Sentences with phrase «small number of industries»

«Today is a step towards rebalancing our economy away from an unhealthy overreliance on a small number of industries and a few areas,» deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said.

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You can't just open a small bicycle shop in your hometown; you'll need to open a number of locations, or build bikes for the mainstream, or open an online store that becomes a major player in the industry...

Industry consolidation has resulted in a steady decline of the number of players, particularly at the smaller end of the market.

Seek advice from the experts at SCORE, the SBA's Small Business Development Centers, or any number of business, industry or trade groups.

Now, we've always had a small number of very powerful players — what we're saying in the book is there's a very high likelihood that it could be a different set of players if the traditional industry folks don't move quickly.

Not that long ago, cord - cutting was seen by many in the pay - TV and cable industry as a bogeyman, a spooky ghost dreamed up based on fringe behavior by a small number of millennials and other malcontents.

His small team, which is working on a game called The Long Dark (due next year), is comprised of industry veterans who have collectively worked at a number of the big studios in Canada, including Ubisoft Montreal, BioWare and Relic Entertainment.

It was a major threat to the future of the exploding daily fantasy sports industry, and it led a number of smaller daily fantasy sports operators, who were not sent any letter from Schneiderman, to promptly cease business in New York.

Many of the most innovative companies in the pharmaceutical industry today are smaller, more agile companies that focus on a limited number of technologies to drive innovation.

While sales and revenue grow, the number of composite businesses in this industry is predicted to decline by 3 percent through 2016 as smaller firms consolidate or become independent advisers helping larger companies.

Like any new industry being flooded by startups, only a relatively small number have the right combination of quality, talent, and management acumen to make it.

In the last few months, a number of the industry's leading companies have been acquired by or have made acquisitions of smaller companies.

Unlike your personal credit, it's not expressed in a fairly universal score, but rather is typically expressed in a series of reports that address how timely a business repays vendors who offer payment terms, their payment history with any current small business loans, industry information (including the overall creditworthiness of other businesses within that industry), and comparisons between the business and others within the same revenue class, size, number of employees, and the region where they do business.

Since 1980 the number of US small craft brewers has grown from under 20 with a negligible share of the beer market to over 1400 that combine for an industry revenue share of almost 6 %.

the definition of eligible small business corporation has been broadened to include corporations with a maximum number of 100 employees (up from 50), consistent with Industry Canada's definition of small business; and

According to a 2016 report by Econsult, «between August 2013 and March 2016, the number of kitchen incubators increased by more than 50 %» So far the shared commercial kitchen industry, much like the early years of coworking, mostly consists of small, independent operators.

Mergers and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries may result in even more resources being concentrated among a smaller number of our competitors.

Barbell industry structures consist of a relatively few giant corporations on one end, a narrow middle consisting of a shrinking number of mid-sized firms, and a large and growing number of small, micro and one person (solopreneur) firms on the other end.

That cutback has left a broader number of small - cap companies - including household names Tootsie Roll Industries, Revlon, and Ruby Tuesday - essentially a black box for investors without the time or resources to analyse a company.

As the economy improved and small - business lending increased, the number of operators in this industry experienced steady increase.

Whether you intend starting a small daily catering business or you aim to offer huge extravaganzas for a large number of people once a year, then you probably want to consider pursuing your dreams in the food industry because the potential profit margin in the catering business is extremely high.

The Small - Cap and SMid - Cap Equity strategies are concentrated strategies that are not managed to a benchmark, so there are material differences in characteristics, such as the number of holdings and sector and industry weightings.

The Ellis Martin Report is a radio news magazine broadcasted on 100 terrestrial stations in the United States and worldwide via the VoiceAmerica Business Channel.featuring potentially undervalued small - cap or microcap companies from a variety of industry sectors trading on a number of North American and foreign exchanges.

It envisions a barbell structure for most industries, with a few giant corporations on one end, a relatively small number of mid-sized firms in the middle, and a large group of small businesses balancing the other end.

In a number of countries (Singapore, Brazil, Hong Kong) the introduction of computer - aided manufacturing (CAM) technologies in small - scale industries has been very successful.

Comparing that number with the roughly 30 million beef cattle harvested annually makes it easy to see that bison represents a small, 0.15 percent piece of the beef industry.

«We met the Cellar Angels» team a number of years ago and were amazed by their knowledge of the industry, passion for helping small vineyards and charities and their ability to pick out amazing wines.

