Sentences with phrase «recent years the company»

Bastian added that in recent years the company has put «hundreds of millions» into technology infrastructure, with $ 150 million going into upgrades and systems just this year.

Most of those brands follow a high - end, full - service dining blueprint but in recent years the company has sought to broaden its market with new restaurant concepts that cater to local tastes.

In recent years the company has also been criticised for its use of child labour and palm oil, and for not labelling GM ingredients.

A statement from Senior Company Management read that «In recent years the Company has shifted strategy from providing services to domestic clients to serving an international customer base and providing multiple value - added products and contract support systems.

In recent years the company had excelled in not only the production of winter tyres, but also summer tyres and all - season tyres - with the Nokian Weatherproof tyre recently winning the Auto Express all - season tyre test 2015.

In recent years the company has been heavily using the AZW format and Kindle Format 8 for enhanced e-books.

In recent years company president Tony de Vos has led the way in creating a new Cardinal — more devoted to pets, people and the planet than ever.

In recent years companies have started moving away from individual offices and cubicles in favour of a more social work setting.

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But, in recent years, chatbots, or «bots» for short, have morphed into exceptionally intelligent computer programs able to assist companies with essential tasks ranging from marketing and human resources functions to sales efforts.

The cloud company plans to go public in early 2018, meaning it could be one of the biggest U.S. enterprise technology companies to list domestically in recent years.

The company's total revenue for the most recent fiscal year (in millions of dollars) and the percentage change compared to the previous fiscal year.

Tech companies, in recent years, have been under fire for the underrepresentation of women and certain minority groups in their workforces.

He did it in his recent Tesla master plan, referring to the low chance of success he knew he had when starting Tesla by citing the fact that Ford is the only U.S. car company to have avoided bankruptcy — knowledge he didn't have when he launched Tesla in 2003, six years before GM and Chrysler filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

A realistic path for the company going forward, he believes, would see it enjoy steady, solid gains, without the kind of exponential growth investors have become used to in recent years.

A minimum revenue requirement of $ 2 million in the most recent fiscal year applied to all companies.

According to a recent Google Consumer Survey, conducted for the education company Upromise by its financial services parent, Sallie Mae, the majority of students expect to continue receiving financial support from their parents for up to two years after their college graduation.

In the periods since the stock market peaked for the year in January, and after its most recent top mid-March, utilities, traditionally a defensive group of companies, have been the best - performing sector.

Matt Zimmerman, assistant professor of sports media at Mississippi State University, who has been studying the growth of the gaming industry in recent years, sees the potential in a company meant to help e-sports devotees improve.

Under its official name, the Osoyoos Indian Band Development Corp. (OIBDC), the company is ISO 9001 certified and reported total revenue for its most recent fiscal year of $ 26 million, with a profit of $ 2.4 million.

(Adidas Group bought Reebok in 2006 for $ 3.8 billion; in recent years some critics said it should sell it off, but now the company has positioned Reebok as a fitness brand, and the brand's sales were up 5 % in 2014 globally.)

A recent research paper shed some light on this phenomenon by studying 60 inversions by U.S. public companies over the last 20 years.

US oil exploration companies have flocked to the superrich Permian Basin in recent years and used shale - drilling technology to create an oil boom that simultaneously helped trigger a price crash two years ago.

Companies generally prefer that their board members don't speak to the media and it has only been in recent years that publications have named board members in their stories.

But Trump's picks to head the U.S. health department and its top regulator on Tuesday, along with his recent softening on some aspects of the existing law, is a sign to some sector insiders that instead of chaos, an orderly transition of up to three years to replace it with a plan that healthcare companies actually want could be in store.

Two other companies that own or license Jones's patents, ArrivalStar and Melvino Technologies, have filed hundreds of lawsuits in the U.S. in recent years.

In its heyday, it was by far the most popular company on Facebook, but lost lustre in recent years as people moved on to other games and to mobile devices.

