Sentences with phrase «years at a competitor»

Before purchasing Elk Grove Village, Ill. - based Devanco Foods in 2004, Bartzis had spent the previous 19 years at a competitor, starting off in sales and leaving as a divisional president.

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For Roundarch, they ended up hiring Paul Tebsherany, a person with deep knowledge of their business whom they had known and worked with for two years while employed at competitor, Razorfish.

The biggest player here is Oceaneering, which at the end of last year operated about 35 percent of ROVs worldwide and held a global market share of roughly 60 percent, nearly triple that of the next closest competitor.

If Verizon can receive preferential treatment in next year's wireless auction, or purchase a competitor that Telus can not, that places the Canadian company at a distinct disadvantage.

A 2014 survey conducted by Powersports Business magazine and RBC Capital Markets indicates retailers that sell BRP vehicles are outperforming their competitors: 32 % of BRP dealers reported an increase in motorcycle sales of at least 20 % in the fourth quarter of last year (compared with 13 % for dealers overall), and 42 % of BRP dealers expect another 20 % jump in sales for 2015.

Those competitors include BuzzFeed and Vice, both of which now have private - market valuations that are greater than that of the 93 - year - old publisher, whose market value stands at $ 1.7 billion.

Bob Lachky, a marketing executive who spent 25 years working at competitor Anheuser - Busch gave this campaign some high praise: «It was arguably one of the greatest campaigns over the past 30 to 40 years.»

And yet so far this year, the company's stock is outperforming that of at least two of its close competitors.

He was no longer at the firm to accept the award with the rest of the team, however; he quit the year before to join a competitor, and moved back to Toronto.

The culture also shifted in recent years from super individual competitor to making others successful and teamwork, which reduced the stress level at work to low,» says one employee.

While it's possible the terms of his employment agreement with (and departure from) Facebook could prevent him from taking an active role at a competitor (or any company in the virtual reality space) for several months (or even years), he could reassume his public presence as an advocate for VR technology and its larger potential.

But last year saw more cooperation with competitors (remember the Microsoft appearance at last year's Apple event) in the name of increased value, and new products like the Surface Book.

At one point, Brooks worked for a year as a subcontractor for a top competitor.

But at least so far, the most credible rumors about this year's iPhone suggest a simpler wireless charging solution already seen in some competitors» phones.

Microsoft and Google, in particular, showed year - over-year growth at the expense of smaller competitors, according to Synergy.

Launched four years ago by an Ottawa husband - and - wife team, it's a vibrator for couples that stimulates both partners at once — and outsells its competitors by three to one.

Memphis Meats and its competitors will likely spend a few years courting consumers who buy wild - caught Atlantic salmon and grassfed sirloin at Whole Foods.

«Certainly there's going to be some very interesting pricing actions in the market in the next year and this is also a signal that WestJet's not just looking at Air Canada but they're looking at all competitors, including Porter,» he said in an interview.

Last month, the World Drone Prix — organized by the World Organization of Racing Drones and Sheikh Hamdan, crown prince of Dubai — handed out roughly $ 1 million in prizes, including a $ 250,000 grand prize to a 15 - year - old British pilot who bested 100 other competitors at a two - day event in Dubai.

Zara's biggest competitor in the fast fashion space, Sweden's H&M, tried a different approach last year already to marry online and classical retail, when it put cash registers and sales advisers in the fitting area, allowing customers to avoid standing in line at checkouts.

She's getting vocal too: Last year she lobbied for electronic trading at the New York Stock Exchange and said her scandal - plagued competitors did «stupid things.»

Despite the apparent turmoil at NBC's Today over the past year, Today managed to outpace its closest competitor, ABC's Good Morning America, in the key ratings demographic of adults between the ages of 25 and 54 during the 2015 - 2016 television season.

French researchers» first attempt at a rechargeable competitor to lithium - ion batteries could be on the market in 5 to 10 years.

The company's success is built on a bet that it could win market share at the cost of its competitors by remaining unprofitable for many years.

Even industry competitors — like Ford, which trades at a ratio of 6.6, and Toyota, which trades at 9.7 times — trade at higher multiples, and GM's average price - earnings ratio over the past five years is 12.2.

France Telecom SA, SFR's main competitor and the country's biggest phone operator, was rocked two years ago by a streak of employee suicides which unions blamed on stress caused by a reorganization aimed at making the company more competitive.

As their competitors at Honda and Toyota moved into the hybrid realm, Volkswagen spent years trying to convince consumers that their diesel engines were clean, powerful, fuel - sipping better alternatives.

At a conference held by Scotiabank on Tuesday, the 59 - year - old executive told analysts that Tim Hortons needs to ensure its menu defines the company, rather then reflects the same products offered by its competitors.

To grow in to the resultant current market cap Tesla has to be selling 1.7 mm vehicles, at a profit, within 5 years (versus the 2.2 mm currently produced and sold by mainline competitors such as BMW and Mercedes Benz).

Customers trust Verizon's network reliability and performance: The percentage of customers who left the company for a competitor's service stood at an industry low of < 1 % last year.

Even the next - cheapest competitor, Farmers, quoted a rate that was twice as much for a year of renters insurance coverage, at $ 250.

