Sentences with phrase «with big acquisitions»

But there are some caveats, the biggest of which is Microsoft's mixed record with big acquisitions as evidenced with Yammer, Skype and Nokia.

And emphasizing its new focus with its biggest acquisition ever, the company agreed to buy the electric - power assets of France's Alstom for some $ 13 billion.

The company is credited with the biggest acquisition ever in the Indian startup space — mobile payments startup, Freecharge, for around $ 450 million.

Fox Searchlight co-president Nancy Utley began and ended her day at the Eccles Theatre, where the Sundance premieres culminated with the big acquisition title, «The Big Sick,» directed by Michael Showalter and produced by Judd Apatow.

Not exact matches

AT&T's $ 85.4 billion planned Time Warner acquisition would be a massive transaction with the potential to remake the media and telecommunications industries, but the deal now faces some big obstacles.

If the board agrees to a deal with Blackstone, it would represent the biggest shake - up of Thomson Reuters since it was formed a decade ago by Thomson Corp's acquisition of Reuters Group Plc..

With other big acquisition funding still in the pipeline, it was crucial for banks to set a positive tone for investment - grade debt and lure buyers back into a struggling market.

A big player in Atlantic Canada, Imvescor made its move into Central Canada with the acquisition of Baton Rouge.

Home Depot has held internal discussions in recent months about a potential acquisition bid for XPO, a $ 9 billion publicly traded company that offers transportation, delivery and other logistics services for big retailers and brands, according to a person familiar with Home Depot's thinking.

But the firm also made a big move into the natural gas space with its 2013 acquisition of Plains Exploration & Production Company.

Carlsberg's Russian troubles have become a recurring theme since it placed a bet on the market with its biggest - ever acquisition in 2008.

Schusser, who joined Apple in 2004, has demonstrated an ability to work with music labels, studios and publishers — the companies that determine Apple's content acquisition costs, as it seeks to compete with big spenders such as Netflix and Spotify.

Halliburton is unlikely to try another big acquisition despite being relegated to third place by Monday's deal, people familiar with the company said.

Sodexo's acquisition of Morris Corporation has pushed it up the ranking of big facilities management companies in Western Australia at a time when its competitors have been battling with the slowdown in large projects in the Pilbara.

McKay has made expansion into the US a priority, beginning with RBC biggest ever acquisition, a $ 5 billion purchase of LA - based City National Corp..

The company, with over $ 41 billion in sales last year, placed a bigger bet on the packaged meats space with the $ 7.7 billion acquisition of Hillshire Brands in 2014.

In addition, a big acquisition will put the company in a peer group with larger competitors, which also tends to boost executive pay.

Songa's biggest shareholder, Perestroika, owned by Norwegian investor Frederik Wilhelm Mohn, would become the largest shareholder in Transocean as a result of the acquisition with a stake of about 12 percent, the firms said.

The acquisition initially made Bank of America the biggest home lender, but it has been shedding market share as it wrestles with delinquent loans and lawsuits related to mortgage - backed securities.

HAASS: So let's start actually with the 800 - pound gorilla, which is the big thing, the acquisition of 21st Century Fox.

The three CEOs, over the span of a dozen years, followed a strategy that has become the norm for many big companies during the past two decades: large stock buybacks to make use of cash, coupled with acquisitions to lift revenue.

On the heels of major exit announcements from our portfolio companies ServiceMax (pending acquisition by GE Digital) and TubeMogul (pending acquisition by Adobe), we have more big news from Trinity Family member and Real Estate tech company VTS as they announce their merger with former competitor Hightower.

With this acquisition though, Shell will position itself better to compete against big oil companies.

The purchase replaces P&G's joint venture with another company, but it still marks its biggest acquisition since the company started its brand - shedding initiative in 2013.

With the acquisition of BG Group, Shell will position itself better to compete against big oil companies.

The acquisition pushes Aspire into a new growth phase: It now needs to scurry to build out a bigger cricket farming facility to meet the demands of all current customers along with the new brand.

With its SolarWorld acquisition, SunPower moved to prevent further loss to its business by locating a bigger share of its production in the United States.

