Sentences with phrase «than a decade ago»

The median household income in Canada is about $ 70,000, roughly 10 per cent more than a decade ago, according to census figures released last month.

It is also striking news for those who remember that Microsoft paid $ 97 million more than a decade ago to settle a case brought by re-classified independent contractors who sued for employee benefits.

More than decade ago, owners» philosophy was to hire in anticipation of new business.

The low - interest - rate environment has allowed it to borrow to fund operations at levels that are about half the 10 percent interest rate the company paid for its financing more than a decade ago, says Clark Balderson, the company's chairman and chief financial officer.

The fact is, a higher proportion of teenagers work at a minimum wage job in most provinces across Canada today than a decade ago (49 per cent across Canada, 70 per cent in Ontario in 2016), but a growing proportion of adults have been doing so as well.

When it began expanding globally more than a decade ago, some of those partners «took local tastes a little too far,» according to Don Fertman, Subway's chief development officer.

Ebay coined the term «Green Monday» more than a decade ago after it noticed an uptick in orders on a particular day.

An oddity outside China's borders less than a decade ago, the renminbi (which translates as «the People's currency») is quickly becoming one of the world's most commonly used forms of payment.

Brand - licensing models are not new in the industry; European companies like Philips and Alcatel have made money from consumer electronics by licensing out their brand after capitulating to Asian competitors more than a decade ago.

Apple claimed it purchased the Chinese trademark from Proview, a troubled computer manufacturer that got really lucky when it registered the iPad name more than a decade ago, in 2001.

It began more than a decade ago, when Cristal executive Frédéric Rouzaud decried rappers» penchant for bragging about their bottles of the pricey bubbly.

Racial discrimination in hiring and employment practices continued at investment bank Morgan Stanley (ms) despite a class - action settlement more than a decade ago, according to a new lawsuit filed Thursday by a former employee.

More than a decade ago, I was drinking in a New Jersey bar with a fairly well - known Major League Baseball player.

Incredibly, these numbers beat even Apple, which has been a darling worldwide ever since it shook up the consumer electronics industry more than a decade ago with the introduction of the iPod.

Germany, which enacted its labor reforms more than a decade ago, when economic growth in the rich world was much stronger than it is now, is home to an organized labor culture that is less combative than in places like Italy or France.

It banned waste imports more than a decade ago.

More than a decade ago, I saw that social media was going to be the zeitgeist for human connection — a new way to storytell and build relationships.

A little more than a decade ago, its ranks were likely small — just a dedicated wave of early adopters plunging into the world of social media and digital content creation.

In their letter, the Gateses explain how that gift doubled their foundation's resources more than a decade ago.

The toy firm unveiled its Kahlo Barbie after striking a deal with the Panama - based Frida Kahlo Corporation, which got the rights to Kahlo's image from one of her nieces, Isolda Pinedo Kahlo, more than a decade ago.

More than a decade ago, Joey Wat at Yum China, was given the chance to take on a massive career challenge that had a high risk of failure — and her decision led Wat into the role she has now.

And Ether is now the biggest rival to Bitcoin, the $ 10 billion cryptocurrency that mysteriously burst onto the scene less than a decade ago.

The first @reply, hashtag and retweet happened less than a decade ago, but in the world of social media, they're historic.

CBS Corp's board is set to discuss a merger with Viacom Inc on Thursday, sources have told Reuters, possibly starting the process of reuniting the two media companies split by mogul Sumner Redstone more than a decade ago.

Less than a decade ago, there were 70 distilleries in the U.S..

Buffett, who first publicly raised the succession issue more than a decade ago, said he remained in «remarkably good health» and that his health was not a factor in making the announcement.

Amazon introduced the public cloud model in which customer applications run in its data centers more than a decade ago.

Whether you call it «amnesty» or a «path to citizenship,» doing something about the 11.7 million undocumented migrants who have settled in the U.S., two - thirds of them more than a decade ago, must be part of any serious immigration reform program.

Financial group Skandia was rocked by revelations of huge bonuses to executives more than a decade ago, while telecom group Ericsson faced shareholder protests in 2007.

But customer traffic started to slow more than a decade ago, several department stores abandoned their leases, and the mall began to fail.

Since it first appeared more than a decade ago, approximately 30 percent to 40 percent of small businesses have adopted some form of Internet - based faxing, according to Peter Davidson, a long - time fax industry watcher and head of Davidson Consulting in Sturgis, Mich..

The companies were split more than a decade ago by media mogul Sumner Redstone, although the Redstones still control both through a third, private company.

Those who haven't invariably doubt VR, and with good reason: it came and went more than a decade ago without fulfilling its hype and promise.

«Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who were around more than a decade ago during the dot - com mania say fund - raising today requires meeting a higher bar — namely, a working product and some marketplace traction — than it did in the late 1990s,» The Journal notes.

Parker was acquitted in the rape case more than a decade ago and Celestin had his sexual assault conviction overturned on appeal (a higher court deemed his trial attorney ineffective), but the two men have come under fire once again as the media reports troubling details from the case, which included accusations that Parker and Celestin, then both 19, had sex with a Penn State freshman while she was unconscious after a night of heavy drinking.

The partners had the help of leaks from staffers inside the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the entity created by Congress more than a decade ago to make sure auditors are doing work that meets regulatory standards.

Bob, more than a decade ago, was teaching junior - level editing at the prestigious University of Missouri Journalism School.

But the fact that Verizon seeks to buy AOL is just the latest chapter for the Internet pioneer, which saw its merger with Time Warner (TWX) fizzle out less than a decade ago.

More than a decade ago we started serving chicken raised without antibiotics - ahead of the industry.

I jotted down the quote above more than a decade ago at a business conference.

When European aircraft maker Airbus scouted sites for its $ 600 million North American plant more than a decade ago it settled on a former Air Force base in Mobile.

Best Buy began opening these stores more than a decade ago, before Apple Inc's iPhone was launched and when margins in the business were high, Best Buy Chief Executive Hubert Joly told employees in a letter, a copy of which was seen by Reuters.

The case arose more than a decade ago when Mars Canada, which also makes and sells Snickers and Milky Way candy bars among other treats, discovered Ebert was buying genuine Mars products in the United States through his company Bemco Cash and Carry, and selling them at a discount in this country.

Fashion designer Thom Browne actually started this long - simmering trend more than a decade ago.

Unlike Netflix, Spotify still isn't profitable, having lost more than 2.4 billion euros ($ 3 billion) since it started more than a decade ago.

A little more than a decade ago the economy collapsed, and at the center of that collapse was the subprime mortgage.

More than a decade ago, McKinsey Global Institute predicted what it called «barbell industrial structures.»

First proposed more than a decade ago, country - by - country reporting (also known as «publish - what - you - pay») proposed to remedy that by requiring disclosure that breaks out significant payments by country and project.

The percentage stake fell over time, until Buffett began ramping it up more than a decade ago.

Buffett, who first publicly raised the succession issue more than a decade ago, said he remained in «remarkably good health» and that his health was not a factor in making the announcement, but said «maybe six weeks ago, I just decided, «Why not now?»»