Sentences with phrase «to bulk up»

Fifth - generation president and CEO Hartley Richardson bulked up its Tundra Oil & Gas subsidiary last year, buying 550 wells in Manitoba from a retreating American operator, EOG Resources.

The enterprise sales and marketing division bulked up with new employees to push more BlackBerry devices into the corporate world.

The Jim Pattison Group's grocery business continues to show it won't sit idle while national chains Loblaws and Sobeys bulk up their presence in Western Canada.

Competitors used the era of deregulation to bulk up, creating international financial behemoths with varying degrees of success.

The new service speaks to eHarmony's need to diversify as IAC / InterActiveCorp bulks up ahead of the planned public listing of Match Group, which will hold the company's dating businesses.

Not only will it make your body crazy muscular, it'll bulk up your brain too.

Koch is particularly upset that the Justice Department allowed Big Beer to bulk up, first by approving the merger of Anheuser Busch and InBev and then by allowing Molson Coors to take full control of the MillerCoors joint venture when SABMiller got acquired by AB InBev.

With a robust rocket - building supply chain, Orbital's newly announced OmegA rocket bulks up its existing quiver of launch vehicles, which includes the light - to - medium lift class Pegasus, Minotaur and Antares rockets.

In the US, the national minimum wage is around # 4.80 ($ 7.50) and service staff are expected to bulk up their earnings with tips.

Women don't like heavy gym equipment that's designed for men to bulk up — most of the weight products on the market are designed for weightlifting.

Bank of America reported a 44 % rise in quarterly profit as higher interest rates bulked up earnings from loans and an increase in trading boosted revenue.

As noted above, forthcoming Bluetooth updates should help truly wireless earbuds last longer, so there shouldn't be much need to bulk up the AirPods just to fit a bigger battery.

What can afford to bulk up, though, is the little white case that holds and recharges them.

In appealing to video advertisers, Flipboard could be facing an uphill battle because giant competitors like Facebook (fb) are also bulking up in video, and offer much larger reach.

Chipotle is already making a push to bulk up its digital sales.

Its Overwaitea Food Group has bulked up, snapping up 15 former Sobeys locations and opening others from scratch.

Coke has aimed to bulk up the company's healthier offerings by selling more Smartwater, flavored water Vitaminwater, and dairy brand Fairlie.

Now that it's approved, Yahoo expects to close the deal on Tuesday, a move that will bulk up Verizon's advertising efforts.

The company has also been bulking up its board: Obama's one - time Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius, marketing consultant and philanthropist Lynne Benioff (who is an investor in Hampton Creek along with her husband, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff), and co-founder of artificial intelligence company DeepMind Mustafa Suleyman have joined as directors, Tetrick says.

Flight attendants keep these on hand to bulk up their morning meals and feel better throughout the flight, according to Bon Appetit.

We know it's not easy to forgo money in your pocket to bulk up a savings account you won't see for decades, but it's the smartest thing you can do with any extra income.

Before you bulk up your inventory, you need to run another report on your POS system.

The Perth - based junior has secured board recommendations and pre-bid acceptances from several major shareholders in a deal that will bulk up its profile in the revered oil and gas basin

But, McDonnell says, the company also has bulked up its technical understanding of the security problems facing large industrial organizations as Wurldtech has expanded its customer base.

While corporations have largely failed to bulk up on their employee relations infrastructure, the broader economic scaffolding that has supported workers in the past has continued to fall away.

«It's quite easy to bulk up capacity by recruiting low to mid-level civil servants, often generalists with a few years experience,» the Institute For Government's Joe Owen told BI.

The marketplace further bulks up Albertson's e-commerce offerings at a time when it has been aggressively focused on its digital platform.

Profit and comparable - store sales slid as the retailer bulks up its offerings with Juicy Couture women's and girls» clothes.

Though BCE claimed it desperately needed the deal for its Bell Media division to compete in an ever - changing and increasingly international market (not to mention to bulk up its presence in Quebec), and altruistically promised to undertake a variety of tangible benefits for the greater good of Canadian society, Blais was having none of it.

A mathematician concluded that over the five decades, male U.S. workers in their forties should have bulked up from 76.9 kilograms on average to 89.7, just through the changes in their work situations.

Zandi calculates that the best ways to proceed are in fact spending increases: temporarily bulking up food stamps ($ 1.73 in added GDP per dollar spent), extending unemployment insurance ($ 1.64), and building or rebuilding infrastructure ($ 1.59).

They have consolidated and bulked up, just like AT&T has, to gain bigger bargaining power in programming fee negotiations.

AdRoll plans to use some of the proceeds from the new round to bulk up this cross-device infrastructure, as well as for geographic expansion.

You could also bulk up your marketing efforts so that when the weather turns warm (or cold), your business will be the place to be.

Stay away from these professional self - promoters because, in the end, it's always about them and not worth your time or wasting a seat that could go to someone with something real to contribute instead of some blowhard looking to bulk up his or her resume.

But its latest move has sparked mostly admiration in media circles: The network has hired away four senior political writers from BuzzFeed to bulk up its election coverage.

It seems crazy to even talk about the idea of someone moving to a smaller house or trading in their car in order to bulk up their emergency fund or fund their 401 (k), even if doing so would probably make them happier in the long run.

Express loans were an easy way for the SBA to bulk up loan numbers — or reach more borrowers, to construe it more charitably — at little cost to the agency.

In an effort to bulk up its listings data, the Times said Monday that it would stop charging brokers in New York City to post exclusives.

Amazon's overtures in that field were cited as one reason CVS Health Corp., the nation's largest pharmacy chain, moved to bulk up by agreeing in December to buy healthcare insurer Aetna Inc. for $ 69 billion.

The deal allows the combined entity to bulk up in order to better invest in next - generation 5G wireless technology.

Sprint and T - Mobile said on Sunday they had agreed to a $ 26 billion all - stock merger, bulking up in order to better invest in next - generation 5G wireless technology.

Bulking up allows the Belgian company to buy on better terms.

Those diminished prospects are what prompted SunPower to bulk up its operations by pursuing the purchase of SolarWorld.

Consolidation among publishers last reached its heyday in the 1990s — as publishing houses sought to bulk up in response to the growing clout of Borders and Barnes & Noble — and by the early 2000s, the industry had settled into the «Big Six.»

Among those that could potentially make a bid are Wal - Mart, which has been focusing its deal making on bulking up its digital business, and JAB Holdings, a private equity player that has been shifting its focus to restaurants and food and beverage businesses.

However, the company appears poised to accelerate its growth in the region after spending $ 5.6 billion late last year to bulk up its position.

Invesco has been aggressive in bulking up its passively managed offerings, and recently completed its purchase of Source, a European ETF manager.

Citigroup is joining AT&T, Sempra and others bulking up south of the border.

The online retail firm more than doubled its quarterly profit despite spending heavily on building more warehouses and devices, as well as bulking up on assets for its delivery network and video content.