Sentences with phrase «recently sold some company»

«Now there's Sara Blakely, there's Tory Burch,» says Jane Wurwand, who recently sold her company, Dermalogica, to Unilever.

You've got guys like Ariel Maislos (who recently sold his company Anobit to Apple for around $ 400 million) who make people like me salivate because I don't care what he wants to do.

When Herb Sizemore was CEO of Kansas Communications, in Lenexa, Kans. (he recently sold the company), he kept a file of all the «People on the Move» columns in his local paper and called people a year after they'd taken a new job to see if they were happy with their situation.

Viacom recently sold the company (not without a lawsuit or two), but for how much?

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Reflective of Far Eastern companies facing roadblocks in reaching the U.S. market, Chinese mobile maker Huawei has faced troubles in the U.S. recently as a deal for it to sell its Mate 10 Pro smartphone collapsed.

In an attempt to stay ahead of the ever - changing game in retail, Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust Chairman and CEO Joseph Coradino recently sold off 40 percent of his company's portfolio, he told CNBC.

GoDaddy.com recently announced its 30 millionth name sold; the company registers, renews or transfers domain names at the rate of one per second these days.

That grew into a business called Vortex Medical Inc., which in turn was sold to a public medical device company for $ 55 million in 2012 and was recently featured on the medical TV drama Grey's Anatomy.

The company, launched in 2009, started by selling medical refrigerators used in labs and hospitals but recently expanded into fiber - optic devices, which heat up as light and data travel through them.

ZeroUV, an eyewear boutique based in Huntington Beach, California, recently made a bigger push for the U.K. market by selling its sunglasses through Amazon Prime U.K. Brian Fujita, a co-founder of the Inc. 5000 honoree, says about 5 percent of the company's global online traffic (60,000 unique viewers) comes from that market.

Nintendo sold 10 million Switches in the device's first nine months on the market, and the company recently raised its forecast of first - year sales of the gadget from 10 million to 16 million, according to The Times.

Jason was a dreamer from Staten Island, a struggling entrepreneur whose business (a company that licensed celebrity names for grocery products such as Olympia Dukakis» Greek Salad Dressing and Britney Spears Bubble Gum) had recently sold off its modest assets.

A VC recently told me that AI and machine learning PhD students from Stanford and MIT are banding together and calling themselves companies without really even having an idea or product, as a way to sell themselves in high - priced talent acquisitions.

These projects are so efficient in their conservation of heat in the steam that they have a similar life - cycle carbon output to the average of crudes sold in North America, and thus would almost certainly meet the standards to be unveiled by the California Air Resources Board next year, the company told The Calgary Herald recently.

Perth - based Lucapa Diamond Company has sold a recently recovered 404 - carat diamond from its Lulo mine in Angola for $ 22.5 million.

Actress Jessica Alba has recently been under a huge amount of public scrutiny after it came out that the «natural» products her Honest Company sold may not be so natural after all.

I heard a startup founder once say «sell before you build» which really resonated with me at the time, as my company had very recently done the exact opposite.

Jeff Bezos and his company Blue Origin want to get space tourists into orbit as soon as next year, and he said recently that he is selling $ 1 billion worth of Amazon stock to fund the venture.

If you're unfamiliar with Conor McGregor that means you're probably unfamiliar with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the company bought in 2000 for $ 2 million and recently sold for $ 4 billion.

Having recently sold his second start - up, Mohsenin was scanning the landscape for a new business venture and playing with one of the toys he bought with the spoils of his company's sale — a new digital camera.

As my colleague Jim Edwards pointed out recently, the West's impression of the crackdown has been largely limited to seeing falling earnings for luxury companies that sell goods in China.

Apple recently won an injunction against Samsung that could prevent the Korean company from selling its Galaxy tablet, powered by Google's Android, in the European Union.

BitReserve also has two new boardmembers: Adrian Steckel, who has been CEO at a number of telecom companies in Mexico (most recently IUSACELL, which sold to AT&T for $ 2.5 billion), and Jim Milby, who worked with Watson at Barclays and Citi.

The company has already signed up more than 50 partners, with more in the wings, and it is offering them 100 % of the advertising revenue from their content if they sell the ads — much like Facebook is offering its partners with its recently - launched Instant Articles project.

