Sentences with phrase «owned by the rival»

The California - based toy maker on Tuesday confirmed it won the key toy license for the Jurassic World property beginning in the summer of 2017, taking over a business that had previously been owned by rival Hasbro (has).

Comcast already owns a 30 % stake in Hulu through NBCUniversal, and it remains to be seen how much Comcast plans to compete with that service, which is also jointly owned by rival media giants Walt Disney, Time Warner, and 21st Century Fox.

Indeed even some of the bloggettas owned by rival papers are saying this is nonsense.

It later broke out into the ebook and audiobook markets and then, February last year, dared to compete with Comixology (ironically now owned by rival Amazon) by offering digital comics.

Players can attack and capture locations owned by the rival gangs, and assign one of their lieutenants to operate the location.

Not exact matches

And as if that wasn't enough, Hulu — which is owned by Walt Disney Co. (DIS), 21st Century Fox (FOX), and Comcast's (CMCSA) NBCUniversal — took another swipe at its larger rival on Wednesday with the announcement that it will start offering a commercial - free version of its Hulu Plus premium streaming service, a service that will soon include a bolstered roster of movies, thanks to the Epix deal, in addition to Hulu's wide range of original and network television programming.

Hulu — which is owned jointly by CBS rivals Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, and Time Warner — made a similar move less than a year ago, when the service offered subscribers the option of paying a few dollars more per month for an ad - free experience.

Rival Lowe's, which has its own disaster - response strategy, had closed 27 stores as of Monday, but by Wednesday had opened all but four.

His own firm is currently in the process of merging with domestic rival Standard Life to create an # 11 billion asset management giant, described by Gilbert as a «financial powerhouse».

In the movie, the Washington Post has to decide if it wants to remain an also - ran local paper or became a national rival to the Times by doing their own reporting and running afoul of the Nixon administration.

The new rates left Dodge unable to compete with the rival Montana Improvement Company, reputedly owned by Northern Pacific executives and investors.

She thinks WeChat, a mobile messaging service owned by Alibaba rival Tencent, is already emerging as a potentially formidable threat.

Spurred on by the success of U.S. rival Tesla which has received huge pre-orders for its Model 3 car, German rivals such as Volkswagen (vlkay) and Daimler's (dai) Mercedes are accelerating their own electric car programs.

Pizza Hut, which is owned by Louisville, Kentucky - based Yum Brands Inc. and based in Plano, Texas, has reported sales declines for eight straight quarters at established locations, even as rivals Domino's and Papa John's have enjoyed gains.

(Last night, office supplies retailer Staples (spls) said it was being bought by private equity firm Sycamore Partners, a year after its own mega deal to buy smaller rival Office Depot failed to win over regulators.)

But starting in March, rival Target will also be opening the first of between 125 and 135 locations also once owned by Zellers.

Now, the nation's largest retailer may be looking to play a bigger role in the sector by acquiring Medicare insurance giant Humana — just as its rival Amazon is increasingly making its own moves in the health - care market.

In the meantime, Target has been rolling out a sophisticated branding operation here honed by 50 years of slow, steady and massively successful expansion in the U.S.. From a family - owned Minneapolis department store, Target has grown into a discount retailing force rivalled (and still consistently dominated) only by Walmart, which posted US$ 264 billion in U.S. sales last year.

Some politicians - and recently also Elliott - have advocated the creation of a single national network via the merger of NetCo with rival Open Fiber, a broadband firm jointly owned by the CDP and state - controlled utility Enel.

Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, also debuted a new tools, as it looks to compete with messaging and social app rival Snapchat (snap).

Yandex and Uber compete in Russia with rivals including Fasten - owned Rutaxi and Saturn, Maxim and Gett, the Israeli startup backed by German automaker Volkswagen.

Red Bull Australia suffered a dip in profits in 2017 with rival Monster Energy, owned by Coca - Cola Amatil, making solid gains.

ListHub is owned by Move Inc., a News Corp. subsidiary and operator of Zillow and Trulia rival realtor.com.

No longer able to rely simply on price as a point of difference, Expedia and rival Booking Holdings, which owns Priceline, are fighting back by offering events and activities beyond hotel and airline reservations and spending lavishly to market directly to consumers.

TinyOwl's biggest rival was Foodpanda, a restaurant delivery provider owned by Germany's Rocket Internet.

