Sentences with phrase «years in business by»

The company has kept up with changes in the marketplace during its more than 80 years in business by expanding its offerings.

Much later, in 1945 the tequila specialist celebrated 150 years in business by marketing «America's favorite new drink,» the Cuervo Margarita.

Calgary ‑ based franchisor Maxwell Realty celebrated its first year in business by launching its expansion arm, MRI (Maxwell Realty International).

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Quickly, please have a look at this troubling essay by historian Jay M. Smith about a giant business — big - time college sports — that hasn't reinvented itself in years.

LinkedIn recently joined the gig economy earlier this year when they launched ProFinder, a service that enables freelancers to promote their business and be found by those in need of their services.

As Krishen Rangasamy, an economist at National Bank, observed this week, all the hiring in Canada over the past year has been by large businesses, not tiny ones.

According to the report, Foursquare is now back on track to beat sales expectations by the end of the year, and the business development team has been successful in attracting several new advertisers to their «post-check-in product.»

We also decided to wind down our activities in the wind pitch control business by year end, resulting in a charge of $ 0.72 per share.

Still, we're in the fifth year of a very weak recovery in which small businesses have been hit hard by tight credit markets, slow sales and limited spending.

According to research by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 46.6 percent of startups launched in the U.S. that are still in business after five years are founded by «user entrepreneurs.»

Included in our original business plan years ago was that everything had to be completed by the end of each day.

It confounds me that in a year of record lending by the Small Business Administration, entrepreneurs still struggle to get the financing they need even when all indicators point to the opportunity for growth.

The fact that the number of women entrepreneurs has increased over the years has been made possible, in part, by their passion, talent and dedication and their ability to obtain essential business support including access to capital.

-- Daniel Putterman, cofounder, co-CEO, and head of business for Kogniz, Inc. which recently released AICam, fully - autonomous surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence that identify people and threats in real - time, using video - based facial recognition and object detection; also having founded and run venture - backed technology companies over the last 20 years including MaxInfo, Inc. (acquired by NETM), EoExchange (S - 1), Mediabolic, Inc. (acquired by ROVI), and Cloud Engines, Inc..

This article is part of Fortune's Best in Business 2015 package of highlights and lowlights of the year in business, politics and the economy by the writers and editors of Business 2015 package of highlights and lowlights of the year in business, politics and the economy by the writers and editors of business, politics and the economy by the writers and editors of Fortune.

These excellent results are supported by the success of our innovation drive in advanced materials, the benefits of increased production capacities in specialty molecular sieves in France and PVDF in China last year, the integration of XL Brands in adhesives and the confirmation of the very good performance of our intermediate chemical businesses.

The world's largest retailer, for years slow to respond to Amazon.com (amzn) in the digital wars, has been on a tear in recent quarters, helped by the $ 3 billion acquisition of jet.com and overhaul of its marketplace last year, and by better integration of its stores with its digital business.

Saujani, whose six - year - old organization is tackling the gender gap in tech by training young girls in computer science, encouraged the nation's business leaders to double down on the effort in a wide - ranging panel discussion on attracting and retaining diverse talent.

While hiring was down by 0.1 percent in March, the survey found that nearly 9 in 10, or 87 percent of small businesses, expect the first quarter to be the same or better than a year ago.

Most of the big law firms in Perth have shrunk in size over the past year, with Ashurst experiencing the biggest drop in staff, while only a couple of smaller firms have achieved significant growth, research by Business News has found.

«We're planning to invest over $ 50 billion in the U.S. over the next five years to increase production of profitable volumes and enhance our integrated portfolio, which is supported by the improved business climate created by tax reform.»

Industry professionals between the ages of 23 and 45 are nominated by their cluster - member - business to participate in the one - year professional development program.

What we in the West definitely don't know is the current location of Bo or Wang, what repercussions will be felt by Bo's powerful allies in politics, business and the military (the Financial Times reported May 14 that Bo's mentor and standing committee member Zhou Yongkang had been relieved of his duties as head of China's police, courts and spy apparatus), and who is going to lead China for the next 10 years, let alone what their policy leanings may be.

