Sentences with phrase «small numbers this year»

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A delay of the CSeries delivery was widely anticipated due to the small number of test flights since Sept. 16, when the CS100 flew for the first time after years of preparatory work.

Half of small business social media users complain that the platforms take more time than they'd thought, but almost the same number believe it's time well - spent — that their social media initiatives will pay off financially in a year or less.

However, as that happens, small businesses continue to be a top target for hackers, with the number of organizations hit by cybercrime rising each year.

According to the Small Business Administration, the number of startups funded by VCs in 2012 was an abysmal 300 of the approximately 600,000 new businesses started in the U.S., that means 99.95 percent of entrepreneurs did not gain access to VC for their new businesses that year.

If you look at this year, small - cap stocks are starting to produce large negative numbers.

Most expensive wedding planned: $ 350,000 Biggest wedding (by attendance): 700 Smallest wedding: 19 Number of weddings planned per year: 20 — 25 Average planning time per wedding: 1 year Shortest planning time: 5 weeks

To spearhead the Eco effort, Camp said he is creating a new non-profit organization, the Eco Foundation, that he plans to fund with $ 10 million from himself and a small number of partners affiliated with Expa, his 4 - year - old startup accelerator.

«In the appliance market, the number of connected devices is still very small and we're still several years away from greater adoption,» John Taylor, vice president for public affairs at tech company LG.

The federal government has made sweeping cuts to red tape as small and medium businesses grow more confident about the year ahead, but a growing number believes the state government is working against their best interests, according to the latest Sensis survey.

While the estimated number of cord cutters is still relatively small, they've grown significantly in recent years, especially in younger demographics.

It's worth noting that because Tesla has on balance built a relatively small number of vehicles — it just crossed a 100,000 annual threshold last year — and because it sells just three cars, its recalls are going to have a disproportionate effect.

Commercial and industrial lending is increasing for larger companies, but according to the Thompson Reuters / Pay Net Small - Business Lending Index, the number of traditional bank loans to small businesses has fluctuated wildly over the past Small - Business Lending Index, the number of traditional bank loans to small businesses has fluctuated wildly over the past small businesses has fluctuated wildly over the past year.

Small businesses were a much sought - after commodity during 2017, with the number of sales transactions rising more than 26 percent from the previous year.

Small - business owners generated $ 15.4 billion in revenue on Small Business Saturday in 2016, according to insights from a survey commissioned by American Express, a number that's been on the rise for years.

According to CNN, you'll face a tough market if you're looking to sell your business; the number of sold small businesses fell 36 % from last year in the first quarter of 2009, and the price sellers paid dropped sharply.

in revenue on Small Business Saturday in 2016, according to insights from a survey commissioned by American Express, a number that's been on the rise for years.

Speaking at the American Institute of CPAs last week, IRS Small Business / Self - Employed division head Faris Fink said the agency will be shifting its auditing focus from corporations to small - business partnerships, which have grown significantly in number over the last six ySmall Business / Self - Employed division head Faris Fink said the agency will be shifting its auditing focus from corporations to small - business partnerships, which have grown significantly in number over the last six ysmall - business partnerships, which have grown significantly in number over the last six years.

Wellins recently relocated from Texas and has held senior leadership roles in retail, digital and small business banking for a number of well - known financial institutions in Texas, New York, Arizona and California throughout his more than 20 year career.

WA recorded Australia's strongest growth and sharpest drop in regional small business numbers over the five years to 2000 - 01.

In the five years to 2000 — 01, the number of small businesses in Australia's state and territory capital cities increased by 6.4 per cent to 945,320, and only Hobart recorded a decrease in the number of small businesses.

Of the 50 statistical divisions outside the capital cities, only 15 recorded an increase in the number of small businesses over the five year period.

Perth's small business count rose by 0.5 per cent over the five year study period, but the number of small businesses in the rest of the state fell by 1.5 per cent.

