Sentences with phrase «than a firm which»

A firm that never has matters or transactions with underlying monetary values that exceed $ 500,000 may seek lower limits than a firm which handles complex tax planning for wealthy clients or high value farm conveyances.

Not exact matches

The privately held firm, which is not regulated by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), claims its assets under management jumped more than tenfold to $ 225 million between 2009 and 2015.

It is the only VC firm to have invested in both Dollar Shave Club and Jet.com, which both had exits of more than $ 1 billion in 2016.

The data, which was compiled by the NPD Group, a research firm that tracks the U.S. gaming industry, suggests that Nintendo sold more units of the Switch's most popular games than units of the hardware itself.

It's been 60 years since he started his investment - counselling firm, which now manages more than $ 36 billion in pensions and endowment funds, as well as corporate and private portfolios.

While Sequoia acknowledged that Facebook «has unquestionably committed sins for which it must now atone,» the firm explained that it chose to purchase a stake as it believes «it remains a far more competitively advantaged, economically attractive and faster - growing enterprise than the average American business.»

About 98 percent of the more than 300,000 U.S. exporting firms are small, and they account for over a third of the $ 1.4 trillion in annual total export dollars in 2014, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which defines a small business as having fewer than 500 employees.

Google has not filed for a trademark using its new handle, for which the United States Patent Office currently lists more than 400 matches, says Marsha Gentner, senior counsel and a trademark attorney at Dykema, a law firm in Washington, D.C.

According to video game research firm Newzoo, game sales of Activision's (ATVI) 2013 title Skylanders Swap Force sold about 3.9 million copies to date, slightly lower than the 2012 Skylanders Giants version at 4.65 million, which was comparable to Skylanders Spyro's Adventure sales in 2011.

That's faster than the overall online shaving category's sales, which clocked in 42 percent growth over the period, according to Ken Cassar, principal analyst at e-commerce research firm Slice Intelligence.

Oil dropped sharply in March, bringing down Hall along with others including Andurand Commodities Fund, which through the end of July had lost more than 15 %, according to a source close to the firm.

Ironically, Gurley's venture capital firm, Benchmark Capital, is an early and actively supportive investor of ride - hailing company Uber, which has raised more than $ 8.2 billion and is valued at over $ 51 billion.

By Sunday's end the «conversation» about Adidas and Yeezy Boost had lit up social media, with social analytics firm Networked Insights recording 141,077 related posts — 20 % more than the sum of posts about Nike (NKE), which had likewise set up a flotilla of big - dollar marketing events for the All - Star celebration.

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.

Total sales for 2015 edged upward by 3 %, to more than $ 700 billion, and market research firm NPD Group forecasts that Americans will make 61.8 billion visits to restaurants and food - service outlets in 2016 — which would be the highest figure since before the Great Recession.

-- Art Saxby, CEO of Chief Outsiders, a strategic marketing consulting firm which has worked on the management teams of more than 600 companies across more than 60 industries

While July was the fifth straight month in which small firms added jobs, «the magnitude of growth is less than desired,» according to SurePayroll CEO Michael Alter.

Recently, Monster and global research firm TNS fielded the inaugural Monster Multi-Generational Survey, which surveyed more than 2,000 working and non-working people across the Boomer, X, Y and Z generations to find out what makes them each tick when it comes to jobs.

The firms said in a statement that Walmart, which owns Asda, will have 42 percent of the issued share capital of the combined business and will not hold more than 29.9 percent of the total voting rights.

According to The Kauffman Firm Survey, 50 to 75 percent of young firms use capital injections, most of which comes from owner investments or sources other than banks, while 19 percent use bank loans.

It is focused solely on flash technology, which market research firm IDC estimates is a $ 4.2 billion market now and will grow more than 21 % per year to $ 7.7 billion in 2020.

The market for service robots, which includes the home robot category, is expected to more than double within the next four years from the roughly $ 10 billion it was a year ago, according to Dallas - based research firm MarketsandMarkets.

Daily - deal pioneer Groupon and social - gaming firm Zynga, which both achieved big valuations based on little more than high expectations, are tanking.

Shares in HelloFresh gained as much as 4 % on their first day of public trading, valuing the German meal - kit delivery firm at more than double Blue Apron, the U.S rival from which it is rapidly seizing market share.

The documents, which cover more than 40 years worth of offshore companies created by the Mossack Fonseca firm, also exposed the holdings of a dozen other global leaders.