In the past two years, aided by a grant from the Small Business Administration, the network has helped a niche - group of energy entrepreneurs secure some $ 32 million in federal contracts and create an estimated 400 jobIn the past two years, aided by a grant from the Small Business Administration, the network has helped a niche - group of energy entrepreneurs secure some $ 32 million in federal contracts and create an estimated 400 jobin federal contracts and create an estimated 400 jobs.

But for several years, companies in southern Louisiana, where his business is located, have suffered along with the oil industry, which is affected by changes in global oil supplies and technologies like fracking.

Outsourcing has become one of the hottest topics in the business world over the past few years, with so many tasks in the workplace now capable of being carried out by outside parties.

And according to a 2012 survey by the Graduate Management Admission Council, the organization that administers the GMAT admission test for graduate business and management programs, 64 % of business school deans felt MBA programs would specialize further in the next five years.

Sometimes when I pick up my three - year - old daughter I'll drop by the yard to check in on the business.

A survey conducted this year by Canadian Business and Deloitte shows that only 17 % of family - owned businesses in Canada have succession plans.

Western Australian retailers have a positive view of business conditions in the year ahead, according to a recent survey by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, with one third expecting an improved market in the 2018 financial year.

If rates rise across the board by one percentage point, it would amount to about $ 91 billion a year in extra income and thus extra spending money for these people and businesses.

Dubbed the best business book of the year last year by The Financial Times and McKinsey, this one by a Pulitzer - Prize winning journalist looks at what happened to Janesville, Wisconsin when a General Motors factory that had been operating in the town for 85 years closed.

Kelly hopes that in the next 10 years he can inspire enough homeowners and businesses to come on board that 50 percent of America's 40.5 million acres of lawn will be switched to organic care, reducing by half the 3 million tons of synthetic fertilizers and 30,000 tons of pesticides used annually.

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.

He started his first business, a paintball company, in high school, and his second, a Vernon, B.C. — based pizza - by - the - slice joint called Growlies, in lieu of finishing his last year of business school at the University of Victoria.

Every year, the celebration is attended by more than 400 business professionals who share in the achievements of the Western Australian private business sector.

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Organized by the Small Business Administration, this is the 52nd year in a row that the president of the United States has declared one week per year the official celebration of the Main Street entrepreneur.

In the last four years or so, Battista has observed an influx of clients who've had their business travel claims questioned by the Canada Revenue Agency.

The high - powered jetpack was 40 years in the making, the culmination of millions of dollars spent and decades of trial and error by Mayman and his business partner, Nelson Tyler.

Despite progress forged in leaps and bounds in recent years, women - owned businesses are still likely to be smaller than those owned by males, and indeed, they are more likely to fail.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

Whether finding a great co-founder, who has complementary skill sets (in my case, an old friend I met at theater camp over 20 years ago), or picking your executive team exclusively composed of «A» players (who you can alternately delegate to — or be inspired by), you need a bunch of great teammates to be successful when creating a new business.»

Pulled from this year's Inc. 5000, here are 10 Los Angeles - based companies led by some of the hardest working women in business.

I experienced this from the other side during the two years I spent at Conde Nast Portfolio, when the great Graydon Carter made it his mission to render Vanity Fair's new sister title irrelevant by publishing the best longform business journalism in town, even if that meant hiring away Portfolio's writers, like Michael Lewis.

According to U.S. News & World Report's 2018 Best Jobs data, the best - paying jobs in this field will carry the highest salary this year, followed by careers in engineering and business.

According to the Small Business Administration, the number of startups funded by VCs in 2012 was an abysmal 300 of the approximately 600,000 new businesses started in the U.S., that means 99.95 percent of entrepreneurs did not gain access to VC for their new businesses that year.

«They get stronger and stronger by the day, as importers like Constellation Brands and Heineken get savvier,» Harry Schuhmacher, editor and publisher of industry publication Beer Business Daily, told Fortune in an interview earlier this year.

Founded just 20 years ago, Under Armour has built itself up to become a significant rival to Nike (nke) and Adidas in North America, at first by building a sizable men's apparel business.

In its fourth year, the program seeks to draw attention to circular economy business models by celebrating organizations and individuals that deploy them successfully.