Sentences with phrase «was a good year from»

19 Apr 2018 — For Finnish dairy company Valio, 2017 was a good year from a business development perspective with net sales increasing by 4.3 percent, and Valio was able to pay the co-operatives a steady milk price despite the challenging market situation.

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That vision and his company's incredible financial performance — Nvidia has been growing profits at better than 50 % annually and its stock has leapt from $ 30 to above $ 200 in two years — make Huang the clear choice as Fortune's Businessperson of the Year for 2017.

Approximately 60 percent of U.S. actively managed large - cap funds are beating their benchmarks for the year to date, the best performance through April for any year since at least 2009, according to research from Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

This reward offer is good for one year from the date it is first offered, unless extended by Razer.

They said the comments from Hastings and Sarandos were only intended to suggest that the streaming - video provider wants to do more Vice-style documentaries, as well as news - related shows such as the one it is planning with comedian Chelsea Handler for next year.

To be sure, * The Magic of Thinking Big * was not written strictly for entrepreneurs — I'm not sure the word was well - known in the 50s... but applying the principals from this book has contributed to the enormous growth my public relations agency has enjoyed each year of our existence.

For people in their 20s and 30s, Ponnapalli concedes that rules of thumb and general targets are a good place to start since it might be hard to gauge a detailed retirement budget from that many years away.

As to the question of when he and his party will develop a broad and substantive legislative platform to tackle the critical challenges America faces, McConnell has a ready answer as well: «If we're in the majority,» he says, «we'll be sitting down, intensely, a year from now on the very issue you've raised.»

Additionally, self - driving car technology will be so good that these robotic automobiles will posses driving skills that «will be indistinguishable from humans except that robot drivers will be safer and more predictable than a human driver with less than one year's driving experience.»

Well, there are several factors, including a fan base that's grown over the years from the original Redditors who found Imgur a handy place to save a meme or personal photo.

We've made many changes to it over the years as we've learned from our experiences, and we're always looking for ways to make it better.»

The two CEOs hope that the changes resulting from the merger will be implemented over the next couple of years, creating a «dramatic change» for consumers in which the store will be «not just about products, but also service offerings that can help people on their path to better health.»

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

While we're in the midst of a healthy bounce from the year's lows, the larger trend is, at best, in the midst of a flattening out or, at worst, presaging a rollover.

From big cities like Hong Kong and Barcelona to less prominent destinations like Valparaiso and Reykjavik, these are the world's best New Year's celebrations.

Morneau said nine out of 10 recipients of child benefits would do better under the new program than they were previously; a family of two children earning $ 90,000 per year will get a tax - free bonus of $ 5,650 per year from the federal government, an increase of $ 2,500 per year compared with Harper's child - subsidy regime.

«It was our best quarter ever for Apple Watch and when we add the results from Beats and AirPods, our total revenue from wearables was up almost 70 percent year - over-year,» Maestri said.

Looking at demographic and economic data, Mandelman and Zlate say that there may be good reason to believe that the sort of mass movement from Mexico to the U.S. that was seen in the years leading up to the Great Recession could be a thing of the past.

Canadians worrying about the state of their retirement savings can enjoy some good news this week: Canada has been ranked 10th in the 2016 Global Retirement Index, up from 12th last year.

As horrific as the tolls from Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy — or those from the tsunamis in Japan (2011) and the Indian Ocean (2004)-- were, Galea reveals how the social context in each affected region transformed the population's health, in ways good and bad, for years afterward.

Twelve years later, I'm a CEO at that same company, which I now co-own with my best friend from college.

It's been hard to keep up with Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez over the years: One minute they're together, and the next they seem to want to move on from each other for good.

With more MBA programs than ever before serving a record number of students — about 10,000 students are registered in Canadian MBA programs this year, up from 4,800 in 1998 — specialization has become a defining trend, helping schools compete for the best students, and graduates compete for the best jobs.

The same was true last year, when this year's No. 2, Estonia, topped the list; this year's and last year's top five cities all came from those regions as well.

