Sentences with phrase «year the industry made»

A recent report stated that last year the industry made over $ 194 million, was valued globally at $ 748 million and is forecast to make a whopping $ 500 + million by 2018 with a global value of around $ 1.9 billion.

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Growing your business to a fully evolved midsize structure is a worthy goal, but before spending years trying to make this happen, be sure that your industry doesn't have characteristics that will prevent you from succeeding.

With over 20 years industry experience, Bimalis responsible for making sure the world learns about the benefits of Celayix's solutions that include: advanced employee scheduling, time and attendance, employee communication as well as integration modules for payroll and billing.

During the industry's 2015 New York Toy Fair, Mattel showed Fortune a dinosaur toy it had made, knowing Jurassic World would be hitting theaters later that year.

But while Saunders» resume may ultimately be defined by his role in several massive mergers, his reputation in biotech is rooted in a rock»em, sock»em approach to deal - making which has led to his reputation as one of the industry's biggest boosters — especially in a year when biotech has been hopelessly floundering in the marketplace, with major sector indices plunging by 20 %.

With over 20 years industry experience, Bimal is responsible for making sure the world learns about the benefits of Celayix's solutions that include: advanced employee scheduling, time and attendance, employee communication as well as integration modules for payroll and billing.

Since the start of this year, the company has sold 50 million pints, making it the best - selling pint of ice cream in the U.S., surpassing long - time industry leaders like Häagen - Dazs and Ben & Jerry's.

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

With a burgeoning tech industry that's expected to grow by more than 15,000 jobs over the next four years, Vancouver makes the ideal location for the first Red Academy, but Gilbert says she and Mansell hope to take the concept beyond B.C. and open locations in other major Canadian cities.

Henry Blodget: So you've made a comment recently that this industry has changed more in the last three years than in the prior 30 — which is extraordinary.

Earlier this year, after more than a decade in the hospitality industry, award - winning Perth chef Daniel Sterpini made what could be considered an unusual career choice.

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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.»

Holmes and Theranos made waves in Silicon Valley and the diagnostics industry two years ago, when investors lined up to boost the valuation of a company that claimed it would soon offer more than 1,000 varieties of blood diagnostics tests without the need for a syringe.

Rdio went bankrupt last year in large part because it couldn't afford to make the licensing payments the record industry requires of streaming services.

For shareholders, it made financial sense to get out of the industry a year ago, when mining stocks and coal prices were collapsing.

Led by an expert team with more than 25 years experience in fitness franchising, StretchLab is revolutionizing the stretching industry by offering franchise opportunities across all major markets - making the benefits of stretching accessible to all.

According to the Entertainment Software Association of Canada, the games industry contributes $ 1.7 billion a year to our economy in the form of jobs and the expenditures they make possible.

It took a while to learn the skills that would ultimately make me a senior executive in the high - tech industry and then, a successful management consultant, but I can attribute everything good that happened to me over the next 20 years to that fateful day and the relationships I've built since.

Given dwindling CEO tenures — averaging as little as three years in some industries — chief executives can be understandably reluctant to make long - term investments, knowing the benefits won't materialize until their successor's successor's time.

With massive consolidation in the semiconductor industry, only a handful of companies can even compete to make the most advanced chips, down from 13 ten years ago.

After spending a dozen years building an export - minded pharmaceutical company that makes products geared at the booming cosmetic surgery industry, Ario Khoshbin has learned that the quintessentially human desire to look a bit better, and a bit younger, knows no geographical boundaries.

Still, Al Goldstein, chief executive and founder of Avant, which has made 300,000 loans to consumers in the past three - and - a-half years, with an average value of $ 8,000, says the portrayal of the industry as recklessly making too many loans is flawed.

Years ago, Google made overtures in Quebec, but the provincial government and Hydro - Québec were unwilling to provide the kind of electricity discounts afforded other industries.

