Sentences with phrase «scale such businesses»

It is very difficult to scale such a business.

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«We are pleased to acquire a business of this scale that has such an outstanding reputation with its customers dating back to 1954 and a strong management team led by CEO Christian Boas, who will remain with the business following the closing.»

But it would have been far worse if it had follow the path of some of its rivals — such as BP, Marathon Petroleum, Murphy Petroleum, ConocoPhillips, or Hess — and sold off or massively scaled down its U.S. refining businesses to focus on exploration and production.

This organization will target small businesses and social initiatives in key areas such as health, small - scale agriculture and education.

In almost all cases, participation in a corporate incubator or accelerator enables entrepreneurs to leverage the parent company's resources to scale their business, utilize new technologies and access competencies such as regulatory and / or scientific expertise that otherwise might be unavailable to independent startups.

The quota has even driven theft on a massive scale, such as a 2012 incident involving millions of dollars worth of contraband syrup stolen from the federation's stockpile — as covered in Canadian Business by writer Tim Shufelt in his feature The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.

Then, perhaps, we may even tip the scales such that small businesses are the ones advantaged by our ongoing digital revolution.

If the company can scale its business for growth, it becomes more flexible in being able to accept a large opportunity that comes along by quickly adding more resources (such as independent contractors).

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; delays in the completion of project sales; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 20, 2016.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; cancelation of utility - scale feed - in - tariff contracts in Japan; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

Due to the large and expanding scale of our international business activities, any changes in the U.S. or foreign taxation of such activities may increase our worldwide effective tax rate and the amount of taxes we pay and seriously harm our business.

There will also be a parallel call for benefits, professional development, and compensation that smooths out the rough patches in this on - demand labor life, but such efforts will lag behind the exploitation of said labor because big business has more resources and big tech moves too fast for human - scale responses of accountability and responsibility.

They operate at scale and have achieved a level of performance few others can claim — a proven business model that is generating heady revenue growth and is yielding profitability today or at any such time of their choosing.

We have enjoyed playing our part as major shareholders in creating such a strong business and are excited that Castle Trust is now ready to take the next step and apply for a banking licence, enabling the business to continue to scale its offering for customers.»

Soon realising its ability to improve business processes, human interactions, and the opportunity for individuals to large scale enterprises — ensuring true requirement of such technology.

A lot of my family members run businesses, but none of them to the scale and level of professionalism of yours and at such a young age!

The aim of this strategy is for the values shared by the Basque community (such as a culture of effort, commitment, the ability to overcome, a will to transform, and equal opportunities for men and women) to become ingrained in the image of the Basque Country and to act as our «business card» on an international scale.»

He said the city has been working under tough time constraints and that there are few businesses that can provide the necessary food operations on such a large scale — and in such order.

Implementation may occur locally (at a church or place of business) or on a larger scale, such as a hospital system or a state - level organization.

With such large scale borrowing, government is crowding out the private sector which is unable to borrow to grow their business.

With the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection planning to begin in January 2014 phasing in a requirement that large - scale food service operations such as grocery stores, universities and correctional facilities compost food waste to increase diversion from landfills by 350,000 tons per year by 2020, anaerobic biodigesters may soon be very important to the state's business community.

Provide technical assistance to support the development of organizational capacity in collaborating project teams to allow for scaling (e.g., development of a business plan, legal assistance with intellectual property issues and incorporation as a non-profit or for - profit entity, as indicated) and help resolving issues such as costing, packaging of programs to fit system needs, and identification of sustainable public or private sources of funding.

As we explored all university and career options Jenny showed a preference for studying subjects such as economics, business, psychology, philosophy, law and possibly even medicine (although she didn't find the lifestyle appealing, and her Science skill was among her lowest on the scale).

Publisher Defendants also feared that the $ 9.99 price would drive e-book popularity to such a degree that digital publishers could achieve sufficient scale to challenge the Publisher Defendants» basic business model.

Unlike the typical adolescent fiction, there isn't much moral education or other such naff business lying underneath, just red bottomosity, snog scales, wet stick insect tarts, hornmeisters, spazzy Ace Gang members, the elderly mad, prat poodles, and welk boys.

