Sentences with phrase «year than the group»

On the other hand, while those who purchase independent market health insurance pay quite a bit more per year than group plan participants, independent individual insurance rates in Georgia are considerably lower than the national average.

Not exact matches

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

For example, Uber sold new shares to SoftBank Group in January in a deal that valued the ride hailing startup at $ 48 billion, significantly higher than the nearly $ 4 billion valuation at which Google had bought its stake in the company five years ago.

The group's outperformance relative to the staples, down more than 11 percent this year, is currently near two standard deviations outside the average for the past 30 years.

Advocacy group Food & Water Watch says private companies charge 59 percent more than public utilities, or $ 185 more per year, per household.

Carbon Business Group has announced the purchase of Pursuit Group, adding to a number of acquisitions in the past year worth more than $ 2 million combined.

In 2015, U.S. consumers spent $ 143 million on refrigerated ready - to - drink coffees and teas — nearly 300 percent more than two years prior, according to the Specialty Food Association, a nonprofit trade group.

Chinese direct investment in the European Union jumped by 77 per cent last year to more than 35 billion euros (US$ 38 billion), compared with 2015, while EU acquisitions in China fell for the second consecutive year, according to the Rhodium Group.

But being truly customer - centric is more than just a press release, says Justyn Howard, CEO of Sprout Social, a company that provides social media management software (that Firebrand Group has been using for years).

While the project is massive, it's just one of the Aquilinis» many high - profile, highly profitable ventures: Through Aquilini Investment Group, now more than 50 years old, the family controls one of British Columbia's biggest development conglomerates, as well as its NHL team, the Rogers Arena, blueberry and cranberry farms, restaurants and some $ 80 - million worth of vineyard properties in Washington state.

Recent research has looked into the health consequences of that mismatch, tracking a group of study subjects for more than six years.

Research shows that a lack of diversity is drastically affecting the retention of underrepresented groups, which costs the tech industry more than $ 16 billion every year.

Before Yang designed the collection, she spent two years traveling around the country meeting with employees, observing them at work, getting feedback from union groups and reading through responses to more than 5,000 employee surveys.

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 %.

Our research shows that for years, minority entrepreneurs have had a tougher time securing capital than other groups.

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.

The group and a city councilman said at a press conference that they had uncovered evidence that Kushner Companies, the developer headed by Kushner until early last year, had falsified more than 80 work permits involving 34 buildings in New York.

OPEC said Monday it expects demand for oil to grow faster than it originally expected in 2018, but the organization also sees supplies from beyond the producer group surging this year, driven by rising U.S. output.

Indeed, IE lives within the Windows division — Microsoft's core business, and a major source of revenue (about $ 19 billion a year) and profit (about $ 12 billion a year), while Microsoft Advertising is part of the Online group, which is on track to lose more than $ 2 billion this year.

In a little over two years, the service has registered 31 % of Zimbabwe's adult population, a group responsible for more than $ 200 million in transactions per month — that's about 22 % of the country's GDP — using their mobile phones.

Foreign students contributed $ 24 billion to the U.S. economy during the 2012 - 2013 school year, 12 % more than the previous year, according to trade group NAFSA, the Association of International Educators.

Novogratz, who left Fortress Investment Group in 2015 after the fund lost money, told CNBC in November that bitcoin could multiply more than four times by the end of this year.

Wildstone's industry - leading safety program means the group has gone more than five years without a lost - time incident.

This year's awards are open to all Australian business women that meet the entry criteria in the following categories: * Westpac Group Business Owner Award (owners with a 50 per cent share or more in a business, with responsibility for key management decision making); * Australian Government Private and Corporate Sector Award (employees in the private and corporate sectors, or owners with less than a 50 per cent share of a business); * Hudson Community and Government Award (employees of government departments, statutory bodies and not - for - profit organisations); * Panasonic Young Business Women's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above criteria).

Lonier, who has been in such a group for more than 15 years, meets with them every four to six weeks for about an hour.

One of Canada's most dynastic companies, the Irving group got its start back in the 1920s, when K.C. opened a small service station in Bouctouche, N.B. Nearly 100 years on, the family controls more than 250 enterprises scattered across Canada and the northeastern United States.

After the site rewrite was complete, the design team was ready to show off the product of more than a year of sketching, designing, focus - grouping and in - office testing.

Capital spending on major mining, energy and infrastructure projects in Australia is set to drop more than 60 per cent over the next three years, according to analysis by ANZ Banking Group.

The latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change, an intergovernmental group charged with researching the effects of carbon emissions, said at the end of September that climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40 years.

The Association of Enterprise Opportunity, the industry's trade group, says members help 300,000 businesses each year and have lent more than $ 2 billion in the U.S. over the past 10 years.

The group has invested more than 3 billion euros in African ports over the past 10 years, it says on its website.

Though the TSA and the hotel group have been in talks for more than a year, the conversation kicked into high gear about four months ago, according to Susan Peckenschneider, director of global partnerships for Carlson.

In fact, last year there was an increase in annual trips by every age group and household income, with the exception of those who earned more than $ 150,000, according to Airlines for America.

Interestingly, not only does this vacation - effect persist across income groups, but its impact is so profound that those who earn less than $ 24,000 a year but take regular trips report a higher well - being score, on average, than those who earn $ 120,000 or more annually but don't regularly take vacations.

For many years to come, therefore, India will have a much larger group of working - age individuals than any other country on earth.

By choosing to include the number of donors and the amounts of some of its larger donations, including one of $ 10.1 million in the first year and another of $ 10.1 million in the last seven months of 2011, the group was somewhat more transparent than the IRS requires.

According to global market research firm NPD Group, LCDs now account for more than 90 % of TV sales — bad news for Panasonic, whose sales dropped by about 25 % in the second quarter of this year.

At this year's E3 gaming convention, no video game dominated the conversation than the PlayStation 4 game «No Man's Sky,» a completely unheard - of title from a group of unknown UK developers.

Over the next five years, the global supply chain management industry is expected to grow more than 9 % annually, according to ARC Advisory Group, a technology research and advisory firm.

More than $ 3.3 billion was invested in the U.S. last year on commercial space companies, says Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, a trade group for the nascent industry.

«We look very different today than five years ago — for example, clinical and technology professionals are the first and third largest job categories across UnitedHealth Group — and we will look different again five years from now as we continue to evolve at an accelerated pace,» UnitedHealth CEO David Wichmann said on the company's first - quarter conference call.

This year, the industry group expects sales of one million drones that meet the minimum weight requirements for registration, or 145 % more than in 2015, the association said.

«After two years on the market, combined PS4 and Xbox One sales are 38 % higher than the combined two year totals for PS3 and 360,» says Liam Callahan, analyst for The NPD Group.

Since the start of the year, the group has agreed to sell more than $ 10 billion in prime real estate in Australia, New York and Hong...

«If Donald Trump and Scott Pruitt are serious about ending the national scandal that is EPA, they will accept nothing less than a 20 percent cut this year and make this year's cut the first step in a five - year plan to replace the organization,» said Joseph Bast, the group's president.

The shares tumbled 13 percent this year through Monday, more than twice the decline of Delta and three times the slide of American Airlines Group Inc..

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 non-profit group that oversees the program, called the Universal Service Administrative Company or USAC, audited only 74 carriers over the past six years out of more than 6,000 that collect fees, the GAO noted.

As a group, public universities in the top 40 performed better than their private counterparts, growing total assets by 44.5 percent compared with 24.7 percent for private schools between the 2008 and 2014 fiscal years.

PC sales fell 3.5 per cent last year, according to the research group Gartner Inc., the first annual decline in more than a decade.