The Tories are committing $ 44.9 million over five years to expand the focus of the National Anti-Drug Strategy from illicit street drugs to prescription drug abuse as well.

CEO Randy Eresman noted in the Calgary - based company's 2011 year - end results: «For the industry as a whole, near - term natural gas prices are at levels below what it costs to add most new production, and in some places, may even be below what it costs to produce from existing wells.»

He is known for hosting «American Idol» for 15 seasons, as well as for his work as the host and executive producer of E!'s «Live from the Red Carpet» and «Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin» Eve.»

So, the studio's biggest question mark of the year will be November's Justice League, which will bring together several superheroes from that universe of films, including Wonder Woman as well as Batman and Superman.

Though Herbalife's quarterly sales and profit dropped from the previous year, to $ 1.1 billion and $ 85 million, respectively, that was well above analysts» forecasts.

The Warriors are currently the favorite to win the NBA title, and given their youth — from the players to Kerr as a rookie head coach — they could conceivably get better in the coming years.

Return on average common equity (ROE), a measure of how well the bank uses shareholder money to generate profit, was 6.4 % in the quarter, down from 14.7 % a year earlier.

To understand what makes Davis so good, it's helpful to know this bit of trivia — Davis grew from 6» 2» to 6» 10» between his sophomore and senior years in high school.

Plunging sales two years ago sent Fitbit's shares into a tailspin — they're down more than 70 % from their 2015 initial public offering price — although it has unveiled a well - reviewed watch of its own called Versa.

The fundraiser tool for users is the latest product from Facebook's social good team, which launched last year and is responsible for the social network's safety check technology that's switched on after natural disasters or emergencies and lets users notify friends that they're okay.

It is also planning to drill up to three new oil wells on a new project in Colorado after strong results from its first well drilled last year.

«If your business is structured as a sole proprietorship or an LLC, you are probably better off taking distributions from the company and paying taxes on an estimated basis during the year,» Spark says.

Start with just one thing that you're going to stop doing and work your way from there to create an even better business in the New Year.

Jennings suggests soliciting anonymous input from your staff on a situation they were in during the past year that made them uncomfortable as a good starting point.

Matthew Roberts, who has been diligently flying a drone over Apple Park for over a year to photograph it, has delivered the best look at the campus's finishing touches from the skies.

This year's field of Best Picture nominees features eight movies with widely variant box office performances, from 20th Century Fox's (FOX) The Martian «s leading $ 228 million in domestic gross to Room, which barely cracked $ 12.5 million in ticket sales.

By that metric, and every other, Port Equipment has done phenomenally well: In five years it's grown from five employees to 50 who are spread out among the six intermodal yards the company now maintains for Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC).

The ability to put a new spin on the old: That's what catapulted Jason Lucash and his business partner, Mike Szymczak, from aspiring entrepreneurs to creators of one of Time's 50 best inventions of the year in 2009.

Zukunft: Well, the first is you think beyond the tyranny of the present, and you need to think at least five to six years out, and you can't just think of what's going to happen during your four - year tenure and then just truncate it and just say it's going to be somebody else's problem four, five years from now.

It's hard to verify independently the claims of retail traders who say they have made good money this year, when worries about a slowing Chinese economy and the slumping oil price have wiped up to $ 8 trillion from world stock markets in January alone.

On this year's list, robots are going places no human has ever been, «big data» is doing things that weathermen have never been able to master, carbon is being captured from waste and turned into fuel simultaneously, fiber optic cables are searching for oil, and future well blowouts are being averted (maybe).

She was out of shape, she looked about 30 years older than she was, and now her life was going to go from better to worse.

For Allegiant, however, such great numbers actually mark a stark drop from the past two years, when its almost 30 percent margins were among the best in the industry worldwide.

Our growth rate is under 2 %, and so that's a good investment in what we're delivering will be in service at least 30, if not more, years from today.

With a budget of $ 40 billion per year, the Defense Logistics Agency has 25,000 employees and is responsible for overseeing 100,000 orders daily from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, as well as other agencies.

The Top 10 is completely different from year to year, and the same is true to a lesser extent for the best analysts in each sector.