Sentences with phrase «run as private company»

After decades of being run as private company, Glencore went public in May 2011 at a price of $ 8.57.

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For the Phelans, who had long threatened to take the company private again, that presented an opportunity Though they ran into opposition from institutional investors who criticized the initial offer as too low, the Phelans won out after slightly sweetening the bid.

A company running a private cloud can, for example, add or delete computing, storage, or networking power for a given department as needed and then charge that department for that usage.

That is that HPE can run private clouds better than anyone, as its chief executive officer Meg Whitman told analysts during the company's annual analyst briefing on Tuesday.

Investors without private market exposure are also running meaningful concentration risk, not just in terms of the number of public companies (less than 4,000) relative to private companies (more than 6 million), but because publicly traded companies are now more highly concentrated within certain industries as a result of strategic M&A.

Alice seems a logical choice for Pivotal's first private - company investment, as it's run by two prominent female entrepreneurs — Elizabeth Gore and Carolyn Rodz — and was founded as a way to integrate more women into the startup ecosystem.

«The best way to deliver on trust and to show that companies should trust you -LSB-...] is to become a public company,» he added, pointing out that people know that public companies are usually run as «tighter ships» than private ones.

Serving as CEO of a public company typically involves a lot more work than running a private startup, such as dealing with quarterly earnings calls, ramping up sales and marketing teams, while being transparent with shareholders.

These companies have included Sun Microsystems as they invented Open Systems and Client Server architectures; through to running global sales and marketing for a high growth private cloud start - up founded by the CTO of Goldman Sachs; as well as driving Digital Marketing platform sales in Microsoft.

In a shock announcement BACS and Faster Payments are being run, as of today, by a company controlled by a single private individual.

And Elon Musk is running a business, not a charity, so coming up with a way to generate money from reconstructing Puerto Rico's energy system will be crucial for private companies to step in, which will be difficult as the island copes with its financial struggles.

As a private company, they have a right to run it the way they wish.

Executives who have run large, profitable private sector companies should be welcomed as candidates, but they should also be aware of the political liabilities of their backgrounds.

Treasury Wine Estates chief executive Mike Clarke says the company is on the acquisition trail in the United States at the premium end of the market, as he reinforced his desire to keep running the company even if one of the two private equity suitors takes control.

Nina Hansen, vice president of operations for the Enosburg Falls - based Abbey Group, which runs the food service programs at 70 Vermont public and private schools, as well as schools in New York and New Hampshire, said these unpaid bills are a problem in many districts, but none of the schools her company serves would stop a student from eating because of it.

Euphemistically called a «secure college» the proposed facility is, in reality, an enormous new prison built to save costs by warehousing children and contracting out its running to private sector companies such as Serco and G4S.

Those are broadcast as widely as possible, sometimes even not available in the country itself (France 24 was originally not available within France so as not to compete with private news channels) and have their own sources of funding (in the UK, BBC World News is run by a separate company that does not receive money from the TV license), possibly including money from the local ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The decision was strongly criticised by the unions, as was the decision to allow private companies to run the two new build prisons, HMP Oakwood and HMP Thameside which opened in Spring 2012.

David Cameron will today set out «urgent» plans to boost significantly the role of charities, community groups and private companies in running services such as health, child care and education.

At the same time, private companies are exploring more innovative options, such as anaerobic digesters, which convert animal manure into methane that can run a generator.

Funded by the government and run by private entities such as universities or companies, they focus on particular problems and emphasize collaboration among scientists and engineers to find solutions.

Data shows children who didn't take part in the activities, run and funded by various governments, private companies and charities, did just as well in GCSE tests.

XYMOGEN's strength as a company has been reinforced for a tenth time, as it was recognized again in 2017 by Inc. magazine as one of the 5000 fastest - growing, best - run, most innovative and most inspiring private companies in America.

XYMOGEN's strength as a company has been reinforced eight of the last nine years, as it was recognized again in 2015 by Inc. magazine as one of the 5000 fastest - growing, best - run, most innovative and most inspiring private companies in America.

In 2007, the company was acquired by American Capital which is a very large private equity firm and that was when I was brought in as a CEO to run the company.

They had campaigned on an «anti-privatization» platform, criticizing the district for considering such options as hiring a private, for - profit company to help run some of its schools.

Regarding Citizens Property Insurance, homeowners will get more information in the future when deciding if they should voluntarily leave that state - run insurer for a private company.Under HB 931, homeowners will get new details on all potential offers to switch to private carriers and Citizens itself will be responsible for mailing them, instead of leaving it to private companies, because customers have often mistaken what they receive as junk mail.

When asked which groups should run schools, about half said local authorities, 43 % said teachers, 30 % said charities, 25 % said parents and 15 % private companies - people could specify as many options as they liked.

The F - Pace is as luxurious and comfortable as a Jag 4x4 should be, and both company car drivers and private buyers will find its price and low running costs attractive.

Private - sector financial institutions — such as banks or insurance companies — can apply for a licence to run the funds.

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Front groups bankrolled by private water companies frequently run attack ads or host misleading websites alleging widespread inefficiency, inadequate financing, and lax quality control in public water, all while presenting privatisation as a silver - bullet cure.

Today, as oil began flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and new revelations about DAPL's parent company, Energy Transfer Partners, hiring a private mercenary firm to run a counterinsurgency operation against water protectors in North Dakota and elsewhere, Rising Tide North America will continue to stand in solidarity with movements and people directly affected by the climate crisis.

Because in many places, it's OK in my opinion for a private company to come in as long as the people agree with it, the contract is public, the people know what's going to happen and there's a say in how that contract is going to be run.

As with most private equity investor - backed companies, bolstering value is a top priority of MSD's management team; as a result, they place great emphasis on running a lean and nimble business operatioAs with most private equity investor - backed companies, bolstering value is a top priority of MSD's management team; as a result, they place great emphasis on running a lean and nimble business operatioas a result, they place great emphasis on running a lean and nimble business operation.

I had left private practice and gone to work for a company in - house BskyB, a media company and I was an in - house lawyer and that exposed me to the world of business in a much more immediate way and I could just see so many ways that law firms could be run efficiently if there were other people other than lawyers kind of, as part of the decision making process and you pool enough skills.

Our success has led us to be the recipients of several awards: The LA Business Journal ranked us as the 4th fastest growing private company headquartered in Los Angeles for 2015; Chambers has ranked us as one of the top global legal service providers for three years running; we were 53rd on the Inc 500 list of fastest growing companies in 2016.

They're represented in the 23 states by a network of local agents from companies such as Nationwide, Answer Financial, and other private independently - run agencies.

Although it, unlike the EU, has built brilliant private companies to rival Google et al, its state - owned enterprises (with special phones on CEO desks for Communist Party instructions) control gigantic resources and are not run as well as Google or Alibaba.

Global Macroeconomic Investor's Raoul Pal has commented on the news that AIG is running an insurance contract on a private blockchain, noting that no large companies use a public ledger such as Bitcoin, instead preferring the use of private blockchains

Described by the company as the first Turing - complete platform to run smart contracts secured by the bitcoin network, RSK uses a «hybrid» security model that combines elements of both proof - of - work (popular among fans of bitcoin's public blockchain) and a private network.