As such, if you want to be an author - entrepreneur, then you need to treat this as business and be open to new opportunities and be willing to scale the learning curve (even if you fall off from time to time).

However, this business has now reached a scale where it's earning a 2 - 4 % EBIT margin, which is offset by almost a EUR 1 million HQ cost (outrageous for such a small company).

Many advice businesses offer different levels of service, such as «bronze», «silver», «gold» or «platinum» services, with fees scaled according to the services you choose or the amount of contact you can have with your adviser.

We believe that focusing on revenue growth is important because there are distinct advantages to revenue and profitability scale in the golf equipment business, such as the ability to advertise on network - televised golf events, to sponsor professional tour pros, and the ability to compete for strong research and development talent.

Lenders will expect you to demonstrate that you plan to use the borrowed funds as growth capital to scale your business through initiatives such as:

These are the businesses that are nurturing the broad trends fueling the pet industry's growth — such as the emergence of the super-premium pet food category — while also leveraging economies of scale to fend off increasing competition from mass and internet retailers.

He has played key roles in the development of many large - scale software business applications and e-commerce web - applications for companies such as Webroot Software, Progressive Insurance, and Ball Aerospace.

In addition to serving the luxury business traveller, the hotel is targeting the lucrative and increasingly important MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions) market, which currently does not have a hotel of sufficient scale to host such large groups.

In order to do this, they are handing guests iPads to fill out a short quiz that assigns you to one of nine different profiles, such as entrepreneur or scaled business, for instance.

He also said, «Additionally, the sale of the portable solar business enables Global Solar to increase focus on our core product lines, namely, copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) solar cells for OEMs such as Dow Solar and the company's commercial - scale flexible modules ideal for building integrated applications.»

At the same time, this technology is opening up new business areas, such as the development of intelligent energy management systems or the consolidation of decentralized generation systems into virtual power plants or decentralized single home storage systems into virtual large - scale storage systems.

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

However, the biggest threats to the business model of the coal - fired generators are lowering demand — caused by changing consumption patterns — and from increased capacity from renewables such as large scale wind and solar, as McIndoe and ACIL Tasman acknowledge.

With such platforms, cities and other stakeholders can drive innovation (technology and business models), develop business cases, execute pilots, and form partnerships to implement and scale new energy solutions.

- Dr Roland Busch, Chief Technology Officer and Member of the Managing Board of Siemens, will speak alongside major businesses such as Mars, Pepsi, the International Copper Association, and Walmart on how climate action is reflecting the scale of innovation by business

Cian Conroy, Catapult's business development director, adds: «The offshore wind industry is quite risk - averse and so demonstration projects [such as Batwind] are a key enabler — both crucial to proving the viability and advancing the technology and also pushing ahead the policy agenda that is needed to support wider - scale use of technologies that will make a measurable difference to the offshore wind's cost of energy.»

Indeed, the appropriation of intellectual property in China has occurred on such a massive scale that it has impacted international prices, disrupted supply chains, changed business models, and probably permanently altered the balance between tangible and intangible values contained within commercial products.

The broad concept is obviously more applicable to certain startup companies such as software companies who are looking to quickly scale their business to tens of thousands of customers and can create an enticing offer for little cost.

These solutions will span areas such as Risk & Compliance, Human Resources, Legal and Finance, and will enable legal professionals to serve more business units with less staffing requirements, by digitally scaling expertise.

«With the ease of doing business on a global scale, the continued emergence of new entrants into the market and the proliferation of additional channels, such as social media, to consider, finding a unique mark to register is harder than ever before.

For some countries, such as Romania, this has been a radical proposition, not least because the starting point was very much to the very left of the spectrum of socialist economies, with very little to no private business activity and private ownership scaled back to the bare minimum.

A proper marketing strategy will also tackle large - scale and ongoing concerns such as client development, business strategy and the establishment or refining of a brand for your firm.

With a relatively short lifecycle of only one week, the bond is also part of a larger experiment to see if removing financial middlemen can make such investment vehicles more accessible to small businesses on a massive scale.

There is a good chance second - layer scaling solutions (such as the lightning network) will be integrated by leading Bitcoin service providers by next year, which will lead businesses and merchants to accept Bitcoin payments with low transaction fees from their customers.