Sentences with phrase «relatively small industry»

Some would like to see these subsidies end, but I'd say that fossil fuel subsidies should be cut first; that would save more money, and be fairer since they've been around for decades while renewable energy is still a relatively small industry.

Our relatively small industry — film and TV production — is doing what it can, with the help of states like Hawaii, where we sometimes get to work.

Because it is a relatively small industry, marketing budgets aren't that great.

Not exact matches

It joins the ranks of more unconventional ICOs like «PAquarium,» which plans to build the world's largest aquarium (it raised a relatively small $ 620,000 (# 479,000)-RRB-, and Dentacoin, a blockchain for the global dentist industry (its ICO kicks off on October 1).

«While that is small compared to industry standards — relative to such things like auto insurance or worker's compensation — it's a relatively new product.

Like many small - scale entrepreneurs in established industries, he found networking and getting the word out about his business relatively easy thanks to the size of the community.

Small, innovative companies currently dominate the relatively young industry, but as major toy companies begin exploring green products consolidation becomes more of a reality.

Like any new industry being flooded by startups, only a relatively small number have the right combination of quality, talent, and management acumen to make it.

Those at start - ups in New York repeatedly mention the intimacy of the relatively small but tight - knit industry here — in fact, they may be the only people who say they moved to New York because they liked its small - town vibe.

First, the networking effects — because oil is a relatively small contributor to our GDP and manufacturing is a relatively large contributor to our GDP, any damage done by currency effects driven by oil risks having an outsized effect on a much larger industry.

Barbell industry structures consist of a relatively few giant corporations on one end, a narrow middle consisting of a shrinking number of mid-sized firms, and a large and growing number of small, micro and one person (solopreneur) firms on the other end.

Though the job cuts have been relatively small so far, many in the finance industry expect a bigger wave of reductions as well as consolidation, especially among boutique financial firms.

It envisions a barbell structure for most industries, with a few giant corporations on one end, a relatively small number of mid-sized firms in the middle, and a large group of small businesses balancing the other end.

The organic industry is still relatively small and relies on networks and connections — it helps to be prepared before you're certified organic or ready to sell.

The lack of an active national press market, combined with an industry organised around relatively small local and state markets and an unusually high dependence on advertising in general (often more than 80 percent of revenues as opposed to around 50 percent in Europe) and classified advertising in particular has left American newspapers particularly exposed to the arrival of competitors such as the Huffington Post, Craigslist, and Monster.com.

Though # 1 million sounds like a lot of money, «it will do more for morale than the relatively small amount lost from the total budget,» he says, «And it's better to keep the staff that you've got by paying competitive salaries rather than losing them to industry or America.»

Proponents say the Far North Act will have little effect on the timber industry because it affects an area farther north where trees are relatively small, grow less densely and are not economical to harvest.

Although profits are still relatively small, the industry is predicting it will attract 140m registrations by the end of this year according to a report by the iResearch internet consultancy.

Some industry insiders say smaller sites struggle to make money because the cost of acquiring new customers is relatively high compared to the number of members they can attract.

There's also the fact that A24 is still a young, relatively small company in a rapidly changing industry that is faced with steadily declining revenues.

Despite directing smaller projects on and off since 1991, Irish film maker Lenny Abrahamson (Garage, What Richard Did) is still relatively unknown in the wider industry.

«The charter school industry has targeted our relatively small urban district with an over-saturation of charters that causes a financial drain, without concern for the impact on the majority of students who will continue to attend the public schools.»

«Ford supports electrification for a variety of vehicle types,» says Ford Sustainability and QVM Program Manager Richard Cupka Jr. «The eQVM program extends that support to the vocational truck industry where customers need relatively small numbers of specialized vehicles — there is no one - size - fits - all work truck.»

The difference is that while Barnes & Noble has an extensive eBook store and a relatively small Android app store, Amazon already has a fairly well established app store, one of the industry's largest selections of eBooks, and also an MP3 music store and digital video marketplace.

The problem was the industry was still relatively small and the companies were new and untried.

