Sentences with phrase «sold by most companies»

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Zynga is by far the most popular game developer on Facebook, and the company makes the majority of its revenue from virtual goods sold on Facebook.

MacMillan soon began to gut Alliance Atlantis's production unit in 2003 to focus on the franchise, which became the company's single - most - profitable venture by the time the company was sold.

Holger Mueller, who tracks the HR sector as principal analyst and vice president at Constellation Research, contends that Zenefits» revenue model is the most revolutionary thing about the company, comparing its approach to Google, which also gives away its digital services for free (then monetizes its accumulated user data by selling it to advertisers).

Please note: While this call can, in theory, be made by anyone in the selling organization, it is probably most effective when placed by the head of the company or division involved.

The causes of the crisis that nearly killed Bilinkis's company were many: a patronage system, started by Juan and Eva Perón in the 1950s, that grew into a bloated government bureaucracy; a corrupt privatization of government services that sold off some of the country's most valuable assets at fire - sale prices; and a reactionary monetary policy that exacerbated both of these problems.

The company has always celebrated the fact that most of its users aren't established businesses, but instead regular people inspired to start selling online by how easy it is to set up a Shopify store.

The most popular American flag sold is the company's three - foot by five - foot nylon, which retails for about $ 30.

The company is selling a thing (the kit) by saying it can provide «health reports on 254 diseases and conditions,» including categories such as «carrier status,» «health risks,» and «drug response,» and specifically as a «first step in prevention» that enables users to «take steps toward mitigating serious diseases» such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and breast cancer...» Most of the uses «listed on your website, a list that has grown over time,» the FDA writes, «are medical device uses [for the] Personal Genome Service.»

But Warby Parker is changing the eyewear industry by selling glasses for $ 95 per pair and taking on Luxottica, the company that sells most people their glasses.

«I was sort of surprised that they weren't being swamped by more investors when I got in touch with them,» said Fritz Lanman, who sold his mobile recommendations company Livestar to Pinterest in 2013 and led the ClassPass» most recent financing and invested in their seed round.

The most effective way of approaching a cluster sell is by targeting a few key companies within one industry.

The company most recently sold its Argentina wine business to Grupo Penaflor for an undisclosed amount, and earlier this year, speculation of a potential takeover by billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann gave Diageo a nice share boost.

The analysts estimate that most of Bitmain's revenue was generated by selling miners powered by the company's chips.

The record for the most products moved in one day is currently held by the portable smartphone charging company Halo, with a staggering 300,000 units sold.

Our study gives the most weight to Cost of Doing Business because that is the most frequently cited selling point by both Red and Blue states trying to attract and retain companies.

Most Teslas are sold online directly to customers by the company.

Most states adopted franchise laws in the 20th century for various types of commerce, including car sales, to protect local franchisees from unfair competition by the companies whose products they sell.

Even a company as bottom - line obsessed as Walmart has singlehandedly doubled the market for organic food — by selling billions of dollars worth of it to people who, for the most part, never shop at Whole Foods.

The initiative is part of McDonald's bigger plan to give up sales growth by selling off most of its company - owned locations to franchisees.

One57, Time Warner Center, 2 River Terrace: These are some but not all of the luxury residences collected by the top executives of HNA Group, the colossal Chinese investment company that's been selling off some of its most expensive commercial holdings.

«It's almost a mathematical impossibility to imagine that, out of the thousands of things for sale on a given day, the most attractively priced is the one being sold by a knowledgeable seller (company insiders) to a less - knowledgeable buyer (investors).»

Blue Sky's agricultural strategy includes investment in similar products to those grown and sold by the country's two most successful agricultural companies — the $ 2 billion Costa Group and the $ 460 million Select Harvests.

For example, if you sell a system or software solution that improves productivity, which internal departments within a company are most likely to be affected by this?

GE, in a move to become a pure play industrial company, is exiting the financial services business by selling the bulk of the assets contained in its GE Capital unit and returning most of the proceeds from that disposition to shareholders in the form of a $ 50 billion share buyback.

The advance was sparked by news that the company plans to sell off most of its financial businesses and focus on its diverse portfolio of industrial operations.

