Sentences with phrase «years up to its launch»

He was head of Mondeo design for six years up to its launch.

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Last year, his Orlando Corp. launched a gift - matching initiative that will see it donate up to $ 15 million to William Osler Health System's three hospital sites in the Toronto area.

If the judges decide to launch court proceedings, the Catalan politicians could be arrested and, if found guilty of rebellion, punished by up to 30 years in prison.

Growing up, Starbird helped to manage Hall & Rambo, his family's commercial insurance firm that launched roughly 110 years ago.

EN Primeur is a yearly campaign launched each spring by the producers and «negociants» of Bordeaux to drum up interest and sell the wine from the previous vintage as futures, two years bef

That debate developed over a few years, he says, and when it started to heat up, his attention was elsewhere — trying to launch Alpha's listings business and then dealing with the TMX acquisition.

Also impressive to Golden was that Nexage had signed up major customers, including CBS and Internet video company Divx, despite a shoestring budget — ey'd lasted two and a half years on $ 2.5 million in angel funds raised when the company launched.

«And the risk of having money locked up for almost a year until launch, and up to 18 months after that launch - I've personally made the decision to sit on the sidelines.»

They were pleased enough with the results that they ponied up another $ 10 million ($ 14 million) for LAPCAT II, a four - year study that launched in October 2008 with a mandate to refine two of the LAPCAT concepts based on engines that would burn liquid hydrogen, and to produce detailed development road maps for producing them.

The two nuclear - powered probes launched 40 years ago and became the first and only robots to take close - up photographs of Uranus and Neptune, the planets» moons and rings, and other objects in the outer solar system.

President and CEO Steve Easterbrook struck a bullish tone while discussing the results with analysts, touting last year's launch of all - day breakfast 2.0 — an update that saw the addition of McGriddle and other items — as having lived up to expectations.

This year her haul has likely been even larger, thanks to beefed - up ad campaigns from some of her sponsors, the growth of her candy company Sugarpova, and the launch of her own mobile app.

Santiago's startup scene — half - jokingly referred to as Chilecon Valley by global investors — has also gained momentum in the past five years, thanks to Start - Up Chile, a government - backed program launched in 2010.

The company expected NemaStrike to launch across up to 8 million U.S. crop acres in fiscal year 2018, Chief Executive Hugh Grant said on a conference call last month.

«My brain ended up deciding that instead of trying to avenge my son's life, I wanted to give life as a result,» says Gawdat, who published his book Solve for Happy in January of this year and has given several talks on the subject through a campaign he launched to make 10 million people happy.

Last week, the Fortune data team revealed that we spent the months leading up to the launch of this year's Fortune 500 collecting information about the diversity and inclusion policies at each company on the list.

Launched in August after a year - long clinical study, MoodHacker is essentially a Fitbit for the neck up, tracking a person's emotional mood as opposed to their physical fitness (though that is part of it).

When we were launching UP Global earlier this year, we wanted to make sure that we got plenty of coverage from all the major media outlets.

Its chief rival, the National Post — which endured eight years of ever - deeper cost cuts after being sold to the now - bankrupt Canwest Global Communications empire in 2001 — has racked up nine - figure losses since being launched in 1998.

After raising $ 20 million last year, BaubleBar teamed up with Target to create a line called SugarFix, and just launched an affordable fine jewelry line.

During the last years, there has been a trend in which airlines and movie studios are teaming up together to launch movie - themed liveries as part of global marketing campaigns.

One of my financial goals for 2015 is to save up enough money so I can launch this system sometime this year.

No mere observer of the start - up process, Lewis launched his own company with $ 200 while in college.He operated from his dorm for two years before relocating to a space sandwiched between a sewage - treatment plant and a nuclear - dump site.

Seattle's Pronto launched in March amid bike - share systems» ascent from urban novelty to legitimate transportation technology, one that last year served up 28 million U.S. rides in more than 50 cities.

