Sentences with phrase «took over the company last»

McDonald's has enjoyed an amazing global McComeback under the leadership of CEO Steve Easterbrook, who took over the company last year after Don Thompson retired.

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Former Telus top man Joe Natale officially took over as CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. this year, signaling a return to stable leadership for the company after former CEO Guy Laurence was axed last fall.

The company currently carries a market cap a little north of $ 14 billion, down about 45 percent since Dorsey took over as interim CEO last June.

And within months of announcing that it was acquiring Rdio last year, Pandora was reported to be on the block (although co-founder Tim Westergren has downplayed that idea since he took over as the company's CEO).

Greven points out that when Kube's last company, Performance Software, took the same step, 150 government agencies signed on to their services over the course of three years.

Among them are tech companies such as Waymo, which took over Google's self - driving project last year, as well as traditional automakers such as Toyota and BMW.

That's why it was such a shock to learn last month that hackers found a way to break in to the company's famous iPhones, and even take over the camera and microphone features without a user even knowing it.

Bakish took over the helm at Viacom last year and is attempting to turn around the company's fortunes by focusing on six of its brands — Paramount, BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon and Nick Jr..

«The reaction we've gotten over the last few days as I've met with investors is they love the fact that you're getting a pure play infrastructure, cloud - levered, [internet - of - things]- levered company that really takes care of all the interconnections within the cloud and to the edge.»

In a 3,500 - word blog post on Tuesday, Goldberg went into even greater detail in accepting blame for the many hits that Fab has taken over the last year, which include a massive round of layoffs that reduced the e-commerce company's headcount from 700 to 300.

Company veteran Antonio Urcelay took over as CEO last year and plans updates for both stores and online, but he has said he does not see major closings.

Avon ran China with a «hybrid» model, maintaining its stores while also selling through reps.. But as the company shifted away from Beauty Boutiques, results took a nosedive, with China's revenue and operating profits plummeting 35 % and 154 %, respectively, year over year in 2010, the last year Avon reported China as a separate business unit.

The company's stock took a dive during the economic crisis to less than $ 10, but over the last year has gone from $ 21 to the $ 38 range.

Take apart a GoPro, Djuric said, and you'll also find chips from a variety of vendors, including Texas Instruments and Qualcomm as well a chip from Ambarella, a little known company whose stock is up over 90 percent in just the last 12 months.

«Technology companies have realized the last hour of your life they haven't taken over is driving.

Amazon isn't so much interested in taking over what's called the «last mile» of the delivery trek as it is in making the process more efficient for the company and public entities that aid in delivery.

Fortune reported last year that Berkshire's Todd Combs, one half of the investment duo that is likely to take over from Buffett when he leaves the company, began buying shares of Precision in 2012.

We have created hundreds of billions of dollars of shareholder value over the last 30 years by convincing boards and CEOs to take the steps necessary to greatly increase the value of their companies.

Last week Google co-founder Larry Page announced he was taking over as chief executive of the search company from April, with Schmidt becoming executive chairman in a move that shocked Wall Street and Silicon Valley.

Last month over a dozen Fortune 500 companies, like Apple, Google, Walmart and Coca - Cola, signed pledges, organized by the White House, to take measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions and invest in clean energy.

Mattel's rebuttal indicates that Margaret Georgiadis, who took over as the company's chief executive in February, is seeking to drive a hard bargain in negotiations with Hasbro, even though Mattel's stock has significantly underperformed that of Hasbro in the last year.

My last idea, EliteDaily.com, also known as The Voice of Generation Y, I co-founded with one of my interns and we took it bootstrapped from an apartment to a company with over 200 employees in just 4 years getting acquired for $ 50,000,000 in 2015.

The deal is a huge one by any standard — bigger than Walmart's $ 3.3 billion deal for Jet.com last year — and especially for a retail company like PetSmart, which was itself valued at only $ 8.7 billion when private equity investors took it over in 2015.

«Last month, in the midst of uncertainty regarding whether the Trump administration would take actions to delay or roll back this rule, I wrote to over 30 leading finance companies regarding their commitment to helping workers save for retirement, their support for the DOL fiduciary rule, and their preparedness to comply with the rule in April,» Warren told Hugler in her Tuesday letter.

Over the last decade or so, VCs took a chance on companies that violated hotel licensing laws (AirBnB), airspace laws (drone companies) and encouraged their users to take a ride in the car of a stranger who happened to be violating municipality laws (Uber).