But in recent years the «can't - miss» company has struggled with product delays; executive reshufflings; increased competition from Apple and Fitbit, costly lawsuits with its supplier, and Fitbit; and a down round that cut the company's valuation in half.

Also driving the trend is a collective cultural disgust with «obscene comp programs — the Monopoly money, the pay schemes that screw the little investor» — that have been proffered in recent years, says Charles A. (Chuck) Coonradt, author of The Game of Work and CEO of a consulting company by the same name in Park City, Utah.

Roger Mody, CEO of the Inc. 500 company Signal Corp., a $ 55 million information - technology - services provider in Fairfax, Va., has seen his customers» attire become increasingly insouciant in recent years, so he's allowed his employees to dress more casually, too.

At a recent Inc. conference I was asked what role incentive pay had played in the recent turnaround in quality at Lantech, the company I cofounded 22 years ago.

A bank under federal investigation unitl last year played a role in two recent real - estate transactions involving Jared Kushner's family company, ProPublica reports.

The company's stock has struggled in recent months and it announced earlier this year that its revenue will be close to flat for 2007.

In recent years, the company's total revenues and number of employees have taken off, while assets under management have climbed to $ 2.2 billion.

During recent years, Werklund has been focusing on philanthropy — in March he donated $ 16 million to Olds College, the biggest single donation in Alberta colleges» history — after stepping down from executive control of his company Canadian Crude Separators in 2010.

But while the company has been an innovation powerhouse in many arenas (hello #PSL), it hasn't had the same breakout success in recent years with cold beverages.

Benko is convinced his more cautious approach is largely responsible for keeping his seven - year - old company in a positive cash - flow position throughout the recent recession.

CytoSport's innovative pipeline in recent years has been powered by Hormel Foods (hrl), which paid $ 450 million to acquire the sports - nutrition maker back in 2014 in a deal intended to help the company reach younger consumers as well as those interested in adding more protein to their diets.

A spokesman for the prosecutors in the city of Brunswick (Braunschweig) told Fortune that recent disclosures suggesting that chief executive Martin Winterkorn was aware of the long - running deception of U.S. regulators already in May 2014 — over a year before the company finally admitted it to the world — weren't enough by themselves to justify opening an investigation into the former boss.

It's probably a good thing that Werklund has had plenty to keep him busy, as Tervita, the oilfield services company he co-founded nearly four decades ago, and whose board he currently chairs, has faced some turbulence in recent years.

But competitors soon arrived to push RIM from its dominant position, and the company's share price has fallen dramatically in recent years.

Elie Wurtman, managing partner at early stage VC fund Pico, highlighted that a number of Silicon Valley venture capital companies have shut down their Israel funds or folded them into their larger US funds in recent years.

«While the most recent dividend was paid in May of last year, we believe there is potential for the company to accelerate this timeline given our estimate of a 14 % FCF [free cash flow] benefit from tax reform and the company's strong underlying cash flow,» he wrote.

In particular, the idea of what it means to be fearless as a company and as leaders has evolved in recent years.

Nordstrom said its Anniversary Sale this year, which is historically the company's biggest sales event of the year, «performed better than recent trends.»

Data compiled by Kenney's department shows that thousands of companies and government departments, federal and provincial alike, have hired foreign help in recent years.

While Uber's recent expansion has been prolific, he notes that the company didn't «pull the plug and go super aggressive» until they were confident they could deliver a seamless user experience across the board, a process that took multiple years.

In recent years, the broader business world has experienced a similar epiphany about the power of design to enrich products and experiences, connect with customers, and help companies accelerate growth.

Big tech companies have had a fraught relationship with intelligence agencies in recent years, with prior revelations of surveillance programs leading to efforts to reassure consumers that their devices are safe from snoops.

The share of companies in the S&P 500 with a split structure has risen to 41 percent in 2011 (the most recent figures available) from 23 percent in 2003, according to a report by Deloitte last year.

But now, just about two years later, and with Einhorn's stake in the company 40 % larger (excluding call options), shares of GM are 3.5 % lower from when Einhorn first initiated his most recent stake.