Sentences with phrase «sized companies taking»

There are also many small - to medium - sized companies taking advantage.

Not exact matches

IF you measure the value of a chief executive by the salary he or she takes and compare it to what heads of similar size companies receive, Andrew Forrest would come out on top in Western Australia year in, year out.
When oil prices last took a precipitous dive in 2009, David Yager was CEO of a medium - size oilfield services company.
But companies of all sizes need to take a thoughtful approach to diversity.
The picture above was taken for a feature I wrote on the company over a year ago, when it was a fraction of the size it is now.
It was only after Tim Cook took over the company as CEO in 2011 — and after investors such as Carl Icahn called for much a «bigger and immediate» buyback program in 2013 — that Apple's dividend and buyback programs ballooned to the current sizes.
The company said the nation - wide move is in response to customers» desires for smaller sizes, and to prepare for Ontario's Making Healthier Choices Act, which takes effect in 2017.
Of course, strong leadership also often goes hand in hand with bold ambition: Polman took a big risk by declaring his — to double the company's size even while reducing its environmental footprint and increasing its positive social impact.
As of this morning, we owned 4,730,739 shares of Apple, an increase of 22 % in position size, reflecting our belief the market continues to dramatically undervalue the company, even when taking into account the recent market appreciation, which in turn makes our proposal unchanged with respect to a $ 150 Billion buyback.
If a company the size of Google can't take Facebook on, you know there's a problem.
The Kaiser Family Foundation says nearly 96 percent of companies of that size already were offering coverage before the law took effect in 2014.
The formula takes into account the market value of a certain job, where the employee is living, the employee's experience level and time spent at the company, and the size of their family.
William Bologna, chairman of Columbia Laboratories, a women's hygiene - pharmaceuticals manufacturer based in Hollywood, Fla., wanted to take advantage of international growth opportunities despite his company's relatively small — $ 12 million — size.
Just five years ago, she says, just about every accelerator took the same size stake in its companies and offered the same amount of cash.
Existing size and strength offers no guarantees, and companies should take advantage of the wealth of data now at their disposal to target specific consumers in specific geographies and cities in very specific ways.
At a time when abusive patent litigation is stifling economic growth and putting companies of all sizes at risk, my Administration is taking action to protect innovators and keep our patent system strong.
Still, given the size of the technology opportunities the company sees and the heightened level of competition, Apple's board says it's important to continue taking a measured approach to returning any cash to shareholders.
«It will take time to effect change at a company this size, and the Springboard initiative itself will not be sufficient.
In those areas that we have mapped, it typically takes us a few hours to go from a mechanism - inspired idea for treating a disease to knowing the companies that might have relevant clinical and preclinical assets to license, the companies from whom a candidate could be commissioned, trial designs and endpoints, competing and complementary agents, current and future standard of care, market size, comparable pricing, financing strategy, and potential acquirers, all meant to enable a thoughtful first - pass assessment of whether an idea could be worth a much deeper assessment.
The merger officially only happened a couple of weeks ago, and for a company that size it's going to take a few quarters to work the kinks out of it.
Ten million randomly picked portfolios performed better over four decades, once the risk taken was considered, than an index based on the size of the companies included on it, which is how tracker funds select shares.»
It is expected that phase 2 of the company's investment will take place in 2021 with the production facility nearly doubling in size and creating an additional 70 jobs.
A company should never take a one - size - fits - all approach.
Many small - to medium - sized produce companies are unwilling to take on the challenge of growing, packing and shipping; they typically outsource one or more of those services to third parties — but not Frontera Produce.
The scheme ensures that these start - ups or organisations in their infancy find the right suppliers and products at the show, enhancing the brand and taking the packaging to the next level, no matter the size of company.
When considering complaint information, please take into account the company's size and volume of transactions, and understand that the nature of complaints and a firm's responses to them are often more important than the number of complaints.
Also, some companies are reducing the size of the diapers so they will take up less room in landfills.
«Our company leaders are scientists who take science education seriously, no matter what size we're at,» declares Regeneron's Grossman.
