Sentence examples for firm continental from inspiring English sources

Forbes: Which gets to your firm, Continental.

Fidelity, which has been managing Luxembourg-registered funds since 1990, is the only American mutual-fund firm in continental Europe's top 50; only a handful of British firms have made the list.

American financier and real-estate developer who enriched his own coffers to the tune of $34 million (and spent another $1.3 million on political contributions) while bilking depositors and investors of the Lincoln Savings & Loan of Irvine, Calif., which was seized by the government after its parent company, the real-estate firm American Continental, entered bankruptcy in 1989.

Some smaller private-equity firms in continental Europe are struggling even more than British outfits, weakening the competition.

For both continental firms - and for Whitbread's brewing business - maintaining the link is essential.

The lack of consumer demand, in turn, reduces the incentive for firms to invest.Yet continental Europe, by and large, has provided far less macroeconomic stimulus than America.

But that is still way out of kilter: Britain is only one-sixth of the west European economy.Why don't continental firms too rush into offshoring?

A controversial recent trend is for continental firms to recombine the roles of chief executive and chairman (Carrefour this week became the latest example).

After all, continental firms have been slower to embrace the brash excesses from stock options to fraudulent accounting that now dog their American rivals.

Many continental firms are still controlled by a dominant family shareholder with an intricate web of crossholdings; minority shareholders are often ignored.

Its blatant goal was to oversee the creation of a national champion capable of standing up to EDF and GDF.The big continental firms are stout defenders of their market position and behaviour.