NextGen Climate, which has a well - funded super PAC dedicated to electing lawmakers dedicated to halting climate change, launched a «text - banking» voter - turnout program late last year that attempted to motivate potential voters to show up to vote by sending personalized texts from actual organizers encouraging recipients to respond and start a dialogue.

Nokia sold its phone business to Microsoft last year, but just months after that it launched a new brand - licensed tablet computer, produced under license by Taiwan's Foxconn, with an intention to follow up with more devices.

That would appeal to NASA, which is gearing up to launch several planet - and moon - bound spacecraft in the coming years.

By junior year, he and a friend launched Dropsense, a mobile alert system for diabetics, and had a clinical trial all lined up to go.

He launched his career as an early Amazon Web Services employee and then did a seven - year stint at Microsoft and wasn't about to give up.

Classmate James Oliver recalls a conversation in the dorm soon after, when Zuckerberg — he and others still refer to him as «Zuck» — explained that he had worked to launch Facebook quickly to show up a Harvard administrator who had said a university - wide online directory would take two years to create.

If anything, Tesla could launch the Model 3 sooner than expected this year, and because manufacturing automobiles is an industrial practice that has been perfected over a century, there's good reason to believe that Tesla will be able to build thousands of Model 3's every month, once the assembly lines in California get up to speed.

At the start of the year it launched a new «Strategic plan» to focus on ultra-premium brands pitched at billionaires to make up for slumping Chinese sales.

Tesla is burning through impressive amounts of cash as it gears up to launch its Model 3, the company's first mass - market vehicle, later this year.

And it launched a brand new service tied to 401k plans, which in less than a year has signed up more than a dozen major employers.

Novartis and Science 37 are slated to launch up to 10 trials, which will become increasingly decentralized over three years, eventually scaling to a «site-less model, Science 37 noted.

Justin Timberlake, who founded his own tequila line called 901 (for the area code of his hometown, Memphis) in 2009, will team up with the Beam Inc. - owned Sauza Tequila house to launch a «super-premium» beverage called Sauza 901 early this year, the company said.

Make sure you have planned not just for the launch of the business, but to support it — and yourself — financially or otherwise for up to three years before you know if the business will work.

This seven - year - old agency could speed up its own growth by launching an aggressive local ad campaign to woo new customers.

Formerly Indigo's vice-president for online operations, he'd spent six years founding and running BookNet Canada before being lured back to the fold in the run - up to Kobo's launch.

In the arms race run - up to this year's conference both released new versions of their iPhone apps and Gowalla launched an Android app while Foursquare brushed their existing one up.

But this year he's up to much more: he's also spearheading the launch of a new stock exchange.

Offering permanent residency, the Canadian government launched a special «start - up visa» last year to facilitate the arrival of young entrepreneurs, and will open another stream this January.

This year Berner picked up a $ 100,000 short - term loan from the newly - launched Village Capital, a novel financing concept that lets participating entrepreneurs decide how to distribute funds.

Besserman launched Start - Up Buenos Aires, an organization working to strengthen the start - up community, about two years agUp Buenos Aires, an organization working to strengthen the start - up community, about two years agup community, about two years ago.

«The reason the Republican party essentially forgot to celebrate America this year might have been because they were too busy celebrating Donald Trump's claims that he would fix whatever Donald Trump thinks is wrong with America,» Oliver said before launching into a takedown of the «countless awful things» Trump has said over the past year, stirring up any number of controversies throughout his campaign for the White House.

Asia has been slow so far to join that trend but this year fintech firms are gearing up to launch such products in Singapore and Hong Kong.

And earlier this year the organization launched a follow - fund called Start - Up Chile SCALE to give certain graduates even more support.

For example, I've been in contact with hundreds of start - ups in the last year, most of which have not been able to get funding, which has prevented them from launching their business.

In recent years, SpaceX has moved from a spunky start - up with a seemingly outlandish goal of colonizing Mars to disruptive competitor that has remade the rocket launch business.

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