Mainly because industry consolidation has worsened banks» customer service on small accounts, small businesses left their banks in record numbers last year, according to PSI Global, a financial - services - marketing group in Tampa.

The number of homes sold in February was the lowest for the month in seven years, and the median annual price gain was the smallest in nearly three years.

But in the last two years, the amount of money U.S. consumers spent at small businesses has dropped, while the number of shoppers has increased.

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.

«As recently as three years ago, Black Friday — dominated by Big Store brands — was clearly better than smaller brand - focused and clothing - focused Cyber Monday, in terms of the number and quality of deals, as well as the number of participating retailers,» says de Grandpre of DealNews.

CNN noted that its growth doesn't look as impressive as its competitors in part because the network had a number of special presidential debates and town - hall events in the first quarter of last year that boosted its reach, so the rise since then is smaller by comparison.

While the companies on Entrepreneur's 31st Annual Franchise 500Â ® grew overall — adding more than 12,000 units, 2.9 percent above 2008's numbers — that growth was considerably smaller than the 4.7 percent increase of the year before.

To spearhead the Eco effort, Camp is creating a new non-profit organization, the Eco Foundation, that he plans to fund with $ 10 million from himself and a small number of partners affiliated with Expa, his 4 - year - old startup accelerator.

A recent survey of small - business owners conducted for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by Harris Interactive reported an 11 percentage point rise in the last year in the number of owners who are unsure of whether their business will be better off in the future than it has been in the past.

The bill provides an extra $ 2 billion next year for substance - abuse treatment, a small number compared to its looming cuts.

While small in their physical footprints, the store closings will be another setback for shopping malls that have been grappling with declining traffic and a rash of store closures in the last year as a number of chains have gone bankrupt or pared back their stores amid the rise in online shopping.

A more believable number is that slightly more than 50 % of small businesses fail in the first four years.

«This is the first time in 35 years where the fewest number of small business owners have told us that taxes are their number one business problem.

Beginning in the 2018 tax year the federal government introduced a number of changes to the tax code to curb so - called «income sprinkling», a tactic used by some higher - income small business owners to shift income to lower - taxed family members.

On Deck, which launched in 2007, is one of a number of venture capital - backed companies that have arisen in recent years and that take advantage of the greater availability of business data via the Internet to lend to small companies that banks typically turn down, says Mitch Jacobs, CEO of On Deck.

Through private funding and the small donations of supporters, we will give away 365 books this year (for FREE) and hope to double that number next year.

For the small number of new hedge fund launches that are successful each year, their high - quality brand was typically created at their previous firm.

In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.

That's the number of ampoules — a small sealed vial containing a beauty serum with highly active ingredients — that were sold during last year's 11.11 Global Shopping Festival.

With regard to the challenge of improving Canada's long - term productivity growth, the government's response was to reduce the tax benefit of the Scientific Research and Experimental Tax credit and to reallocate the savings of only about $ 1 billion over five years to a number of small government programs, for which no details were provided.

Between the year of its signing and 2014, the U.S. lost more than 14 percent of its small community banks, while the number of large banks rose 6.3 percent, according to the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

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.

A September study published by the Brookings Institution found that a large share of the growth in the number of students struggling to pay off their loans over the past several years is tied to students borrowing to go to for - profit schools and to a smaller extent two - year community college.

For a «tech» startup — at least among those that make any money at all — $ 43 million in cumulative revenue over four years is a vanishingly small number.

This is an incredibly large number and that is why even the relatively small percentage decline in prices last year has put the entire economy at risk.

The small but growing number of shareholder votes on diversity proposals is on pace to match or exceed the record set last year, according to data compiled by ISS Analytics,...

CWB Group's 2014 Public Accountability Statement provides a detailed account of some of Canadian Western Bank's (CWB) activities related to community investment, small business financing, number of employees and taxes paid in its most recent fiscal year (November 1, 2013 to October 31, 2014).

The small but growing number of shareholder votes on diversity proposals is on pace to match or exceed the record set last year, according to data compiled by ISS Analytics, which tracks proxies.