Sentences with phrase «small increases from»

That marks a small increase from 2011.

After a record - breaking 2015 calendar year, Land Rover sales are up by more than 1,200 units in just the first five months of 2016 thanks to big gains from the Land Rover Discovery Sport and Range Rover Sport as well as smaller increases from the LR4 and Range Rover.

Under the hood, the standard 1.9 - liter, four - cylinder engine will be replaced by a more powerful 2 - liter version that provides a small increase from the current 88 horsepower.

While impressive, these numbers are only a small increase from Feb 2011's then - record - breaking $ 90.3 M.

-- The smaller RF is due to a re-evaluation of the long - term change in solar irradiance, namely a smaller increase from the Maunder Minimum to the present.

BTW, the latest [CO2] data from Mauna Loa for March 2010 shows a smaller increase from March 2009 than there was from March 2008 to March 2009.

This is a small increase from last month's 85 %, but as the number gets higher and higher, there's only so much room left for it to grow.

It's a small increase from the roughly 60 % secure lock screen rate of Marshmallow phones but a decent jump from the sub-50 % rate of devices running Lollipop.

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A smaller staff allows for increased employee connectivity, minimizing the corporate gaps large businesses suffer from.

Small organizations can embrace innovation and profit from their lack of size and increased flexibility, promoting rapid growth.

Cut taxes for small business owners, increase access to capital, and reduce regulations that keep them from starting up.

From co-branding to cross promotions to marketing partnerships, small businesses are reaching out to complementary businesses to split costs and increase marketing reach, frequency and effectiveness...

TIP: As an extra tip, to prevent your cooling and heating systems from constantly competing with one another and increasing your energy bill, keep a small temperature gap between your optimal air conditioning and heating temperatures.

Says Brannon, «The total number of subscribers leaving pay TV is going to be so low that increases in ARPU are going to make the transition of these folks away from pay TV virtually a small blip on the radar.»

The jaunty outlook is recharging animal spirits in corner offices: In its January survey of small companies, the National Federation of Independent Business found that 32 % of the enterprises rated the present climate «a good time to expand»; that was a record high and a threefold increase from late 2016.

BRIEFLY IN THE BLACK: Small tax increases and spending cuts in the 1990s generated surpluses beginning under President Bill Clinton (above, right)-- with an assist from the dotcom boom.

According to The Ponemon Institute's 2017 State of Cybersecurity in Small & Medium - Sized Businesses report, 61 percent of businesses experienced a cyber attack in 2017, signifying a 6 percent increase from the previous year's 55 percent.

But in today's business environment, small companies have embraced sponsorship of everything from local softball and volleyball teams to festivals, fairs, and park cleanups as an effective means of increasing their visibility in their home community.

After all, a small increase in borrowing costs shouldn't prevent consumers from spending or deter a business that can sell more goods from increasing its capacity.

Last year for Small Business Saturday 2014, more than 126,000 tweets were sent in support of the initiative, a 10 - percent increase from the previous year.

There were 3,400 legal defenses mounted by small businesses in 2011 for patent cases, a 32 % increase over the prior year, according to research paper from 2012 by Boston University law professors James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer.

E-commerce will change that at a time when many of the largest American food and beverage makers are already reporting slow sales as they face increased competition from nimble, smaller startups.

And even though it's a small part of the cargo business, airlines are keen to generate more revenue from passengers as they struggle to increase fares.

In his ambitious second term agenda, announced during his State of the Union Address on Tuesday, President Obama raised a proposal that made small business owners sit up and take notice: an increase in the minimum wage to $ 9 from its current $ 7.25.

Three initiatives tied for most popular among the CEOs: increasing the income eligible for the reduced small business tax rate to $ 500,000 from $ 400,000, extending the capital cost allowance on investment in manufacturing, and the $ 12 billion committed to infrastructure spending.

From restaurants to plumbers to corner retail stores, local small companies can see a nice increase in business if they receive positive recommendations on popular user - review sites like Yelp.

One study conducted at UC Riverside found that Anglo - Americans benefitted more from happiness - increasing activities; however, researchers did see a small trend that Asians gained more from activities directed toward benefitting others» happiness, like writing a letter of gratitude, than activities strictly intended to benefit the self.

