Sentences with phrase «sized companies rather»

Likewise, most processing and packaging was done by small and medium - sized companies rather than by major food manufacturers.

Not exact matches

But rather than keeping everyone in a fancy building in downtown Vancouver, the company has staff working out of 26 offices spread across Western Canada in towns of all sizes — something made financially viable by the resources brought in by the giant projects.

The goal, he says, is not to sell to all 300 million Americans; rather, the goal is to expand his company's reach in the U.S. Northeast, which, he adds, is about the same size as Canada in terms of population.

Other companies of this size might become rather impersonal, but we use our large size to give employees the freedom and opportunity to move between businesses in the group.

Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs - in companies of all sizes - a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it's too late.

«Because we found a general trend toward smaller cup sizes, we made the choice to reduce the size rather than increase the price,» company spokesman Michael Langdon said.

While the lithium business is accretive to company financials (I couldn't find an instance where it wasn't), the small relative size of these numbers renders the lithium business as a «nice to have» or niche rather than real drivers of overall financial performance.

One of the reasons we own AIG is that management has demonstrated a willingness to grow by shrinking — that is to grow per - share value by reducing the shares outstanding rather that attempting to grow the size and value of the total company.

She credits the company's excellent customer service support for helping her order the correct size and discussing the benefits of using a postpartum girdle, rather than a belly wrap.

While (formula company) studies show faster growth with fortifiers, studies also show far greater intestinal infections and inflammatory disorders (NEC), respiratory infections, longer hospitalizations, lower IQ's and lower survival rates when any non-human products are used, making the size thing rather a moot point.

Building a one - size - fits - all program will not answer the questions your workers will have, it just piles them with content about the company, rather than their individual roles and where they fit into the business.

A new Titan is about two years away now that the company has decided to develop the full - size truck on its own, rather than adapting the Ram 1500.

Unlike Ford's full - size pickups, the company's medium - duty models are updated rather infrequently.

Unlike many rivals, Mazda employs a «right sizing» policy for its engines rather than «downsizing» - the company believes that greater efficiency and performance will come from matching a car with a suitably - sized engine, rather than trying to squeeze more performance from a smaller turbocharged unit.

Under the leadership of Ken Michaels, President and COO of Hachette and Chair of the Book Industry Study Group, the company is focused on better providing value to authors by investing in services, capabilities, and agility, rather than relying strictly on volume and size.

In 2005, the firm launched its Research Affiliates Fundamental Index, or RAFI, which weights companies by fundamental measures of size, rather than by each company's market value.

Adopting the discipline of rebalancing bond exposures toward fundamental weights, which are linked to the economic size of the underlying issuing companies rather than to the amount of debt they have issued, achieves the dual objective of: 1) tilting holdings toward companies with better debt servicing and higher credit ratings; and 2) taking advantage of mean reversion in securities prices over time.

It's important to note that «RAFI Size Factor» is not the same as the RAFI 1500 for small companies, but rather is a blend of four factor - tilt strategies, each formed within the universe of small - cap stocks: small value, small momentum, small low volatility, and small quality (a factor that combines profitability and investment metrics).

They are obviously a company that feels their strength in their small size, rather than a large corporation, so I trust that the food quality will never change either.

They have converted five units in a Harlem SRO building; sizes range between 175 - 225 sq ft. Rather than throwing a cot and a heating plate in the rooms, the company has outfitted them with furniture from Resource Furniture, which give the tiny places big functionality.

Accordingly, the one reform that the government itself will introduce (namely introducing secondary legislation to require all companies of a significant size to explain how their directors comply with the s 172 duty) is a rather modest one, whereas responsibility for all the other reforms has been offloaded to outside bodies.

While annual company revenue is likely a corollary to the size of the legal operations team rather than a direct causal factor, it is an insightful metric for benchmarking size of a legal operations team

Final expense policies are not one size fits all, so be sure to work with an agent who can offer you quotes from multiple companies rather than just one or two.

One point in Logitech's favor: The keyboard part of its keyboard case is excellent as always, though the company seems to have kept the same key sizes as the 9.7 - inch model and opt for a bigger side bezel, rather than widen the keys, as Apple has done with its 10.5 - inch case.

While this could point to a decreased battery life, we did see the company also decrease the battery size in the Moto Z2 Play rather dramatically without much of a hit.

Most of those that are not screening their tenants are what I call «Private Property Owners» that have four or five or six tenants that they're screening for, rather than the vast majority of our client base which is large size property management companies or large size multi-family housing organizations or housing authorities.

Rather, it's based upon what workers in the same job, who possess a similar skillset and experience level, are making in the same labor market (metro area, company size, industry, etc..)

1997 sales volume: $ 118 million Company size: One office, 15 salespeople Years in business: 22 Increase in profits over past five years: 60 percent Best profitability tips: Hire plenty of full - time support staff so that salespeople can focus on selling rather than pushing paper; don't be afraid to ask salespeople to shoulder some of the rising costs.