Sentences with phrase «rival companies upping»

Not exact matches

Woodside Petroleum has deferred a final decision on expansion of its Pluto gas project, but the company's chief executive Don Voelte has still talked up its development record, saying it was five years ahead of industry rival Chevron.

Mess with that production system, and you may end up messing with the ability of American companies to compete with their Asian rivals.

What were the company's rivals up to?

The company's closest rival is Medtronic and analysts expect the entry of Boston Scientific's valve into the market by late 2018 to further heat up the competition.

As Bloomberg notes, rival apparel companies like Under Armour (UA) and Adidas (ADS) are likely to enter the bidding for the lucrative Texas contract — which could be worth more than $ 15 million per year — once it comes up for grabs, which means Nike will face some fierce competition if it wants to keep doing business with the school.

Buick's best - selling model is the subcompact Encore crossover, and Cadillac's biggest debut this year has been the XT4, a model the company is making to finally catch up with rivals already in the luxury crossover segment.

The German company's two mighty rivals, Nike and Under Armour, have done a lot right, says Stifel Nicolaus analyst Jim Duffy, «but both have benefited from Adidas just not even showing up.»

Under his leadership, Expedia's revenues grew from $ 2.1 billion in 2005 to $ 8.7 billion in 2016, and the company became the biggest online travel agency in the US by snatching up rivals Orbitz, HomeAway, Travelocity, and Hotels.com.

There's a compelling reason why: When its researchers examined more than 100 companies, they found that teaming up — even with rivals — boosted performance.

Ackman's Pershing Square Capital teamed up with Valeant to mount a failed hostile takeover of rival pharmaceutical company Allergan, and at the time, the famed fund manager credited Pearson for being able to spot opportunities where others couldn't, much like business legend Warren Buffett.

If Walgreens buys smaller rival Rite Aid (RAD), the combined company may end up with far fewer stores than it bargained for, according to an analysis by real estate services company Cushman & Wakefield.

The uptick in the shares reflects a belief that Netflix is now in a position to sign up more subscribers this year than analysts had previously anticipated, generating additional revenue that the company can spend on TV series and movies as it bids against rivals such as HBO, Amazon.com, YouTube and Hulu for licensing rights.

Now the company is racing to broaden its smartwatch line to keep up with bigger rivals like Apple and Samsung.

Since then, the companies have been scrambling to rack up indications for the rival drugs, which are both approved for treating melanoma and lung cancer.

The company's stock has barely moved, inching up a cumulative 6.5 % over the past two years, vs. 23 % for rival Colgate and 29 % for the S&P 500.

A.P. Moller - Maersk has agreed to buy German rival container Hamburg Süd, sending shares in the Danish shipping company up nearly 5 percent.

FRANKFURT, May 1 - The incoming boss of BASF has thrown his weight behind the chemical titan's contentious strategy of keeping divergent businesses folded into one company, at a time when its major rivals such as DowDuPont are breaking themselves up.

FRANKFURT, May 1 (Reuters)- The incoming boss of BASF has thrown his weight behind the chemical titan's contentious strategy of keeping divergent businesses folded into one company, at a time when its major rivals such as DowDuPont are breaking themselves up.

The late Ted Rogers» family has seen the value of its stake in Rogers Communications go up more than 15 % in the past year, a 12 - month stretch that included the company going halves with bitter rival Bell Media to buy a 75 % stake in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment for $ 1.07 billion.

It had even teamed up with British rival AstraZeneca, a company that had a crack primary - care sales force, to help get them off the ground.

Known for his steely determination in business, Khodorkovsky bought up floundering state companies for a pittance, turned them around and used his resulting power to squeeze out rivals and minority shareholders.

Rivals caught up to it relatively quickly and took Apple's pricing power away, forcing the company to react by releasing a smaller, cheaper iPad (the Mini).

The company actually beat Wall Street profit estimates largely thanks to its superstar cancer immunotherapy drug Keytruda, which has been shown to best chemotherapy in helping lung cancer patients live longer and given Merck a leg up over rivals like Bristol - Myers Squibb's immune therapy Opdivo.

The company, which is facing increasing competition from rival digital payment services by Apple, Samsung and Square, is tying up with retailers, airlines and other companies to drive growth

This in turn drove BAI up 25 percent to twice the score of the company's main rival.

