Sentence examples for collection business from inspiring English sources

The company also continued on the acquisition trail, paying £42m to buy debt collection business 1Qor from its US parent.

In one season, the collection business, which had sold $25 million in a good year, dropped to about $5 million.

In July a debt collection business, Marlin Financial, emerged as the buyer of £450m worth of Northern Rock's bad loans, with Marlin paying around £100m.

Mr. Berenberg keeps much of his art collection, business documents and other personal items in his large blue-metal bin in the basement.

Spying an opportunity midway through his term as attorney general to burnish his credentials as the consumer's champion, Mr. Cuomo directed his staff to take on the bad actors in the private collection business aggressively.

"One of my favorite stories was that after working here for a summer, a young lady said to me, 'Gee, I had no idea that a collection business could lose money,' " Mr. Wyse recalled.

Under terms of the deal, Waste Management will sell 10 waste collection businesses, 12 landfills and seven transfer stations.

Waste Management Inc. agreed to buy collection businesses in five states and landfill operations in Oklahoma from a rival, Allied Waste Industries, for $73 million.

This trend can be seen in how our new Consumer Financial Protection Agency is taking aim at the increasingly harsh actions of loan collection businesses (hired by the government) against student defaulters.

In many countries, garbage collection is contracted out by municipalities and corporations to private garbage collection businesses.

He added: "Then she set up a garbage-collection business and it didn't go anywhere.