Sentence examples for floating business from inspiring English sources

Jamison — with her shaved head and, on her famously majestic body, a floating business of white and pink — glided around the room, greeting her friends.

With three floating business plans and his ardent belief in collegial software, Behlendorf in spring 1999 met with four venture firms.

An accountant by training, with a penchant for Porsches and proud owner of the personalised number plate T1NER, the former FSA boss has since been recruited by the financial entrepreneur Clive Cowdery to run a newly floated business that aims to buy up financial businesses laid low by the credit crunch.

LinkedIn is launching a dedicated site for Germany where local – and floated – business network Xing predominates.

Private equity is struggling to float businesses on the stock market, as New Look, Travelport and Merlin Entertainments can testify.

The move will allow the company to concentrate on its core cigarette business, and involves selling a minority of its shares in Logista to institutional investors and floating the business on the Spanish stock market.

Branson's Virgin Group owns about 30% after floating the business on the stock market in 2014 at $23 a share, valuing it at about $1.2bn.

"It comes down to what A.I.G. and the U.S. Treasury want to do, but surely you'd be quite worried going down the route of floating the business in Hong Kong, said Anthony Silverman, an analyst at Standard and Poor's Equity Research in London who thinks the current price of the deal is too high.

Should it now go ahead with floating the business, Funding Circle says it will use the proceeds to enhance its balance sheet position — which it says would help grow trust in the business with investors, borrowers and regulators, as well as support it pursuing growth over profitability in the medium term.

The insurer, whose private equity backers floated the business in June at 385p a share, specialises in retirement annuities, said new business rose by 3% in the third quarter.

The markets have made it a thoroughly horrible time to float a business.