Sentences with phrase «so via acquisitions»

While some deliberately targeted, researched and made inroads into particular markets, firms more often did so via acquisitions or serendipitous routes ranging from a meeting at a trade show to an employee's personal contacts and language skills, or a chance sale over the Internet.

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He says they were able to do it so quickly because most of the applications and the cloud's web hosting feature already existed, touch applications for tablets were already being worked on, and value - adds such as cloud - based access to fonts were ready via the October 2011 acquisition of Typekit.

And so here we are, no longer simply a magazine but a hydra - like creature in near - constant engagement with various audiences via YouTube, social media, etc., participating in the 24 - hour news cycle when it comes to a new Frappucino flavor or the acquisition of Whole Foods.

While he was praised highly for some of his shrewd purchases of players, it isn't until you really delve through the Villa ranks and discover who is no longer involved in first - team affairs that you unravel where the whole Randy Lerner (Aston Villa owner) Martin O'Neill relationship really went wrong, with the club's acquisitions of several talented individuals not enough to overshadow the large number of flops which entered Villa Park via O'Neill's say - so, nor did it help balance the books.

Two mutual fund companies have also entered the fray so far: CI Investments, via their First Asset ($ 1.9 billion AUM) acquisition in late 2015; and Mackenzie, which kicked off its ETF expedition in April with four actively managed fixed - income ETFs.

Those create value, but it is hard to manage a complex company — so growing via acquisition is tough without overpaying by buying scale, or creating a company that is even more complex, and unmanageable.

This may naturally limit expansion via existing clients, so the focus will be on: i) geographic expansion — for example, by opening facilities in China & S Korea, which have some of the most rabid online & MMO gamers, and ii) lateral expansion, most likely via acquisitions — into upstream (like art outsourcing, original audio & motion capture) and downstream services (like multi-lingual customer support, (micro)- payment services & analytics).

Time for a step - change... Overall, it's a pretty stable core business, so management needs to start milking it for cash to return to shareholders (via dividends / buy - backs), or else accelerate growth by ramping up its leverage & acquisition pipeline / spending (more acquisitions, bigger acquisitions, or both...)-- at this point, I'd still prefer a bet on the latter.

You choose to drop more loot during a period of time, add cosmetic items, make a monthly in - game event, launch a user acquisition (or retention) campaign via in - game messaging, and so on.