development Ltd. — a private company owned by the Rogers family and held separately from Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business)-- announced its plan to develop a 15 acre patch of land at the city's western edge.

Many have put up their own shares or stock of companies they own as collateral for their loans and are increasingly copying the convoluted fund - raising strategies employed by American hedge funds and private equity firms in financing their global expansion drives.

In fact, he just bought into a company that it majority owned by a private equity firm whose co-founder is credited with coining the phrase «private equity.»

Unlike private aviation companies that offer fractional ownership, where each aircraft is owned or leased by multiple people, Flohr owns 100 percent of his company and its fleet of 60 silver - and - red jets.

That is, a private or publicly - owned American company operating in a foreign country — and Canada is in this context a foreign country — receives aid from the U.S. government that, as the Canadian government's legislation describes, appears to constitute direct or indirect influence by a government or agency.

The company also said it will give journalists access to a more secure internet by allowing them to easily set up their own virtual private network on a private server through an offering they call Outline.

It is in China's interest to respect private intellectual property rights if it wants to move beyond being described as the world's factory: if it wants would want to move from «made in China,» where goods are largely produced under foreign companies» control, to «made by China,» where Chinese companies own the brains behind the manufacturing and design of goods.

• CoolSys, which is owned by Audax Private Equity, acquired Certified Refrigeration and Mechanical Inc, a Madison, Wisc. - based refrigeration services company.

Owned by private equity group Leonard Green & Partners after a leveraged buyout for $ 1.3 billion in 2006, the company is entering bankruptcy in a bid to held shed much of its debt and clean up its balance sheet.

It went from being owned and run by a second - time entrepreneur to a limited partnership that brought U.S. retail experience to the table — private equity funds Advent International and Highland Capital Partners acquired a 48 % stake from Wilson in 2005 — and finally a public listing that has enabled the company to accelerate the pace of expansion.

Founded in 2002 by Elon Musk, SpaceX is a private company owned by management and employees, with minority investments from Founders Fund, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Valor Equity Partners.

Two years ago, Congress passed and President Obama signed a law that said private companies can own and sell what they extract, although, abiding by the language of the Outer Space Treaty, the companies can not claim ownership of the celestial body itself.

All of the proven reserves owned by private and public companies and governments are equivalent to 2,795 Gt of CO2.

«They are owned by private label companies such as GE or Citibank,» she told CreditCards.com.

NEW YORK More acquisitions of U.S. companies by private equity firms are being done through companies that are already owned by buyout funds, rather than the funds directly, a market report showed on Thursday, indicating this «bolt - on» strategy is catching on.

We can mount panels on the roofs of those reservoirs, but the panels will be owned and operated by the private company.

Southeastern Asset Management, which owns 8.5 percent of U.S. computer maker Dell, filed a statement with regulators on Feb. 8 opposing the $ 24.4 billion buyout proposed by Michael Dell, the company's founder and chief executive, and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners.

The company is owned by an affiliate of The Blackstone Group, a preeminent global private equity firm.

* Tocqueville Trust Services, a Division of New York Private Trust, a Delaware Company ** Mortgage and credit services, which are subject to application and credit approval, are provided by BNY Mellon, N.A. member FDIC, and a wholly owned subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation

The firm is reportedly owned by two charities, both named Cihang, and controls a web of 16 listed entities and many more private shell companies.

By the early 1990s, private aerospace companies had recognized the untapped commercial potential of space and were experimenting with developing their own truly commercial launch vehicles.

Anthony Levandowski, a former Google employee who founded the now Uber - owned self - driving truck company Otto, invoked his Fifth Amendment right to protect himself from self - incrimination Wednesday, according to a transcript of the private court hearing reviewed Thursday by USA TODAY.

No financial services company wants to find itself apologizing to the public and regulators for discriminatory effects caused by its own technology, much less paying damages in the context of government enforcement or private litigation.

The company was sold, is owned by private equity investors, and Dan has continued association with it.

But some religiously orthodox wedding vendors are finding themselves compelled by the civil authorities to affirm an answer to that question that violates their religious convictions on the subject, and some religious institutions — from universities to social service agencies to private companies owned by orthodox believers — are finding themselves forced to take part in the enactment and enforcement of a moral code they are obliged to reject.

«A lot of companies are either public or are owned by private equity groups, and have to do a lot of number crunching before they do something,» he notes.

Today, Bertucci's is a private company owned by a Boston - based private equity firm.

Liquor retailers say the prospect of Treasury Wine Estates» portfolio of 80 - plus brands being owned by an overseas company is unlikely to produce a customer backlash, unless price rises are pursued by new private equity owners.

BRL Hardy's brands including Hardys, Leasingham, Houghton and Brookland Valley are now owned by another private equity firm, CHAMP, and the company is now known as Accolade Wines.

Whether demanding the company's brands or packing under their own private label, the company takes care of the entire process of sourcing international products, and by doing so, enables their clients to focus on generating value at their stores.

The company began in 2007 with the vision of Rick Schaden and funding by Consumer Capital Partners — the private equity firm that he and his father Richard own.

After floating on the stock exchange, the outfit expanded and won contracts in the UK with the NHS, before being bought by one of Australia's top 100 companies, then taken over by a private equity firm, ending up incorporated into a company owned by the Dubai royal family - bearing no relation to its initial purpose of being an»em ployee - led» mutual to provide more personalised services.

This question was brought on by the recent news that government owned student loans in the UK are being sold off to a private company.

They had sued the Auditor General over audit reports alleging corruption cover up, taken the Smarttys re-spraying and branding of 116 new buses for the Ministry of Transport crying corruption in the payment to the private company owned by Selassie Ibrahim for the work done and paid for by the state.

There is a limitation to the model: the WAS data underpinning it does not capture the value of residential properties that are owned by entities other than private individuals and households, which HMRC statistics suggest are a relatively large share of high - value properties (for example, two - thirds of properties built for more than # 2 million in the UK were purchased by companies or trusts).

By creating publicly owned, locally accountable energy companies and cooperatives to rival existing private energy suppliers this will make a real difference to people's lives»

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

The FSS, which requested the ethnic data, is a government owned private company, meaning all its shares are owned by the Home Office.