Sentences with phrase «running this past year»

I intended to get nine up and running this past year, but as of now, only four have been completed.

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Mervyn Kitay has been anointed as chief executive in waiting at Crowe Horwath Perth, Western Australia's eight biggest accounting firm, taking over from Geoff Kidd, who has run the partnership for the past 19 years.

When a manager here comes to me and says certain commodities are going to be put up for bid in the coming months, I go through my files of people I have run across over the course of the past couple of years.

One recent study showed that immigrants in New York were less likely than nonimmigrants to own a business that has been running for more than three - and - a-half years, and more likely to have shut down a business within the past year.

Over the past 2 years, I've interviewed almost 200 women about how they manage running their businesses, their families, their health and their sanity.

In an interview on The David Rubenstein Show: Peer - to - Peer Conversations, the 63 - year - old TV host said that in the past, she never thought running for president was a possibility.

That traction results from a concerted effort Amazon management over the past four or five years to convince businesses in the financial services, healthcare, and government that running on shared public cloud infrastructure meets their security and other requirements.

Because for the past few years, many gold companies have nearly run their businesses — and their investors» equity — into the ground, despite an incredible rise in gold prices.

But with almost 3,500 U.S. breweries in operation as of the end of last year, and 1,000 new operations opening in just the past two years, there's no shortage of small competitors to keep the craft taps running.

The family - run company enjoyed a 274 % revenue growth over the past five years, with sales in Canada, United States and Mexico.

Moreover, the rate of growth in the fraction of non-employers (28.2 percent) run by women has been higher than the rate of increase in their share of non-employers (23 percent) over the past five years.

Try this historic hotel and hunting lodge in North Wales, in the U.K., which has been owned and managed for the past four years by an American who spends most of his time stateside, running another business.

The number of daily video views on Twitter has almost doubled in the past year, and the format has contributed more than half of ad revenue for two quarters running.

After phasing out her work last year as creative director for a packaging company to give Tweedle Press her full attention, she found that running the company with only one employee — her husband — made for an easier work - life balance than when she used part - timers in the past.

The company has spent the past several years revamping its system and performing lower - speed test runs.

Over the past couple of years, Gillinder has spent tens of thousands of dollars to upgrade its backup generators so they can deliver enough energy to keep the furnaces running in the event of another blackout.

But the past year and a half since the Silverdome reopened has really been a trial run.

Even my own post running up to the IPO focused on all the bad things that have dogged the site during its crazy climb over the past few years, from users» privacy concerns to advertisers» doubts about the site's usefulness.

We have spent the past two years experimenting with different ads — sometimes running a dozen campaigns simultaneously — until we refined our approach to where we now have two campaigns that are highly effective at attracting new prospects that we can convert into paying customers.

Had it not been for Tiger's absurd run for the better part of a decade between 2000 - 2010, more people would be talking about Dustin Johnson's run of top - tier performances over the past year.

You may have missed this, but over the past two years, as Musk has been running Tesla and SpaceX, he's become the world's most prominent proponent of action against climate change.

I personally have worked at home for the past four years, running several businesses.

You can avoid many of these mistakes by learning form these lessons we learned running the traffic we ran in the past year.

«In the past we'd march on for months or years before we'd admit defeat,» says Chik, an 18 - year veteran who now runs the engineering team that builds Microsoft's mobile device management technologies.

Senator Joe Manchin, who is running for re-election this year from West Virginia, where Trump won overwhelmingly in 2016, said it was «past time to defend our interests, our security and our workers in the global economy and that is exactly what the president is proposing with these tariffs.»

Regina is 55 years old, lives and works in San Antonio, Texas and is looking for a million dollars in capital for the healthcare services company she's been running for the past 15 years.

And several Democrats said recent conversations with Springer, as well as his schedule, suggested he seemed to be more seriously interested in running this time than in years past.

For the past two years, Gartner estimated that Amazon (amzn) ran more than ten times the computing capacity as the next 14 cloud providers combined.

Apple's fiscal year ends in September, so to include the most recent reported results, let's examine its financials for the past four, four - quarter periods, ending with the 12 months running from June 2016 to June 2017.

The test is one of several blockchain experiments State Street and other financial institutions have been working on over the past year as Wall Street grows increasingly hopeful that the technology, first developed to run cryptocurrency bitcoin, can help them increase efficiency and cut costs.

«Time Warner is a weaker company today than it was three years ago because Jeff Bewkes has run it to maximize its sale price for the past few years.

For the past two years, I've been running a large - scale leadership development program for a client.

Personally, I've been impressed with Ubisoft's presentations for the past few years running and the company — which has more than half its employees in Canada — is once again looking strong for 2014 and 2015.

Seeking to avoid a fiasco like the one that occurred during Facebook's launch on the Nasdaq last year, the NYSE ran three trial IPOs this past weekend to see how its systems would react to the huge trading volume Twitter's debut may inspire.

In the past year, most of the financial startups that set out to upend the highly regulated realm of traditional banking have run into roadblocks.

I've spent the past 20 years running finance and tech start - ups.

Figuring out how to move into remote markets is one way the family - run Harnois Groupe, founded by Claude Harnois in 1958, has multiplied its revenues 50-fold in the past 30 years.

«Three years ago I was running a nice small company,» says Lisa Lorimer, president of Vermont Bread Co., in Brattleboro, Vt., «but my sales have doubled in the past two years.»

During the past year, Rosen did consider enrolling himself in a new sales - training program, because, as he says, «running a $ 3 - million company wasn't cutting it for me.»

He ran wireless antenna designer Antenova for a decade and then headed Aero, a contract installer of wired and wireless network equipment, for the past four years.

The Bicycle Blender is brought to you by Vega, a Vancouver nutritional and fitness supplement maker that has grown its sales sevenfold in the past five years (it's No. 95 on the PROFIT 500 this year), thanks in part to the pop - up shops it runs inside busy retailers.

She's been on a very solid track for a number of years, even running good increases over the past year and a half when the women's business as a whole has been really struggling.

«Even if you believe the managers at a fund like HYLD can beat the market — and they've run into some real issues over the past year on the performance front — do you think they can beat the market by 1.18 percent per year?»

As famous for his death - defying stunts as for successfully running hundreds of companies over the past 50 years, Richard Branson has one of the best stories in business — which he tells in his new book, Finding My Virginity.

Laurie Lemmlie - Leung, who for the past 20 years has run a small factory employing 80 people in Guangdong, said she too found it hard to meet the demands of the companies she supplies.

Datapipe, which over the past three years has been busy snapping up cloud computing properties, is at it again: This time out, it is buying Adapt, a U.K. - based company that helps customers run Amazon Web Services.

«Taken together,» the authors conclude, «our results find little or no evidence of deterioration in the performance of daily deal promotions over the past year (April - May 2011 to May 2012) for small - and medium - sized businesses or with experience as the business operator runs multiple daily deals.

Moreover, many industry experts attest that being added to the Dow may well herald the twilight of the stock's impressive growth run over the past several years.

I've been well over the 20X income multiple for the past several years and I can assure you that I have no fear of running out of money or being forced to live a lower standard of living.

Long - term bonds are up almost 9.5 % a year over the past 30 years, an amazing run of performance (stocks are at 11.2 % annually).