The International Fund may invest in emerging markets, which are generally more volatile and can have relatively unstable governments, social and legal systems that do not protect shareholders, economies based on only a few industries and securities markets that are substantially smaller, less liquid, more volatile and may have a lower level of government oversight than securities markets in more developed countries.

Some of the smaller niche products in the industry come with relatively high fees of close to 1 % or even more.

After all, it's a capital light industry that is highly scalable; relatively small fixed overhead costs can be amortized over vast asset bases, resulting in some very fat margins and returns on shareholder capital as an asset manager's business expands.

Although this is a relatively standard number for the industry, it excludes people for whom smaller amounts of debt might be equally devastating.

Liberal critic John McCallum has criticized the proposal as inadequate, pointing out that it affects only the relatively small percentage of workers who are in federally regulated industries and those working for Crown corporations, saying it would likely lead to a downgrade in pension benefits overall.

As a result, the oil industry will return to healthier price levels and oil stocks will do relatively well (albeit with small profit margins even at high prices).

$ 1.4 billion turns out to be the incremental cash flow into a single exchange - traded fund designed to track an index of the gold mining industry, including some relatively small - capitalization companies.

Like it or not, the Internet has become a big influence on consumer shopping patterns; and while e-commerce still accounts for only a relatively small portion of pet product sales, industry experts almost universally agree that we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the impact that web - based retailing will have on the pet care category.

But Pet Supplies Plus may have remained a relatively small player in the retail pet industry world had management not started to look for an outside revenue source to both level the playing field with the big players in the industry and fund growth.

Given that Open Cages operates in a part of the world where the animal agriculture industry is relatively large and the animal advocacy movement is relatively small, we think they are well - positioned to engage in highly impactful work.

Domestic industry is limited, constrained by relatively high - cost labor and energy, and a small domestic market.

The global adoption rates of VR solutions remain relatively low and are even smaller in regards to gaming use cases, the only segment of the industry Nintendo may consider to enter going forward, its executive revealed.

EA Games president Frank Gibeau told Develop that the games industry is «relatively small» from a talent standpoint, and that the publisher's Partners programme is one of the best ways to attract the best studios around.

There's the growing sense that the industry as a whole, from small teams like Yacht Club and WayForward to larger firms like Nintendo and Capcom, is beginning to fully appreciate the richness of a relatively new medium's history.

Tobacco is relatively small compared with affected industries in AGW so one would expect a much more massive response and corresponding innovation to defeat AGW.

The study found that a small number of companies produce a relatively large amount of emissions, with three companies alone — American Electric Power, Southern Company and Tennessee Valley Authority — responsible for 24 percent of the industry's SO2 emissions, 21 percent of the NOx emissions, 19 percent of the CO2 emissions and 22 percent of the mercury emissions.

The results should emerge soon, but in its evidence to the Select Committee, Scottish and Southern Electricity plc said that, while shale gas was a viable if relatively small option for the UK (compared to the US), «there is a concern that with limited capital for investment in the energy industry, significant development of policy incentives to encourage development of shale gas resources in the UK, alongside uncontrolled growth in gas - fired generation could decrease investor certainty on UK policy direction towards renewables, CCS and / or nuclear.

There are a relatively small number of workers in this industry, but the risk of fatality to these workers is about 30 times what it is for those in all other industries.

Legal IT consultants have no practical experience or training in AI implementation and legal represents a relatively small target market for the big consultancies that do, compared with the opportunities in other industries.

One of the sparking events was when Gunderson, a relatively small firm in Silicon Valley, raised their starting associate salaries from somewhere around the industry average of $ 100,000 to $ 125,000.

Customer Service — As a relatively small company compared to some of the giants in the industry, A.M Best is the only agency to provide an official rating for New Era Life Insurance Company.

Many of the use cases they facilitate are relatively small compared to blockchain industry deals in Silicon Valley.

Overall, more than 73 % of all bitcoin sites using our services were attacked this quarter, making it one of the most targeted industries, despite its relatively small size and web presence.»

Despite this, Robotics is still a relatively small $ 80 billion industry, with projections indicating that it will triple in size over the next few years.

Both LG and Motorola have created a buzz in the tech industry with their upcoming Android Wear smartwatches, and the market being relatively small, it's fair to say it's still anyone's game.