As rumours of a buyout surface once more, should shareholders sell or sit tight? |
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Funds argue that small accounts are expensive, which raises the cost of investing for all shareholders. |
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Some shareholders are expected to query whether this would be the most prudent use of the money. |
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Companies must act responsibly and tell the truth to avoid their shareholders being added to the list of victims in this grim tale. |
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Let managers and shareholders make their own choices, based on sound business judgment, not on fear, jingoism or just bad economics. |
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He added that the formal announcement would be made once the company's shareholders had been notified. |
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Consolidation may well benefit shareholders of the acquired company in the short-term. |
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His explanation to MPs is unlikely to happen until the compensation case brought by shareholders is adjudicated in October. |
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After all, the whole principle was to look after members and not just shareholders. |
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This allocation would be made in a way that was most advantageous to shareholders, Mr Goodyear said. |
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As we report in our story on page 1, it is now threatened with de-listing from Nasdaq, which would leave more shareholders in deep doo-doo. |
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This infuriated some institutional shareholders and they allied with Walt Disney's nephew, who wanted to get rid of Eisner. |
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Meanwhile, his brutal analysis of the airline's business is enough to make the shareholders feel airsick. |
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He believes there are creditors and shareholders who believe the club's worth cannot be summed up in a profit and loss account. |
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But PPR could probably get loans to buy out the remaining shareholders and then raise new cash by relisting Gucci. |
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Railtrack shareholders will be offered an expected 230p per share this week when the company is relisted on the London stock exchange. |
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In summary, the smaller the company, the more likely it is to have private shareholders, and these have their uses. |
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So the industry set out to impress its shareholders by assigning itself goals. |
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Currently, the tax code encourages firms to retain earnings and remit income to shareholders through share repurchases. |
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Institutional shareholders have more recently renewed a campaign for enhanced corporate governance. |
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The statement said the amendments are not expected to have a material impact for shareholders. |
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If they dispense largesse for any other reason, they are literally wasting the money of their shareholders. |
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Other companies have been known to give their shareholders small tokens of their appreciation along with their annual reports. |
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But even options that aren't repriced represent an expense to shareholders, though it isn't fully reflected on corporate income statements. |
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This better capital management in the industry will give higher returns to shareholders, which will mean a rerating of the sector. |
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The new management team were not previously involved in the general running of the printers, nor were they directors or shareholders. |
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I'm not sure you need to be 80 or totally mad to attend annual general meetings of shareholders, but it certainly seems to help. |
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It will be put in front of shareholders at the annual general meeting, which this May is to be held in Edinburgh. |
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Ordinary shareholders will have to cause a rumpus at the annual general meetings to force real accountability and change. |
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I agree with you on the point that corporations are just legal entities allowing shareholders to act collectively under a certain legal regime. |
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Quick returns on investment and high dividends have to be achieved to keep the confidence of shareholders. |
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On the one hand, bank regulators may seek letters of comfort from substantial shareholders. |
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If so, shareholders will be entitled to wonder whether there is anything he cannot do. |
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The shareholders had also been shown to be apathetic in protecting their interests. |
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In Britain, by 1890 professional auditors had replaced shareholders and directors of limited liability companies as financial auditors. |
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This combines the advantages of limited liability for the shareholders of a company with the taxation advantages of an ordinary partnership. |
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The underlying logic was that shareholders were the residual risk-takers in the system. |
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Most companies do this after gaining approval from their shareholders at an annual meeting. |
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Now that interactive TV appears set to take off, albeit not at rocketlike speed, the board and the shareholders feel ACTV needs more focus. |
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The first company is then liquidated, and its capital repaid to its shareholders. |
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But, until the assets have been liquidated and the resulting court cases completed, nobody knows what the final cost to shareholders will be. |
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Institutional shareholders including arbitrageurs traditionally do not respond to offers up until close to the deadline. |
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The Agere shares are not subject to a lock-up, so Massana's former shareholders can sell them at any time for cash. |