I would have my own students pay special attention to the Cappadocians — Basil the Great, Gregory Nazianzen, and Gregory of Nyssa — because, more than anyone else, they engaged their polytheistic rivals on their own terrain by appropriating Neoplatonism (the «Summa» of the Ancients, so to speak) and Christianizing it.

Jupiter and Saturn are so big as to be circled by their own families of moons, some of which rival the other planets in size.

Such a recognition may be forced upon ideology by the unwelcome discovery of a rival sibling, an antagonistic ideology which reveals to it the secret of its own birth [Criticism and Ideology, pp. 95 - 96].

A study of Australia's largest food firms shows nine out of 10 are at least partly owned by foreign companies... but with Murray Goulburn about to be sold to Canadian rival Saputo, that number will soon be zero.

CUB will take over the rights for Corona from rival brewer Lion, which is owned by Japan's Kirin Corporation.

The Australian food businesses owned by Chinese company Bright Food Group are set to form a large part of its initial public offering on the Hong Kong stock exchange, but the company has ruled out making a rival bid for Treasury Wine Estates to expand the operations further.

However, private equity players have also been circling Eagle Boys with a view to merging the struggling chain with arch rival Pizza Hut, which is owned by Yum!

The Gunners are set to take on Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday, and we were supposed to be boosted by our rivals having injury problems in key areas, but it is now us who has our own issues.

Although the home side did have a few chances of their own, they were simply outplayed by their rivals as the pressure continues to build on Gary Neville.

Lampard's treatment by Chelsea and his own surprise move to join a major rival just shows the romance of the game is a thing of the past.

I'm absolutely gutted that Arsenal are currently owned by a tycoon that employs a manager that I wouldn't employ as my cleaner, but I am more gutted that we have so called supporters and fans that would praise our rivals, rather than get behind their own club.

West Ham's good form will continue against their rival clarets Burnley, so pick up the striker while he's still owned by only 2.5 %.

We think all of own purchases are terrific quality at the right price, whilst those purchased by our rivals are over priced tossers.

Athens side Panionios were so sickened by the prospect of allowing arch rivals AEK Athens to use their ground for their forthcoming Europa League match against Dundee United that their fans decided to trash their own stadium.

We also needed a result to confirm our own brilliant record of qualifying for the Champions League, but you would not have known it by the way Arsenal started this game away to Premier League rivals Man City.

On the other hand, our rivals from White Hart Lane may well have lost a good deal of their own confidence.optimism and belief that Mauricio Pochettino is the man to lead them to the EPL title and that could help us as well by hindering them.

Even though Arsenal piled the pressure on our Premier League rivals by taking all three points off Sunderland in the first game of the EPL weekend at the Stadium of Light, we are still locked on points with both Liverpool and Man City at the top of the table after they both managed wins of their own.

Arsenal and Wenger jst makes me sick, i hvnt been a happy man since yestdy wen i witnessd that leicestrs performanc against city... really why always us Lord... God u gave us almost 4 chances to cement the top spot and as always we blew them... i realy feel betrayd by Wenger coz its clear that we wont win it this season even aftr God made all our rivals weakr... does anyone out there feels like me or am jst on ma world of my own!

While the Frenchman looks set to make a cut price bid to sign the 26 - year - old in January, he will be rivaled by both Manchester United and Liverpool, who also have their own defensive problems.

But we couldn't take this tractor to get fixed just anywhere, because the guy who does that locally works for a business that's owned by a [rival school] fan.»

Having boosted by the signing of ex-Spurs and Arsenal man Emmanuel Adebayor who has already opened his account for Pardew's side, it will be interesting to see if some of the returning players can fire their side to a stunning win at their rivals» own backyard.

Hated by his own fans and ridiculed by the notoriously friendly Roman media, a career rival here appeared less likely than Monchi or Spalletti securing a Head and Shoulders Shampoo endorsement deal.

Owned by a member of the Qatari Royal Family, Malaga have risen up from relative obscurity in their bid to rival Spanish football's two giants.

With a 2 - 0 away victory over Espanyol, Zinedine Zidane's Real Madrid equaled the record set by Pep Guardiola's Barcelona on the doorstep of their great rivals and will look to set a new benchmark of their own with potentially awkward but still very winnable games against Villarreal and Las Palmas up next for Los Blancos.

The Real Madrid star has reached the pinnacle of the beautiful game by believing in his own talents, and always wanting to get one over his big rival, Lionel Messi.