Sentences with phrase «past year the industry»

In the past year the industry has fallen into chaos, and I'm one of those thinking about how to best manage my career going forward.

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Buoyed by uncommonly low interest rates, the industry has boasted of double - digit returns; the past few years, at least anecdotally, have been especially rich.

Some industry observers predict that retail will change more in the next five years than it has over the past century, and that the extinction of brick - and - mortar stores isn't far off.

Trying to bolster an industry that has not been in its strongest shape the past 40 years requires passion and love and care among everybody in the organization.

I'm not sure that in the past year or, honestly, in the past decade or two, there has been a single deal that will be regarded as a more impactful transaction across multiple industries and the entire omni - channel economy than Amazon's recently announced acquisition of Whole Foods.

The booming tech industry in Texas's state capital gets most of the attention, but the education, health, and leisure - and - hospitality sectors have added more than 11,000 jobs in the past year.

To illustrate that point, the report cites data that suggests the U.S. has become less entrepreneurial over the past 40 years as startups have struggled to compete in increasingly consolidating industries.

Kennedy saw the online dating industry grow and change over the past few years as general counsel and then deputy CEO of Badoo and then as an advisor and member of Bumble's board.

On average, the 30 large and small pharmaceutical and biotech companies IDEA Pharma examined got just 11 % of their 2017 revenue from drugs developed within the past five years, says Mike Rea, the firm's CEO and one of the most insightful people I've met — no exaggeration — when it comes to pinpointing innovation choke points in the drug industry.

«Exploration expenditures in the N.W.T. have languished over the past few years and could therefore limit the territory's options for growing its mining industry in the long term,» noted a recent report by the Conference Board of Canada.

Ad - blocking in general, on both the desktop and mobile web, has been growing rapidly over the past couple of years, according to industry surveys.

Over the past several years, the insurance industry has increasingly had to assess claims from natural disasters like the one tearing through northern Alberta.

Target has grown its digital sales almost 30 % annually over the past two years, a rate it claims surpasses the rest of the retail industry.

Gravity's 91 percent retention rate over the past three years — far above the industry average of about 68 percent — has been crucial to its success.

IBISWorld provided detailed past industry growth percentages, revenue forecasts for the next five years, employment growth, profit margin averages, and industry competition ratings.

Media exposure via national, local, and industry / trade outlets — in past years, the Inc. 5000 list has received over 35 million media impressions

The past 20 years or so have seen a dramatic shift in the industry, as newspapers and news organizations have moved to publish stories both online and in print.

This is especially true within the healthcare industry, and other industries have had similar initiatives the past few years.

He says he's been attending the hobby game industry's most important annual gathering for the past six years.

Those pundits who have spent the past 10 years predicting the end of the industry should remember the last time it was in meltdown: 1982.

She turned her internship into a full - time gig and has been climbing the ranks in the out - of - home advertising industry for the past 36 years.

The pet industry has doubled in size over the past 12 years to an estimated $ 70 billion in 2017, with the Pet Services portion of the industry being the fastest growing.1

For Allegiant, however, such great numbers actually mark a stark drop from the past two years, when its almost 30 percent margins were among the best in the industry worldwide.

The industry is in a time of transition anyway as it prepares to roll out 5G tech, and in some cases, investment has increased over the past two years.

The pace of acquisition over the past two years has been «aggressive and fast,» according to Vincent Romans, founder of the Romans Group, a collision repair industry consulting firm based in Chicago.

Over the past year, Comcast has been ramping up its new wireless service, stoking fears across the industry that the cable giant would shake up the market and quickly create a fifth major carrier.

Still, Al Goldstein, chief executive and founder of Avant, which has made 300,000 loans to consumers in the past three - and - a-half years, with an average value of $ 8,000, says the portrayal of the industry as recklessly making too many loans is flawed.

Apprentice commencements in the construction industry decreased by 22 per cent during the past financial year - a situation Mr Dawson said did not bode well for increasing activity.

Though the industry has grown explosively in the past few years, making an estimated 1 million loans worth about $ 12 billion to consumers and small business owners, so too have questions and complaints.

The problem is as old as the industry itself but really came to light in the past two or so years, as Silicon Valley started revealing demographic statistics: Giants such as Apple, Google, Facebook, and Twitter all hover around 70 percent male and 80 to 90 percent white or Asian.

In a separate report focusing on larger integrated oil companies, Moody's came to a similar conclusion — that the substantial improvement in the financial position of the oil industry over the past year is poised to slow down.

The Association of Enterprise Opportunity, the industry's trade group, says members help 300,000 businesses each year and have lent more than $ 2 billion in the U.S. over the past 10 years.

T - Mobile has spent the past four years attacking wireless industry rivals to great success.

Across the entire industry, the past 25 years have seen tremendous innovation in areas such as engine performance, fuel economy and safety features.

But, combined with the economic crisis, the past few years have decimated the industry, says Stephen Atkinson, a BMO Capital Markets analyst, driving 70 % of North American newsprint supply into bankruptcy.

According to the Solar Energy Industries Association, solar energy has grown by an average of 68 percent per year in the past decade.

Moody's studied 37 oil and gas companies in Canada and the U.S., concluding that although the oil industry has dramatically slashed its cost of production in the past three years and is currently in the midst of posting much better financials this year, there is little room left for more progress.

On Nov. 15 — the release date of its latest hit — Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot spoke to Canadian Business staff writer Jeff Beer about how the industry has changed in the past 25 years, where games and movies will meet and Canada's potential as a video - game powerhouse.

Maybe it's because the industry itself has changed a bit over the past few years, with some larger firms even proposing long - dated funds that, in many ways, are modeled on Berkshire Hathaway.

The industry as a whole has been churning out gasoline hard for the past year, as a golden period of refining margins emerged out of the ashes of the crude oil rout.

And it's paying off: National's membership and revenue have increased steadily over the past four years, and the company has won widespread industry praise and top honors for customer experience.

WAITTA chairman Michael Coles said this year's awards drew a strong response from the local IT&T industry, indicating renewed optimism and activity despite the IT downturn of the past four years.

In hiring Coady two years ago to fill its newly created chief sustainability officer position, Enbridge was acknowledging that the oilpatch might have something to learn from the forest industry about moving past environmental controversy and renewing its social licence.

While even his critics, who launched the #NotNolan hashtag on Twitter, note that Bushnell played a huge role in starting the video game industry, they feel the timing is wrong to honor him, given the corporate culture he encouraged and the importance of the #MeToo movement over the past year.

In the past 10 years alone he has radically and lucratively reordered three markets — music, movies, and mobile telephones — and his impact on his original industry, computing, has only grown.

Bushnell was set to receive the Pioneer Award at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, but the organization announced Wednesday it had changed its mind, saying the committee «believe their picks should reflect the values of today's game industry and will dedicate this year's award to honor the pioneering and unheard voices of the past.»

«The large increase in profitability over the past two years demonstrates that the industry can prosper with the regulations and consumer protections adopted after the financial crisis.»

Still, while Guardians of the Galaxy has vaulted past its summer of 2014 competition, the movie is still barely inside the top 20 grossing Disney films of all - time and it entered Labor Day weekend slightly behind Captain America: The Winter Soldier for the company's (and the industry's) best - performing film of the year.

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings told CNBC last month at the United States Conference of Mayors that the broader Texas «red state» reputation is an issue, especially given the tech industry's focus on social tolerance, but he stressed that Dallas is «a blue city in a red state,» which has scored 100 on the LGBT Index for the past three years.

The foreign exchange industry has evolved over the past five years.