Sentences with phrase «when acquiring companies»

Pessina met his «life partner» and fellow executive Ornella Barra when he acquired her company decades ago.

There is always a whiff of nostalgia when we get to review Motorola phones, and perhaps that's what Lenovo had in mind when it acquired the company in the first place.

«There wasn't a whole lot of turnover when I acquired the company, because what I inherited was an unusually strong culture, a loyal customer base and a strong manufacturing facility,» he says.

Trace Life Sciences inherited the accelerator when it acquired that company in 2003.

«When we acquire another company, it's not just for the purpose of becoming bigger corporate entity.

It's always easiest to achieve a merger when the acquiring company can pay a premium.»

Steve Janett joined our ownership team in November 2006 when we acquired his company, Prudential Janett Real Estate.

Not exact matches

While Luckey initially raised capital for his company through a massive crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, his company hit its stride in 2014 when Facebook [fortunes - stock symbol =» FB»] announced that it had acquired Oculus VR for $ 2 billion.

Having the opportunity to work for companies like Deloitte, working at Pardot when we were acquired by Salesforce, and now launching my own startup with 75 employees and growing, I don't think I could have been this fortunate in any other country.

Despite becoming aware of the breach and having it reported to Yahoo's senior management and legal department, the company failed to properly investigate and did not disclose it to the public until more than two years later, when it was in the process of being acquired by Verizon Communication Inc, the regulator said.

I can recall in 2013 when it was announced that the company MediaTemple was going to be acquired by GoDaddy.

We saw a prime example of a «super-have» company flexing its muscles earlier this month when WeWork acquired Conductor, a content marketing platform which works with some large enterprise clients.

When the company acquired LinkedIn for $ 26.2 billion in 2016, PCMag made several predictions about the ways in which a Microsoft and LinkedIn marriage could work, like Microsoft leveraging LinkedIn in order to give users access to expertise within Microsoft apps, such as Word and PowerPoint.

And in some cases, when billionaire investors are acquiring massive multiple - quarter stakes in companies, they are granted exemptions from the Securities and Exchange Commission from including those bets in the most recent 13F.

When they go to raise another fund, some and probably even most of their track record is still going to be illiquid, in companies that haven't yet gone public or been acquired.

Baby's First Deal: In April, when Netflix raised $ 1 billion in new debt for content acquisitions, we noted that the streaming giant has never acquired another company in its entire history.

When Match Group discovered that several companies were interested in investing in or acquiring Bumble, it filed the March lawsuit to make the company less attractive;

Typically, an inversion results when a U.S. firm acquires a foreign firm, and in the process of the transaction, reincorporates so that the foreign firm is the parent company and the U.S. firm is a subsidiary.

That changed yesterday when Netflix acquired Millarworld, an indie comic book publishing company founded by Mark Millar.

«When I was able to make that change, I went from a salary of zero, which was really disheartening, to being able to bring in a salary of six figures for myself,» says Burke, whose company posted annual revenue of $ 1.1 million and employed 15 people at its height in 2010 before being acquired by competitor Booksfree.com.

The company's new TV division is also appealing to yesteryear; it's being branded as Mainframe Entertainment, the name the company scrapped in 2006 when it was acquired by Rainmaker Income Fund.

Social media company migme has cancelled plans to undertake a share placement, after being battered by volatile markets and selling by long - term shareholders who had acquired the stock when it was a mining business.

When someone knows digital influencer relations as Gabrielle, you almost want to go out and acquire her company.

Existing tax laws around equity - based compensation can even drive a company's employees to let their options go, and miss out on the future windfall when that start - up goes public or is acquired at a good price.

From 2012 to 2014, I was head of marketing at Pardot when ExactTarget and then Salesforce acquired our company.

And, as a side note, as U.S. search and content firm Yahoo looks to unwind its 23 percent ownership stake in Alibaba when Alibaba goes public in September, it could end up competing with Alibaba for companies to acquire as it looks to reinvent itself.

When it comes to handling life as a newly acquired company, Jeff Erramouspe can offer some great advice.

The two companies are sparring over Google's allegation that Levandowski stole gigabytes worth of intellectual property when he quit to start self - driving truck company Otto in 2016, which was soon after acquired by Uber.

When David Boardman, CEO of Dynamic Brands, based in Richmond, Virginia, acquired Baby Jogger in 2003, the stroller company was bankrupt.

Dell became a private company when it sold itself to Silver Lake and CEO Michael Dell in 2013 for $ 24.4 billion, and EMC is in the process of being acquired by Dell in a deal worth $ 59 billion.

Or which companies to acquire, and when AI starts creating its own companies, creating holding companies, generating new versions of itself to run these companies,» he said at the event.

The company has also made headlines for some product bugs and for angering customers when it shut down Revolv, a connected home hub it acquired almost two years ago.

Acquiring companies had for an extended period seen a share price pop when the deals were announced.

He has since gone long on Valeant, saying such «platform companies» — those that grow through bolt - on acquisitions — enrich their shareholders with each new deal, as Valeant did when it acquired Salix Pharmaceuticals earlier this year (Valeant shares are up 49 % since then).

Kroger shares, for example, fell by double digits when Amazon announced it would acquire Whole Foods, but the company has more than six times as many locations as Whole Foods.

When that trajectory ran its course, the company had years of debate over whether to acquire or be acquired.

In the case of Tazreen, Li & Fung had acquired a new subsidiary that placed orders at the factory, but the changes sought by Li & Fung had not been made 11 weeks later when the fatal fire occurred, a company spokesman said.

When a larger company acquires a startup, the deal can often spell the end (or at least the neglect) of the products, licensing deals, and other assets that made the startup successful in the first place.

Most of our management team joined Couche - Tard when we acquired their previous companies.

Yousef Al - Benyan, the vice chairman and CEO of SABIC, said one of the biggest mistakes executives can make when acquiring a new company is to try to change the culture and make it fit with their own.

Given the success that Dyson's enterprise was able to achieve in the market at large (and not to mention its innovation - focused personal ethos), it wasn't too much of a surprise when his father announced in 2015 that he'd be acquiring the company, and folding it into the larger Dyson business.

He joined the pharmacy benefit management company in April 2012 when Express Scripts acquired Medco Health Solutions, where he worked in management for 14 years.

When direct marketing agency Creative Direct Response Inc. decided to expand its nonprofit fund - raising business, the Crofton, Maryland, firm began looking for a company to acquire.

Over the years, the firm expanded its holdings, acquiring companies when the opportunity arose.

When Saputo Inc., Canada's largest dairy producer, won a hard - fought battle to acquire one of Australia's biggest dairies in 2014, it may have looked to outside observers as if the company had jumped into the frenzied bidding at the last minute, spotting an opportunity to spin a fast deal.

They may acquire one or more private companies to take advantage of higher earnings multiples that apply when these companies are swallowed into public entities.

When one business acquires another, there are several ways of financing the deal, including the use of the acquiring company's shares to cover the cost of the transaction.

(Initially CEO of X.com when it launched an Internet - based payment service and acquired Confinity, a rival person - to - person payment company, to establish dominant market share.)

ASG Group chief executive Geoff Lewis will remain in his role when the company is acquired by NRI.

I recently read that a classmate of mine started a company that was acquired during the Internet boom for $ 500 million when it was just 18 months old.