Sentences with phrase «top of his group in»

Is it coincidence that we are about to finish top of our group in the UCL while other European giants are about to finish 2nd??? I.e Bayern Juventus Real Madrid All in the 2nd positions of there respective groups, Oh to be a gooner.

Arsene Wenger will no doubt be keen to finish top of his group in order to avoid the likes of Barcelona and Bayern Munich, who Arsenal are often drawn against — and subsequently eliminated

Madrid currently sit marginally off the pace of La Liga leaders Barcelona and look unlikely to qualify at the top of their group in the Champions League.

«We went 20 games unbeaten, including the Champions League, and we finished top of the group in the Champions League.

United, whose leading players include Paul Pogba and Henrikh Mkhitaryan, are currently top of their group in the lucrative Champions League competition and are second in the 20 - team English Premier League.

The Fit is near the top of the group in fuel economy, but it beats the living hell out of everyone's cargo capacity, thanks in part to that cavernous interior.

Not exact matches

Burt Flickinger, managing director of retail consultancy Strategic Resource Group estimates it cost the retailer about $ 50 million to deal with hurricanes Rita and Katrina in 2005 and expects Harvey's costs to top that.

Leightman Research Group data released Monday was roughly in line: Leightman estimated that the 13 top cable providers lost about 470,000 video customers in the second quarter, compared to a loss of 350,000 for the corresponding quarter last year.

But Nintendo's hybrid gaming system — it's part - handheld, part - home console, hence the name — has topped the charts in four of the last six months since its launch in March 2017, NPD Group says.

The top CEO in the group is Merck's Ken Frazier, at No. 5, who was the first of President Trump's business advisers to step down after the president blamed «both sides» for the violence in Charlottesville.

Finance director Terry Bowen will become the third top Wesfarmers executive to retire from the Perth - based conglomerate in the space of 12 months, with the group announcing three senior appointments along with details of incoming managing director Rob Scott's remuneration package.

In the periods since the stock market peaked for the year in January, and after its most recent top mid-March, utilities, traditionally a defensive group of companies, have been the best - performing sectoIn the periods since the stock market peaked for the year in January, and after its most recent top mid-March, utilities, traditionally a defensive group of companies, have been the best - performing sectoin January, and after its most recent top mid-March, utilities, traditionally a defensive group of companies, have been the best - performing sector.

The Anglo - Dutch oil major, whose acquisition of BG Group transformed it into the world's top liquefied natural gas producer, has been under pressure from shareholders to cut annual spending to ensure it can maintain its dividend given the slow recovery in the oil prices.

Gregory and Flanagan recently advised a group of some of the top - performing hair salons in Australia.

The group of sixth - through - eighth graders that gathered in the conference room are New York's top sellers, a.k.a. the Girl Scouts» «cookie executives.»

The Boise State Broncos on the other hand have not had the same dominant offense that once made them the top powerhouse in the Group of 5.

The firm's analysis of the so - called Equilar 100 (top 100 companies by revenue) finds that the female CEOs in this group earned an average $ 22.7 million last year, while the male chiefs took home an average $ 14.9 million.

In fact, according to a Sleeter Group survey of small business owners, business planning and strategy were the top two services they wished their accountants provided.

«The triumph of «America first» as the primary driver of foreign policy in the world's only superpower marks a break with decades of US exceptionalism and a belief in the indispensability of US leadership, however flawed and uneven,» Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer and Chairman Cliff Kupchan wrote in the firm's annual overview of top risks.

She has clearly mastered the art of image, and it has served her well, both in selling herself and in moving real estate during her 23 years at the top of her New York City brokerage, Corcoran Group.

For the ninth year in a row, Apple topped Boston Consulting Group's annual list of the most innovative companies.

Some top - level executives understand this, enforcing various strategies in an attempt to ensure meetings remain a constructive use of employees» time and resources: Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO, reportedly maintains focus by sticking to a strict, bullet - pointed schedule, while Amazon's Jeff Bezos employs a «two - pizza rule,» which keeps meetings small enough so that two pizzas can feed the entire group.

A group of 103 Canadian business leaders were polled by COMPAS Inc. about the greatest challenges in the workplace, and the ability of communications devices to disrupt meetings (and likely annoy those in attendance) came out on top.

In my role managing Firebrand Group, I've been lucky to advise top - tier brands for years on the future of marketing and communications.

With the deal, Compass Group is replacing one of the top - five global consumer - packaged goods companies in the world with Hampton Creek's dressing, as well as a top - five supplier of bakery products in the U.S. with mixes made by the startup.

While most of the «big» states like California, New York, and Texas are represented in the top 10, it's worth noting that Arkansas (Walmart), Rhode Island (CVS), Minnesota (UnitedHealth Group), and Nebraska (Berkshire Hathaway) are outliers in that context.

Brett McGurk, the top U.S. envoy for the coalition battling the Islamic State group, said he was in northern Syria to prepare for the defeat of the militants.

