Sentences with phrase «up the chain at»

«I sent it up the chain at Fort Leavenworth; they knew about it,» the employee says.

Consequently, the wrist then becomes injured as the athlete compensates and gains too much mobility from this downstream joint rather than looking up the chain at the problem area.

Most buyers will opt for the Latitude model, which is next up the chain at $ 25,490 and adds more content.

Sure, you can move up the chain at work but eventually your income will be capped.

Not exact matches

Napster co-founder Sean Parker's proposal to sell first - run movies to home viewers at $ 50 a pop has stirred up various corners of Hollywood, with big movie studios and theater chains up in arms over the Screening Room idea while multiple major filmmakers have landed on opposing sides of the argument.

After 11 years at its helm, Silver Chain chief executive Christopher McGowan will depart the community care organisation and return to his home in South Australia, taking up the role of SA Health chief executive in May.

Meraz brought the deal up the food chain at Showtime, which eventually bought the first - window rights for $ 60,000, a «low to middle» amount.

Nevertheless, these same issues keep showing up at hotels across the country, from bargain brands to four - and five - star chains.

«My intent was to take that department - store kiosk model and put it online,» says founder Sam Hogg, who came up with the idea while taking a Sustainable Supply Chain class at Michigan State University.

But as large companies shore up their security systems in response to high - profile data breaches, that means «the bad guys are moving down the food chain, where folks are not as prepared,» says Brian Casazza, CIO at Vistage, a training organization for small - and mid-sized businesses.

At Los Angeles International Airport, this group pressed up against a chain - link fence to take photos of a Cathay Pacific 777 nose to nose with a Qantas A380.

But it's easy to see why investors in Lowe's (low) sent shares up 7 % on Monday when the home improvement chain announced that long time CEO Robert Niblock was stepping down after 13 years at the helm.

It may have started as a pop - up shop in a ramen restaurant, but today Boba Guys operates a chain of tea shops — and premiered on this year's Inc. 5000 at No. 229.

Salespeople who work their way up the chain of command at a customer's company may have to field increasingly harder questions about specific capabilities.

Users of Cumberland Farms SmartPay save 10 cents per gallon at the chain's stations, for example, while Exxon customers using its SpeedPass + app can redeem Plenti reward points to cut the total price of their fill - up.

Shake Shack, a burger chain founded in New York City, has disclosed it expects to price the company's initial public offering between $ 14 to $ 16 per share in a deal that Reuters estimates could value the company at up to $ 568 million.

The average revenue generated by some key items is up 10 % at the store, and Gennette tells Fortune he thinks he can replicate those results throughout the chain.

The chain is famous for League's strict anti-texting policy, as well as the stars who show up to premiere films at the Austin location and the special posters designed for many of the screenings, which may pair cult classics with themed foods.

With aging boomers making up the majority of its most loyal customers, the coffee chain is keen on drawing in younger consumers, says Doug Hunter, author of Double Double: How Tim Hortons Became a Canadian Way of Life, One Cup at a Time.

Neometals» plans to go up the lithium value chain have received a major boost in the form of a solid set of numbers from tests to produce battery - grade lithium hydroxide from run - of - mine concentrates at the Mt Marion lithium mine near Coolgardie.

With the deal, JAB is scooping up a consistent restaurant chain that has posted steady comparable - restaurant sales and rising revenue at a time when many restaurant chains are hurting due to high labor costs and weak traffic trends.

Fast casual chains have gobbled up traffic and sales at a consistent clip.

Hayne might have to give up his $ 1 - per - year salary at Urban Outfitters if the clothing chain continues to make offensive garments.

The chain will be celebrating the launch with an event at a Ronald McDonald House in Milwaukee, where they will grill up some Johnsonville brats for families and children getting treatment at nearby hospitals.

People stick their money under the mattress, they don't put it to work,» says Leo Piccioli, who used to work at Officenet, a stationery and supplies start - up bought in 2004 by Staples, the US office supply chain store, and is now that company's Argentina country manager.

Located within the Greater Vancouver area, the mid - to large - size chain took in $ 52 million in revenue at the end of 2013, up 8 % from the previous year.

The store's numbers haven't been pretty either: Same - store sales growth last quarter was at its lowest level since 2009, a fact blamed in part on the New York City investigation and on the longer - term concern that it is facing stiff competition in the healthy - eating ethos up and down the grocery food chain — from Kroger (KR) and Walmart (WMT) to Trader Joe's and Sprouts (SFM).