Chad Carpenter's Klickback.com, an Internet - based rewards program headquartered in San Diego, recently forged a strategic alliance with paging company Metrocall Inc. «When we go live, we will be selling their paging services on our site, and they will use our rewards as their loyalty program for their 1.4 million consumer customers,» Carpenter explains.

The company most recently sold its Argentina wine business to Grupo Penaflor for an undisclosed amount, and earlier this year, speculation of a potential takeover by billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann gave Diageo a nice share boost.

Musk's Tesla, which has been packaging batteries to power its cars for years, more recently started selling those batteries to utilities for the power grid and for companies and homeowners to use for storage.

More recently, the company has pivoted to mobile phones and mobile games (they sold their phone division to Microsoft in 2014 for $ 7.2 B), working to become a major player in the telecom industry and producing network equipment.

AstraZeneca has been engaged in cutbacks for years, with plenty more chops to come — a point that was made again recently as the company struggles to sell its anti-infectives unit in Waltham.

I've recently started investing through a company structure though and have learnt that accounting principles state that I should not do this until such time an asset is sold and a gain is realised.

And the company has continued that with most recently selling the cosmetic business and selling some of the other businesses.

Both Time Warner and the Tribune Company have legal obligations is to maximize shareholder benefit; as recently as this week, a hedge fund began pushing Tribune CEO Peter Ligouri to sell any Tribune asset he can.

Loeb recently told Third Point fund investors that shares of the oil and gas company could be 60 percent higher, and he outlined changes it could make to add value, such as spinning off its retail business or selling its Canadian natural gas assets.

I'm just going to name a few things — in 1998 he sold ClassicGames.com to Yahoo!, in 2006 he was a New York Times best - seller for the AdSense Code, in 2008 he release iFart a paid iPhone application that was the No. 1 best selling for three week and most recently, and this is where I met him, he sold DealofDay.com at over seven figures where I was a consultant for the company that bought your website.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

Kalanick had recently sold his second start - up, Red Swoosh, a content - delivery company, for $ 20 million to Akamai Technologies.

I just recently sat with a company that was founded by someone who sold his previous company for billions.

David was Asia marketing director for Knight - Ridder in the mid-1990s before moving to the Boston area where he was marketing VP for two publicly - traded U.S. companies, most recently at NewsEdge until he was fired shortly after it was sold to Thomson, delivering to him the gift of reinvention as a strategist advising organizations on the new realities of agile, Real - Time business.

Then he mentions Tesla's stock, which recently hit another all - time high, making the company more valuable than General Motors, a stunning notion to some investors considering that GM sold 10 million cars last year compared with Tesla's 76,000.

For the second quarter, however, the Seattle - based coffee giant credited it to its recently acquired East China business, closing about 300 Teavana mall stores, selling its Tazo tea brand to Unilever for $ 384 million and licensing some previously company - owned overseas stores.

She sold the company for $ 66 million in 2001, and has since embarked on another chapter that's made her a household name: as one of the sharks on ABC's hit «Shark Tank,» recently renewed for its eighth season.

The firm recently moved to sell $ 100 million in equity to finance capex, but with hedges on the company's production likely to wind down over the next six months, BBG could find that being acquired is preferable to additional equity raises.

Recently, the company held a one day sale of its Google Glass explorer addition and the $ 1500 USD devices sold quickly.

O2 has recently been sold by parent company Telefonica to Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchinson Whampoa, which also owns mobile network provider Three, in a # 10 billion deal.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of the company.

The New York - based company — which evolved out of the popular blog Into the Gloss by founder and CEO Emily Weiss — began selling its own make - up at the outset but has more recently added body and fragrance products, too, bringing its total number of offerings to 22.

The company managing the Clipper Fund has been sold twice over and Jim Gipson and two colleagues recently announced they're moving on.

A: Amazon (AMZN) is a company we have long admired, but only recently were we afforded an opportunity to purchase it at a lower price - to - sales ratio than the average bricks and mortar store (defining sales as gross market value of all items sold on its website).

«Constellation had a Canadian wine business that they sold recently, and they're more North American and local - market focused (than companies like Anheuser - Busch).

Nigel was CEO of two VC - backed silicon companies before founding Graphcore; Picochip, which was sold to Mindspeed in 2012 and most recently, XMOS, in which Graphcore was incubated for two years before being established as a separate entity in 2016.