Sentences with phrase «year the company saw»

Despite owning three classic billion - dollar - plus brands (Kraft, Oscar Mayer, and Philadelphia), last year the company saw sales fall for the fourth straight year, while profit fell 62 % to $ 2.7 billion.

The travel trade is increasingly booking services, tours and activities with GTA and last year the company saw fully independent travel (FIT) bookings for its destination services grow by 9 % overall.

Not exact matches

This year, it's private companies that have seen their valuations slashed, and private company shares aren't in the 401ks of most investors.

But over the past year, the company has endured a series of embarrassments: soft sales, see - through pants and insensitive comments about plus - sized woman by founder Chip Wilson.

Ryan Drexler thought so, too, but he also saw a great opportunity — first as an investor, then as a board member, and starting last year, as the company's CEO.

Fast - growth companies like Airbnb and Uber have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding in the past few years, which has pushed their valuations into never - before seen territory for startups.

This is where all the top companies, innovators, press, investors and others gather every year to see the latest and greatest in technology.

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

To see which 23 companies are new to the Global 500 list this year, check out the full list at fortune.com/global 500, where you can also find interactive graphics, more charts, company profiles, and much more.

The company finally entered mobile gaming last year by bringing its Super Mario Bros franchise to Apple's iPhones, but it still sees console gaming as central to its business.

«We are losing count of the number of intraquarter guidedowns that the company has had in the past year plus, which is not what we, or anyone else, wants to see in what is ostensibly a growth stock.»

«I think it will take three to five years to see how much better the [bigger] beverage companies will get working with stevia,» Sicher said.

You should compare statements from at least two years to see the direction in which the company is moving: Is it on an upswing or a downswing?

See which company (or entrepreneur) you said deserved to wear this year's crown.

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.

A realistic path for the company going forward, he believes, would see it enjoy steady, solid gains, without the kind of exponential growth investors have become used to in recent years.

Faith Popcorn has been helping companies see what trends they will come up against for more than 40 years.

James Cole, senior vice-president and portfolio manager with Portland Investment Counsel, would rather see a company that has a long track record of steady growth than one that's been soaring for a year or two.

Though the analyst cautioned that 2018 is an «investment year,» he did argue that the company could see pretax earnings climb 9 percent and 16 percent in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

The past two years alone have seen devastating setbacks for experimental Alzheimer's drugs from a compendium of major pharmaceutical companies.

After three years, the company has seen some pretty impressive growth, but there's a lot left to prove in order to call this a success story.

The company saw 2014 revenue of more than $ 100 million — 10 times its figure for the previous year — and Mullen says the service is profitable in some markets, though he declined to elaborate.

Cloud storage company Box, for example, saw a 30 percent drop in its $ 2.4 billion valuation shortly after its January initial public offering this year.

The Swiss food giant saw organic growth of 2.4 percent for the year, at the «low end» of expectations, due to a slower growth of 1.9 percent in their fourth quarter, according to the company's press release.

Miller, chief investment officer at LMM, said he thinks the embattled drugmaker is «a completely different company» than the one that was under severe fire for jacking up drug prices, and could see returns of 25 percent to 30 percent per year over the next five years.

In the coming year, investors will return to basics when they value your company, and they will want to see evidence of growth in profits and revenue, Nordlicht says.

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Mining their massive archive of over 80 million images, the company found images of some of our favorite well - known personalities, to see how they have changed along with Getty over the past 20 years.

Matt Zimmerman, assistant professor of sports media at Mississippi State University, who has been studying the growth of the gaming industry in recent years, sees the potential in a company meant to help e-sports devotees improve.

Desrosiers» data is supported anecdotally by searches on the online used - car service AutoTrader.ca, where cross-border interest has surged: the company says that in November and December of 2015 it saw a more than 27 % year - over-year increase in U.S. traffic to its Canadian web site.

There are exceptions, of course, especially among biotech companies, but then again, it's only in the past few years that we've seen any significant funding in Silicon Valley addressing issues of say, fertility.

The company's iPhone, which makes up the biggest chunk of its revenue, saw its first year - over-year revenue decline ever in Apple's last - reported fiscal quarter ended March 26, investors are deeply concerned about the iPad's future, and even Macs saw sales slip last quarter.

The all - stock deal would see the two hundred - year - old lumber companies, Potlatch Corp (pch) and Deltic Timber Corp (del), become one entity operating under the name PotlatchDeltic.

Legendary motivational speaker and business consultant Zig Ziglar died yesterday, after a 40 - year speaking career that saw him travel more than five million miles, consult for Fortune 500 companies and consort with American presidents and other world leaders.

The company, which develops self - driving and self - parking systems, has seen its shares double in only two years and is up 46 percent over the past year.

«You see these little companies building out service brands because they want to have account executives who work with customers,» Atkinson adds, «so they try to spin their products into serving three different groups in the first couple of years, and that's a very adverse situation to get into.

The legendary B.C. development family saw their president of nearly 10 years, David Negrin, leave the company for a new opportunity — building and managing residential projects on the billion dollars» worth of land owned by the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil - Waututh First Nations.

Dube began to see that cutting just $ 1 or $ 2 from the price of each item could increase the company's overall margins significantly, because it purchases thousands of items from vendors every year.

For many, the Skype deal is seen — along with exuberance for the LinkedIn IPO and sky - high private valuations of companies such as Facebook — as a sign of a fast - inflating technology bubble: What else could explain such a lofty price tag for a company that lost $ 7 million in 2010 and $ 418 million the year before?

Of the companies that did go public this year, the healthcare sector has seen the most activity with 96 IPOs, largely due to a biotech boom.

Nearly four - and - a-half years after Bill Ackman bet $ 1 billion that Herbalife stock would fall — a losing bet so far for the hedge fund manager — the nutrition products company is approaching what many investors see as a watershed moment, the final test that will determine which side was right.

I have seen male classmates leverage their college friendships into career success, forming companies together and steering business opportunities to each other over the years.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

The past couple of years has seen a spate of Chinese companies going public through reverse takeovers — a somewhat murky process in which a private firm purchases a shell company that already trades on a foreign exchange.

Roger Mody, CEO of the Inc. 500 company Signal Corp., a $ 55 million information - technology - services provider in Fairfax, Va., has seen his customers» attire become increasingly insouciant in recent years, so he's allowed his employees to dress more casually, too.

Spurred in part by the cash infusion, the company expects to see revenues top $ 10 million next year, says company CEO Dev Gandhi.

Turn on the TV, and you're more likely to see breathless coverage of a stock that's up or down 10 % today than of a company's 20 - year plan, observes Kozun.

When Herb Sizemore was CEO of Kansas Communications, in Lenexa, Kans. (he recently sold the company), he kept a file of all the «People on the Move» columns in his local paper and called people a year after they'd taken a new job to see if they were happy with their situation.

Mixpanel is a eight - year - old company that sells analytics software that helps companies see how their users interact with their web and mobile apps.

Mogo signed a deal with Postmedia Network Canada (TSX: PNC - B) in January that will see the media company provide $ 50 million in advertising space in its newspapers and digital properties over three years in exchange for a cut of Mogo's revenue.