With a three - year growth rate of more than 4,000 percent, this data collection company, which works with businesses and law firms, reeled in more than $ 4 million in revenue in 2014.

At $ 30 - $ 75 per month, which includes other benefits like syncing, sharing and cloud storage, this instantly makes such apps affordable for more than just professional designers employed by enterprise or big media and advertising firms.

The following is based on a five - year study of key entrepreneurial strengths by Gallup, a global research and consulting firm, which studied more than 4,000 founders to understand the talents that foster business creation and growth.

The firm they're suing: Morrison & Foerster, which was ranked # 31 in the annual list of the world's most successful law firms by American Lawyer, with nearly a billion dollars in annual revenue and more than 1,000 lawyers around the world.

The company's growth has been further accelerated by its 2016 partnership with private equity firm TorQuest Partners, which specializes in mid-market firms and manages more than $ 2 billion of equity capital.

According to data from price intelligence firm 360pi, over the past year through June — which includes the past holiday season — Wal - Mart has consistently offered lower prices than Target or Sears in the sports and toys category (though a severe price dip over the summer brought Sears» prices much closer to Wal - Mart's).

However, if that same person was a partner in an unincorporated firm to which she had contributed 10 percent of the company's capital, she might be eligible to receive more than 10 percent of the business's profits if such an agreement had been made with the other partners.

Sanofi CEO Olivier Brandicourt said that his company would rely on the U.S. national health expenditures (NHE) growth projection to cap price increases other than for a «sound reason» (in which case the firm would disclose the reasoning behind the bigger hike).

Uber, which has been valued at more than $ 51 billion, is a comparative latecomer in China, where the number of mobile taxi - hailing app users is forecast to triple to 45 million by 2015 from 2013, according to Chinese research firm iResearch.

For instance, on August 1 a Canaccord sales pitch described a block of AAA paper the firm had secured as a product offering better returns and better liquidity than GICs, which are «non-redeemable» and «only insured up to $ 100,000.»

When Sarepta Therapeutics nabbed a pioneering approval for a Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) drug last year, it won more than just bragging rights and a controversial FDA approval: the firm also landed a coveted «priority review voucher,» which can either be sold off to another company or used to slash the review period for a future Sarepta treatment.

But which accounting firm gets to claim the honor of representing more 1998 Inc. 500 companies than any other?

«A profitable firm at which 30 percent of leaders are women could expect to add more than 1 percentage point to its net margin compared with an otherwise similar firm with no female leaders,» the report notes.

Facebook admitted that 87 million user profiles were harvested by political research firm Cambridge Analytica, which is more than previously thought.

The venture - capital firm, with offices in San Francisco and Menlo Park, Calif., has invested in more than 200 growth companies over the years, which gives Cogan some degree of authority.

Bertocci cites a study by Ocean Tomo, an intellectual property advisory firm, showing that intangible assets amount to 84 % of the market value of companies today, many of which now sell services rather than goods, compared with 17 % in 1975.

Trading firms are now increasingly using radio towers to transmit their data using microwaves, which is far quicker than any cable could ever be.

And so began the search for commercial property on which to build a custom facility for their less - than - $ 4 - million firm, HC HoodCo Inc. in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.

Since Blankfein, the son of a New York postal worker, was a partner at the firm before it went public in 1999, he owns a sizable share of the company, which has more than quadrupled in value since the firm's IPO.

Looking at the global economy, the Fund noted that «global economic activity continues to firm up» and is estimated to have grown by 3.7 percent in 2017, which is 0.1 percentage points faster than projected in the fall.

In 2011, NBA star Ervin «Magic» Johnson invested an undisclosed amount in venture capital firm Detroit Venture Partners, which has invested in more than a dozen early - stage tech companies, and signed on as a general partner.

The new cash comes as more venture firms raise funds of more than $ 1 billion, including Greylock Partners, Sapphire Ventures, and New Enterprise Associates, which this year raised a $ 3.3 billion fund.

«As a liquidity provider, HRT understands that other firms may be faster than it is, may have better information than it does, and may simply be better at pricing securities than it is, and it must factor that into the displayed prices at which it is willing to buy and sell.

I want to emphasize that this is «blind» data (I do not know which person or firm said what making this confidential and less biased) and nobody responding had any motive other than just telling us how they were feeling.

The rate at which employees forfeit their stock awards, typically by leaving the company before fully vesting, is significantly higher at Amazon than at other large tech firms such as Alphabet and Apple, according to an analysis of company filings.