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If any such deal is in the offing, expect it round about the time shareholders need an extra boost. |
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When big Australian companies report record profit increases, it's not just their shareholders rubbing their hands together in anticipation. |
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The confidence of its 40 million shareholders, mostly middle-class professionals and pensioners, has been rudely shattered. |
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The five dairy co-op shareholders decided to throw in their lot with Philip at the end of the day. |
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As a result, the company runs more profitably, with shareholders suffering fewer losses, and with dividends issued regularly. |
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Thirdly, about 75 per cent of the firm's deposits were maintained by its shareholders and by its subsidiary and associated companies. |
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It was owned by the shareholders of its 11 funds and provided the administrative services to them at cost. |
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Ambitious projects require cooperation among many players, from engineers and machinists to consumers and shareholders. |
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All three companies argue that staggered board elections protect shareholders in a takeover attempt. |
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Company X and Y both pay annual dividend of 40 tambala to their shareholders and this is expected to continue in perpetuity. |
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Now they have tasted blood, surely nothing will stop these committed shareholders from causing devastation among Britain's directors. |
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The results of the survey will make depressing reading for the company's beleaguered shareholders. |
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The theme park was bailed out by Saudi royalty ten years ago and the company's future is again dependent on its shareholders. |
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That cash is likely to be returned to shareholders in the form of dividends. |
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Even if shareholders are prepared to give Holmes the benefit of another few quarters' grace, he has an extremely small margin of error. |
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However, all lenders are ranked before shareholders so if a company does go bust it is rare for shareholders to get much money back. |
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He argued that reducing the supply of shares in the market would benefit all shareholders as the capital value of the stock rose. |
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Could there be a connection between fat pay for directors and thin returns for shareholders? |
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The dissident shareholders say that Corel's board is selling at bargain basement prices at the bottom of the market. |
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In addition, there are significant individual holders of blocs of shares and institutional shareholders. |
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To be honest, such dedication can impede the maximization of profits that our shareholders have every right to expect. |
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We will be keeping in regular touch with their shareholders, and hope they will see sense and relent. |
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On that basis, buying back shares is just a means by which a company can distribute cash to its shareholders. |
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Why should not directors and shareholders dealing with each other in relation to the latter's shares be treated as operating at arm's length? |
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As time ticks on without a major purchase, pressure is likely to mount on Fyffes to redistribute to shareholders the bounty of its war chest. |
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The move is long overdue and it's mostly belated good news for shareholders. |
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At the turn of the new century, as shareholders clamored for top-line growth, bleeding-edge innovation became the Holy Grail of competition. |
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Saying they smelled a shakedown, shareholders, who are usually wiped out in a bankruptcy, also jumped to its defense. |
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It has broached its plans to snap up smaller competitors with existing shareholders. |
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For years people have bemoaned the emergence of shareholders as the owners of football clubs. |
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It's just not enough to ensure that a business is as profitable as possible for its shareholders. |
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It's quite possible that many of their current shareholders missed them entirely. |
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The current emphasis is on achieving value for shareholders over the long term. |
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He has made it clear that the staff are on an equal footing with shareholders and customers. |
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Consequently, any boss who puts his shareholders above his own ego should be applauded. |
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My job as a businessman is to be a profit centre and to maximise return to the shareholders. |
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The rise in earnings per share was the result of share buy-backs from minority shareholders. |
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They have a legal obligation to look after their shareholders so money out ought to mean some benefit in. |
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He has shareholders to answer to, but that does not mean he foists his ideas on people. |
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On that day, a train of local dignitaries, shareholders, local MPs and the Lord Mayor of York travelled the full length of the line. |
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Telecommunications stocks have taken a tumble, but some telecom CEOs still managed to create value for their shareholders. |
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We have a responsibility to our shareholders that we have to make money out of what they have put in. |
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The moneylender had assured shareholders in May that they remained confident of meeting their 2001 targets. |
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Whether shareholders will see any value will depend on the silver tongues of its management and their advisers. |
