Sentences with phrase «traditional companies sell»

Other, more traditional companies sell specially priced policies online because by shopping this way, you are doing some of the work for them and saving the expense of the middle man.

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The company has expanded into other businesses to diversify away from the traditional news model, with moves like hosting live conferences, starting a wine club, and opening an online store selling branded products.

Instead of a traditional IPO, Spotify plans a direct listing, which will let investors and employees sell shares without the company raising new capital or hiring a Wall Street bank or broker to underwrite the offering.

Traditional dog food starts with poor quality ingredients (waste from the human food industry) and is processed so heavily by extrusion that it is necessary for companies to add synthetic vitamins to sell food as «complete and balanced.»

Traditional banks have also sold their bad loans to these nonbank companies, which have then packaged them up in products for sale to consumers and, also, back to the banks.

Netflix is a classic double - edged sword for traditional TV studios and networks: Most of them would much rather not sell their content to the company, but in some ways they are forced to do so, in order to reach a growing audience of millennial cord - cutters.

The company has a few limited - time offers, like Shacktoberfest — a 10 - day event in October when the company sells sausages, beer and desserts in an ode to traditional Oktoberfest fare.

Guayaki Sustainable Rainforest Products The Sebastopol, California, company, which sells yerba maté teas, has used its B Corp status to partner with fellow B Corps Numi Organic Tea and Traditional Medicinals.

One bank exec who oversees US IPOs said this was «not a replacement for an IPO» since Spotify wasn't raising any money, one of the traditional purposes of an offering — to sell a portion of the company to the public to finance more growth.

That's a departure from a traditional initial public offering in which a company and a few select investors first sell a limited amount of stock at a starting price determined by investment bankers who spend weeks gauging investor demand.

Xiaomi brands itself as an Internet company that eschews traditional marketing and sells hardware at low prices as a distribution channel for its real money maker - software and services.

We're just slogging away in the traditional investment world,»» says Cordes, who built AssetMark Investment Services to about $ 9 billion in assets, sold it to Genworth Financial Inc. in 2006, and last year was part of an investment group that re-acquired the company.

By selling altcoins and tokens for the purpose of financing or utilizing projects, companies that would be recognized as too risky or too small by traditional investment entities have a means to raise large amounts of seed capital.

Pay - per - use services such as car - sharing and ride - hailing are starting to challenge traditional car ownership in some in some of China's most congested cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, while global automakers are starting to bill themselves as «mobility» companies that do more than just build and sell vehicles.

The company also began selling a new ultra-slim version of the traditional rooftop solar panel, post acquisition of SolarCity.

HARTFORD — Old and new collided at the General Assembly's transportation committee Wednesday as traditional automakers and Tesla Motors, for a second year, debated a proposal that would allow electric car companies to sell directly to consumers, instead...

Spotify, though, is forgoing a traditional IPO — in which stock is sold in advance of the opening day to some institutional investors — and executing a novel «direct listing» in which company shares are sold directly to mom - and - pop stock pickers.

According to the company's statement, 16 percent of its Pinakion tokens will be distributed during the IICO, with an additional 50 percent to be sold in a subsequent more traditional crowdsale.

The SEC warned that ICO promoters had skirted securities laws by issuing digital tokens on behalf of «virtual» companies, rather than selling traditional securities.

By eliminating traditional legal requirements for crypto exchange regulations, including mining, buying, and selling cryptocurrencies, Belarus establishes itself as the place where companies developing these types of technologies can truly flourish.

Instead of traditional equity, though, companies sell «tokens» that are essentially pre-paid credits to be used within their very limited eco-system.

These buyers may be companies you would not normally be able to sell to, or feel comfortable selling to without a traditional deposit.

Meanwhile, the US has seen all its investment banks go bust, sold off or hastily turned into traditional holding banks so they can be bailed out by Federal Reserve, while ginormous players in the mortgage space like Washington Mutual, Wachovia, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have effectively bitten the dust as independent companies.

In 2009, the company began selling its Dinner For Two line, which offers easy - to - make traditional barbecue combinations such as beef brisket and mashed potatoes or pulled pork and baked beans.

