Sentences with phrase «year group up»

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The Desmarais family kicked off the new year by snapping up Performance Sports Group, the company behind the Bauer and Easton brands, for $ 575 million with partner Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd..

HBF Group nearly tripled its annual operating surplus to $ 73 million last financial year, up from $ 25 million previously.

Surveying group MNG has acquired Giudice Surveys, with the tie - up the next step in MNG's growth strategy following a comprehensive rebrand earlier this year.

A whopping 51 million passengers are expected to fly U.S. airlines between Friday, Dec. 15 and Thursday, Jan. 4, up 3.5 percent from last year, according to Airlines for America, an industry group that chalks up the forecast to low fares and a strong economy.

To control for demographic effects, we take out groups that are often still in school (24 years and younger) or can potentially enter early retirement (55 and up).

Technology mid-caps CGI Group of Montreal and Macdonald Dettwiler & Associates of Richmond, B.C., made strategic international acquisitions earlier this year that will jack up their revenues by billions of dollars.

In its most recent earnings statement, P&G said that 27 of its 50 largest category groups are now either sustaining or growing their market share, up from 22 last year.

Mark Merritt, CEO of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA), a trade group representing the 10 largest traditional PBMs, says that while «drug prices have gone up more than we'd like» over the years, his members have saved employers 25 %.

Automotive Holdings Group has announced plans to raise up to $ 110 million from investors and purchase two car yards on the east coast, on the same day it revealed an increase in full - year profit.

Other familiar faces from years past popped up in solos and group numbers, including Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Hudson, David Cook, Fantasia, Ruben Studdard, Jordin Sparks and Kimberley Locke.

(Adidas Group bought Reebok in 2006 for $ 3.8 billion; in recent years some critics said it should sell it off, but now the company has positioned Reebok as a fitness brand, and the brand's sales were up 5 % in 2014 globally.)

Releasing a report responding to Ceres — a group made up of institutional investors which has for years been pushing resource companies to disclose their carbon bubble risks — Exxon vice-president of corporate strategic planning William Colton said, «All of ExxonMobil's current hydrocarbon reserves will be needed, along with substantial future industry investments, to address global energy needs.»

The jobs of both the president of the Eurogroup and Euro Working Group will soon be up for grabs as incumbents step down at the end of the year.

As the holiday shopping season kicks off — and merchants brace for another lean year — a small group of online entrepreneurs is setting up shop around one of retail's only bright spots: The gift card.

If the U.N. group, which has been meeting for two years, comes up with a tougher global standard, the U.S. could follow its lead.

Property investor and developer Aspen Group says it is likely to post a half - year loss of up to $ 72 million on the back of impairments on a number of its assets.

In the months leading up to the games, the agency has identified 1,600 groups responsible for more than 20,000 attacks on public institutions in recent years.

Troubled Perth company Macmahon Holdings has flagged an impairment of up to $ 125 million in its full - year financial result after losing contracts with some of its biggest clients during the past six months, including Fortescue Metals Group.

Private equity group Sirona Capital and Luke Saraceni's Saracen Properties are wrapping up their joint venture Westbridge Property Group, having not completed any projects in the three - year partnergroup Sirona Capital and Luke Saraceni's Saracen Properties are wrapping up their joint venture Westbridge Property Group, having not completed any projects in the three - year partnerGroup, having not completed any projects in the three - year partnership.

Her group, which was set up this year, has approximately 50 members including Gap Inc, J.C. Penney Co, Lowe's Co and Walgreens.

The shake - up at South Korea's biggest company is designed to ease investors» concerns about a leadership vacuum following the arrest and conviction of group scion Jay Y. Lee on bribery charges earlier this year.

It's the latest Hollywood - China tie - up to unravel due to regulatory pressure, following Wanda Group's abandonment of a deal to buy production company Dick Clark Productions for $ 1 billion earlier this year.

Two stocks he scored big on were Philippines - based Alaskan Milk Corp., which saw an 80 % return in the three months before it was bought out in March, and Singapore beverage and food company Super Group Ltd., which is up 126 % year - to - date.

But any such impression evaporated after the Royal Group trial wrapped up last year.

It's not clear where Trump saw the claim that 2017 was the first year with 70 record - high closes, but Bespoke Investment Group, a Harrison, N.Y. investment firm, backs him up, reporting that 1995 had the second-most record - high closes, with 69, followed by 1925, with 65.

Every year when this game comes up, one Group of 5 school is charged with proving to the world that they can play with the marquee teams in the country, and I want to see the Golden Knights pull off something special here.