In a report published in February, Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page projects the cost of elderly benefits will increase from $ 36 billion today to a peak of $ 142 billion in 2036 - 37 — but as dire as that fourfold increase may sound, that will amount to a relatively small portion of the nation's economy (3.2 % of GDP), and Page estimates that «the federal fiscal structure is sustainable.»

Encouraging small businesses to become exporters could also drastically increase GDP growth, he says, as much of future consumer demand is likely to come from overseas.

According to statistics from Harvard Business School, although the total volume of small - business bank loans decreased by 3.1 percent in 2014, small - business online lending increased twofold.

Average balances in small - business retirement plans increased by 20 percent between 2007 and 2012, according to a study from Fidelity Investments.

Many small - businesses have indicated that they are going to spend more in 2014, from putting more money into online advertising to increasing product offerings, hiring additional employees or hitting the road to meet with clients and potential customers face to face.

A recent survey from eBay Canada shows 70 % of small and medium sized businesses say the current state of the economy is good for their business, an increase of almost a third over the previous year.

The SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard, based on data from the company's 15,000 small business customers, reported that hiring increased by 0.1 % in July, bringing the year to date growth to 0Small Business Scorecard, based on data from the company's 15,000 small business customers, reported that hiring increased by 0.1 % in July, bringing the year to date growth to 0small business customers, reported that hiring increased by 0.1 % in July, bringing the year to date growth to 0.4 %.

Amazon may also be facing an increased sales burden from Main Street retail competitors lasting throughout the entire holiday shopping season, with almost half of Amazon Prime members saying they'll spend more than 50 percent of their holiday shopping dollars at small businesses, either online or in - store.

Wage growth, however, was still lacking, as wages fell 0.2 % from November to December, and when compared to last year, December wages grew just 1.7 %, the smallest monthly increase since October 2012.

Small Business Investment: The bill expands the SBA's Small Business Investment Company Program by increasing the maximum amount of leverage available in most cases from $ 75 million to $ 150 million ($ 175 million for funds that invest in poor areas).

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 %.

The new procedures, meant to reduce the chances of another outbreak, reportedly will make it more difficult for the restaurant chain to source ingredients from small local suppliers that may not be able to afford the technology and other requirements for increased scrutiny.

From the observational studies, which consisted of around 406,000 participants in total, the researchers found a link between artificial sweeteners and a small increase in BMI (plus a slight increase in the likelihood of developing Type 2 diabetes).

The official Denver report on the Democrats» largesse four years ago includes testimonials from small business entrepreneurs, including a taxi company that reported a 42 % increase in business over comparable weeks, and a shuttle bus company that did 60 % more business than usual.

Apart from that, small - business owners are likely to experience the increase in three important ways.

By fine tuning their targeting, small businesses can increase their conversions by focusing their landing pages or content marketing campaigns to the geographic norms and preferences in the areas where their consumers are coming from.

Small, craft brewers have increased their U.S. revenue share from 6 percent in 2006 to 21 percent in 2015, despite the top two beer companies owning more than 70 percent of the market.

Aside from being a conscientious patron, also be aware that if shoppers continue to use credit, then said small business may increase its prices to compensate.

Possible reasons for the increased lending activity include lower levels of regulation at smaller banks than at their larger counterparts, recent movement of lending staffers from large banks to small banks and an increased willingness of smaller banks to take on credit and interest risk, the report says.

There's been a slew of legislation that is punitive to small - business owners, from minimum wage increases throughout the country to the so - called Affordable Care Act.

Indeed, from 1997 to 2007, the number of minority - owned small businesses increased by more than 25 percent, according to data from the Brookings Institute.

First, in 2009 there was an increase in federal tobacco tax.35 The national cigarette tax increased by 158 %, resulting in an immediate reduction in cigarette uptake among US adolescents.35 In our study we found a small but statistically significant increase in quit attempts among US adults, from 39.9 % in 2006 - 07 to 41.4 % in 2010 - 11 (fig 2, top panel).

Since the mid-1990s, there has been a small increase in the income coming from the 3rd pillar.