According to People, Kardashian West, star of E!'s «Keeping Up with the Kardashians,» has a go - to order at five popular fast - food chains.

The new commitments that will bring the total to at least 138 Imax theatres in the AMC chain, with a potential for up to 148.

There are $ 5 copycats by Quiznos, Blimpies and countless regional sandwich chains, not to mention $ 5 knockoffs across the fast - food smorgasbord — KFC ($ 5 Fill - Up Box), Pizza Hut ($ 5 P'Zone), Boston Market ($ 5 menu), Burger King ($ 5 Burger) and Cici's Pizza ($ 5 «25 - footlong buffet»)-- all taking direct aim at the Footlong.

After holding numerous positions at the food chain and working his way up, Jones was named CEO of the company on April 30.

Encouragingly, business was up at its namesake and Bloomingdale's chains and their related discount business, as well as high end Bluemercury beauty shops, during the most important time of year for any department store.

There's no doubt that Down N» Out is inspired by In - N - Out, but from looking at the menus and social - media accounts of the two companies, I don't think anyone who walked into the Australian chain would really think they were at the American company — any more than somebody who went to Outback Steakhouse in the U.S. might actually think they'd somehow wound up in Australia.

Nothing quite like Bravo Bucks is in effect at Phase II, a chain of eight personal - training centers based in Raleigh, N.C. Phase II's CEO, Wade Harris, is pumping up his customer service in other ways.

You'll also get an annual $ 200 airline fee credit, up to $ 200 of credits for Uber each cardmember year, access to more than 1,000 airport lounges around the world, complimentary elite status at major hotel chains, and more.

«It's vindictive, it's mean and it's extortion,» Tarantino said, alleging that when the Arclight theater chain tried to tell Disney higher - ups that they would be honoring a contract to show «The Hateful Eight» at the Cinerama Dome, the studio threatened to pull «Star Wars» from all Arclight locations.

Trying to clean up a supply chain is nothing new — big corporations have been at it for years, mainly as a way to mitigate risks and dodge the next big scandal.

What is it: Two former Warby Parker execs — Jen Rubio, the company's former head of social media, and Steph Korey, former head of supply chain — teamed up to create Away, a travel brand aiming to create products that combine high - quality materials and innovative technology at an affordable price.

For that reason, employees at all levels of hotel chain Novotel Canada have the go - ahead to resolve any customer service complaint on their own, including, where appropriate, offering up cash compensation.

The company's stock is up 47 percent since Starboard's changes — which also included spinning off the chain's real estate — and year - over-year sales at existing Olive Garden locations have increased for six straight quarters.

Canadian Tire announced it has an agreement to snap up the upscale Pro Hockey Life chain, a move aimed at further shoring up its position as the country's leading retailer of sporting goods.

When the shipment arrives at a warehouse of one of the big grocery chains or food service operators somewhere in the city, the produce gets divvied up.

And now, the province's opportunity to move up the value chain appears to have been weakened by the growing network of pipelines leading stateside, where excess refinery capacity can be retrofitted to process bitumen at half the cost of building greenfield refineries in Canada.

And as with avocados, the price gets marked up at each link of the delivery chain (see «The Cocaine Trail to Chicago»).

SAN FRANCISCO / TOKYO (Reuters)- A labor dispute at ports on the U.S. West Coast is disrupting supply chains across the Pacific, forcing some Asian exporters to resort to costly air freight and pushing up shipping rates as more freighters are caught up in long lines to dock.

A former salaried executive assistant manager at Walgreens, Caleb Sneeringer, said his hours ballooned to up to 70 a week when the chain stopped scheduling most hourly workers for overtime around 2010.

As the «pay for work» practice is especially prevalent at the commodity - sourcing level of the food supply chain, the «No Fees» initiative initially focused on promoting ethical recruitment in palm oil and seafood sourcing, and has now scaled up to include companies in the electronics, apparel, and extractives sectors.

As the core of many production chains aimed at supplying developed - country markets, and especially the US, are in Asia, Canadian companies will have to set up facilities in Asia or risk losing their place as suppliers.

At this early stage it is not known whether a joint company will be set up or whether the collaboration will be a matter of expanding the existing benefits for members of the Rami Levy Chain Stores customers club.

At each step, there is a flow of power down the chain (from shareholders through to front - line employees), and a flow of accountability back up that chain.