Sentences with phrase «sold to customers by»

Food processing factories needs the services of different types of workers who process raw food products into the refined goods which are then sold to customers by grocery stores, wholesalers, restaurants, or educational food services.

And since its inception 12 years ago, AWS has been shaped, led, and sold to customers by Jassy, a 47 - year - old transplanted New Yorker who's been at Amazon since he finished his Harvard MBA.

Not exact matches

(There's a whiff of moral superiority to Freshii's filing, too: «In stark contrast to the sugar - heavy desserts sold by the Plaintiffs, Freshii branded restaurants provide quick, fresh and nutritious meal choices to customers around the world.»)

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

In November 2013, the FDA sent 23andMe cofounder and CEO Anne Wojcicki a stern warning saying that the company's tests and health reports, which it was already selling straight to customers, were unapproved medical devices that hadn't been cleared by the agency.

Phillips Petroleum, which expects to be delivering gas from the Bayu Undan fields to Darwin by 2004, has gained a remarkable concession — that it will sell gas to Australian customers under agreements that had previously been secured by the Woodside consortium.

His goal is to grow by selling more products to existing base of credit - worthy customers.

We use the «general» customers to help us continue build traffic (By repeat visits), «hot leads» to keep perfecting our sales process and the «buyers» to sell to.

Although Breaux Capital faces steep competition in the personal finance sector — including from apps such as Mint, which sold to Intuit in 2009 and now counts more than 20 million customers — CTO Quarles says he's convinced that his community, by virtue of being by and for black men, is unique.

«We often use that service as the thin edge of the wedge,» says Kureluk, pointing out that this software gives Yardstick the opportunity to upsell other products and services to its customers, such as the «e-learning» software tools developed by a firm that Yardstick bought earlier this year and sold online.

The canvas bags created so many problems that clerks would tell customers that the Toms shoes were sold out, and sell them something else, because they didn't want to deal with the tangled mess created by drawstring bags.

«The overbooking process makes it possible to use seats on airplanes much more effectively,» he said, arguing it helps the customer by allowing them to book on a sold - out flight that's unlikely to remain that way and the airline by helping ensure that all flights are at capacity.

Consultative selling is a method by which the salesperson behaves more like a consultant, giving genuinely useful advice to customers, rather than a salesman en route to bigger commissions.

Another way defence companies are diversifying their customer bases is by selling more to the private sector.

CitySoft, whose revenues have jumped by 300 % a year, is trying to shift from selling Web - development services to individual customers to acting as a subcontractor for larger technology integrators.

Larger automakers including Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. have also said they will cut back on the coquetry in Geneva, marking a potential sea change for an industry that has long pandered to male customers by using attractive women to sell cars.

With the complicity of corrupt authorities, the oil was then shipped to a refinery belonging to Riolio, a company owned by Domenica Ribatti, where it was leavened with actual olive oil, then packaged and sold to customers as the real thing.

Nevertheless, the potential money IBM and other companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon can make by selling AI is likely to be in the billions of dollars, especially if they can convince customers to store their corporate data with them.

Fostering continuous selling means incentivizing your sales team to stay involved by basing part of their compensation on the amount of advocacy customers provide, as measured by references, referrals, case studies, testimonials, etc..

If resorts no longer have the money to upgrade their lift capacity every year the way some people buy cars, they may have to improve the customer experience in other ways — for example, by limiting the number of tickets sold on any one day and steering more skiers to make mid-week reservations when the slopes are wide open.

The CEO, says a person familiar with his thinking, believed selling through big boxes could introduce Moore paint to new customers; once impressed by the brand's quality, he believed, they would buy directly from Moore stores.

Amazon sweetened the deal for customers by adding, at no cost, access to streaming shows (which are built into the interface of the media device they sell).

If you have strong customer relationships, it might make sense to expand by selling them something new; but «if your business is stronger in the distinctive products it offers than in its customer relationships, look for new markets to offer those products,» advises Maruska.

