This prompted the company to cut its forecasts for the full fourth quarter.
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The company pledged to cut 600 back-office positions, though some 150 workers in those roles would be reassigned to other jobs.
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The company had previously announced the planned closures, but had not said which locations would be affected.
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The company blamed much of the poor performance in November and December on unseasonably warm weather.
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Tennessee's technical and community colleges will not outsource ( ' , 外包) management of their facilities to a private company, a decision one leader said was bolstered by an analysis of spending at each campus.
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Private companies play a big role in campus management.
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According to Richard Rusczyk, the company founder, the six U.S.team members who competed at the IMO last year collectively took more than 40 courses on the site.
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About 80% of our company's year-over-year declines in comparable sales can be attributed to shortfalls ( ' , 短缺) in cold-weather goods, said chief executive Terry Lundgren in a press release.
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The lawsuits said that the label was misleading because it gave the impression that the products had been certified by a third party when the certification was the company's own.
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So the news that Cablevision, an American cable company, was rolling out interactive advertisements to all its customers on October 6th was greeted with some skepticism.
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Most teens say they enjoy the company of both parents and friends.
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It is manufactured by a famous British company.
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It helps attract investments in the company.
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His company's products had been well received by the public.
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David Mallen, associate director of the Council of Better Business Bureau, said in the last two years the organization had seen an increase in the number of claims companies were bringing against each other for false or misleading environmental product claims.
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Companies have also taken it upon themselves to contest each other's green claims.
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A handful of lawsuits have been filed in recent years against companies accused of using misleading environmental labels.
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To address skyrocketing employee stress levels, many companies have implemented workplace wellness programs, partnering with health care providers that have created programs to promote employee health and well-being.
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That could be another explanation for why companies seem to be strengthening their talk of the practicality of their devices.
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Subsidise companies to adopt plain packaging.
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It's not only unsustainable for workers, but also for the companies that employ them.
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However, Brazil's stretch of misfortune has created opportunities for China, with a Chinese company winning the $100 million contract in 2015 to rebuild the Brazilian station.
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Even utility companies, which have long viewed batteries and alternative forms of energy as a threat, are learning to embrace the technologies as enabling rather than disrupting.
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Dr.Donald Sadoway at MIT started his own battery company with the hope of changing the world's energy future.
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Consumers are becoming increasingly bored with what companies have to offer: A survey of 28,000 consumers in 28 countries released by Accenture found consumers are not as excited about technology as they once were.
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Consumers are becoming more worried about giving personal information to tech companies to get customized products and services.
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Companies that have long focused on hardware now have to think of ecosystems instead to give consumers practical solutions to their everyday problems.
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Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.
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Companies are promoting their own standards, and the market has not had time to choose a winner yet as this is still very new.
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Companies have already won part of the battle, having driven tech into every part of our lives, tracking our steps and our very heartbeats.
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Cameron would still be hooked on the interests of big tobacco companies.
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By the end of the decade, it's expected to be worth over $50 billion and generate 160 gigawatt-hours, enough to attract the attention of major companies that might not otherwise be interested in a decidedly pedestrian technology.
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But over the last couple of years, and in this one in particular, we are starting to see companies shift from what is the largest screen size, the smallest form factor or the shiniest object and more into what all of these devices do that is practical in a consumer's life.
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And when it comes to the hyper-connected super-smart world that technology firms are painting for us, it seems that consumers are growing more uneasy about handing over the massive amounts of consumer data needed to provide the personalized, customized solutions that companies need to improve their services.
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The Conservatives plan to adopt this strategy by making utility companies print the average local electricity and gas usage on people's bills.
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Medical society guidelines are also used by insurance companies to help determine reimbursement ( ' , 报销 ) policies.
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But more recently, companies have begun to plan more affordable After being dogged by technical delays for years, Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic's founder, had recently suggested that a SpaceShipTwo craft would carry its first paying customers as soon as February 2015.
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These are likely to have more resources andmore knowledge about all aspects of advertising and advertising media than single company.
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The client company generallygives the advertising agency an agreed budget, a statement of theobjective of the advertising campaign known as a brief and an overall advertising strategy concerning the message to be communicated to the target customers.