Today the foreign spy service is recruiting in an increasingly open and competitive marketplace where it has to vie with big industrial groups, start - ups and other top - end recruiters to attract high - fliers, says Moreau, whose remit covers oversight of hiring.

When recognition of that complexity shapes hiring, it opens transformative opportunities to people from groups underrepresented in top professions: ethnic minorities, stay - at - home parents, working - class kids, veterans.

While the Sinaloa cartel is considered one of the most powerful criminal groups in the Western Hemisphere and the world, the cartel itself operates more like a federation of allied factions than like a traditional hierarchical cartel with a top - down leadership structure.

Small - business owners offer health benefits for a variety of reasons: they're genuinely concerned about their employees being taken care of, it's mandated in their state or they want to be more competitive to attract top talent (a large majority of employees consider a health plan to be the most important benefit they can be offered, according to a survey by the National Business of Group on Health).

Under pressure from beleaguered residents and facing Russian threats of further such attacks, the rebel group Jaish al - Islam finally agreed to surrender Douma and leave for the Turkish border, Mohammad Alloush, a top official in the movement, said.

Total pay for top executives in Sweden and Denmark is about 75 percent of the European average, and lower in Norway and Finland, data from management consultancy Hay Group show, a gap compounded by some of the world's highest taxes.

The search itself came after strong criticism from Democrats in Congress and some outside interest groups about the lack of diversity at top positions on the Fed.

In fact, the co-founders focus grouped dozens of ideas before landing on spin tops, which ultimately met their criteria for a simply designed, handcrafted piece of nostalgia that was high - quality and made in CanadIn fact, the co-founders focus grouped dozens of ideas before landing on spin tops, which ultimately met their criteria for a simply designed, handcrafted piece of nostalgia that was high - quality and made in Canadin Canada.

Since video has become a major focus for AOL, Adap.tv, which specializes in video and has dealings with 83 of the top 100 Ad Age advertisers, «essentially provides the technology and the relationships to help facilitate that shift at a faster rate for AOL,» said Telsey Group analyst James Cakmak.

The bank is now among the top three in 31 business categories — a group of businesses that generate 83 % of the revenue pool, according to JPMorgan.

Vevo's owners include two of the top music record labels: Universal Music Group, owned by Vivendi, and Sony Music Entertainment, in addition to Google and Abu Dhabi Media.

The film «Everest,» a thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Josh Brolin in which a group of climbers are engulfed a blinding blizzard, is currently in the top five at the North American box office.

The National Venture Capital Association, an industry group of top U.S. venture capitalists, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in Washington D.C. District Court against the Trump Administration, alleging it illegally delayed an immigration program created during President Obama's term.

In fact, all of the most respected companies on our top 10 list are based outside our borders, while only two Canadian companies — Jean Coutu Group and Tim Hortons — cracked the top 30.

Statistically speaking, decision - makers in a top - down team structure do 80 % of the talking in a group setting, while everyone else contributes 20 %, Greer says.

At a recent Stanford Medicine X lecture, Stanford Graduate School of Business organizational behavior professor Lindred Greer described three problems with top - down team structures — whether in a hospital setting or an office — and shared tips on how to make better decisions as a group.

So it may come as no surprise that the top five highest - earning elected women serving in governments worldwide, as surveyed by British financial service firm IG Group, coincidentally happen to earn less than their elected male counterparts in an all - gender list of of elected, appointed and lifetime world leaders.

There have been comparatively few leaks compared to last year's awards season (so far), when a single group called Hive - CM8 leaked more than a dozen of 2016's top movies, including James Bond movie «Spectre,» «Legend,» «Steve Jobs,» «Creed,» and Quentin Tarantino's «The Hateful Eight» — before it even came out in the cinemas.

In a ranking of the top 300 Canadian tech firms by revenue conducted by consultancy Branham Group, RIM currently dwarfs the rest of the group with $ 20 billion in sales, twice as much as the No. 2 company, BCIn a ranking of the top 300 Canadian tech firms by revenue conducted by consultancy Branham Group, RIM currently dwarfs the rest of the group with $ 20 billion in sales, twice as much as the No. 2 company,Group, RIM currently dwarfs the rest of the group with $ 20 billion in sales, twice as much as the No. 2 company,group with $ 20 billion in sales, twice as much as the No. 2 company, BCin sales, twice as much as the No. 2 company, BCE.

For the ninth year in a row, Apple has topped Boston Consulting Group's annual list of the companies leading the charge in defining what's new and cool.

At $ 5 monthly, this group of self - described «leading software developers who've worked for Oracle, Research In Motion and other top companies» stands to make a mint.

And in its combination of novelty, technology, and customer pampering, Roosevelt Field embodies the strategy that has helped its owner, Simon Property Group spg, navigate retail's crisis to stay on top of the mall world.

The top Republican lawmaker in charge of oversight of the IRS set a hearing to probe the agency's admission that it gave extra scrutiny to conservative «Tea Party» groups.