Having battled throughout his life with depressive episodes, the Foundry Group managing director publically owned up to his struggles last year on his blog.

«Automakers have been working to mitigate distraction in vehicles since we developed the first set of distraction guidelines in 2003 — years before this issue entered the broader public debate and a full decade before NHTSA published its guidelines for vehicles,» said the Alliance of Automotive Makers, an automotive trade group made up of 12 car and light truck manufacturers including BMW, Chrysler, Ford, GM and Toyota.

The GAAP consolidated pretax income for 1Q18 of $ 707 million unfavorably compared to GAAP consolidated pretax income of $ 1.69 billion in 1Q17 by $ 982 million primarily due to the net gain associated with the terminated merger agreement, mainly the break - up fee, recorded in 1Q17 and lower pretax earnings year over year in the Retail and Healthcare Services segments, partially offset by higher Group and Specialty segment pretax earnings.

«Hedge funds today are on the same public perception track that mutual funds were, and in 20 years will similarly end up as well - understood investment vehicles — viewed as an essential participant in the global economy,» said Richard Baker, president and CEO of hedge fund trade group Managed Funds Association.

Holyk said customer focus groups showed that many customers were not very up on the changes in recent years.

Average growth rates tell a more dramatic tale; here the best - financed companies at start - up pulled far ahead, expanding sales by 2,074 % in five years, nearly 60 % faster than the «less than $ 1,000» set and 82 % faster than the «$ 20,000 or less» group as a whole.

The idea was discussed in February at the first meeting of London Mayor Sadiq Khan's advertising steering group, which was set up last year to monitor TfL's approach to advertising.

By 1973, Bain was earning $ 150,000 a year as a group vice president at BCG and thought it was time to set up his own firm.

Seeking to protect its console business, the Japanese group had for many years resisted introducing mobile games with its best - known characters such as Super Mario Bros. and Pokemon, finally yielding to investor calls last year when it announced a tie - up with mobile specialst DeNA Co..

Groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation have been making precisely that case for years, pointing out as early as 2005 that EULAs force users to give up not just control of their data, but many other legal rights.

The group also said it could have held out thanks to weapons factories it built up during the war and enough supplies to feed people for a year.

Five years ago, she was poached from Goldman Sachs — where she made her name convincing a number of large pension funds to hedge in the run up to the financial crisis — by Bank of America to run a first of its kind on Wall Street cross-asset, cross-industry structured - strategies group («It's about solutions, not products,» she says).

In 2016, more than 15 million Americans were victims of identity theft, up 16 percent from the previous year, according to Experian, a global information services group.

Last year, The New York Times documented the explosion of young coffee up - starts, noting «more than 40 new cafes and coffee bars have joined a small, dedicated group of establishments where coffee making is treated like an art, or at least a high form of craft.»

After a two - year lock - up period, Walmart is allowed to reduce its stake in the combined group to 29.9 percent, and after four years could exit completely.

Shares of T Rowe Price Group Inc are up 6.4 percent year - to - date, while shares of BlackRock Inc - best known for its iShares line of passive exchange traded funds - are up just 1.2 percent.

Holiday retail sales in November and December — excluding automobiles, gasoline and restaurants — are expected to increase as much as 4 percent this year, reaching up to $ 682 billion, according to the National Retail Federation, the industry's trade group.

According to an annual survey by Wall Street recruiting firm Options Group, total compensation for equities professionals in the US will be up 9 % from last year on average.

Indeed, those stocks had been on a tear earlier this year, with Facebook shares up as much as 25 % a couple of weeks before the election — but then the FANG stocks suddenly «rolled over,» Gundlach said, falling 10 % as a group as the vote approached and the presidential race got narrower.

Fortescue Metals Group has recorded higher production costs during the March quarterand revised up its full - year costs, while iron ore shipments were down slightly for the period.

After a median four years of post-study follow - up, those in the least sedentary quartile (sitting a mean 649 minutes a day in typically 6.5 - minute bouts) had a dramatically lower rate of death from all causes than those in the most sedentary group (835 minutes at rest, in periods of relative motionless averaging just under 20 minutes each).

Thiel made headlines last year when he announced he would fund a group of college start - ups, provided the students left school for two years.

Intel could post earnings per share of $ 0.67, up from $ 0.54 a year ago, according to estimates from Saxo Group, while eBay earnings are expected to rise 36.7 percent.

According to the trade group, 31.6 percent of shoppers said they will wait to see if the deals are worth it before they decide to shop, up 2 percent from last year.