Sentences with phrase «year the company bought»

Earlier this year the company bought TransferZero, a Spanish online money transfer startup, and in the coming months, BitPesa plans to open an office in the United Arab Emirates, Rosiello said.

Last year the company bought back 14.2 million shares for $ 2 billion, down slightly from years prior.

Among other acquisitions, last year the company bought a 282,609 sq. ft. lab, office, production and research facility for $ 24.6 million from PerkinElmer Inc. in Turku, Finland.

Not exact matches

After a year, staff are able to buy shares in the tightly held company and are included in the profit - share program, where five per cent of pre-tax profits is distributed evenly among the staff.

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.

To that end, Blue Ant — named after a fictional marketing company in a William Gibson novel — is in the midst of a two - year buying spree that began with the acquisition of GlassBox TV, the venture - capital - backed firm that first caught MacMillan's eye back in 2011.

The new management team at accounting firm Lawrence Business Management has agreed to buy the business for $ 7.3 million cash from listed company Countplus, after two years of restructuring.

Despite all that, short - term profitability isn't why Axel Springer would be interested in buying Business Insider (a company in which it already has a small stake, since it participated in the financing round earlier this year that valued the company at $ 200 million).

An investor who bought Google stock 13 years ago at its IPO price of $ 85 would now own a piece of the company worth about 22 times their original investment.

While even a few years ago it would have been deemed unethical to «buy» media coverage (unless of course it was clearly labeled «advertorial»), today, there are entire companies dedicated to enabling brand leaders to buy coverage from so - called social influencers.

During the 13 years Trump spent as chairman, the company lost a total of $ 1.1 billion and declared bankruptcy twice — all while Trump essentially paid himself roughly $ 82 million and also had the company pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy Trump Ice bottled water for their mini-bars.

In 2015, Tom Zhu said Tesla would double its spending on Chinese - made parts, committing to buying $ 500 million worth of supplies from Chinese companies that year; such spending has likely only skyrocketed.

Larry Sarbit, CEO and chief investment officer of Sarbit Advisory Services, only bought one company this year.

Jay Z, née Shawn Carter, bought the Swedish company Aspiro, which offered high - quality «lossless» music downloads, early this year for a reported $ 56 million.

And the tax breaks are only guaranteed to last for the first two years during which a company buys into a state exchange.

When choosing a business opportunity, keep in mind that if you buy an opportunity from a company with a sizable number of outlets that's been in business for at least three years, you'll pay more for this established concept that you would for a newer one.

UBM bought trade show organizer Advanstar last year for $ 972 million, capping off a five - year spree in which it acquired 53 companies, most of them bolt - ons.

In October 2015, rumors surfaced that the company was in talks to buy Major League Gaming, a well - known organizer of video game tournaments, though Activision (atvi) ultimately acquired the company earlier this year for $ 46 million.

In 2007, The Laljis» company, Larco Group, struck a $ 1.7 - billion deal with the federal government to buy and then lease back seven Ottawa office buildings; the CBC reported in 2015 that the arrangement has been plagued by years of disputes between the two parties, including acrimony over repairs, contract tendering and even parking fees.

Needham downgrades Lululemon to hold from buy, saying the company is facing tough year - over-year comparisons.

Lukas has inherited his father's savvy business sense, buying and selling stakes in countless resource companies over the years.

Frends products hit Apple stores and Best Buy in October 2012; by the end of the year, the Encinitas, Calif. - based company had revenue of $ 1.6 million.

AT&T had tried to buy the company that year for $ 39 billion but failed, and Legere was hired to turn it around.

The company has announced that it will buy 5 % of its outstanding shares for $ 2 billion in the first quarter of this year.

The company is also planning to make its own smart TVs available in Canada this year under Best Buy's Insignia brand.

It's not like the show was created in a secret Netflix laboratory — it was actually developed over a few years by Bob - Waksberg and animator Lisa Hanawalt — but Reed Hasting's company knew what it was doing when it bought the show in 2013.

(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.)

We're getting guys who do this over and over again, so if you look at the number of companies that have been bought in M&A over the last 20 years, it's something like 1,500.

It makes you wonder how many years you can carry on buying companies and not making any money out of it.»

The company accuses him of downloading 14,000 confidential files before quitting and starting Otto, the self - driving truck company bought by Travis Kalanick's Uber last year.

If you want to join a gym or buy a treadmill, the company will give you $ 400 a year toward health - related costs.

Fortune noted earlier this year that the service is looking to grow that revenue through an expanded targeted network that will focus more on «programmatic» ads, where companies use software to buy and sell ads automatically based on algorithms.

Five years ago, Cinven bought the company for # 950 million ($ 1.2 billion).

Here's how it went down: A Delaware court ruled on Tuesday that Dell founder Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners paid too little for Dell when they bought the computer company for $ 25 billion three years ago, or $ 13.75 a share.

Under its current asset - buying and lending tool, the BOJ limits the duration of government bonds it buys to three years because it wants to push down the cost of borrowing for companies, many of whom work in three - year investment cycles.

CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, draws more than 180,000 people and 4,000 companies, all of whom are eager to know: Will this be the year [fill - in - the - blank technology] finally makes the leap from science fiction to something people can buy, and might actually want to?

In a sport rooted in the hard - partying fringe of Southern California, Hawk was something different: While he was still in high school, he used his winnings to buy a house in Carlsbad, and a few years later, he started his first company — Birdhouse — even though the skateboard industry was tanking at the time.

Indeed, Canadian corporations have been on a «buying spree» in the past two years, having purchased 790 foreign companies, according to KPMG research released earlier in May.

For instance, it sends reps to runway shows in Europe to scout for new trends; the product development team takes that intel, weighs it against sales stats and buying forecasts, and incorporates it all into creating the dozen new yarns the company launches each year.

While he sees a transition period that will limit Nokia's profitability this year, he has reiterated a long - term Buy rating for the company.

Then last year, Joyent replaced Wasik with Scott Hammond, a former Cisco exec who came to that company when it bought Newscale in 2011.

The conglomeration effort died ignominiously in 1987 amid a shareholder battle, two years after the Hertz acquisition and almost 20 years after the company had bought Westin.

One way small investors can imitate that approach: Buying the ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF (NOBL), which owns shares in companies that have increased dividends for at least 25 consecutive years.

Two years ago, I wrote about how the company had finally introduced a mobile app that wasn't really mobile — you can buy tickets with it, but you still need to either print them out at home or scan your phone at an automated kiosk at the theatre itself.

In recent years, Salesforce has been on acquisition binge, buying up companies across the country from Halifax - based GoInstant to Toronto's Rypple to B.C. - based Sitemasher, among others.

It controls Blue Moon but even years before that brand was introduced, Miller Brewing Co. (a predecessor company to MillerCoors) bought The Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company icompany to MillerCoors) bought The Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company iCompany in 1988.

«Many of the companies we back start out as little features,» says Roloef Botha, a partner with Sequoia Capital who led the company's investment in YouTube, which Google bought for $ 1.65 billion last year.

According to an Associated Press - CNBC poll released Monday, some 36 per cent of Americans say buying stock in the 7 - year - old company would be a good investment, while 47 per cent disagree.

The MCNs behind some of YouTube's biggest stars have grown to become quite valuable to major media and entertainment companies: in just the last year, Disney bought Maker Studios for $ 500 million, German - based broadcaster Prosieben invested in Collective Digital Studio, Otter Media took a controlling stake in Fullscreen and Europe's RTL Group bought a majority stake in StyleHaul.

He held on to it for nearly 20 years — making a juicy profit off of it when the domain company Network Solutions bought it for $ 1.35 million.