Not exact matches
What has usually happened is that one
company has come to dominate a particular field
with its products, then had its monopoly smashed either
by authorities or
by co-operating competitors that stressed openness and interoperable
standards.
The
companies deal
with the tension between encouraging growth and staying socially responsible
by using
standard management techniques.
The other CEOs in the group saw how Steve could partner
with a large digital technology
company that generated printable content like Adobe or Microsoft, in a way that would make his business the
standard by which people turned their online digital information into hard copy.
These measurers do not have a
standard meaning prescribed
by GAAP and therefore they may not be comparable to similarly titled measurers presented
by other publicly traded
companies, and should not be construed as an alternative to other financial measures determined in accordance
with GAAP.
The Audit Committee has also discussed
with the independent auditors matters required to be discussed
by Auditing
Standard No. 16, «Communications
with Audit Committees» issued
by the Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB).
We discussed
with PricewaterhouseCoopers matters that independent registered public accounting firms must discuss
with audit committees under generally accepted auditing
standards and
standards of the Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board («PCAOB»), including, among other things, matters related to the conduct of the audit of the
Company's consolidated financial statements and the matters required to be discussed
by PCAOB AU 380 (Communications
with Audit Committees).
We also have audited, in accordance
with the
standards of the Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), Neiman Marcus, Inc.'s internal control over financial reporting as of July 28, 2012, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued
by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated September 18, 2012 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
10 The Firm calculates its Tier 1 capital ratio and risk - weighted assets in accordance
with the capital adequacy
standards for financial holding
companies adopted
by the Federal Reserve Board.
The Audit Committee has discussed
with Ernst & Young LLP, the
Company's independent auditors, the matters required to be discussed
by Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board («PCAOB») Auditing
Standard 1301, Communications
with Audit Committees.
BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied
by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances
with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated
with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry
standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry, and the
company's previously disclosed review of strategic alternatives.
The Audit Committee reviewed and discussed
with the independent registered public accounting firm the audited consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2014, the firm's judgments as to the acceptability and quality of FedEx's accounting principles and such other matters as are required to be discussed
with the Audit Committee under the
standards of the Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States)(the «PCAOB»), including those matters required to be discussed
by Auditing
Standard No. 16, Communications
with Audit Committees.
We have discussed
with Deloitte & Touche LLP the matters required to be discussed
by the Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board («PCAOB»), as adopted in Auditing
Standard No. 16 (Communications
with Audit Committees).
The Audit Committee has also discussed
with EY the matters required to be discussed
by Auditing
Standard No. 16, «Communications
with Audit Committees» issued
by the Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board («PCAOB»).
«Regulatory approval from the NYDFS allows us to serve as a custodian for our clients» assets and expand our services to U.S. customers — the largest market of bitcoin traders in the world — and allows us to do so
with the highest
standard of care afforded
by any Bitcoin
company.»
As China pushes forward
with its national anti-corruption campaign,
companies are considering
standards released
by the International
Standards Organization (ISO) to improve anti-bribery and corporate compliance programs.
While the SEC announcement recognized that not all blockchain - based tokens are necessarily securities — Ether is not a security, while the DAO tokens are — the announcement should be taken seriously
by companies seeking to launch an initial coin offering (ICO) under U.S. jurisdiction.Other countries have taken different regulatory approaches, on Medium, Andrew Keys, head of global business development
with ConsenSys, reported that the Chinese Mint is «experimenting
with the ERC 20 token
standard and Ethereum smart contracts to digitize the RMB.»
The Audit Committee has discussed
with the independent auditors the matters required to be discussed
by Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) Auditing
Standard No. 16, Communications
with Audit Committees.
In Tangled, the Walt Disney
Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl
with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told
by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural
standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults
with his animated retellings of fairy tales.
«Brazilian
companies with x-ray product inspection systems in place are not only protecting their brands from costly recalls and ensuring the loyalty of their customers, but also are opening new markets for their products throughout exports
by demonstrating adherence to global
standards.»