The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) said the problem is threefold: not enough local authorities planning for the homes they need; house building that is simply too slow; and a construction industry that is too reliant on a small number of big players.

Speaking at the second edition of the National Policy Summit (NPS) under the aegis of the Trade and Industry Ministry under the theme, «The Industrial Transformation of Ghana,» in Accra yesterday, he noted that during the period, «a significant number of small, medium and large scale operators were all brought to their knees as a result of four years of «dumsor» (intermittent power supply), induced by the mismanagement of the energy sector.»

«In the past, postdocs were transient, and their population was small in number, to the extent that they were not a particularly critical component of the scientific workforce at universities, medical schools, and industry,» King continued.

Rather, it is the result of a concerted effort by a small number of politicians and industry leaders to instill doubt in the public.

The reason some hiring managers are more critical of industry postdocs is that a number of smaller biotech companies consider positions at the postdoc level to be «cheap pairs of hands» jobs and not independent research positions.

Let's remember that 80 percent or so of total energy use will come from a small number of types of sources: electricity production (40 percent), vehicles (25 percent), heavy industries including cement, petrochemicals, refining, and steel (10 percent), and heating of buildings (10 percent).

The cliff notes of the review is that the site is smaller in terms of sheer numbers, but has a lot of quality members, a price way below the industry average (awesome!)

Sure, most of the time the industry numbers are driven by giants, like Match.com, OkCupid, or PlentyOfFish, but smaller niche sites usually follow the lead, if not take it, when it comes to breaking records.

Some industry insiders say smaller sites struggle to make money because the cost of acquiring new customers is relatively high compared to the number of members they can attract.

The D&T Association has shown the positive impact of this type of collaboration via a number of small scale projects and, as a result, the D&T Association is now running its «Skills For Industry» (SFI) programme.

Training Industry reports that in 2016, 30 % of training was delivered online or via a computer, 27.5 % of training was delivered using blended learning (a combination of online and in - person teaching), and a small but growing number of training hours were delivered via mobile technology — about 2.9 %, up from 1.8 % in 2015.

These issues are not always easy to research since many companies are smaller subsidiaries of global enterprises with fingers in a number of different industries and activities.

An industry - led institution, the College addresses a growing demand for higher level digital skills in the UK and is one of a small number of national skill colleges announced by the then Prime Minister David Cameron in December 2014.

«Ford supports electrification for a variety of vehicle types,» says Ford Sustainability and QVM Program Manager Richard Cupka Jr. «The eQVM program extends that support to the vocational truck industry where customers need relatively small numbers of specialized vehicles — there is no one - size - fits - all work truck.»

Since the SEMA Show debuted in 1967, the event has been instrumental to helping small auto parts manufacturers reach a large number of industry buyers.

With often small - numbered committees of just two or three individuals deciding what is worthy or not, many frustrated academics have grown disillusioned with the industry.

The number of small publishing houses producing poor product in the industry causes reader opinion of the small - press in general to be poor.

Not someone who has ever worked in publishing, who knows what publishers do behind the scenes, or what the issues are, or how the distribution works, or what the boots - on - the - ground challenges are, or how the industry is changing, or what publishers do to help authors build long term careers, or the differences between large and small presses, or the history of returnable books or what it's like to work with major distributors such as Amazon... a sociologist, armed with some numbers.»

For too long the book industry was centered around middle men, while authors (with the exception of a very small number of ultra - bestsellers) were living on crumbs and leftovers, and readers were charged insane prices just to be able to read.

Currently, big publishing is holding firm with its contracts, the boilerplate of which hearkens back to when the industry was an oligopoly, «a state of limited competition, in which a market is shared by a small number of producers or sellers.»

Despite Amazon's contentious relationship with the larger publishing industry (Jeff Bezos, the corporation's founder, once instructed his employees to «approach... small publishers the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle» in negotiations), the company runs a number of highly successful small and medium - sized publishing houses, including Thomas & Mercer, which focuses on thrillers, Little A, which publishes more literary fare, and AmazonCrossing.

Operating under the assumption that these authors have worked with traditional / small press / e-publishers, know enough about the industry to create a quality product to generate sales and have some sort of built - in following, the quality and quantity of the product did not necessarily correlate to number of book sales in this no - income category.

Only a tiny number of small publisher titles will ever be selected by discount merchandisers or the local supermarket for ordering and stocking in their book sections, yet these outlets actually account for a hefty percentage of industry book sales.