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And did this blizzard of deal activity generate tangible additional value for their shareholders? |
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The pub firm recommended a cash offer and shareholders ultimately had no alternative other than to accept the bid. |
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In obedience to by-laws and shareholders, a corporation is a serenely calculating, bloodless, bodiless profit-machine. |
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But City sources said bondholders and shareholders have little choice but to go along. |
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Previously we discussed the event of a corporate liquidation where bondholders and preferred shareholders are paid first. |
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There are also no payouts from either the firm or its guarantor to shareholders and bondholders before the maturity date of the discount debt. |
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Investment trust shareholders should win out over a unit trust with a comparable portfolio of ungeared investments. |
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However, the added bonus for shareholders comes in the form of industry consolidation. |
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In the days when the Dutch economy was booming and stock prices were soaring, shareholders weren't worried. |
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After a one-hour booze-up whilst the votes were counted, all the directors mingled with the angry shareholders and it wasn't pretty. |
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Many employers now have shareholders who are demanding very unreasonable rates of return. |
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The prospectus spells out that bondholders rank ahead only of unsecured creditors and the shareholders. |
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Europe's bourses were rocked, and shareholders realized more than ever that bad governance costs them money. |
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There was an unspoken commitment that tax payers would have to subsidise the banks and shareholders directly. |
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However, the steady, stable nature of the industry means shareholders receive few untoward profit surprises. |
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Of course it also paid substantial sums to shareholders in the form of dividends and also paid rich salaries to its top executives. |
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It might be thought that the easiest way to give shareholders control over management would be to vest the management powers in them. |
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I have one thought uppermost in my mind and that is delivering value to shareholders. |
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But, as things stand, he is not offering current shareholders of Eircom a share in that upside potential. |
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Companies make use of sokaiya to settle many kinds of trouble, to collect underground information, and to suppress common shareholders. |
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Companies also hire a sokaiya to keep other sokaiya and sometimes legitimate shareholders under control. |
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Several radio stations have changed hands in recent years, netting tens of millions for their shareholders but nothing for the Government. |
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He should have told shareholders the bad news, but he didn't breathe a word to anybody. |
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While management has been usuriously enriching themselves, shareholders have suffered greatly. |
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Indeed so long as the company is solvent the shareholders are in substance the company. |
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It's celebrating its second birthday by shredding brokerage accounts and terrifying shareholders. |
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The case set up is that all the shareholders, the joint venturers, made the impugned decisions at the outset. |
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As farmers get older and cease to milk cows the issue of non-active shareholders is emerging as a major issue. |
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Non-active family members, who were shareholders of the family firm, had indicated a preference for regular dividend payments. |
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Conflicts routinely erupt as a result of disagreements over how exactly to represent non-active shareholders on the board. |
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The small shareholders will be hoping to turn around the fortunes of a speculative investment that so many have come to bitterly regret. |
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With their outfit of cavalier managers and thirsty shareholders they bullwhipped the lines into a profiteering frenzy. |
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In this situation, the burden of convening a meeting falls on the shareholders. |
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A massive voucher privatization program turned more than 60 million people into shareholders of Russian businesses. |
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He added that if no suitable acquisitions can be found, then funds would be returned to shareholders, probably through share buy-backs. |
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A higher dividend and share buy-back will be among the options, as the Solihull-based company looks to keep shareholders sweet. |
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For the 80 per cent of shareholders not putting their cash at risk, the buyout is great news. |
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Yes, I was working in his interests but directors of companies must work in the interests of all shareholders. |
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His squeaky-clean morals even reach the money-hungry shareholders of his uncle's media conglomerate. |
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On the surface, it appears that Big Blue is firing a huge quantity of staffers just to please shareholders. |
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These businesses are run principally for the benefit of their shareholders as the dominant stakeholders. |
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As a result, shareholder activism has been stalemated in this arena, and institutional shareholders want a new weapon. |
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If this happens, bondholders will take a serious haircut, while shareholders will get a big fat nothing. |
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Tight haircuts for bootboy bankers and existing shareholders could be the order of the day. |