The
company also offers compliance services
by ensuring that products comply
with a country's import requirements including labeling, nutritional information, food safety
standards and relevant certification.
Any
company's supply chain that is consistent
with our
standard goes above and beyond what's being mandated
by the SDGs.
The Growth Lab at Food Matters Live, hosted
by The Aurora Ceres Partnership Ltd provides the opportunity for young and growing food
companies to connect
with the essential support functions, form innovation specialist, product developers and trading
standards that can help them achieve their dreams and ensure that those obstacles are nothing more than minor distractions.
Underpinned
by the
company's ethos of investment in the environment, expertise and high
standards of customer care, the division is working to build on a series of award winning projects
with further developments.
«This world - class technology — which can be applied globally
by all community - minded
companies with organic waste and wastewater streams — produces both green energy to supplant fossil fuel needs as well as delivering high quality treated wastewater to safeguard community water
standards.
The Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG) is a collective of progressive palm oil
companies and brands together
with environmental and social NGOs that are working to build on the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
standards and commitments
by both demonstrating innovation to implement RSPO existing
standards as well as additional critical issues.
The
company says it accomplishes this
by: > «Taking pride in our immense devotion to customer service; > «Making every effort to fulfill customer requests; > «Delivering quality products accurately and timely in accordance
with customers» orders; > «Working together in a synergistic environment to ensure the satisfaction of all customers; > «Recognizing and supporting our commitment to our employees as valuable links in our chain of success; and > «Conducting business according to the highest ethical
standards and serving as an outstanding corporate citizen in the community.»
In addition to ensuring our suppliers comply
with the food safety
standards recognized
by Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), we make a concerted effort to give diverse
companies such as small, women - owned, minority - owned and veteran - owned businesses the opportunity to supply quality product options that meet our
company's growing business needs.
A policyholder could find itself in the position of recalling on its own initiative or being asked
by FDA to recall based on this «reasonable probability»
standard, but not being able to satisfy the definition of «accidental contamination» under its specialty policy because it can not prove its product was W
With the frequency of costly product recalls on the rise, many
companies have considered purchasing specialty recall coverage to secure coverage for certain recall - related losses that are often excluded from general liability and property policies.
Football finances were back in the news this week; firstly,
with a report
by a
company called Vysyble claiming that football was heading for financial disaster and secondly, a contradictory upbeat article in the Evening
Standard trumpeting the fact that London was leading the charge in the game's unstoppable revenue growth.
The long answer is that, it is true that the National Operating Committee on
Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) initially decided in July 2013 that modification of helmets
with third - party after - market add - ons, such as impact sensors installed inside a helmet or to its exterior, would be viewed as voiding the helmet manufacturer's certification, and that the certification could only be regained if the helmet was retested
by the manufacturer
with the add - on, NOCSAE later issued a press release clarifying that position: Instead of automatically voiding the certification, NOCSAE decided it would leave it up to helmet manufacturers to decide whether a particular third - party add - on affixed to the helmet, such as a impact sensor, voided its certification of compliance
with NOCSAE's
standard, and now allows
companies which make add - on products for football helmets to make their own certification of compliance
with the NOCSAE
standards on a helmet model, as long as the certification is done according to NOCSAE
standards, and as long as the manufacturer assumes responsibility (in other words, potential legal liability) for the helmet / add - on combination.
From monitoring Nestlé's baby milk marketing activities and working
with partners around the world to force it and other
companies to abide
by minimum marketing
standards, I have seen Nestlé's strategies employed in their full range from slick PR to dirty tricks.
These self - serving marketing campaigns dressed up as «imparting knowledge» are prohibited
by international marketing
standards — Article 5.5 of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes is clear that
companies should not seek direct or indirect contact
with pregnant women and parents.
Nestlé has formed the Infant & Pediatric Nutrition Association of the Philippines
with formula
companies Abbott Laboratories, Fonterra Brands, Mead Johnson Nutrition and Wyeth to lobby against the existing marketing requirements — yet Nestlé and other
companies cite anti-trust regulations when called on to mutually agree to stop violations of the international minimum
standards adopted
by the World Health Assembly.
