Sentences with phrase «per cent of companies»

The 2013 Association for Financial Professionals Payments Fraud and Control Survey reported that 61 per cent of North American corporations experienced payment fraud, of which 87 per cent was attributed to paper cheques, and 28 per cent of companies suffered a financial loss.

Across industry sectors, IT staff will be in the highest demand as 52 per cent of companies will refill roles which were lost during recession as companies reinvest in previously shelved IT projects.

Across Canada, the West will see the greatest hiring activity as 51 per cent of companies in Calgary and 43 per cent in Vancouver expect to be hiring this year as opposed to 37 and 33 per cent in Toronto and Ottawa respectively.

TfL says there are around 3,000 private hire operators in London, and close to half have 10 vehicles or fewer — with just five per cent of companies operating fleets of over 100 vehicles.

We plan to do follow - on investments of up to US$ 500,000 in the top 20 - 30 per cent of our companies, with potential additional capital from our main global fund in selected deals.»

Less than one per cent of the companies that apply to Techstars are accepted.

«There are 30 companies in this group, and 37 per cent of our companies have at least one woman on the founding team.

She added that a recent study by the Federation of Small Businesses showed that around 90 per cent of companies in the UK are yet to complete their preparations for this regime, despite it being less than 60 days away, so it was essential that businesses, whether Mauritian or not, begin preparations for GDPR immediately.

Fifty - three per cent of companies in water - dependent industries have failed to conduct a comprehensive risk assessment, despite nearly two - thirds of these firms admitting they are facing tangible water risks within their sector.

Only 11 per cent of these companies are cutting out all travel which is not absolutely necessary, compared with twice as many in October 2009, according to the latest survey by the VDR.

«This may need to change to reflect the realities of retaining and motivating employees, which have been found to be the top organizational priority for 86 per cent of the companies that we surveyed.

To address these growing concerns over skills gaps in the engineering workforce, particularly among graduates and school leavers, 91 per cent of companies agreed that to improve the supply of engineers and technicians, more employers need to provide work experience for those in education or training.

The survey found that 88 per cent of companies expect to make new or improved products through Eureka and 42 per cent expect a moderate - to - large increase in sales.

Some 80 per cent of companies that were audited overestimated their research spending and, of $ 1.8 billion claimed by companies in tax allowances for R&D, $ 368 million was disallowed.

Last year, a survey by the consultancy firm KPMG Peat Marwick found that 86 per cent of companies were in favour of them.

«In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network,» says Glattfelder.

The IET's 2014 Engineering and Technology: Skills & Demand in Industry Annual Survey revealed that 59 per cent of companies indicated concerns that a shortage of engineers would be a threat to their businesses.

A balance of seven per cent of companies said export orders were down in the first quarter, following on from weakness at the end of 2012.

Forty per cent of those companies are owned by the governments of France and Germany and Holland.

59 per cent of companies indicated concerns that a shortage of engineers would be a threat to their businesses

Of the non-financial members of the S&P Global 1200 index, just 32 per cent of companies held 82 per cent of the aggregate cash pile, the highest level since at least 2000.

Eighty per cent of companies claim to have flexible work programs, but only three per cent of these companies offering flexible work programs report even attempting to track the ROI of those programs.

Just five per cent of companies that have won a Best Managed award have gone out of business, compared to an estimated 72 per cent of average Canadian firms in a comparable period of time.

Overall about 15 per cent of companies had lost value — many of those could be worthless — while 29 per cent increased in value.

A Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives report from July calculated that three per cent of companies would see tariffs jump from zero to 10 per cent.

As Aimia's largest shareholder with nearly 20 per cent of the company, Mittleman said he's going to be an advocate on the board for creating shareholder value, something he predicted will spread among management and fellow board members.

Chairman Peter Harley said the capital raising was well supported, with 85 per cent of the company's options and convertible notes exercised.

Mr Kazahaya forecasts inbound tourism to account for about 10 per cent of the company's revenue by 2020, compared to roughly 5 per cent now.

Carey filmed his segment in April, pitching for what he calls «the largest legitimate ask in reality TV history»: $ 2 million for four per cent of his company, for a $ 50 million valuation.

Online sales account for just two per cent of the company's business, but Rosen notes that «there's not an hour that goes by in our store without someone showing us our website on their iPhone and asking us where to find something on the floor.»

Fewer than 20 per cent of the company's current staff, several hundred already in Vancouver, are Canadian, he said, largely because talent is scarce.

That's a big change from the previous half decade when 86 per cent of the company's growth came from iPhone sales.

Mr Johnston, who will turn 100 in July, was one of the founders of Godfreys in the 1930s and owns about 28 per cent of the company.

He sold 5.8 million shares, or 2 per cent of the company, in December at $ 12.55 apiece, retaining more than half of WiseTech.

Put another way, $ 4 million represents 0.6 per cent of the company's $ 658 million in net earnings last year.

Atlas is striving to complete a major restructuring of its Term Loan B debt facility announced in December, under which the miner's lenders would cancel about half the debt and extend its maturity date in exchange for 70 per cent of the company's shares and options on issue.

However, Ms Lacaze told The Australian Financial Review if two of the largest bondholders, Mt Kellett and Fortress, which formed a strategic alliance in 2015, were to convert 100 per cent of the bonds and exercise all of their warrants they would emerge with more than 40 per cent of the company's equity but she added a further shareholder approval would have to be sought for a conversion of that extent.

She said Blackmores had approval for all its main products it sold in China and the cross-border e-commerce platform represented only 3 per cent of the company's overall sales.

In a mark of the allegation's seriousness, the ACCC is seeking pecuniary penalties, which could run to as high as $ 10 million or 10 per cent of each company's annual turnover, against Woolworths, Colgage - Palmolive and Cussons.

Mr Lederer sold 70.1 per cent of the company to Affinity in October 2011.

The market was more fixated with Woolworths» Australian supermarket operation, which generates nearly 90 per cent of the company's annual sales and which posted headline sales growth of 5.1 per cent, Easter adjusted, to $ 10.4 billion.

Currently MDC processes around 200 million litres of milk a year (compared with Dairy Crest's 1.5 billion litres) and the acquisition would further consolidate Dairy Crest's position in the doorstep delivery sector (which accounts for around 15 per cent of the company's turnover).

There is market speculation that WCB board members, who combined control about 2 per cent of the company's shares, have accepted the Saputo bid for their personal holdings.

Yes, I have 75 per cent of the company but I don't own this place.

And they plan to continue in the same generous vein with HBF: 2 per cent of the company's international income will be donated to MFM for three years, not to mention 5 per cent of whatever is earned by Humanism!

It's a blow for Coca - Cola Amatil, with bottled water making up about 20 per cent of the company's total beverage sales.

Overseas sales account for approximately 50 per cent of the company's business, with Britain its biggest market.

These options include following Bega into selling to Saputo and securing a guaranteed capital gain, which rises to $ 9.60 a share if Saputo acquires 90 per cent of the company.

Mr Siegel said Australia now made up about 40 per cent of the company's global revenues and that made it appealing for a potential ASX listing because investors could get exposure to a global company with operations in some of the world's biggest markets.

It already owns 17.7 per cent of the company but a previously worrisome, though unfinished, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission investigation of a WCB merger plan has encouraged Helou to seek an unconventional pathway to regulatory clearance.