An analysis of Building 8's recent hires and job listings by Business Insider, as well as conversations with people close to the company, shows an ambitious effort to create and sell millions of consumer hardware units, from a supply chain outpost in Hong Kong to a planned retail push and customer call center operation.

In any case, it would only have been regulated by what is now called the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) if it sold to customers in Britain.

When selling to highly competitive or secretive industries customer referrals can be hard to come by but that doesn't make your company second - rate by any measure.

Direct or multilevel selling — both methods use customers to sell to other customers; the latter term refers to a method in which sellers get commissions not only from their own sales but also from sales made by other sellers they recruit — has long been used successfully by the likes of Avon, Tupperware, and the Pampered Chef.

These interactions allow the entrepreneur to bypass her knowledge about the product or service she is trying to sell, focus on the knowledge of her prospective customers and by that avoid the curse of knowledge when making pricing decisions.

Employing these three strategies in your business will compound growth by reducing customer acquisition costs while, at the same time, allowing you to sell a broader product set to help your customers and solve problems important to them.

People selling toothpaste cued customers by prompting them to run their tongues across their teeth to feel a film.

Amazon.com Inc added a new feature to its website on Tuesday that allows customers to bid for lower prices on more than 150,000 items, including fine art and rare coins, sold by third - party vendors.

Delta and other airlines make money by selling airline miles to credit card issuers and those issuers, in turn, receive new customers.

When asked about his most effective selling tactic, Osgouei explains, «One selling tactic that's extremely undervalued is telling a story that can create a powerful perception of value by showing both the before story and the after story in a way that gets the customer excited to partner with your team, and excited about your offering.»

Valeant said the decrease in volume was partially offset by an increase in average realized prices, partly due to lower customer subsidies and accommodations and higher wholesaler selling prices.

Implications from deeper understanding of your customers typically involve changes in how you measure sales effectiveness, performance reviews, incentives, product mix, channels and sometimes «addition by subtraction,» or the process of improving performance by not selling to certain types of customers.

By encouraging customers to make such yogurt dishes on their own, the idea is to make the Chobani sold in supermarkets more of a household staple.

Sonnet eliminates that spread by selling currency to customers at its own buy rate; it then charges a single flat rate ($ 150 on wires worth more than $ 10,000; $ 75 on smaller transactions).

«Most firms make a profit in two ways: by charging a service fee of $ 10 to $ 30 or $ 40 per transaction, and by pocketing the difference between the low price at which they buy currency and the higher price at which they sell it to customers.»

The least risky growth strategy for any business is to simply sell more of its current product to its current customers — a strategy perfected by large consumer goods companies, says McFarland.

Thus the salesperson doesn't feel desperate and can more confidently acquire new business by directing negotiations to the point where the potential customer ends up selling the salesperson on why they should do business together.

Atlassian has about $ 250 million in annual revenue, a devoted customer base of 40,000 businesses, but it has never had a sales force, and it claims to sell its software more cheaply than competitors by allowing customers to pick and choose their own products via the Web.

But by 2007, Barinskiy and Kravitz realized that they could make more money selling customer information directly to agents, rather than acting as a middleman.

Apart from helping employees learn about Oracle products through videos and tutorials, the tool can be used by customers to let employees learn about their products and how to sell them, Ellison said.

He only cleared $ 1.55 on each $ 4 unit sold, he said, because his customers were farmers and he wanted to «do right» by them.

Manufacturing is the making of goods by hand or by machine that upon completion the business sells to a customer.

Consider whether you can sell more of your current offerings by reaching out to new groups of customers.

Likewise, there are examples of where gamification goes wrong by emphasizing arbitrary rewards over end goals that benefit both the customer AND the business selling to them.

In March, Citigroup became the first bank to put new restrictions on firearm sales by its business customers, requiring its clients and business customers not to sell a firearm to anyone who hasn't passed a background check or anyone under the age of 21.

It aims to remove the hassle associated with buying, assembling, moving, and selling furniture by letting customers rent it instead.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; delays in the completion of project sales; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.