Before Uber lost out to chief local rival Didi Chuxing in China, the company was said to have used up billions of dollars just to maintain its hold on the country.

FRANKFURT The incoming boss of BASF has thrown his weight behind the chemical titan's contentious strategy of keeping divergent businesses folded into one company, at a time when its major rivals such as DowDuPont are breaking themselves up.

Earlier this year, Schneider dismissed rivals he said were «spending millions of dollars» trying to replicate the company's size, after it reported an increased market share to 15.9 percent, up from 15.7 percent.

This Act prohibited price discrimination by retailers among producers and by producers among retailers.63 Its aim was to prevent conglomerates and large companies from using their buyer power to extract crippling discounts from smaller entities, and to keep large manufacturers and retailers from teaming up against rivals.64 Like laws banning predatory pricing, the prohibition against price discrimination effectively curbed the power of size.

Some have already started to question whether the company can live up to its $ 68 billion valuation in the wake of all of its problems, and in the meantime, a number of regional rivals continue to raise funding in a bid to position themselves as credible alternatives in a rapidly evolving market for mass transportation.

Through little else but the sheer force of his personality, he landed an investor, Mark Cuban; rebuilt a team; signed up a real client in satellite TV provider EchoStar; and, finally, in 2007 sold the company to his much larger rival, Akamai, for $ 23 million.

HQ2 is expected to rival the company's Seattle campus, which takes up 8.1 million square feet, has 33 buildings and 24 restaurants and is home to more than 40,000 employees.

Separately, the company is gearing up for a massive patent infringement trial against rival Samsung Electronics Co. set to begin Monday in federal court in San Jose.

Offshore oil services firm Subsea 7 said on April 23 that it had made an unsolicited offer for U.S. rival McDermott International for $ 2 billion, potentially breaking up the U.S. company's agreed deal with Chicago Bridge & Iron (CB&I).

Rival Google doled out US$ 1.3 - billion to snap up Israeli social traffic - mapping and navigation company Waze in June, a sum that has prompted the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate the hefty acquisition.

Tabcorps earnings per share should be up at least 11 per cent in coming financial years, if it secures rival wagering company Tatts Group.

The two companies reportedly discussed a tie - up last summer, but those talks didn't result in an investment, as Alibaba was busy pursuing a deal with Indonesia's Tokopedia, which took precedence, as rival Tencent was far along in an investment that would also give the company exposure to Indonesia.

SANTIAGO / VANCOUVER South America's lithium triangle is the lowest - cost place to produce the vital battery ingredient, but political hurdles will require Japanese and South Korean companies to make big investments to crack into the region as they chase Chinese rivals who have tied up resources in other parts of the world.

Saputo's entry into the battle for control of Warrnambool was noteworthy because it was up against rival offers from in - market companies, Bega Cheese and Murray Goulburn.

Fast food companies Domino's Pizza Enterprises and Retail Food Group are expected to taste test rival pizza franchise Eagle Boys Dial - a-Pizza, which is up for sale after collapsing last week.

The campaign of Virginia Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli said Monday that it's going up with a new TV commercial titled «scandal» that slams Democratic rival Terry McAuliffe over federal investigations of an electric car company that McAuliffe co-founded.

In the past year, rival cryptocurrencies have sprung up to challenge bitcoin, and an increasing number of companies are actually beginning to build long - promised business models on the blockchain from real estate to voting.

The company's business plummeted, until a reporter discovered that a rival bakery had whipped up the fake story.

Portman plays a ballerina competing to move up in her company against a rival (who may be imaginary) played by Kunis.

At one point, Giamatti says of the apparent lack of success of his rival's company that: «Stocks are down, porn is up, and there's plenty of free parking.»

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Made up of not just Square's Final Fantasy alumni, but even the talent behind then rival company Enix's Dragon Quest series, there wasn't much more that could have been done to ensure Chrono Trigger's success, outside of sacrificing some animals and a whole lot of prayer.

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We can't expect Mini to build ten - foot - long, era - defining city cars any more, but we do expect the BMW - owned company to turn out cars that are fun to drive and show up their rivals as sloppy, dull and character - free.

Audi has long been considered one of the world's great luxury car names, but up until recently, the company seemed content not making waves when it came to rivals BMW and Mercedes - Benz.