Sentences with phrase «which competing firms»

The research behind a new drug is protected for a fixed number of years, after which competing firms can begin manufacturing generic forms.

Not exact matches

Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile, whose analytics firm has partnered with Google on AMP, says that fixing the mobile web in the way Google has proposed would also help the open web compete with proprietary apps, which for many users have become the primary way they interact with content and media.

Islam speculates that contracts for which Zantech once competed are flowing to large firms, which have greater name recognition and economies of scale and can do the work for less money.

That's why you should consider a covenant not to compete, in which an employee joining your firm agrees not to work for a competing business for a specified period of time.

Rizkalla insists that his defence - oriented training products don't compete with the full - scale cockpit simulators built by firms like CAE, which is a customer of Bluedrop's.

While 80 % of its assignments come through referrals, the firm has been lousy at growing the 20 % for which it has to compete.

Ideally, benefits of this special 8 (a) program to the protà © gà © firm — which can have only one mentor at a time — will include technical and management assistance; options to enter into joint - venture business agreements with mentor firms to compete for government contracts; financial assistance in the form of equity or loans; and qualification for other SBA assistance programs.

It competes against recruiters, such as San Francisco - based Hired.com, which is looking for as many as 200 Canadian software engineers for Silicon Valley firms to hire.

The Vancouver company, like other Canadian tech companies, is competing with San Francisco's Silicon Valley which regularly draws software engineers to work at heavyweights Google, Twitter, Facebook, Apple and LinkedIn, and startup firms.

Canadian firms can compete in foreign markets partly by making use of lower - cost imported inputs, which raises their productivity.6 And their exports of intermediate products are linked to their trading partner's trade performance.

The online matrimony firm, which competes with bharatmatrimony.com, a subsidiary of Matrimony.com Pvt Ltd and shaadi.com operated by People Interactive Pvt Ltd, said in the filing that «mobile continues to be Jeevansathi's focus where we have the highest rated app (4.2) in the online matrimony category».

In India, Tencent competes with Chinese e-tailing giant Alibaba, which is the largest stakeholder in digital wallet firm Paytm, and Japan's SoftBank Group.

In Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 98 the Supreme Court formalized this premise into a doctrinal test.The case involved cigarette manufacturing, an industry dominated by six firms.99 Liggett, one of the six, introduced a line of generic cigarettes, which it sold for about 30 % less than the price of branded cigarettes.100 Liggett alleged that when it became clear that its generics were diverting business from branded cigarettes, Brown & Williamson, a competing manufacturer, began selling its own generics at a loss.101 Liggett sued, claiming that Brown & Williamson's tactic was designed to pressure Liggett to raise prices on its generics, thus enabling Brown & Williamson to maintain high profits on branded cigarettes.

Competing firms can team up on initiatives in which participants pool resources to help each other achieve long - term goals.

The search firm's news feed received an unexpected bump in the first quarter due to a crackdown by Chinese internet regulators on low - brow content, which saw several competing apps targeted during a key client - acquisition period.

CMIT's Managed Services model, which provides a full outsourced IT solution, is the only firm of this type competing on a national scope.

Premium Cider on the Rise Across European Markets, Says Canadean Premium cider brands in West Europe recorded a compound annual growth rate of almost 8 % between 2009 and 2015, far exceeding competing price segment categories which all posted declines, says consumer insight firm Canadean...

In truth, there are a variety of ways around the existing system - for instance by having publicly - owned firms bid for contracts and using government powers to select the conditions upon which private firms compete with them.

Those developers were allegedly allowed to draft RFPs (request for proposals — the official pitch for those competing for state projects) themselves, thereby handpicking exactly which qualifications «the state» required, which, wouldn't you know, always happened to fit those firm's qualifications.

The loan is part of $ 27.5 million buyout being overseen by Laughlin and Kirk Dorn aimed at keeping the company, which was founded in 1954, in Buffalo and prevent it from being acquired by competing, out - of - the - region firms.

Steve McNamara is general secretary of the Licensed Taxi Drivers» Association, which represents drivers at firms competing with Uber.

The company, Halliburton, which was run by former Vice-President Dick Cheney, was given $ 39.5 billion in Iraq - related contracts over the past decade, with many of the deals given without any bidding from competing firms.

«People smell the money and there are lots of people rushing out with unsophisticated formulas,» said Mr. Sanders, who works as a senior researcher at software firm SAS Institute Inc., which competes with VARC for contracts.