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I am outraged at the degree of obnoxiousness with which they are treating shareholders. |
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The share price got hammered because Irish shareholders are net sellers in the long run. |
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However, Scottish Power has said it is likely to get rid of its Thus shares by handing them out to its own shareholders. |
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Currently, shareholders who want to offload shares sell back their stakes to the group. |
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The principle of the corporate veil as a protection against the liability of the shareholders of the corporation is enshrined in statute law. |
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Others argue that they can always unload a stock if corporate officers and directors are taking advantage of shareholders. |
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But making billions while your shareholders lose their shirts, and your workers lose their jobs, sticks in our craw. |
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The longer this fiasco goes on, then the more shareholders are going to be hurt, so let's get it over and done with as quickly as possible. |
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The chief executive says he has no plans to ask his shareholders to dip into their pockets to raise further finance. |
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Bula Resources shares were subsequently delisted by the Stock Exchange, leaving shareholders in limbo. |
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In December 2000 it floated on the Stock Exchange after its shareholders voted in favour of demutualization. |
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Instead it was happy grow organically and to return the additional cash flow to shareholders. |
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This relief does not apply if the shareholders in the target company retain an option to sell their shares to another company. |
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The pressure on companies to make money for their shareholders has led to some truly heinous acts, in my view. |
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About 89.3 per cent of existing Hutchison shareholders exercised their options to subscribe for HTIL preference shares. |
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But it is now a very high wire act and will involve not inconsiderable expense for shareholders. |
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These are the interests of minority shareholders in subsidiaries of the group. |
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The Mangatawa Papakainga is a housing project designed specifically for our Kuia and Kaumatua shareholders. |
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If a sweetheart deal is obviously unethical and not in the interests of shareholders, legal action can be taken. |
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Details of the restructuring plan are expected to be included in the circular being sent to all shareholders in the next two weeks. |
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The dissenters circularized all shareholders the following week to warn them about the new resolution. |
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He communicated with shareholders, both by circularizing them and by his detailed interventions at shareholders' meetings. |
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The next decade looks to be one that could be characterised by equally greedy shareholders hungry for dividends. |
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Like these shareholders, partners remain personally liable for any personally negligent acts. |
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Servicing the debts will obviously involve a net transfer from the company to the syndicate of lenders, not the shareholders. |
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To their shame, these business leaders view shareholders as patsies, not partners. |
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Since most do not operate to earn profits, these enterprises do not pay dividends to shareholders. |
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But the private shareholders, the little people who had none of the big boys' clout and bargaining power, were treated with contempt. |
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In the meantime it also appears that there is friction between board directors and shareholders. |
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The shareholders of Carlton and Granada could have been coining it from movies and old comedies. |
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So far, however, it does not appear to have hurt the company or reduced shareholders to fits of cold shivers. |
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Lipton survived the affair and told shareholders the incident had happened years before and the practice had been given up. |
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When they are privately-owned, they are accountable only to shareholders and fat-cat directors. |
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Those regulate, in pages of detail, who can be the directors and shareholders of incorporated firms. |
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As shareholders in God's eternal story, we commune with a creating God and are drawn into fellowship with a global community. |
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When talking to new black shareholders and concessionaires in the hake industry, one hears mostly how slowly things are moving. |
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There has been a fundamental conflict of interest between management and the company's shareholders. |
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One of Royal Bank's major institutional shareholders believes investors should stick with the Edinburgh-based financial giant for some time yet. |
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The placing of stakes of majority shareholders Bank held by Scotland and Harcourt Holdings amounted to 25 per cent of the stock. |
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The company, which manufactures bathroom suites, said it would pay shareholders an interim dividend of two cents per share. |
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But as the deal moved toward consummation, the Goldman arrangement was never disclosed in public documents to AOL or Time Warner shareholders. |
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Managers and large shareholders of other Irish plcs considering management or leveraged buyouts must be watching events with great interest. |
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It is always open to minority shareholders to contract for such representation. |
