Sentences with phrase «profit of a few companies»

It is a tragedy, said Naughton, that a technology that promises so much has become used for passive consumption to the profit of a few companies.

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Still, he added, «technology is giving the consumer a much better product — much cheaper, much faster, more alternatives — but at the expense of fewer workers, and we have to find ways for companies to create jobs as well as profits.»

Russia contributes less than 5 % of total company operating profit, but it has been one of McDonald's few reliable European markets.

Here's a simple test: If someone sat down with you and asked you a series of questions about your company's revenue, expenses, and profits (or losses) for the previous month, quarter, and year, could you answer within a few minutes, using your accounting software?

Vigorate — which has revenues in the $ 4 to 8 million range and ranked 255th on the 2013 PROFIT 500 — opened a Chicago sales office a few years ago to make further inroads with professional sports teams in the U.S. And in 2012, it set up a similar sales hub in Barcelona, reckoning, as Grieve explains, that the sprawling European soccer industry would also be receptive to the sort of digital marketing the company provides to North American leagues.

I've heard of a small company that missed its profit - sharing trigger by just a few thousand dollars due to an employee who was stealing merchandise; as a result, the company didn't give out bonuses and ended up with a very bitter staff.

On the downside, the firm cut information technology to neutral, with Kostin noting that the sector generates the majority of its profits from overseas and will therefore reap fewer benefits from reform than domestic companies.

May 2 (Reuters)- Estee Lauder Cos Inc topped expectations for quarterly profit on Wednesday but investors were worried about slowing U.S. sales as fewer shoppers visit department stores where the company sells a bulk of its products.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

The company's sales were down 39 % year - over-year due in part to shuttered lines and in part to fewer project sales, but despite $ 18 million in restructuring and asset impairment charges, First Solar still pulled off a positive operating margin and a net profit of $ 52 million.

Achievement of these goals was considered by the HRC as very challenging, even aggressive, given the expected modest economic growth for 2007 for the financial services industry, the impact and duration of the on - going flat / inverted yield curve (meaning short - term interest rates that are virtually equal to or exceed long - term interest rates, thus lowering profit margins for financial services companies that borrow cash at short - term rates and lend at long - term rates), potentially higher credit losses, fewer available high - quality, high - yielding loans and investment opportunities, and a consumer shift from non-interest to interest - bearing deposits.

In one of the few studies that has examined flextime's effect on company profits, last year, researchers from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and China's Renmin University studied the 35 per cent of Canadian firms with flextime policies.

Things look equally bleak based on metrics typically used by investors to evaluate a borrower's ability to make payments: In Asia and Latin America, companies» debt now represents roughly four years of operating profits, up from fewer than two years prior to the financial crisis of 2008.

Just as striking as Amazon's lack of interest in generating profit has been investors» willingness to back the company.195 With the exception of a few quarters in 2014, Amazon's shareholders have poured money in despite the company's penchant for losses.

The company's film segment (Paramount Pictures) is showing signs of revitalization, producing fewer films but returning to positive profits.

I understand that startups normally need capital froman an IPO or need to issue more stocks in order to finance R&D (well, as just about all companies pursue immediate profits not at the cost of the future, the second option is becoming forgettable), but what's the point when the whole world is now run by a few corporate cartels?

