Sentences with phrase «smaller than in years»

Helix lost money during the quarter, but the amount it lost was much smaller than in the year - ago period, and revenue soared by nearly 60 %.

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And bucking the trend in a retail industry where many rivals are paring their store fleets, Walmart said it plans to open a few more stores: it expect to open fewer than 15 SuperCenters in the U.S. next year, a small uptick to be sure, but additional physical facilities to support its roughly $ 15 billion a year e-commerce business.

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.

Rent increases in neighborhoods that experienced the biggest influx of those workers have risen 65 percent faster over the past five years than areas with the smallest influx, according to Zillow.

To take advantage, you must have an export credit sales volume of less than $ 5 million in the past three years before application, your company must qualify as a small business under the Small Business Administration's definition of the term and you must have been in business at least one year with a positive net wsmall business under the Small Business Administration's definition of the term and you must have been in business at least one year with a positive net wSmall Business Administration's definition of the term and you must have been in business at least one year with a positive net worth.

To apply, business owners must be one of Wells Fargo's more than 3 million small business customers, have been in business for at least a year, and have sufficient revenue to support the loans» weekly repayment schedule.

Molson Coors CEO Mark Hunter tried to downplay the results, noting they came in a small quarter and as the entire U.S. beer industry had a softer - than - anticipated start to the year.

While hiring was down by 0.1 percent in March, the survey found that nearly 9 in 10, or 87 percent of small businesses, expect the first quarter to be the same or better than a year ago.

In 2016, women got just 2.19 % of venture capital funding — a smaller piece of the pie than in every year this past decade, with the exception of 2008 and 201In 2016, women got just 2.19 % of venture capital funding — a smaller piece of the pie than in every year this past decade, with the exception of 2008 and 201in every year this past decade, with the exception of 2008 and 2012.

CNBC's Mike Santoli reports on the lag in small - caps and value stocks despite the market having one of the best starts to the year in more than a decade.

While the difference in funding is massive, it's slightly smaller than in previous years.

Despite progress forged in leaps and bounds in recent years, women - owned businesses are still likely to be smaller than those owned by males, and indeed, they are more likely to fail.

Many of the 1,433 small business owners surveyed expect to live well into their retirement years, with one in three saying they plan to retire older than 70.

Victoria Treyger, CMO of online business loan provider Kabbage, has some ideas that are worth hearing, considering the company has served more than 100,000 small businesses in the nearly four years it has been around, doling out $ 600 million in loans.

Millennial small business owners have more confidence in their retirement savings than baby boomers, according to our survey, possibly because millennial owners started their business at a younger age on average (26 vs. 43 years old), allowing more time for them to grow their businesses» profit margins and create comfortable retirement plans.

The Small Business American Dream Gap Report examined today's economic landscape compared to a year ago and found that despite the positive outlook for small businesses, nearly three out of 10 small businesses reported finding it harder than in the past to reduce operating cSmall Business American Dream Gap Report examined today's economic landscape compared to a year ago and found that despite the positive outlook for small businesses, nearly three out of 10 small businesses reported finding it harder than in the past to reduce operating csmall businesses, nearly three out of 10 small businesses reported finding it harder than in the past to reduce operating csmall businesses reported finding it harder than in the past to reduce operating costs.

Those kinds of struggles had led 53 percent of those small businesses to apply for funding or credit lines over the past five years — and more than one in four said they had sought loans multiple times.

A survey by the Aspen Institute found that nearly half of American microborrowers were still in business five years later, a higher share than the SBA reports for small businesses as a whole.

The value of commercial and industrial loans of less than $ 1 million — a common proxy for small business lending — was 17 percent lower in June of this year than it was at the beginning of the recovery — when measured in inflation adjusted terms.

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.

Though many community banks in this program have, controversially, used this money to pay off TARP rather than lend to small business, Hall says the money will help Team Capital make $ 200 million in loans to local small businesses, and it has enabled it to loan out $ 40 million in the past year.

In fact, according to a 2013 survey, 43 percent of small business owners are taking less vacation time than five years ago.

With the help of 500 employees across two production facilities (the other is in North Carolina), Spinrite packages and sells more than 50 million balls of yarn a year under seven brands to big retailers like Michaels and Walmart, as well as smaller independent shops.

But the reason they're expecting to do well this year has more to do with their marketing efforts, rather than the recovering economy or other factors like low oil prices, according to a small business holiday survey from Constant Contact, an online marketing firm in Waltham, Massachusetts.