The company has higher costs than most competitors in residential solar, making up for it by selling tax equity and cash flows to pay for those installations.

Most people don't know how our data is being collected, used, bought and sold by all the social media companies.

Our alumni have joined accelerators such as Techstars and YCombinator, have sold their companies for multiple millions, have been featured in Forbes 30 under 30 and are currently funded by some of the most prestigious investors including Marc Benioff, Marc Andreessen, and Tim Draper.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Unfortunately most of the products that slimy companies like Hobby Lobby sell are manufactured in third world countries by impoverished people and yet they declare they have the moral high ground, desp!cable hypocrisy.

Today, more than 15 years later, there are other companies now selling coconut oil again in the US, most of them mass - produced by machines.

This means that the claims being made by the company selling these items have (most likely) not been been verified by a governmental agency.

I've been a vegetarian most of my life and I'm slowly trying to become vegan now — so far I've only had the regular soy milk and the almond milk (both made by Alpro — I'm in the UK, so don't know if they sell worldwide or are a UK only company?)

In the event Old Town School goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets, users» personal information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred.

Like most supplements in the bodybuilding industry, protein powders and shakes have been targeted by multi-million dollar supplement companies who market their product as the «best», «most effective» and «insert selling point here».

The main selling point used by most of the companies which produce this sort of exercise machine is that by using vertical climbers, people can burn twice the number of calories per hour of exercise as compared to running on a treadmill.

Most of the progesterone cream sold over-the-counter is made by the same few companies and private - labeled.

Today, more than 5 years later, there are other companies now selling coconut oil again in the US, most of them mass - produced by machines.

The company was founded by one of America's most well known relationship experts, best - selling author and clinical psychologist Dr. Neil Clark Warren.

In most of Europe, a new entity called VW - Porsche GmbH (owned 50/50 by each company) sold the new model as the VW - Porsche 914, while in the States the cars were sold by Volkswagen of America as Porsches.

I think most countries have some kind of official or well know appraisal organizations which give official book values for vehicles which are used by the general public as a guideline for buying and selling, and by insurance companies for calculating payouts when cars are wrecked.

While most companies earn a living by selling hardware for a profit, Amazon uses the hardware to prop sales of its online activities.

Most self - published authors have more original, better ideas than traditionally published authors but get shot down by publishing companies because the book wasn't what was «selling».

WH Smith is not only transitioning its ebook store to be powered by Kobo but the company is also selling the Kobo e-readers in most of its stores.

Certainly you'll have a hard time selling to bookstores and libraries — by the time you pay the POD / subsidy company, and factor in the wholesale discount that the middlemen require, the price points are too narrow for most bookstores or libraries ‡.

in other words to author a piece of writing and distribute it, print it, wrap it and sell it as you yourself see fit, even by mutual agreement with an outsourced company that offers specific dedicated services such as printing, binding, distribution, packagaing, marketing or any such service, not by the decisions of any other entity but by your own choice as you yourself see most convenient... and if in exchange for services rendered you split the revenue consider it as credit with interest paid on sales... so yes if you are an independent author you are allowed to leave the publishing and distribution to people that get paid to publish and distribute and marketing to marketers and sales to salesmen... but you must above all author independently.

It might not even be Amazon's fault, as most of these product list prices are sold by other companies that aren't Amazon through Amazon.

The Fire Phone, which will be available July 24th for $ 199 and a two - year contract, is the most immediate and accessible device ever made by the company that endeavors to sell us absolutely everything.

no surprise here.anyone expecting samsung to show there best at mwc need to remember they are holding there own event and my guess is they will release there top of the line tablet with «retina» display along with the galaxy s3... samsung did the right thing by holding off the announcement of the top tier devices as with so many devices being announced in mwc companies are having to share the spotlight where as when samsung announce the s3 all the spotlight will be on them which will create massive hype not that it isnt probably the most eagerly awaited android phone already.if samsung release the s3 within a month of announcement and in europe and us at the same time then they will sell A LOT.

Obviously for most companies, keeping an image of honesty and trustworthiness is very important, but how will customers know if their information is being sold by you?