Sentences with phrase «year life of its company»

Chris Pramas, the founder of Green Ronin, has a lot to look back on over the eighteen year life of its company...

This philosophy has been successfully implemented over the 8 year life of the company has been the key differentiator for them in their market space.

Not exact matches

Now, 14 years after inheriting her father's semi-successful company, she took in $ 10 million last year by overseeing a half - billion dollars of hotel construction and living the life she has always wanted.

In a year that saw a terrible Ebola pandemic in Africa and the resurgence of Legionnaire's disease in New York, it's small wonder that life sciences and health - care companies are also leading the way for initial public offerings.

And, over the past two years, the company has laid off about 12 % of its workforce, or 12,500 employees, many of whom joined Shell figuring they'd have a job for life.

As a twenty - six year old who partnered with my parents in building our company after college and who is now a mom myself, I am beginning to realize some of the parenting habits my parents consciously or unconsciously practiced in raising my brother and I that set me up for a life in business (whether I knew it or not at the time).

Despite having attested in the past that he couldn't live without the magazine, the 83 - year - old Hefner may be persuaded otherwise by the company's long streak of unsuccessful quarters.

Typically, what happens is you take a really nominal base salary and you get a bunch of equity that would get liquid and realized in years 5, 6, or 7 of a company's life cycle.

If a new technology is developed in the next few years that radically extends the life expectancy of human beings, odds are good that it will come out of a company backed by Peter Thiel.

While Canadians enjoyed Balsillie's fight with the NHL these past two years, there is no doubt that he has the fight of its life on his hands in the in the near future and must reinvent his company to remain competitive in this market.

Large companies and their boards live in fear of losing what they spent years gaining (customers, market share, revenue, profits.)

Percentage of this year's companies that offer full - time employees Health insurance: 97 % Retirement plan: 84 % Life insurance: 72 % Disability insurance: 71 % Flextime: 64 % Telecommuting: 51 % Tuition reimbursement: 45 % Job sharing: 23 % Sabbaticals: 16 % Child - care services: 3 %

Technology companies and privacy groups have for years complained about the part of FISA known as Section 702 that allows the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) to collect and analyze emails and other digital communications of foreigners living overseas.

For 57 years, NASA and US companies have met the call to protect high - flying astronauts who risk their lives in the name of exploration.

Facebook is one of the few companies in recent years to continue the legacy of the traditional company town, where the corporation master - plans a new community for its employees to work and live in.

These projects are so efficient in their conservation of heat in the steam that they have a similar life - cycle carbon output to the average of crudes sold in North America, and thus would almost certainly meet the standards to be unveiled by the California Air Resources Board next year, the company told The Calgary Herald recently.

The company has completed more than 10 acquisitions over the past year, including assets in Mexico, Russia and Brazil, as well as the Edmonton - based maker of Cold - FX, Afexa Life Sciences.

The month after his appointment to the helm of Live Nation Artists, the company announced a 10 - year, US$ 120 - million 360 - style agreement with Madonna.

Over the past few years, even since launching the company, a lot has been learned about the gut - brain axis and the microbiome, the assortment of all the bugs that live in and on you that's an integral part of the gut, Kallyope CEO Nancy Thornberry told Business Insider.

Indeed, the fact that Fluid Life has designed its offices to keep everyone thinking big is just one reason the firm — along with 44 others — joined the ranks of Canada's Best Managed Companies for the first time this year.

Name: Melanie Perkins Company: Canva Work - life balance philosophy: We are what we repeatedly do, and being consistent with perseverance and hardwork have seen me from being a 14 - year - old starting my first business of selling handmade scarves, to a 19 - year - old starting Fusion Books, to where I am with Canva is today.

Exactly how health and wellness impact a company's profits, particularly in Canada, may soon be better understood: the University of Western Ontario's Richard Ivey School of Business School has recently launched a five - year study of the subject, working in collaboration with the Sun Life Wellness Institute.