«In the last two years, we've seen one by one, several strategic moves by the large global brewers to do mergers and acquisitions of smaller craft breweries in a more fast - paced manner than in the past,» says Julia Herz, craft beer program director for The Brewers AssociatioIn the last two years, we've seen one by one, several strategic moves by the large global brewers to do mergers and acquisitions of smaller craft breweries in a more fast - paced manner than in the past,» says Julia Herz, craft beer program director for The Brewers Associatioin a more fast - paced manner than in the past,» says Julia Herz, craft beer program director for The Brewers Associatioin the past,» says Julia Herz, craft beer program director for The Brewers Association.

Small business owners are more satisfied with the federal government than they have been in recent years, but a new survey has found there are still a lot of changes the sector would like to see implemented to help run their businesses efficiently.

Fixed - income investors should be realistic in expecting this to be a year of relatively low returns across asset classes in general — a year in which small ball becomes much more important than swinging for the fences.

In recent years they have added international equities and small - cap stocks — asset classes that come with higher volatility than sturdier blue chips, but also offer the promise of higher returns.

One of Canada's most dynastic companies, the Irving group got its start back in the 1920s, when K.C. opened a small service station in Bouctouche, N.B. Nearly 100 years on, the family controls more than 250 enterprises scattered across Canada and the northeastern United States.

For more than 30 years, from startup to retirement, millions of entrepreneurs and small business owners have trusted Entrepreneur to point them in the right direction.

More than half of small businesses polled by SurePayroll say they expect to surpass expectations in the third quarter of this year.

The discount retailer, locked in a fierce battle with Amazon.com (amzn) to shorten the time it takes to get customers» packages to their homes, last week acquired Parcel for an undisclosed amount «smaller than previous acquisitions» Walmart has made this year (which include Bonobos, Moosejaw, and Modcloth), the company said in a blog.

Small - business owners can have a particularly difficult time getting capital from a bank if they've been in business fewer than two years, if their credit score is less than 640 or if they need less than $ 250,000.

The outbreak of Zika, a mosquito - borne disease, was detected last year in Brazil, where it has been linked to more than 1,700 cases of microcephaly, a birth defect marked by small head size that can lead to severe developmental problems.

Part of what may be contributing to this trend is the fact that public offerings in Europe are, on average, smaller than they are in the U.S. Consider that 18 of the companies to go public in the region this year have a market cap of less than $ 100 million, the Atomico research found.

He's put BlackBerry on track to serve a small but potentially lucrative niche of business clients and brought more focus to the company than it's had in years.

The SBA's 7 (a) Loan Program is the most popular of the agency's programs (more than 88,000 of these loans totaling almost $ 14 billion were bestowed upon small businesses in fiscal year 2005).

The $ 89.9 billion awarded to small - business contractors in 2012 is 22.25 percent of more than $ 400 billion spent by the U.S. government that year.

In fact, 36 percent of millennial entrepreneurs use more than five mobile apps to run their businesses, according to this year's j2 Global mid-year small business report.

First, the $ 650 million jackpot is paid out as an annuity, meaning that rather than getting the whole amount all at once, it's spread out in smaller — but still multimillion - dollar — annual payments over 30 years.

Perhaps more than any other single policy of the last seven years, it was the nearly $ 1 trillion from the two American Reinvestment and Recovery Acts that played a major role in assisting those industries, and bolstering the economic health of small business owners.

James Hahn, who won his first PGA TOUR event last year, was looking for an edge when he jumped to PXG in January: «I didn't feel the need to switch (from TaylorMade) but a small part of me was thinking, «I can't compete with a guy who hits 30 yards longer than me and one or two clubs longer than me.»

As we begin the New Year, the prospects for small businesses in search of capital seem to be brighter than they were even a year Year, the prospects for small businesses in search of capital seem to be brighter than they were even a year year ago.

Development in Margaret River over the next 20 years should be contained in small hamlet - style nodes, rather than large residential estates, according to the shire's townsite strategy, which was released for public comment last week.

Yet it's not, and the DevFacto workforce is more engaged than ever: The firm has earned a spot on the 50 Best Small and Medium Employers (BSME) in Canada ranking for the third consecutive year, and its average annual employee retention rate is 98 %.

But the policy issue boils down to this: CCPC owners can defer paying taxes on far more income, passively invested by their small businesses, than the upper limit of about $ 26,000 a year in RRSP contributions allowed for salary - earning taxpayers.

In the past five years, Columbia managed to increase its average scholarships by 38.5 %, a much smaller jump than its competitors.

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.

The January effect is said to affect small caps more than mid / large caps, but it has not happened in years because the markets have adjusted for the effects.

Hudson Square Research analyst Jeffrey Logsdon points out that this year's movie crop is smaller than in the summer of 2013, but the bigger factor behind the current summer slump could be quality.