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It is also easier for a dissatisfied company to give its account to another agency than it would be to fire their own advertising staff.
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Although large companies could easily set up their own advertising departments, write their own advertisements andbuy media space themselves, they tend to use the services of largeadvertising agencies.
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According to Adam Marchick, CEO of mobile marketing company Kahuna, less than 15 percent of smartphone users ever bother to adjust their notification settings—meaning the remaining 85 percent of us default to the app makers' every preset trigger.
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According to the company's CEO, Rose Marcario, this is about building a company that cares about the environment.
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Another clothing company, Patagonia, a high-end outdoor clothing store, follows the same principle.
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Any take-back program will likely change over time, depending on what works for your customers and company goals.
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Apple's stance on these issues emerged post-Snowden, when the company started putting in place a series of technologies that, by default, make use of encryption to limit access to people's data.
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As he and other researchers examined the question of why teens were more apt to take risks in the company of other teenagers,they came to suspect that a crowd's influence need not always be negative.
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As it grew more popular, the company sold rights to bottle the soda, so it could travel easily.
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CucinTech was a company who were very much following the pack, doing what everyone else was doing, and getting rapidly left behind.
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Eat Grub is Britain's first new food company that breaks western food boundaries by introducing edible insects as a new source of food.
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For example, the Swedish jeans company Nudie Jeans offers free repair at twenty of their shops.
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Good leaders left the company, taking Nokia's sense of vision and direction with them.
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How did you align strategies throughout the company?
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In 2009, he and his wife Laura launched Maple Hill Creamery, an organic, all grass-fed yogurt company in northern New York.
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In a statement on its website, the company says it wants Barbies to look more like real people and to give girls everywhere infinitely more ways that spark their imagination and play out their stories.
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In an interview last year with The Economist, George Whitesides, chief executive of space-tourism firm virgin Galactic, was placing his company in the latter category.
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In the other comer is the world's most valuable company, whose chief executive, timothy Cook, has said he will appeal the court's order.
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Last year, MATTEL, the company that makes Barbie dolls, added some Barbies to its line that have different skin tones and hair textures.
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Nokia's board resisted change, making it impossible for the company to adapt to rapid shifts in the industry.
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Now, a company in Massachusetts says that by using magnetic brain scans, they can determine with 97% accuracy whether someone is telling the truth.
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Originally from South America, the snails were accidentally introduced into the Ebro Delta by Global Aquatic Technologies, a company that raised the snails for fresh-water aquariums, but failed to prevent their escape.
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Our study will use a large corporate dataset from a major medical company to examine how technology extends our working hours and thus interferes with necessary cognitive recovery, resulting in huge health care costs and turnover costs for employers.
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Rodriguez is the community and marketing manager for a company called Sentab.
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So now, for many cases involving governmental intrusions into data, once-lonely privacy advocates find themselves fighting alongside the most powerful company in the world.
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So the company teamed up with Wisconsin-based Rancher Northstar Bison.
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So, how is our presentation about the restructuring of the company coming along?
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So, instead of innovation for innovation's sake and new products being created simply because the technology is there, the company culture must switch from these point-in-time innovations to a continuous pipeline of innovations from everywhere and everyon
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Strategic innovation is the process of managing innovation of making sure it takes place at all levels of the company, and that is related to the company's overall strategy.
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Tennessee's technical and community colleges will not outsource management of their facilities to a private company, a decision one leader said was bolstered by ananalysis of spending at each campus.
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The company also embarked on a desperate cost-cutting program, which included the elimination of thousands of jobs.
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The company also offers a repair program for their customers for a modest fee.
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The company boasts that its dried crickets contain more protein than beef, chicken, and pork, as well as minerals like iron and calcium.
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The company even provides mail-order repair kits and online videos, so that customers can learn how to fix a pair of jeans at home.
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The company has already taken deposits from around 800 would-be space tourists, including Stephen Hawking.
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The company might be very optimistic, but the ability of their machine to detect deception has not provided credible proof.
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This is in comparison with a drop of just under 1% in the total yogurt and kefir market according to natural and organic market research company SpiNS.
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with more than $12 billion in sales this year, the industry is booming and, according to the market research company, Grand view Research, is on track to sell billions more by 2025.
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