Let me show you a really simple technique that you can use with the previous technique i showed you about using individual keywords instead of pasting a bunch of keywords and its really a one - click technique to get even more great keywords from the Google Adwords Keyword tool so I've already gone ahead and done a search for «fishing tips» just a single keyword if you didn't see that previous video you want to watch that because that's a really good little tip there i'll put a link in this video so you can click through and see that video number two in this series but once you've done your search will simply go down here to keyword options click this little pencil icon here and you'll see this option to only show ideas closely related to my search terms now everybody knows about this this year but a lot of people don't take the time to actually use it so if you simply just click the toggle their turn it on and then hit save what it's going to do is going to only bring back keyword terms that are closely related to «fishing tips» and here's one more hot tip for you it is specific to singular and plural so for instance if my original see keyword was «fishing tips» and I've selected to only show closely related ideas my results are going to have the word tips plural in them so if I will just take a second and remove that s after i've downloaded the file for «fishing tips» let's do that again «fishing tips» i've downloaded the file all my terms have the word tips in them now come right back up here i remove the s so singular and i search again now i'm going to get back results that have the word tip instead of tips and then because i have only show closely related ideas now just to show you a sample what will happen when you do that you remember this is the file i showed you in the previous video and you'll remember from that video that our competitors because they're just pasting in a bunch of keywords and hitting search they're getting back 706 results for this sample test here so they would get 706 keywords and that's what they would take off with them and start to decide which what pages they want to make for seo or how they want to set the pay - per - click campaign ok we're using these other methods taking a few extra seconds to really understand how the Google Adwords Keyword tool works and with this new method of both using singular and plural but selecting only show closely related ideas we now have for the exact same keywords we have 2867 keywords we got back so we're walking away with 2867 keywords our competitor for the very saying input terms is only getting 706 we're getting four times as many keywords for the Google Adwords Keyword Tool you can take this information and you can use it to really grow your business because there's some really excellent keywords that your competitors are overlooking simply because they don't understand how to use the Google Adwords Keyword tool so this has been helpful for you once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there's so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and keyword grouper pro is completely free there's not even an opt - in you simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro it doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business

At the same time a Wall Streeter who was not investing in Real Estate in the past few years would have gotten a lot of flack from his bosses as his competitors were making a lot of money whereas he was «hiding» behind safe stocks.

She represented UVU at a series of regional American Culinary Federation contests, then went up against other regional winners to become one of five competitors to cook for the national Student Chef of the Year title at the group's annual convention.

Fewer than half of the competitors were New Mexicans, including a woman from Acoma Pueblo and a dealer from the casino; the rest were «pros,» regular competitive eaters who had honed their gut - stuffing skills over years of IFOCE competitions like the annual Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island.

A competitor at the U.S. Coffee Championships and roaster who trains baristas across the country, Gruehn's been posted up in Madison for over seven years.

I have known Bob for just over 6 years now, first as a customer at the Old Town Farmers» Market and the old Town & Country Farmers» Market (his first), then as a competitor and now as customer again... One thing was always crystal clear, this is an incredibly smart gentleman that cares about people, is passionate about growing high quality ORGANIC produce and truly wants to see organics on a level playing field with conventional produce and people of all walks of life given the opportunity to eat good clean food.

The dumbest comment of the year on the radio had to be from Glen Healy who was telling Doug MacLean that the Leafs, who were going through a little rough patch (mid-season), had to watch out from the teams just below them like the Rangers, Islanders and Hurricanes who were creeping up on them, seemingly oblivious to the fact that the closest competitor in the Atlantic, the Red Wings, were over 15 points behind them at that time... I just shook my head...

So maybe — at a point when a 19 year old Martial goes for 30m — it's time to recognize things have changed and start buying proven goal scorers as all our major competitors are.

Look, is it reasonable to expect Wenger after 20 years in charge and at the ripe old age of 67 to have his finger on the pulls of football the way his young competitors do?

So to me talking about the title when we are once again 9 points out of first before Christmas and struggling to win whilst most of our competitors to a top 4 finish appear to pick up steam at the right time, is just symptomatic of refusing to learn from the past 10 years.

After years of steady improvement as a player and a competitor, James Blake is suddenly, at age 27, the face of American tennis — and a threat to go deep in Melbourne

Because I have seen nothing at the club that makes me believe this year will better than last year and all our competitors have better managers and with the exception of Spurs have done more business than we have.

I believe that Chestnut will reclaim his throne this year and that one of the male competitors will down at least 64 wieners, but I'm no expert.

Whatever the source, the incident was so tasteless — particularly because King's 17 - year - old daughter had not known about her father's jail term — that it left many at the Speedway, fans and competitors alike, feeling foul and dirtied.

Folks should also keep their eyes peeled for Giannis «The Greek Freek» Antetokounmpo, who at 6» 10» will be one of the largest competitors in the event's 11 - year history.

Mickelson, who went 3 -0-1 in the Americans» expected drubbing of the Internationals at Liberty National, at 47, was the oldest U.S. competitor by seven years over Charley Hoffman.

Riding circles around its competitors at New York's Madison Square Garden, the U.S. team made the best National in years truly national

Spanish newspaper El Confidencial reported on Thursday morning that Khedira is now ready to sign a new contract at Madrid (click here to read more), and given that he has been telling Kroos — a potential competitor for a place in Los Blancos's starting line - up next season — «positive» things about Madrid perhaps implies that he is not exactly determined to severe his four - year relationship with the club yet.

The Old Trafford club posted the biggest profit among competitors in the English top flight last year at # 48.8 million, and it would not be surprising if they repeated the feat with the # 56.5 million they have generated this time.