Sentences with phrase «small demand for»

There is a relatively small demand for the Service: since its establishment in June 1996 there have been less than 10 enquiries.
As a result, the cheap hotels and guesthouses in town meet the small demand for budget accommodation here.

Not exact matches

The high demand and limited supply has apparently created an opportunity for small third - party retailers that have some consoles in stock to jack up the price.
Ford's CEO explained the move by pointing to decreasing demand for small cars, which the Mexico plant would have built.
I was reminded of this shift in demand for workers last night, at a dinner hosted by small business accounting software company Xero.
On - demand platforms provide convenience for the client, with a high volume of jobs being sent to workers or small businesses.
Tight credit is forcing small businesses to seek alternative lenders to meet demand for back - to - school merchandise, reports the Wall Street Journal.
That added to concerns on Wall Street about demand for Apple's new devices after the launch on Friday of the iPhone 8, a less expensive model than the iPhone X, drew smaller crowds than previous launches.
The traditional payments industry is headed for an upheaval as more small businesses begin accepting Bitcoin and more payment startups rise to meet the growing demand.
And in the U.S., at least, the»90s brought legislation allowing people to carry concealed weapons in most states, meaning that smaller guns became more in demand for both men and women.
Despite the burgeoning demand for software engineers who know how to work in that specialized environment, Leung observes that most of the firms Appnovation competes with tend to be smaller, local operations, and content to remain that way.
The reality, however, is that these on - demand platforms are doing a great job at supplying needed work to the unskilled workforce (i.e., delivery, transportation, etc.), however for skilled small business owners («SMBs»)-- like in the home services sector — the jobs are low paying and the clients are «owned» by the platforms themselves.
Keep in mind that even if you do not have significant demand for a co-work space, you should still pursue the idea on a smaller scale.
The demand for legal marijuana, which has outstripped many lofty expectations, isn't the only thing small - business owners in the pot gold rush are surprised about.
Thus, while one might expect a rising - rate cycle to reduce loan demand, it could actually be good news for small - and medium - business loan activity.
«The demand isn't there for smaller IPOs, so they sit in the pipeline and wait for the market to turn,» says Dean Braunsteiner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada's national IPO services leader.
«The continued growth of small and independent brewers illustrates that additional market opportunities and demand are prevalent, although competition in the sector is certainly growing and the need for brewers to differentiate and produce world class high quality beer is more important than ever.»
Many small - business owners are not keeping up with consumer demand for credit - card payments, according to two surveys released Thursday.
«Despite strong demand for financing, small businesses are struggling to secure the capital they require to grow,» says Noah Breslow, chief executive officer of OnDeck, in a statement.
On the other side of the trade ledger, and indicating that Chinese demand for raw materials remained firm, Customs said imports surged 14.4 % from a year earlier, above the 6.3 % increase of February and forecasts for a smaller acceleration of 10 %.
Some years back, a small Colorado goat - cheese maker called Haystack Mountain faced its version of a classic growth challenge: National demand was growing for its chèvres and other cheeses, and the company was struggling to find enough local goat farmers to produce milk.
Small companies desperate to boost sales are especially vulnerable to taking on customers who promise large revenue boosts but who - for reasons like excessive service requirements, slow payments or demands for discounts - produce low profits or even losses, he says.
Fulfilling the demand for information and entertainment can be a challenge for smaller companies with limited manpower and financial resources but working within these limits is not impossible.
With increasing demand for mobile phone service, and increasingly congested wireless networks, the agency realized that it could free up quite a bit of useful spectrum by squishing the existing station assignments into a much smaller amount of spectrum.
«The small - business market was underserved until recently, but we've seen a huge increase in demand for our cyber products driven by a critical mass of incidents happening very publicly to large companies,» says Tim Zeilman, vice president at Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company.
Such policies might include providing more incentives for companies (both large and small) to invest in R&D and capital infrastructure, encouraging post-secondary institutions to better tailor their programming to meet market demand in terms of subjects and skills, and making Canada a more attractive country for foreign or start - up companies to invest in by deregulating industries that have no business being as regulated or as protected as they are, such as telecommunications, airlines, and broadcasting.
But demand for these four - engined goliaths has fallen as airlines choose smaller twin - engined models, which are easier to fill and cheaper to maintain.
The 2008 financial crisis left hundreds of thousands of small businesses with pent - up demand for working capital to grow their businesses.
It's small potatoes when compared to the huge demand for wearable computers expected in the near future, according to a report by Credit Suisse.
While a single cell or landline might work for some small businesses, Integrated Technology's complex needs demand a more sophisticated solution.
Opportunity: Though it's still a relatively small field, with just over 7,200 positions currently, it is poised for growth, with the highest projected demand among the top 20 jobs — predictions suggest there will be 1.59 jobs for every qualified worker by 2022.
Combined with low credit demand, this would lower bank earnings, particularly for smaller, deposit - funded, and less diversified institutions, and presenting long - lasting challenges for life insurers and defined - benefit pension funds.
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.
In the past, the only option for small business funding required small business owners to visit a bank, which demanded extensive paperwork and significant time investments.
NDP MP Malcolm Allen demanded that Trudeau apologize «for smearing small business owners as tax cheats.»
A leading European energy trading company is hoping that blockchain technology will allow it to keep up with increasing demand and process trades that are currently too small for its consideration.
Minutes of the meeting released three weeks later showed that some policymakers indicated they were ready for another small rate hike, while other officials wanted to wait until incoming data «provided a greater level of confidence that economic growth was strong enough to withstand a possible downward shock to demand
Information technology franchise CMIT Solutions — which offers IT support to small and medium - size businesses — has concentrated several of its newer offices in the Washington area in response to an uptick in demand for tech help.
New York Fed's New Small Business Poll Shows Evidence of Credit Demand; Cash Flows for Small Businesses Key to Credit Approval
Data from BFS Capital, a small business lender, shows that demand for small business loans is at an all - time high among construction companies.
The wide range of new CMIT Solutions locations points to the growing demand for comprehensive and IT solutions for small to medium - sized businesses (SMBs) all across North America.
As workforces have become smaller, remaining employees are all pushed for time, and the demands of the business can often mean they lose track of keeping up to date with things such as blogs, newsletters and their website.
Keeping an eye on the performance of small - cap stocks during and after market corrections is crucial because institutional money flow into the small - cap arena indicates an increasing demand and appetite for risk among «smart money» investors.
Additionally, China's rapidly growing middle - class will drive accelerating demand for goods and services that Canadian companies, large and small, are primed to meet, notably in agriculture and food.
The demand for these songs (which are large in number) is very small, but it does exist.
Many American companies use H - 1B visas to bring in small numbers of foreigners for openings demanding specialized skills, according to official reports.
This means that demand exists for virtually every niche, although this demand can become very small.
At first glance, the idea that smaller blocks are bad for mining revenue may appear incorrect, since fee rates have recently exploded based on the demand of Bitcoin transactions outpacing the supply of space in the blocks.
For most countries individually, it is plausible to argue that the rise in a wide range of commodity prices is exogenous — even if it is driven by global demand, our own contribution to that demand is small.
When a customer connects with a new small local business, they are looking for a flawless experience that satisfies all Their basic needs and demands.
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