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The French company receives irrevocable commitments from over 50 per cent of shareholders. |
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The company recently issued a statement suspending the rights of some shareholders to sell their stock for cash. |
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And, in fact, that does seem unlikely unless the asking price is too good to be true, and then their shareholders might flip out. |
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A corporation is an entity separate from other persons who are its shareholders or associated with it. |
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As a general rule a corporation is a legal entity distinct from its shareholders. |
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These payments were treated as income to the corporation and then ordinary income to the shareholders. |
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They save the companies a fair chunk of money and offer small shareholders a cost-effective way of getting rid of their shares. |
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Suppliers have their own shareholders to consider and few of them are flush with cash these days. |
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Howard, having, bought off all other shareholders was answerable to no one and operated through telephones while living in posh hotels. |
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What might shareholders, bankers, and staff lose financially if the firm folded? |
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And just when investors thought it had run out of people to blame, it blamed its own shareholders for panicking when the shares crashed. |
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In theory they can offer cheap loans because they are run by volunteers and there are no shareholders creaming off the profits. |
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And if shareholders believe a board is biased toward the interests of management, a buyout proposal can quickly founder. |
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Both firms have taken out full-page advertisements in leading newspapers to plead their case before customers and shareholders. |
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The employment was also clearly to allow the plaintiff and the former shareholders of PPI to work on the earn-out. |
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Walt Disney, one of the four equal shareholders with pre-emptive rights alongside Carlton and Granada, may well pick up the holding. |
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It is difficult to imagine the shareholders turning the deal down, since it represents a 16 per cent premium to the share price last month. |
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We don't have a charter and we don't have pressure from shareholders demanding profits and wanting to see readership figures. |
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Corporate managers act as the agent representing the shareholders, who are the firm's principals. |
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The action is brought against the company as well as the two principals and sole shareholders, officers and directors of the company. |
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In addition, the priorities of shareholders may be different from those of the directors. |
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She said the arrest involved only shares belonging to private shareholders but refused to elaborate. |
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They are joint-stock organizations whose principal purpose is to maximize profits for their shareholders. |
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Each merger promised to deliver bigger and better results for both customers and shareholders. |
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The proposed demerger has the potential to bring significant benefits for shareholders. |
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There was widespread stockmarket scepticism that the demerger would succeed in increasing the value to shareholders. |
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In case of public limited companies, shareholders, who are counted as actual owners of the enterprises, also add to the list of losers. |
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Irate shareholders wondered exactly what he had delivered to deserve such a reward. |
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This article develops a model in which greenmail and other forms of management resistance to takeovers can benefit shareholders. |
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The deep discount means that if the shareholders don't cough up, their existing shareholdings will be diluted. |
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For the thousands of shareholders, whose stake in the company, like mine, have been diluted to near-zero, there is however a lesson to be learnt. |
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Even if the acquisition was made for stock, shareholders may have suffered dilution. |
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The majority opinion has been that existing shareholders must be picking up the tab by allowing their returns to be reduced through dilution. |
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There were a few grumbles from large shareholders and analysts leading up to the vote. |
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It now seems most likely that Global Trust Bank shareholders will be left holding the dirty end of the stick. |
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Today's corporate leader is expected to dismantle and disaggregate his corporation whenever there's a buck in it for his shareholders. |
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I imagine this bulletin has proven a major disappointment in certain corners, and not merely among Pfizer's shareholders. |
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It marks another win for disgruntled shareholders, but does the penalty go far enough? |
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Some small shareholders were so upset by events they walked out in disgust. |
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Companies are quite separate legal entities from the directors and indeed from the shareholders. |
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The majority shareholder cannot direct corporate decisions which enure to its benefit to the detriment of minority shareholders. |
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After asking for yet more Government money and then considering paying dividends to shareholders, this is the last straw. |
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In its June announcement, Baltimore's board proposed the return of cash via a special dividend to shareholders. |
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Most companies distribute dividends to shareholders every three or six months. |
