Sentences with phrase «which tops a year»

I'd like to know what you thought of THE FALL, which topped my year - end list, with SYNECDOCHE NY and WENDY AND LUCY not far behind.

Not exact matches

The third annual tally — which is based on private - companies» three - year revenue growth — finds that five of the top 10 companies hail from Stockholm.

Their company ThinkLite, which supplies businesses with LED bulbs compatible with their existing infrastructure, lands this year's top honor — along with two tickets to next year's GrowCo conference.

The blame for the sub-zero performance of last year's top 10 dividend payers fell squarely on a single stock, without which this basket would have rewarded investors with a 7 % gain.

The 2016 list is composed entirely of financial and telecom stocks, which historically have been reliable performers, including last year's top performer, CIBC.

Lawmakers have been under pressure for years to rein in executive compensation, which has grown faster than both the stock market and the wages of the top 1 % in the last 40 years.

Almanza, a 55 - year - old South African, took over the top job at G4S, which operates in 90 countries and has 570,000 staff, in 2013 and has helped it to recover from unprofitable contracts, although shares are up just 5 percent since he took over.

«Idol,» which averaged more than 30 million weekly viewers at its 2006 peak and ranked No. 1 for nine consecutive years, averaged about 11 million last season (still enough by today's standards to land it in the top 20, but with fewer advertiser - favored younger viewers).

Gorman's pay dropped by less than 7 % last year, which was the biggest pay drop among the top bank CEOs.

Meanwhile, Adidas, which is not often associated with golf in the U.S. (although the German corporation owns TaylorMade, the top golf equipment maker), has branding potential as well at this year's Open in current top contender Dustin Johnson.

Dyson started his U.K. company in 1992 and launched the DC01, which became the country's top - selling vacuum in just a year and a half.

In fact, half of the top 10 grossing films of the year came from Walt Disney Studios — which hauled in $ 3 billion in domestic box office, Disney reported.

Analysts and investors will closely watch the headline sales number, which is likely to top last year's total.

Merkel has resisted pressure from allies within her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to put a cap on the number of refugees entering Germany, which is expected to top 1 million this year.

Consider a 2015 Forrester report, in which 50 top brands saw followers more than double on Facebook, Twitter and Google +, and quintuple on Instagram, in the previous year.

Notably, The Big Short won best adapted screenplay at the Writers Guild Awards and also took the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, which has predicted the Academy's Best Picture choice 8 out of the past 10 years.

Last year, the estimated wealth of the former English teacher turned internet entrepreneur was just over $ 4 billion, which did not even place him in the top 20.

In the years since, journalists have released more than 7,000 top - secret documents that Snowden entrusted them with, which some believe is less than 1 % of the entire archive.

Zenefits also zoomed to the top of this year's list of unicorns for 2015, thanks to a staggering $ 500 million Series C venture capital round, which increased its value from $ 500 million in 2014 to $ 4.5 billion today.

Once you open an RESP account, you can take advantage of the Canadian Education Savings Grant, which gives you a 20 % top - up from the government for every dollar you contribute, up to $ 2,500 a year per child.

That's according to new stats from app tracking firm SensorTower, which found that total installs of the top 15 apps in the United States dropped 20 per cent year over year in May.

The average tenure among the top 25 employees there is 23 years, which means that the people who ran the company in 1985, when it was small, are running it today, when it has $ 2 billion in sales.

Though some experts argue that employee tenures at the top are decreasing, she points to U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics, which find that managers stay with a firm an average of 6.1 years (up from 5.3 years in 1983), as proof that the jury is still out.

This year's average CEO salary among the top 100 highest - paid executives topped $ 9.5 million, which is 193 times the annual wage of an average Canadian.

They also potentially could create a dependent - care savings account, which would be similar to a health savings account, and would top out at $ 2,000 a year.

Set - top box Roku, which helps users play online video on their TVs, is also coming to Canada this year, joining devices like Boxee and Microsoft's Xbox console.

Every year, Glide, a San Francisco church and mission, is the beneficiary of an auction in which the prize for the top bidder is a private lunch with Buffett.

It always includes companies like Google, which claimed this year's top spot and is known for high salaries and great perks.

He topped himself the next year with this imaginative sci - fi classic, which held the title of highest - grossing movie in history until Spielberg topped it with «Jurassic Park» in 1993.

The HAGI Top index from the Historic Automobile Group International, which tracks the market for classic cars, rose by a tepid 2.21 percent in the year to July, underperforming the S&P 500.

The $ 199 million grant would have made Pichai the top - paid U.S. CEO in 2015, according to the Financial Times, which reports that the highest pay for a U.S. CEO last year was the $ 156 million paid to David Zaslav of Discovery Communications (disca).

By this measure, these are the companies ranked among the top 100 employers which you're likely to be hearing a lot more about in the coming year:

Its latest revelation came last week: for its 2015 fiscal year, Cloudera's unaudited revenue topped $ 100 million (the CEO won't disclose by how much), two - third of which are attributable to software licenses (not deployment services).

Indeed, Silicon Valley has become an epicenter of controversy over the last year amid rows between some top tech companies and the federal government over the extent to which privacy should be extended to users.

Revenue rose 6 percent to $ 23.38 billion from $ 21.96 billion a year ago, and also topped estimates, which called for $ 22.26 billion.

That's on top of a previously announced expansion of its jobs platform, which debuted in the U.S. and Canada a year ago.

Topping the group is Arcis Golf (No. 171), which pulled in $ 186M in revenue last year.

In the past year alone, nearly all of Buffett's stocks are up, particularly Apple (aapl), which now happens to be the world's top - paying dividend stock in terms of dollars paid out.

The other Canadian airports to make the top 100 include Halifax's Stanfield International Airport at 58, up 10 places from last year, and Montréal - Pierre Elliott Trudeau Intl Airport which fell five spots to 83 overall.

For what it's worth, AWS has topped this list since at least 2013, which is no surprise, given that it was first to market 11 years ago.

In December, the company, which chooses the year's top words based on out - of - the - ordinary spikes in interest, announced that «austerity» clinched the top spot in 2010.

In this year's ranking of the Fortune 500, Walmart (WMT) claims the top spot for the third consecutive year, CVS Health (CVS) debuts in the top 10, Facebook (FB) jumps nearly 100 spots to crack the top 250 in just its third year on the list, and there are 26 new companies, including Netflix (NFLX) and Salesforce.com (CRM), which are making debuts.

Most likely places where the money would be spent include upgrades on infrastructure, which President Obama, in his State of the Union address last week, mentioned as one of his top priorities in his remaining two years in office.

The bitcoin trust is the top holding of two of Ark Invest's exchange - traded funds, which unsurprisingly were among the top performing ETFs last year, according to ETF.com.

The level of commitment varies among retailers; Greenpeace, which has rated supermarkets on seafood sustainability for several years, ranks B.C.'s Overweitea the top performer, followed by Loblaw.

About three years of civil war followed, after which the Bolsheviks came out on top and took over the country.

That puts the Sony Pictures film on pace to swing to a $ 120 million opening, short of the record - breaking $ 151 million debut of 2007's Spider - Man 3 but according to Variety topping even the sunniest expectations for the film, which stars 21 - year - old actor Tom Holland in the title role.

Georgia surges to the top this year thanks largely to its economy, which caught up to the national growth rate in 2013 after lagging slightly the year before.

The 88 - member Assembly, which serves for eight years, has the authority to appoint and dismiss the country's top authority supreme leader.

California - based OnLive, backed by AT&T and BT Group, launched at last year's E3 with major studios including Electronic Arts and Ubisoft supplying top - tier console games, which customers pay to access on a computer or television.