While studies show that mergers and acquisitions as a group are value neutral or negative for shareholders (on average the selling company gets all the excess returns), The Outsiders explored how some management teams focused on driving shareholder value with their M&A rather than simply using it as a mechanism to get bigger, have shown extraordinary success.

Over the past year, mergers and acquisitions have increased considerably in the healthcare IT sector, with smaller deals yielding big returns on investment, according to report from New York - based investment bank Berkery Noyes released Jan. 11.

Exxon, a latecomer to shale, is now positioned as one of its biggest players, with Tillerson's acquisition of XTO Energy in 2010 the first sign of its growing recognition of the sector's importance.

Wanda Group, along with a number of China's biggest conglomerates including HNA Group and Fosun International - has seen higher levels of scrutiny on its finances and debt over the past year as Beijing clamps down on what it sees as «irrational» overseas acquisitions.

With the Whole Foods acquisition, Amazon has the potential to take a bigger chunk of a market that does $ 600 billion in sales in the U.S. alone.

Over the years, as it has expanded through acquisitions, the company has eyed the Reckitt Benckiser brands, and when the sought - after division was put up for sale earlier this year, it stepped up with an aggressive bid, McCormick's CEO said a day after announcing McCormick's biggest acquisition ever.

In addition, mergers and acquisitions within the financial services sector, relaxation of regulations to permit a wide range of «specialized» exchanges (including some which are set up to allow computers to trade with each other), and systems allowing big institutional investors like banks, mutual funds, pension funds and money managers to exchange shares directly have pretty much eliminated the differences between the exchanges.

Verizon Communications made the biggest acquisition of the year to date with its purchase of a 45 % stake in Verizon Wireless from Vodafone of the UK in September.

With the acquisition of Great American Cookies in 1998 by the company that made chewy mall cookies big business, Mrs. Fields is now peddling her baked wares in more than 90 percent of the premier shopping malls in the United States.

The appointment coincides with a recent acquisition of a second New Zealand winery, Summerhouse, and in advance of a big year for the company's South American brands ahead of the 2016 Olympics.

Bega made a big expansion into consumer goods in January, 2017 with the acquisition of Vegemite and other brands from Mondelez International in a $ 460 million deal.

Foster's, which was taken over by SABMiller in 2012, spent up big on wine assets in the United States in 2001 with the acquisition of Beringer but made big writedowns over the next decade.

The acquisition also gave Treasury options for the future, including a potential split of the entire Treasury business into two parts, with the Blossom Hill brand adding critical mass and bigger scale to the lower - end commercial wine operations, he said.

Speculation about other possible mergers and acquisition were also rife after reports emerged last month that Spain's biggest Cava producer, Freixenet, has received a buyout offer, with German drinks group Henkell & Co. also confirming it was in preliminary talks with the Catalan company over a possible «co-operation».

The acquisition of Nordic Paper makes Shanying one of Chinas biggest paper and packaging manufacturers with global focus.

«We have a long history with Big Sandy Lake, and it is actually a very sacred place for Anishinabe people, so this acquisition was a perfect match for more than just business reasons.

The latter appears to be the most likely acquisition, with the Spanish giants seemingly happy to part ways with James, but our club has played down talk of big money signings.

Along with the old Holzman core comes a few Rookies and a big off - season acquisition of former Captain Ian Shaffer..

The French top flight recorded the biggest net profit of any of the major leagues studied, with $ 87 million having been brought into Ligue 1 when player sales and acquisitions are considered.

I read that Kondogbia is now linked to s as well which would be a great acquisition and Id really like to see either Benzema (my first choice) Higuain (my second choice) or Lcazetta (Third only due to his lack of big game experience) but the way things go with AW we'll not get any of the aforementioned as they will be snapped up by other teams while AW is on holiday and swanning around wherever he swans around during the majority of the summer.

I believe with the acquisition of a big name player, like the aforementioned Dybala, Asensio or the infamous Lemar.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

with so much money in cash reserves perhaps Stan Kroenke is insisting on holding ever bigger amounts in Arsenal in order to satisfy his creditors elsewhere that he always has a large supply of cash on tap if he should need to call on it kroenke completed his Rams takeover with an acquisition of 60 % of its share capital in August 2010, less than eight months before paying # 250 million to take his shareholding in Arsenal beyond 60 % when the global financial system was in crisis