In this video I'm going to show you a great way to get better keywords out of the Google Adwords Keyword tool if you haven't seen the previous video you'll want to watch that video where I show you how to get better search volume numbers from both google adwords as well as some other sources to get better estimates for the amount of times that keyword is searched each month i'll put a link in the video here so that you can click that video if you haven't seen that yet let's get started now if you want better results from the Google Adwords Keyword planner you have to work a little differently than everyone else so most people come to the Google Adwords Keyword planner and they simply click on this search for new keywords using a phrase, website, or category and then they just paste a bunch of keywords into this text box so let's say as an example that these were our starting keywords ok so let's say we have the keywords «fishing tips» «fishing tackle» «fishing for bass» «fishing rod» and «fishing reel» what most people do is that they would simply come here and they would copy this they would paste it into this field and they would hit Search and they would get back their results and that's fine but one little tip that will help you get much better results is only paste in one key word at a time so instead of pasting all these in just paste in the single keyword «fishing tips» and then proceed from there to pull that those results up and you'll get this back if you click right here you can download the ideas you'll notice they're 701 here listed so if we download these ideas will download them to a CSV file comma separated value file you can open that with notepad you can open it with excel open office when you're finished putting all your ideas and individually you will now have a bunch of different common separate value files containing the keywords and the search volume I've already gone ahead and done that just to save time on the video but i want to show you what happens when you use this method versus just pasting in the keywords like most people do so here you'll see this column here represents these two columns here represent if we had pasted in all of the keywords at once and click search at google adwords keyword tool is one that showed you and you'll see we have a total of 706 results we got back when we did that this column this column here represents what happens when we paste one key word at a time and then download the file paste the second keyword download the file and then we just simply grab those terms and copy them and you'll see now we have a total of 1,915 keywords now what I've done with the highlighting here is to show you anything that's not highlighted in this column is a keyword we would not have gotten back had we pasted in all the keywords at once you can see there's lots and lots of keywords here we would not have seen know your competitors and the company's you're competing against they're using probably the simple method just pasting a bunch of keywords sitting search and then looking through those terms to find their terms if you will take the extra few minutes it takes doesn't take long to simply go in and paste one key word at a time you will get back a ton of great keywords that others aren't seeing because they're using this other method and in actuality when I ran the numbers there's a total of 3.8 million searches represented by these keywords here that you would miss if you simply just copied and pasted those five terms and hit search the Google Adwords Keyword planner once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there are so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and Keyword Grouper Pro is completely free there's not even an opt in you just simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns and know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business

Major reasons for lack of control of violence in TV are monopoly dominance by a few powerful companies, the drive for profits, the lack of accountability and a lack of the FCC to exercise oversight.

You may remember the correspondence a few weeks ago about this Open Letter on feeding for babies in neonatal units and their mothers — co-signatories included companies that profit from the sale of breastmilk substitutes.

But then I will read about another nurse - in at a place where a breastfeeding mother was given a hard time, or hear about another study about the for - profit insanity of our current Caesarian rates, or discover a company that makes really lovely pregnancy - and - nursing products I didn't know about when I could have actually used them... and I feel sort of wistful that I won't be able to be part of things any more, not the way I was a few years ago.

Finally, The Theory of Everything held up well enough for releasing company Focus Features, bringing in an estimated $ 2.5 million at the box office over the weekend, enough to gain a marginal profit against a $ 15 million budget... and still ahead of the critically acclaimed Wild, the Reese Witherspoon - starring film based on the memoir of Cheryl Strayed, which picked up a few theaters and some revenue in the form of an estimated $ 1.6 million.

Here are a few examples: the for - profit company will install their own handpicked boards that in turn hire the company for «management,» and these fees routinely cost up to 15 % of the school's FTE; the for - profit company will demand that parents purchase supplies directly from the school itself, which is often another LLC that charges exorbitant rates for the basics; in many cases, the biggest part of the scam is one LLC (e.g. Red Apple Development, the construction arm of Charter Schools USA) will purchase land to build the school on and then turn around and charge the school (read: taxpayers) rent that is substantially higher than the going rate / property value, sometimes as high as a million dollars a year.

The South Asian giant announced profit of $ 7.8 billion for Q4 2013, which is a few notches below the $ 8.27 billion that the company secured during the same period a year ago.

Whereas some self - publishing companies and «vanity presses» rip authors off by charging up front for service and then charging additional royalties as high as 55 % of net profits, BookBaby is one of the few companies in the industry that does not take any additional fees; the author earns royalties from the different platforms that BookBaby distributes to, and retains all percentages after the retail platforms» fee.

So intead of sales based on a niche product (where many people are still questioning if they need one) companies like Moto and HTC and Sony can make a little profit selling a few more of these tablets that will become the primary computer for most people.

Few of the most important financial ratios for investors to validate company's profitability ratios are ROA, ROE, EPS, Profit margin & ROCE as discussed below.

