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He turned Scott Paper and Crown Zellerbach into profitable companies by ruining thousands of lives, selling off the corporate scraps, and making millions for himself in the process.

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
The site is already profitable, the company said, and expects online revenues to grow by 50 % this year.
MacMillan soon began to gut Alliance Atlantis's production unit in 2003 to focus on the franchise, which became the company's single - most - profitable venture by the time the company was sold.
Months of deliberations behind closed doors at Shell headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, had led the top brass at the world's largest non-state-owned oil company by sales to conclude that the energy industry was changing fundamentally — in a way that could turn the profitable oil - sands operation into a liability.
Opened as an experiment in 1912 near the company's most profitable location in Jersey City, N.J., the first A&P economy store was operated by a single man, who moved big volumes at warehouse prices.
By 2005, the company — then called Quiet Solution — employed 30 people and had been profitable for several years.
He contrasted General Assembly to tech startups facing high burn rates, saying the company would be profitable by the end of the year.
The latter company is currently not profitable and its stock dropped by 15 percent in 2016's first quarter.
He also stated he expects the company, as a whole, to become profitable by the first or second quarter of 2015.
Bell Labs was backed by AT&T, the largest monopoly in the world, which allowed them to spend millions of dollars on research that might never prove profitable — a situation unimaginable for many of today's companies.
There exist profitable, late - stage startups that are run by people who believe their companies could stand a little seasoning before going through the hassle of an IPO to face the quarter - by - quarter scrutiny of the public markets.
Richter, the company's chief procurement officer, said Airbus took a gamble by taking over the C Series, which is currently not profitable.
Don't get too bogged down by the bottom - line: Hortonworks is not a profitable company.
Figuring out whether the company is «really» worth that much is complicated greatly by the fact that twitter is not profitable.
Huang says the company, which is not yet profitable and raised $ 132 million in venture capital from American Express Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, DST Global, and others, could have maximized margins and increased savings by reducing staff, but he told the board that he felt the company would be more profitable in the long term if it dedicated itself to its employees.
A lawyer by trade, Schriver initially intended to make a «career pit stop in 2000, at the small, but profitable language company, but I soon realized the potential,» he says.
Señor Paleta, founded in 2014, has grown from a tiny operation selling at festivals and private events into a profitable company, surrounded by new and exciting businesses springing up in the area's century - old buildings.
Snap's $ 3.4 billion IPO five months ago was the largest by a U.S. technology company in three years, despite concerns about slowing user growth and a warning by the company that it might never become profitable.
But Empire's chief financial officer Michael Vels kept expectations tempered by saying «the e-commerce online offering will not be immediately profitable,» adding the company anticipates it will become a «growing and vibrant channel.»
We believe the Statoil acquisition strengthens the company's business risk profile by adding an established, profitable c - store and fuel retailer with a strong market share of more than 30 % in the mature markets of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark with good growth prospects in riskier, more fragmented Eastern Europe.
The company was profitable within a year, and has grown by around 20 % annually ever since.
The 130 page guide includes the best stocks to buy right now, a step - by - step guide to picking winners, the hottest international markets and Canada's most profitable companies.
Tesla shares soared Wednesday after the company posted its second profitable quarter ever and beat analyst expectations for the third quarter by a wide margin.
By 1997, the chain's same - store revenues were expanding at a double - digit clip, reaching more than $ 3 million that year, although Riviera acknowledges that the company wasn't profitable.
The results also showed that Uber cut its fourth - quarter net loss by 25 per cent from the third quarter as new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi moves to make the company profitable ahead of a planned initial public stock offering sometime next year.
Many analysts and investors have bet that Spotify will become a significantly profitable company in the future and are betting that one way it will improve its bottom line is by increasing its gross margins.
There's good reason for this: One study showed that companies that promote innovative tech outperform their peers by being 26 percent more profitable.
Since that time, the servant leadership movement has gained steady momentum while being practiced by some of the most profitable and successful companies on the planet.
By September, the company was breaking even; in October, InsuranceAgents.com was profitable again.
A great company generates enough cash flow (through highly profitable operations) to be self - sustaining; it also has a solid track record of meeting other objectives set by its leaders and owners.
The 3rd owner, our CEO, focuses on expanding our foot print by building partnerships with the right companies and tweaking / improving our internal processes to make us more profitable.
This model is profitable for the employee because they can serve several families without the headache of financial collections or self - employment taxes and is convenient for the customer because the aids will be background - checked and bonded by the company.
Also thanks for the reference to «The Rise of Non «VC compatible» SaaS Companies by Clement Vouillon»; we are an «awesome Bootstrapped SaaS company» with a lean and profitable SaaS business.
Hopefully he'll be able to figure out a way to become profitable by then so that he will no longer need to sell more equity in his company.
The idea is that by making it more profitable to own American companies, you will juice business investment in the United States.
If pre-product, pre-revenue companies (i.e. loss making, just idea stage) can be valued for $ 10 — $ 20 million, why can't Financial Samurai, which is highly profitable, has six years of existence, can pay a nice dividend if it wants to, has way less risk than all these new startups, and can grow revenue by triple digits every year with promotion, be worth a similar range?
These days, they prefer to hold more profitable assets and earn fee income by arranging bond issues for companies.
Turning illiquid private - company stock into cash by selling shares to the public required engaging a top investment bank, which typically wouldn't take a company public until it had had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue.
As Figure 3 shows, Oclaro has gone from one of the least profitable companies in its industry by return on invested capital (ROIC) to one of the most profitable.
But they also focus on ways businesses can be profitable by creating products that not only advance social change and environmental protection, but which the company can successfully market.
Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living
Through his leadership, Sendouts transformed into a fast growing and profitable entity that was ultimately acquired by Vista Equity Partners and integrated with Bullhorn, one of Vista's portfolio companies.
Led by its 30 - year - old founder, Andrew Mason, the company has been profitable since June 2009, according to data provided by a Groupon spokeswoman.
Symbian has just been overtaken by Android, while Apple is the most profitable company in the sector, followed by RIM with its BlackBerry.
by Peter Lynch In the book Beating The Street, Peter Lynch describes how to become an expert in handling finance of a company and ways to build a profitable investment portfolio based on your own experience and insights.
Stratasys has racked up nearly $ 1.6 billion in GAAP net losses over the past three years, you see, and if the company were ever to become profitable (or be acquired by a company that is profitable), then those $ 1.6 billion in «deferred tax assets» could be used to offset future profits, and lower Stratasys» (or an acquirer's) tax bill.
Renee Warren, CEO and Co-Founder of Onboardly, explains how she built a profitable company helping startups grow by outsourcing a huge chunk of their early responsibilities.
(One of those studies, done in 2012 by Dow Jones, shows that companies where women are founders or executives are more likely to go public or become profitable or be sold for a higher price).
The company, which recently gave its 500 millionth ride, has previously said it's on track to be profitable by 2018.
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