At that time the western medical model had become
standard in the Philippines and throughout much of the developing world - babies were routinely removed from their mothers at birth, placed in a nursery and formula fed -
with supplies happily provided
by the milk
companies.
I showed the picture of a child who died from unsafe bottle feeding to the Nestlé Chairman, Peter Brabeck - Letmathé, and 2,446 shareholders at the
company's shareholder meeting this month (16 April) and asked him to stop promoting formula in Bangladesh
with the «gentle start» claim and abide
by the UN minimum marketing
standards there and everywhere.
As a result of our rigorous quality
standards, our partnerships
with pediatricians, engineers, and chemists, and our product construction
by Amish craftsmen, Naturepedic has become one of the premier organic mattress
companies in the world.
The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene previously took samples from 235 and 233 East Fifth Street and 514 East 12th Street managed
by Brookhill Properties, the
company owned
by Toledano, and found that the concentrations of lead dust far exceeded the Environmental Protection Agency's hazard
standard,
with the lead concentration as high as 15 times what is legally allowed in the building at 233 East Fifth Street.
On July 21 — more than a month after the initial payment was due — a letter from Deputy County Executive Kevin Plunkett to
Standard granted the
company an extension for its first payment until Sept. 30; a date that coincides
with the county Board of Legislators» revised deadline for deciding the fate of the Playland pool, a decision that was initially supposed to be finalized
by July 31.
The decision has one down - side that the electricity market reform will have to resolve:
by dropping the CCS levy on consumers and committing to taxpayer funding, it reduces the incentive of the existing power
companies to engage
with CCS, and reinforces the need for a strong emissions performance
standard to ensure they have clarity about the low carbon direction of the electricity market.
New York will end an agreement
with New Jersey allowing
companies to trade emission credits in order to meet pollution
standards, a decision that follows accusations
by federal prosecutors that the credits were part of a corruption scheme involving a Competitive Power Ventures power plant in New Jersey.
I feel that it's not driven so much
by dollars but more
by complying
with government
standards and making sure that the
company is following the rules,» says Ma.
While only 16 percent of the products in its 2012 line contain Bluesign - approved fabrics, the
company has set a goal
with its suppliers to have all Patagonia fabrics adhere to the
standard by 2015.
Frustrated
with technical limitations and declining
standards as more jumped into the field, he quit science and
by 1996 was working for his father's machine tool
company.
President Clinton's grand plan for national information «superhighways» has moved a step closer,
with an alliance of top electronics
companies and research institutes agreeing
standards that will allow high - definition TV pictures to be displayed on computer screens
by the end of the decade.
Policymakers can complement better, more comprehensive regulation
by endorsing and reinforcing
company standards, sharing related information
with companies and covering compliance costs for small producers, among other efforts.
With a membership that includes representatives from biotech and pharmaceutical
companies as well as academia, the CIC provides a platform aimed at making cancer immunotherapies part of the
standard - of - care in oncology
by finding solutions to scientific and developmental challenges.
While
companies must comply
with industry
standards called Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP's), a 2012 audit found that nearly 70 % of
companies audited
by the FDA were not in compliance
with major issues including failure to test products, the presence of contaminants, non-approved dietary ingredients, and pharmaceutical drugs
The
company had removed poor quality items from its website and responded to the Commerce Commission's communication
by «taking extra steps to ensure compliance
with their
standards», she said.
All the services offered
by the website come
with an anti-fraud policy, the
company is protected
by Geotrust and Trustwave, and they ensure online security that gives iDateAsia an industry -
standard security.
Successful career woman Lauren (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button's Taraji P. Henson), the youngest COO of a Fortune 500
company, thinks her high
standards are met
by Dominic (Michael Ealy), but he's less a rising chef and more a newly - unemployed valet driver
with dreams.