Sentences with phrase «staid company»

It is the type of return we want from a staid company operating in a mature industry; we demand a higher return from such companies to compensate for the risk that earnings may stagnate or even fall in future.

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Medical marijuana producers in Canada are typically branded like pharmaceutical companies — clinical, staid and boring.

Cagney is quick to add that his company is the king of these midgets, an innovative operator in a staid industry that is a making a go of things.

The move is surprising for 73 - year - old Slim, who built his company America Movil in a more staid sector, namely the highly regulated telecommunications and TV business in Latin America.

You hear a lot about tech companies shaking up staid industries, pushing past slow, complacent competitors.

With VW's Mk4 Golf on the horizon Ford had made a big quality push, but when the Golf arrived it couldn't compete with the Ford's dynamics and for a company as staid as Ford had been in the preceding decade or two, the sharp «new edge» styling was bang up to date.

While it's refreshing to see Toyota take a bold styling step with the latest version of the Yaris hatch, it's equally as disappointing the company has retained much of the safe - but - staid overall character of the now five - door - only range.

Over the years, the company has pushed the envelope in the generally staid category of devoted e-readers, experimenting with various screen sizes, high - resolution screens, and waterproof designs among others.

On the other hand, we made tons of money on ordinary companies in staid industries such as banking and even textiles.

They are large, staid, supposedly predictable companies that form the core of most investors» blue chip portfolios.

Since witnessing how rapidly even staid financial companies like Lehman Brothers can collapse, I never buy bonds issued by financial entities, period.

Speaking about the toys to life genre Fils - Aimé said it was important for both companies to keep innovating on the genre to stop the concept from becoming staid.

For employees who live in Austin and don't like to feel they've sold out to a staid enterprisey corporation, this is a flag to rally around; a call for Dell to be the kind of radical, cool, interesting company they'd really like to work for.

Perhaps meant to anchor these works to an important art - historical moment are several of Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills (1977 - 1980), but at least in this context I found Sherman's photographs drained of their usual power and fascination, oddly staid in the presence of such offbeat visionary company.

Anderson's idea is novel in the staid world of art museums, but it echoes what companies such as Google and Facebook have long understood: Learning as much as you can about your customers» behavior can be more valuable than the price of admission.

So, imagine the surprise when we heard that Avvo was being acquired by a company that also owns of all things, Martindale Hubbell, the staid, traditional legal resource for information about firms, mainly large ones.

Imagine the surprise when we heard that Avvo was being acquired by a company that also owns of all things, Martindale Hubbell, the staid, traditional legal resource for information about firms, mainly large ones