At the same time, the company joined most other retailers in creating a heavy promotional environment for the holiday season.
Shares in Peak Sport Products of China, the athletic footwear maker which has made endorsement deals with NBA players an important part of its marketing, dropped 4.5% in Hong Kong today after the company joined a list of businesses from the industry to announce grim financial figures and forecasts.
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The company recently joined or was acquired by FreeAgent, an online accounting solution.
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The company had joined consumer products maker Kimberly-Clark, which reported earnings Monday, in raising prices to offset higher input costs.
The company has joined the Alliance to Save Energy and the Digital Energy Solutions Campaign (DESC), a group of tech companies working on environmental issues.
The company's performance has improved following pressure from billionaire investor Nelson Peltz, who in 2006 took a stake in the company and joined its board.
Homespun, plainspoken and a Microsoft lifer--on Oct. 9 he put in his 8, 000th day at the company he joined in 1981--Raikes is the stable counterbalance to the intense duo.
Biovail , the pharmaceutical company, joined this campaign last week with its own allegations that Gradient and hedge fund SAC Capital, among others, worked to distort its shares by disseminating false information about the company.
The Monday after the deadly collapse of Rana Plaza in Savar, Bangladesh, Joe Fresh parent company Loblaw joined fellow retailers Sears Canada and Wal-Mart Canada at an emergency meeting of the Retail Council of Canada to discuss how to combat working conditions in sweatshops.
Jones, 64, has been CEO of Rockwell Collins since June 2001, and has worked for the company for almost 34 years, having joined the company in 1979 after serving as a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force.
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Results may give investors more faith in new management, including Joly, who joined the company in August, and CFO Sharon McCollam, who joined in December, said NBG Productions analyst Brian Sozzi.
Unlike McNamara, who was president of the Ford Motor Company before he joined the Pentagon, Wolfowitz had little experience running a large bureaucracy.
Another company that has joined the U.S. sanctions drive is Russian firm Lukoil, which announced in April that it would consider stopping gasoline shipments to Iran.
The last time we heard from Steorn, the company had just joined a long line of optimistic but doomed people and companies unable to actually demo free-energy tech when put the test -- and although the Orbo didn't actually do anything, CEO Sean McCarthy promised us that we'd eventually get a working demo with physical access to the device.
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Fifteen years ago, the WineBid customer base was so small the company didn't keep track of the numbers, said Mr. Zech, who joined the company four years after it was founded.
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Dozens of high-ranking veteran Ebay employees have left since Donahoe joined the company in 2005.
Salnoske is the first of the CIO-pluses profiled herein who joined his company as a CIO-plus.
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We helped Palmer reboot the Kickstarter, and pretty shortly afterwards everyone joined the company.
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Reality intruded soon after Boyd joined the company as general counsel in January 2000.
When Leidal joined the company in 2008, spending on IT was 3.0% of revenues.
When he joined the company in September 2007, CallWave had its work cut out.
Drant helped write the business plan for the company when he first joined NEA in 1996.
He joined the company in May after it bought his Old Lane investment management firm.
Rubin joined the company in 1999 as a member of the office of the chairman.
At least, that was the deal when he joined the company 20 years ago.
Mr. Kumar: When I joined the company, my job was to start the international business.
Mr. Liguori joined the Company as Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer in January 2010.
The cruise business accounts for 67% of Steiner's revenues, down from 95% when Fluxman joined the company.
Mr. Greg W. Becker joined the Company in 1993 as part of the Northern California Technology Division.
Well, it used to be called the annual sales meeting back when I joined the company in 1992.
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