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He also alleged that he had been done out of 60 million shares by one of the bank's three largest shareholders. |
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We aim to provide committed, long term equity to the business and its shareholders. |
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To the extent the execs held on to their stock, they suffered along with other shareholders. |
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Once again, shareholders were pictured as dolts, unable to find their way off a stalled escalator. |
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There's a certain grim irony here from comments made at the 2001 shareholders meeting to consider the domicile shift. |
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A more serious case of attempted expropriation of minority shareholders is hard to imagine. |
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No company continues with its practices if bad publicity occurs, or prohibitive laws or tax regimes are enacted, or shareholders sell up, or investors say stop. |
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The club are now appealing for all willing minority shareholders to write to the club with permission to make the transferral, enclosing the original share certificate. |
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Those shareholders get out from a bad situation with a premium over the market price of their shares. |
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Current law taxes the fringe benefits of these shareholders. |
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The balance of shares is held by approximately 170 shareholders. |
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The boardroom bravado, however, has already drawn criticism from some influential shareholders. |
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We know that Les Moonves, like any good chief executive, cares about the bottom line and making a bundle for shareholders. |
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As shareholders, qua shareholders, they must be treated equally. |
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As the Kenya shilling fights its way up against the dollar, shareholders are capitalizing on the stock market before, inevitably, the prices start coming down. |
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The corporations are a strong lobby group in Alaska's capital since they not only control lands and assets but represent over 16,000 Tlingit and Haida shareholders. |
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Also, the sick-pay policy has been improved, absenteeism has dropped, and shareholders have received dividends in four of the past six financial years. |
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But from the comments made by shareholders talking in groups after the meeting and the market performance since, it is clear the jury is out on the new strategy. |
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We are instead witnessing a crony capitalism where the interests of CEOs are no longer aligned with the interests of their shareholders and workers. |
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This prospect is further whitening the knuckles of Vodafone shareholders. |
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Dell argues that while the company hasn't created whiz-bang inventions, it has produced cheap computers for buyers and huge returns for shareholders. |
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But shareholders were initially keeping their powder dry as they waited to see if the world's largest brewer would open up with a counter bid and raise the bidding stakes. |
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Complicated cross-shareholdings in the keiretsu style are typical in Asia, where controlling families and their cronies siphon much wealth away from shareholders. |
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He just resented giving it to the shareholders of privatised monopolies. |
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Millions of former Abbey shareholders now hold Banco Santander shares. |
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When the bubble burst, their shareholders were left holding the bag. |
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There is little room for sympathy when chief executives screw up, particularly if shareholders, employees and customers are left holding the baby. |
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When the steady market increases came to a halt, and the dishonesty of some in corporate America came to light, shareholders were often left holding the bag. |
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The big institutional shareholders apparently have their own ideas about a new chairman and a couple of new directors to preside over the board rebuild. |
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But Railtrack is a natural monopoly and if it is to work in the interest of the people, rather than shareholders, then it must be owned by the people. |
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A number of shareholders have called for the sale of the chain so the group could focus on its Howden business, which sells kitchens to builders and small developers. |
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But their officers and shareholders do get hit up by the very same politicians who decry corporate involvement in politics. |
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A company making big league profits and paying fat dividends to shareholders should be ashamed of its insulting pay offer to the people who actually do the work. |
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I'm not certain whether shareholders can expect the full monty through their letterboxes, but they might think about clearing a space just in case. |
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The Act gives the shareholder two possibilities for laying a removal resolution before a meeting of the shareholders in the face of an uncooperative board. |
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But the outcome for shareholders is generally desperate because their interests tend to be heavily diluted by the issue of new equity to the creditors. |
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The chairman will address the shareholders on the proposed demerger. |
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More promising, it might be thought, is the strategy of giving the shareholders strong legal rights in relation to the appointment or removal of the directors. |
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The alternative allowing the insolvent banks to fail, seizing the assets, wiping out shareholders, giving bond holders a serious haircut is still not on the official agenda. |
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Specifically, we examine the unadjusted and market-adjusted returns earned by shareholders of CANPRIVs during the five-year period following privatization. |