Gilbert's style is hard - hitting; though many financial companies took advantage of government largesse, few practically considered the possibility of bailouts while the boom was going on; they were pursuing profit with little thought of systemic risk.

Moreover, it doesn't make sense to read the balance sheet, profit & loss statements or cash - flow statements of all the listed companies, if you can filter them out based on just a few preliminary filters like debt or growth rate.

So, during the first few years of repayment the bulk of your payment is going to the company as profit instead of to reducing your debt.

You have probably heard of adrenaline - packed investors who trade all the time and enjoy taking considerable risks on a few companies, to find out if their exhaustive research brings them important profits.

In its most recent, frenzied incarnation, dot - com entrepreneurs have exchanged stock in companies with few tangible assets and even fewer profits for control of established, profitable companies.

Dividends are at the core of stock investing because there are only a very few ways for shareholders, as a whole, to profit from the companies they own.

[While we're on the Korea Times and NCSoft, John Andersen points out a fascinating new article there called «NCsoft CEO Stands at Crossroads», which includes incisive analysis of NCSoft's declining profits, why Tabula Rasa is vital for the company, and a few ladlings of gossip about NCSoft boss Kim Taek - jin - definitely worth checking out.]

A chance for some serious profits coupled with people taking advantage of limited availability to inflate pricing and resell these devices seems to have spurred the company on to mine the hell out of those last few shards of nostalgia.

Fossil fuel companies will fight tooth and nail to keep us locked to the path that gives them a few more years of profit - the path that sends us careening off a cliff.

For too long, oil companies have reaped massive profits through a monopoly over our transportation options, leaving people with few alternatives to fossil fuels — fuels which are by far Washington's largest source of climate and air pollution.

«Now it's time for the industry to follow the science, EPA, and courts, and finally recognize what the law requires — we need to protect our waters, natural areas, and mountain communities, not destroy them any longer for the profit of a few coal companies.»

Buying shares of major renewable energy and infrastructure companies now, before the spending begins and while they're still cheap, will provide windfall profits as the projects are executed over the next few years.

Granted, it may only be a few dollar's worth of profit from you that the company loses, but when combined with the efforts of others, sometimes many others, and amplified by social media, it can impact both the company's finances and its public image.

The company explains the pricing, mentioning that they are not making a profit on this upgrade, but it's still expensive because of the very low volumes and because the packs need to be hand - made (can't set up a robotized production line for just a few battery packs):

Even today, it continues to offer this participating life product, a kind few carriers offer, which keeps policyholders at the helm of the decision making and profits within the company, not stock holders.

If a company has had a large profit for a certain category of drivers because of few claim payouts, they can offer lower rates to those motorists, increasing the number of policies sold and consequently increasing profit.

Women drivers are statistically proven to make fewer insurance claims than men, thus making them a low risk client for an investment company whose profits soar due to a lack of insurance claims.

It's fine for these telecom companies to make a few extra bucks on my dime... after all, it's not like they could have kept up with the times and found new ways to innovate instead of lobbying the government to cater to their power structures in a way that helps them gain even more profit.

Today, Zynga's still around, and it even managed to turn a profit in 2017, but with 72 million fewer monthly unique users than it boasted in March 2010, the company's days of FarmVille - fueled glory are in the past.

The comments point to perhaps a central disconnect in the larger public understanding of Bitcoin Core's processes, and how despite the nature of bitcoin as a well - oiled blockchain, its upkeep requires time and resources that (outside of the altruism of a few for - profit companies) is still largely volunteer.

The company had a turbulent past few months — its profits nosedive in the second quarter of 2016 and its president was recently indicted on bribery charges.

High technology, booming home sales, one - stop shopping, mergers and acquisitions, shrinking profit margins, and affinity programs are just a few of the challenges real estate companies are facing now.

But, he warns, you need to see sustained profits from a variety of companies, not just a few that beat their estimates.

Within only a few years, Carolina and her husband Tom have built a company that does dozens of deals annually with an average profit of $ 24,736 per deal.