Becoming Warren Buffett will highlight the modest lifestyle of the 86 - year - old investor, who runs the world's fourth - largest public company, drives to work every day, and lives in a humble home in Omaha, Neb..

(The company has determined that most trends have a life cycle of three to three and a half years.)

Bain & Company partner Norbert Hueltenschmidt told the BBC last year that China faces major health care issues with its aging population, environmental problems, levels of access to health care, and sedentary living — physical activity has dropped 45 % since 1990.

The company's PFS predicts a minimum 20 year mine life at Barrambie, with a payback of capital costs taking approximately 4 years.

Companies like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft have spent years proclaiming that technologies like virtual and augmented reality represent the future of how we live and work.

To better measure the success of the companies on Inc.'s 2017 Founders 10 list, EY studied median benchmarks for the biotechnology, life sciences, pharmaceutical, and technology sectors at the time of their IPOs and one, two, and three years later.

You give an insurance company money in a lump sum or in payments over a period of years, then at retirement, the cash gets «annuitized,» or paid out in a string of payments based on your life expectancy.

In late 2016 the airline largely froze a policy that gave its cabin crew thousands of dollars a year in allowances if they lived outside company accommodation.

«I gave more than 20 years of my life to CKE, and Mr. Puzder took a company that I loved and turned it into a business that makes money by stealing from its workers,» Laura McDonald, a former Carl's Jr. general manager, said in a recent forum hosted by Senate Democrats.

The team spent the first five years of the company's life building out what co-founder and CEO Jason Kelly describes as a «giant compiler, debugger, and programming language for genetic code.»

Life - sciences companies closed deals worth $ 166.3 billion in the first quarter of this year, surpassing the value of all 2014 deals combined, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Over the past year, Fortune Live sat down with the visionaries leading some of the country's hottest startups as well as the CEOs of many Fortune 500 companies.

Guaranteed for 25 years, a British bedmaker's Mongolian cashmere mattress «pays off every morning of your life,» said a company representative.

As a reporter at CNBC Make It, I've covered some of the most incredible — including a 28 - year - old whose company has made millions buying things at Walmart and reselling them on Amazon and an entrepreneur who started selling board games out of his living room.

Corey Schuchman, director of e-commerce for Jildor Shoes, said that her company has been using live chat for two years.

Surely there will be some footage from the next Halo game, expected next year, and possibly an early look at an upcoming Gears of War installment, but beyond that, will the company refocus on games or continue trying to position the Xbox One as a living room device that the whole family will want?

The company launched in 2005 and spent several years testing the system in the independent - living units of long - term - care facilities.

Earlier this year, as spring finals week loomed over college campuses nationwide, Netflix — one of the earliest companies to incorporate live - streaming video into its social media strategy — fired up a broadcast on the company's Periscope account.

For 16 years he'd worked as an HR and operations executive for the likes of Prudential, Cigna, and GE Capital before he tired of big - company life.

Today's typical Leon's shopper is a 52 - year - old male, but the company's ideal client is a busy 35 - year - old woman who cares intensely about her home and likes to share photos of her imperfect but real living space on social media.

The company expects to earn 75 percent of its income from video by the end of next year and was paid over $ 3 million by Facebook to set the standard for live broadcasts.

Present life: CEO and chairman of the board of Tootsie Roll Industries, a $ 397 - million, 104 - year - old candy company headquartered in Chicago

«In general, the know - how acquired thanks to our projects has an immediate application not only in space but also on Earth,» he added, highlighting that the company could now produce space food with a shelf - life of three years.

So the other thing is I've dedicated the last six years of my life to this company, and there is more work to do.

2016 saw female founders launch innovative companies and raise millions to help them grow, while startups in their second or third year of life began gaining ground.

The media mogul was forced to resign her position as CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia as part of a five - year ban from being an officer of a public company.

The conceit is similar to that of TONL, a stock photography company born from the Black Lives Matter movement, which expects to book $ 188,000 in revenue this year serving up imagery that represents black and brown people.

After eight years of producing or funding live theatre in Canada, five as the head of his own production company, Dan backed out of the business in late April.