ShakeAlert works with third - party companies to decide how to disseminate the alerts, what form the alerts should take, and what kind of information is in the alerts — and there isn't a one - size - fits - all approach, Kohler noted.
In the meantime, if you want to see full - size hydrogen - powered vehicles in action, take a trip to Reykjavík or Stuttgart: In 2001 the European Union ordered fuel cells for 30 bus engines from the Canadian company Ballard Power Systems.
my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....
As we enter 2016, dating companies of all sizes have taken time to reflect on their personal highs and lows of the past year, to try and set out their plans for growth and development for the next 12 months.
CANWEST — June 15 — «Online dating, back when it originally was taking off, was a large one - size - fits all mentality,» says Michael Carter, president of Passions Network, a New York - based company with 110 niche sites.
No matter what your current size, if your organization wants to become a big success, without the headaches, hassles, excessive time and costs it often takes to get there, The Lake Companies can help.
Dennis Gassner, who did the production design on Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink, takes the office spaces of the former and extends them beyond caricature: Leo O'Bannon's lengthy oaken abode was a space in which to enjoy a whiskey (or, depending on the company, a soda pop); Musburger's airless, basketball - court - sized mausoleum is a space in which to enjoy fascism.
Arriving an hour late, Falk and company burst onto the scene with excuses and apologies, and somehow, Falk has taken the dinner hostage and begins telling a tale of his time in the Amazon, watching helplessly as Tse Tse flies the size of dogs would snatch up «little brown children in their beaks and fly away.»
In case of enterprise companies, a big challenge is that, given the size of their operations and tasks to be done, oftentimes, there are too many other urgent tasks or priorities that seem to take over.
The Mercedes - Benz GL is the largest SUV offered by the German luxury company, and it takes square aim at the full - size premium offerings built by Detroit stalwarts such as...
The XR6 Sprint, taken in isolation, is at the sporty end of the spectrum in terms of bump absorption, but in this company the car's overall size and weight combined with its lengthy wheelbase to make it relatively comfy on - road.
Although the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate penalties have been delayed one year until 2015, other obligations impacting companies of all sizes and their workers will still take effect in 2013 and 2014.
Never a company to ignore a trend, it has taken Toyota a long time to address the Fast and the Furious market, populated by young drivers, mostly male, in search of pocket - sized performance in their automobiles.
Built on the front - wheel drive platform used by the A-Class, B - Class and CLA - Class, the GLA - Class is the company's first take on a premium compact SUV and is positioned to rival the similarly - sized Audi Q3, BMW X1 and Lexus» upcoming crossover.
You'll have to take into account such considerations as genre, page or word count, file size, and comparable titles — as well as the parameters of the company you've chosen to help you produce your book.
Then Evans will talk about how publishers can best take advantage of the opportunities these companies make available while avoiding the pitfalls of dancing with partners who dwarf the publishing industry — let alone any single player — in size.
The only way to see beyond the apparently tiny size of the market is to take the leap and invest a small amount, but companies, in the absence of data, are rightly reluctant to do so.
Then Evans talks about how publishers can best take advantage of the opportunities these companies make available while avoiding the pitfalls of dancing with partners who dwarf the publishing industry — let alone any single player — in size.
Some companies are simply cutting up classic, royalty free novels into bite sized chunks, while others are taking modern novels, and just delivering a little bit at a time.
It does, however, promise to provide a few things we haven't seen before in eReaders — lots of individual developers and companies of all sizes offering new features to users, attempts to expand the usefulness of the Kindle without taking away too much from the focus on reading, use of the wireless for features other than book downloads and basic browsing, the ability to cater to the needs of specific demographics, personalization and customization.
Bring the company's first slate to fall within this particular size segment, the device appears to be developed with an aim to take on tough competitors such as the Kindle Fire and the upcoming Kindle Fire 2 as well as the newly launched Nexus 7, amongst others.
As the industry reckons with the pending Penguin Random House merger, the increasing dominance of one retailer, growing consolidation among literary agencies and realignment of lists at a number of houses, we'll take a timely strategic view of the publishing landscape to help companies of all sizes operate efficiently, leverage scale to their advantage, and focus on innovations and new business strategies that work.
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