Vigorate — which has revenues in the $ 4 to 8 million range and ranked 255th on the 2013 PROFIT 500 — opened a Chicago sales office a few years ago to make further inroads with professional sports teams in the U.S. And in 2012, it set up a similar sales hub in Barcelona, reckoning, as Grieve explains, that the sprawling European soccer industry would also be receptive to the sort of digital marketing the company provides to North American leagues.

Though much of the success of craft breweries (which are technically defined as those that make less than 6 million barrels per year) and microbreweries (which make less than 15,000 barrels) can be credited to shifts in public taste, those in the industry say they've learned a few truths along the way that have aided in their success.

Though the industry has grown explosively in the past few years, making an estimated 1 million loans worth about $ 12 billion to consumers and small business owners, so too have questions and complaints.

Flanked by the models, new Virgin Mobile Canada CEO Robert Blumenthal, a 20 - year veteran of the wireless industry, flipped a large mock switch, signifying the commissioning of a new wireless network that made it all possible.

For years, a hot real estate market made Intrawest's Whistler - Blackcomb resort a model for a booming industry.

«The HP board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago,» he wrote, invoking one of the most infamous board blunders in tech industry lore.

The results go a long way to fulfilling the promise that the likes of Spotify have been making for years — that, given enough time and scale, streaming can be even more lucrative to the music industry than their previous distribution systems.

Panera has been very vocal for many years about the company's industry - leading position as a quick mover on making the chain's menu more «clean» over the years.

To fend off tech giants Apple and Google — which are trying to make inroads to the auto industry — this year Toyota teamed with Ford to integrate Ford's apps platform into its cars.

When CVS wanted to make clear to Wall Street and Main Street it was pivoting its business much more toward to the health industry in 2014, it went as far as changing its name to CVS Health from CVS Caremark, and to drop tobacco products, a $ 2 billion a year revenue generator, from its stores.

The oilsands industry has made important strides in recent years at cleaning up tailings ponds and reducing its fresh water use.

Tsinghua Unigroup's investment drive comes after a two - year deal - making campaign to bolster China's fledgling chip industry, seen as a strategic priority for the Chinese government.

Craft brews made up only 1.3 % of total U.S. beer production in 1994, but that percentage is expected to grow — by at least 40 % annually over the next five years, according to some industry estimates.

The industry argues that the crowd's capacity to sniff out fraud makes audited financials unnecessary, but it will take several years of experience to bear that out.

Though little known in the Canadian industry, her elevation to country CEO made sense because of her background: 17 years in supermarkets prepared her well to guide Walmart's food expansion, as did her Sam's experience with so - called combination stores that stock both food and general merchandise.

«Here's some big, dumb industry that hasn't changed for 30 years and could be made a hell of a lot better,» he points out.

3D printing, or additive manufacturing, has been used for making prototypes across a range of different industries for many years, but is being increasingly eyed for scale production.

Believe it or not, the industry that hit rock bottom just a few years ago has made a serious comeback.

Just a few years after he started making barbeque mats and other vinyl products from factory scraps, in 2001, Kuepfer was shipping truckloads of custom - cut vinyl pads geared to the laminated floor industry to U.S. distributors.

The most important thing I can stress when considering opening a franchise is to make absolutely sure you will want to be in the business and industry and with this franchisor for at least 10 years.

But in the past year, the U.S. travel industry has grappled with an administration that made border security and tougher immigration laws its signature policies.

As Fortune has noted in the past, Spotify's biggest problem is that it is still losing hundreds of millions of dollars every year, and the main culprit is the massive payments it makes to the music industry for licensing fees.

«We make high - power solid - state RF amplifiers, primarily for the broadcast industry,» says Rodgers, who joined Nautel more than 30 years ago.

The growth of the venture capital industry — VCs raised $ 28.5 billion last year, up from $ 3.8 billion in 2002 — coupled with a tepid market for initial public offerings has made the competition among VCs for good deals more intense than ever.

Already a popular practice in the beverage industry, the pace of endorsements and investments by famous names has accelerated in recent years as more celebs look to make money from the increasing popularity of liquor and wine.

For the hotel industry, the past year has been bad enough to make shareholders want to empty the minibar.