Helen Marriage's company Artichoke is responsible for the weekend festival which took place all over London this last weekend.

Canada's largest health startup showcase takes over MaRS Discovery District in Toronto on May 7 Last year's winners scaling their companies internationally, raising more than $ 36 million in combined funding On May 7, MaRS HealthKick 2015 gives 39 health startups the chance to pitch cutting - edge health technologies and products to an audience of more than 350... Read More

Biggby Coffee has experienced a lot of growth over the last several years, and as a result the company has decided to take a step back and concentrate on being ready internally for the next phase of its evolution.

Over the last year, the Carbon Trust has worked with companies including Allied Bakeries, Dairy Crest, Cadbury and Nestle to identify more energy efficient manufacturing processes with the potential to cut industry carbon emissions by some 450,000 tonnes a year: equivalent to taking more than 150,000 cars off the road.

Elders will now be fully rehabilitated as a pure - play pastoral company, as the last step in revitalising the new - look Elders comes to fruition under chief executive Mark Allison, who took over in mid-2014 and has guided it back to safety under a steady eight - point turnaround plan.

While the Victoria - based dairy company is still reviewing the details of last week's unsolicited bid, the dubbing of the defence mandate internally as «Project Wall» appears to suggest that it is less than impressed with the prospect of being taken over.

Pellegrino took over at St Mary's on a three - year deal last June, but Southampton announced in a statement that they had parted company with the 46 - year - old.

Your toddler may come up short on sleep for any number of reasons: You're on vacation, you had company over for dinner, you kept her up past her usual bedtime because you worked late last week, she's refusing to take naps or waking up frequently during the night, and so on.

The Touton group took over an existing factory built in 2007 in April last year, and became Cocoa Touton Processing Company.

SolarCity was asked last week whether the federal probe would affect the factory timetable, whether Zemsky's agency taking over the project would affect the company's relationship with the state and whether vendors are ready to deliver their equipment on time.

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It was a decision recently taken by fellow dating company Snap Interactive, who last month announced plans to repurchase up to $ 1m of its common stock over the next year.

Nearly six decades later and after taking over leadership of the company after the passing of his own father (Craig T. Nelson) from a sudden heart attack, Kenny is down to his last dollar.

Schools Week revealed last month that the department has set up a company, called LocatED, to take over responsibility for finding and purchasing new school sites from the Education Funding Agency.

The crisis was the subject of heated parliamentary debate last week, with Teresa May's government struggling on multiple fronts to defend the idea of public services contracting, launch a convincing investigation of what happened, take credible steps to deal with what is widely seen as compensation - gouging by the company's directors, the perception of sweetheart contracts extended to a struggling company, continuing doubtsabout official and company conflicts of interest, and about the impact of still - undetermined huge taxpayer losses — not least over underfunded pensions that have now come onto its books.

Kobo has done quite well for themselves over the course of the last few years by taking over the e-book business from companies that went under.

Huseby resigned last summer to take over Barnes & Noble Education, the college bookstore unit of Barnes & Noble that the company decided to spin off instead of Nook.

There were no buyers willing to take the company over so the last remaining 9 Borders stores in Australia have officially closed up shop forever.

There were no buyers willing to take the company over so the last remaining 9 Borders stores in Australia have officially... [Read more...]

To take one highly topical example, over the last 18 months, Carillion (the failed facilities management and construction services company) kept on cropping up as one of the cheapest companies in the UK — and kept on falling foul of our checklist.

Arkady was said to have been trying to get some placing shares in the last fund raise but was too late getting the paperwork in as it was oversubscribed.Roman Abramovich gave an interview to i think a dubai newspaper in early jan where he stated he is actively seeking new oil and gas assets in siberia and he also mentioned the new proposed changes to the mineral extraction tax.So putting two and two together he must think the smaller companies in the region are prime for picking off some assets or take over.

Though the occasions are different, think of many companies that took on too much debt to go private over the last 30 years.

Over the last few years, thanks to education by Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) and some great advertising by the Mutual fund Asset Management Companies (AMC), a lot of Indians are taking the plunge into equities via the SIP route.

Over the last several years, companies that scam people have become experts at taking advantage of people in difficult financial situations, but there are some clues that will tell you whether the company can really help you or whether the company is out to steal the money that you have left.

Over the last few years, we've seen a lot of fan projects get taken down by companies like Nintendo.