For instance, companies that make health claims on their products, such as Blackmores, now need to go through the same lengthy and costly approval process to sell their dietary supplements through online and traditional retailers in China.

Sandeep Agarwal is the founder of the Pure Indian Foods company which makes grassfed organic ghee and sells traditional organic Indian foods.

«Traditional Treatments» means synthetic chemically altered hormones sold by the drug companies.

The earliest rumblings of the financial crash are heard when Jake's boss and mentor (Frank Langella) is forced to sell off his company at a huge loss and thereafter takes the traditional exit of ruined moneymen in front of an oncoming train.

Australians have been able to buy Tesla cars online for several months, but the California - based company is to operate its own sales and service operations as opposed to the traditional dealer model in which third parties sell cars rather than the manufacturers.

By selling more of its cars to traditional customers, Swearingen hopes Mitsubishi can keep values of used models higher, allowing the company to offer lower lease rates and thus grow sales.

Though the company also sells the smaller ILX model, Acura positions the TLX against traditional entry - luxury vehicles.

This road test explores the 2018 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Limited SUV — a sport utility vehicle made by a company that still sells a whopping number of cars in the traditional sense, including one of the top sellers in Canada.

That put a heavy financial burden on the independent writer not published by a traditional publishing company, because with offset printing an indie author would have to pay to print thousands of copies of their book that weren't guaranteed to sell.

Back in January, B&N CEO William Lynch told the AP in an interview that the company was considering spinning off the eBook business from the traditional book - selling business.

Hundreds of companies are ferociously competing to be your publisher - for - pay, selling you a package with one of their ISBNs that will put most of the money you earn from your book sales that you generate into their pockets, publishing your book the way they think will make them the most money, and claiming the majority of your book sales» profits as if they've done anything that remotely resembles what a mainstream traditional publisher would do to publish and promote your book, generate targeted reader interest, and earn every single sale to each individual reader.

According to Poynter, traditional publishing companies are better at selling books in traditional bookstores, but not in specialty shops related to a niche topic.

And on the other side of this transition, when electronic books are 50 % or more of all books sold every year, the traditional publishers will be raking in profits that will make oil company profits look pale.

«Amazon is a Trojan Horse, offering low prices today — while Wall Street is willing to float a company that doesn't make a profit — at the cost of destroying the [traditional] publishing ecosystem that is indispensable to authors... Amazon actually prevents competition by locking its customers in through devices like Prime and DRM, which means Amazon customers can't read books sold by Apple or Google Play on their Kindles.»

Unlike using traditional publishing companies, self publishing allows the author to be in control of the entire creative and selling process.

If your book sells really well via the traditional bookstore approach or online sales, you may appear on the company's radar.

This company pretends it is a Literary Agency that will sell your books to traditional publishers, but all it is is a funnel into a maze of companies that demands an ever increasing drain on your wallet.

Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple... every company you can think of (and many that you may not have heard of) that sells digital books is providing authors with the opportunity to jump ship from traditional publishing to self publishing.

Last month, almost three years after the original Kindle debuted, the company reported that it's selling more Kindle ebooks than traditional hardcovers.

Many best - selling authors are going direct by publishing through epublishers instead of traditional publishing companies.

As traditional publishers look to prune their booklists and rely increasingly on blockbuster best sellers, self - publishing companies are ramping up their title counts and making money on books that sell as few as five copies, in part because the author, rather than the publisher, pays for things like cover design and printing costs.

Traditional publishers will trying other means of rights grabs — possibly with more «House Names» both as work - for - hire and fitting superficially similar books into them, if they are sold entirely to the publisher and the publisher registers the copyright in the company name.

Apples iBookstore wields enough power to change how electronic books are sold and priced, according to plaintiffs in class - action suits against the Cupertino, Calif., company and several traditional publishers.

This allowed self - published authors more cost effective marketing strategies than before with traditional publishing companies because commercial publishing companies required large, costly first runs of books that didn't always sell.

In the traditional publishing model, you write a book proposal, hire an agent, and sell your manuscript to a publishing company.

The company's traditional purpose was to sell furniture and appliances on a rent - to - own basis, giving lower income folks who don't have the ability to save the chance to buy a vastly overpriced couch.