Sentences with phrase «powerful backer in»

Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke are on opposite sides of the fence in the $ 2 billion vitamins market but Clarke has a powerful backer in Chemist Warehouse.

Not exact matches

In the traditional venture capital (VC) model, startups get a few powerful backers.

Werritty, the group's UK director, was funded by a raft of powerful businessmen including Michael Hintze, one of the Tories biggest financial backers whose hedge fund, CQS, has investments in companies that have contracts with the Ministry of Defence; Poju Zabludowicz, chairman of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, who chairs a US munitions company; and the Good Governance Group, a private security firm set up by a South African businessman, Andries Pienaar, who also has an investment firm, C5 Capital, focused on the defence sector.

The rift between the WFP and some of its most powerful financial backers began in 2014 when party activists wanted to back little - known Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout over Cuomo, who they felt was not progressive enough.

Some senior Labour figures who know the inner circle well say that nothing will happen until Len McCluskey, his most powerful union backer, has secured re-election as the leader of Unite, in April.

I can't help but wonder: If some dude blogging from a coffee shop could see this coming, why in the world didn't Common Core's and common assessments» powerful, well - staffed, and deep - pocketed backers get ahead of this?

Now the state legislature is stepping in to restore «Recess for All» and they've got some powerful backers: Florida Parents.

General Mills is also represented by the Grocery Manufacturers Association, a powerful lobbying group and major financial backer of the campaigns that defeated proposed GMO labeling laws in California and Washington.

In Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, Wylie saw potentially powerful backers, ones that might even fund his own startup.

With the run - up of the stock market in recent years and the home equity, millennials have a very powerful financial backer in their parents.