Prior to founding ProRank Business Solutions in 2012, Kyron was the Director of the Pennsylvania Disadvantage Business Enterprise Supportive Service Center, which provided services to Disadvantage Business Enterprises to help those firms compete with Non - Disadvantage Business Enterprises on an equal basis.

Chitika is an ad firm which could play some role in the figures, but given the near - ubiquity of the importance of web browsing in tablet use I'd say this shows that the hype about competing tablets is just that: hype.

Price - to - sales ratios have shown an ability to highlight attractively priced stocks, but the test for stocks with low price - to - sales ratios is tied to the normal profitability level for the industry in which a firm competes.

This allowed more brokerage firms to compete on price which encouraged smaller investors to participate in the stock market.

Then, he far surpassed my expectations by speaking with a competing debt negotiation firm of which I had been a client, to get a refund of the fees I had paid them.

EMU brought an easing of mutual settlement of accounts between country members, stabilization of the exchange rate and also an appearing of the single, firm and uncalculating European currency, which could compete with the U. S. dollar on equal terms on the world markets.

eSports Hero, an eSports company which provides players with a platform to compete in «microtournaments», has announced that they have received $ 1 million in financing from Australian based eSports Mogul, an eSports investment firm

Now, with the financial failures of Areva and Westinghouse, KEPCO is the only Western nuclear firm capable of competing with Rosatom, which is seeking to finance, build, own and operate nuclear plants in foreign nations.

The company behind the technology, British firm Oxitec, explains that sterile males would be released to compete with wild males for female insects, which would then have no offspring and reduce the population of the next generation.

As he saw it, the FTC's workshop - whose outcome we won't know for some time - showed that there were two competing lobbies over the RECs as offsets issue: a coalition of U.S. and international energy firms that support RECs on one hand, and a diverse international array of offset aggregators, brokers and developers represented by organizations such as the International Emission Trading Association (IETA) which support offsets.

While smaller firms, which like last year constitute the majority of survey respondents, may be reducing first - year associate salaries, Bay Street firms competing for top talent are unlikely to follow suit, Bongard believes.

This is especially the case for smaller firms, since they disproportionately serve individuals and small businesses hit hardest by the recession, and because price is a factor upon which large firms simply can not compete, for structural and cultural reasons.

They are better positioned to compete with those firms which have yet to lift the lid on this topic.

The strategy is risky, as it often can lead to a price war (when firms compete to increase market share by decreasing price), which has no winners.

While these lawyers are correct that «bet - the - company» work is not the area in which accounting firms are initially going to compete, the «run - the - company» work is, as Jordan Furlong has argued.

Alternative investors or commercial operators need to be encouraged to come into this market to allow these lawyers to compete on equal terms with larger firms which have benefited from external capital investment, and to ensure access to justice is available to all.

Does everyone in your firm understand the specific implications of globalization for the markets in which you compete and the clients that you want to serve?

The firm, which was unable to confirm or deny the hires, has previously stated its intention to compete with its rivals on Hong Kong corporate work, and particularly IPO and securities deals.

Regulators need to review a system which imposes regulation to the point where people can't afford a solicitor, and firms are closing because they can't compete with PLFs which are subject to the same regulatory «burden» as your local newsagent.

Thirty firms competed for places on the roster, which will be used to coordinate an annual legal spend of around # 13m.

The best students — regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation — have plenty of options (some of which may not include going to law firms), so firms must also compete with these students» other interests.

Non-traditional legal service providers — whose existence preceded the recession — saw an opportunity in the chaos and began competing with firms for commoditized work, which gave clients more options and opportunities to cut costs.

«Suddenly, all our blessed and branded publishing channels — blogs, microsites, the firm website and email alerts, especially — are competing with a site that has 175 million users, and on which every one of our lawyers probably already had a presence.

There are over one million attorney profiles on Avvo; if even a fraction of those lawyers embed the badge on their sites, Avvo will receive thousands of links to its city pages, which are directly competing with individual law firms for search engine visibility.

The Breast Cancer Care Tour de Law event, in which firms competed to cycle the distance from London to Paris and back on stationary bicycles, has so far raised # 68,720.68.

The largest law firms in Canada and the U.S. spend a lot of time, money and effort to compete for the «top law students,» which they define narrowly as those who got the best marks at the top - rated schools.

Outside law firms will find themselves competing for less work, which will put a downward pressure on fees.