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To be sure, no hedge fund attacks on blue-chip companies have come to light, and some say there's little to fear from shareholders seeking to exercise their rights. |
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He was then able to pay out a special dividend to shareholders and restore his own position, both in terms of his personal finances and his reputation. |
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The company's spring meeting was the occasion for the shareholders to pre-empt the governing board by throwing down the gauntlet on finance and management of services. |
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Should the shareholders invest their hopes in the power of prayer? |
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This newspaper understands that the idea of a leveraged buyout was discussed by management and some shareholders in the past, but was not pursued. |
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A management buyout or leveraged buyout is a transaction where some individuals borrow large amounts of cash and buy the outstanding stock of all the other shareholders. |
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In addition, its ungeared balance sheet means it is well placed to fund an expansion programme without recourse to shareholders for further capital. |
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With more equity to come, shareholders face further dilution. |
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So that leaves shareholders in limbo until further details are released. |
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The financial firm belongs to a class of companies that promises, for its shareholders, a big dollop of jam tomorrow but only a slither of dry toast today. |
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It should also put an end to limited liability for shareholders. |
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The auction of Odeon was sparked in June after one property investor failed to get other shareholders to accept his pre-emptive offer of 360 million pounds. |
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I want to provide a public service, not line the pockets of shareholders. |
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Indeed, the schemes of co-determination in Germany constitute functioning examples of shareholders sharing control with one other stakeholder group, namely the employees. |
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Corporate scandals have recently rocked the business world, shocked shareholders and the public at large, and led to the downfall of several large-scale firms. |
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If SarahPAC were a publicly traded company, its shareholders would be revolting. |
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Since shareholders have a nasty habit of leaving, customers will probably have to bear the brunt of these losses and the bank may try to push profit margins even wider apart. |
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Making profits for shareholders ought to be the main objective for a listed company and, as such, investors tend to pay most attention to reported profits. |
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Why should ordinary shareholders be bounced into selling out on the cheap? |
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For others, it means going public and answering to shareholders. |
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If the bank is not going to dip into 2002 profits to deal with the problem, then shareholders need to know what other routes it might take to deal with it. |
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There were plenty of newsworthy exchanges between Argus and shareholders, but with 24 pages of longhand notes, one would not want to overindulge an AGM review. |
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This all represents a step change for shareholders of utility shares. |
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Questions that shareholders are asking require urgent answers. |
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Because many companies rely on stock options to pump up earnings, she takes a hard look at how the cost of options and their dilution to shareholders decrease the bottom line. |
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While he agrees it's a good outcome for shareholders, he believes there could be a sting in the tail for investors as the big players consider their options. |
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Nokia, Michelin and Volkswagen are prime examples of companies driven by creating products of high value and not just value for shareholders, he said. |
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Other investors, financiers and shareholders have also got cold feet. |
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But corporate executives and shareholders alike should be disturbed by the extortive circumstances in which Jackson appears to have gathered much of their money. |
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But his autocratic style has landed him in trouble with shareholders. |
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And companies are shoveling dividends out to their shareholders before the taxman comes calling. |
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After all, HP's shareholders were split almost 50-50 on the Compaq deal at the time, and since then, it has become clear the detriments outweighed the benefits. |
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What needs to made clear at this point is some assumptions that lie behind this picture of tardy, incompetent, and detached management of the company by the shareholders. |
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The shareholders have no claim, on a winding-up, to the return of their contributions to the company until all the creditors' claims have been satisfied. |
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Major shareholders may be buying back the loans on the cheap. |
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If the profit of one division increases with a corresponding decrease to another division the net overall effect is the same for the single entity and hence, the shareholders. |
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There then follow 18 sub-paragraphs listing various actions or activities which are prohibited without the prior written consent of both shareholders. |
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Should Mr. Greenberg snare a major settlement without A.I.G., the company could face additional lawsuits from other shareholders. |
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The power of shareholders, and in particular financial institutions such as investment funds, has once again risen to dominate the power of technostructures. |
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The Lords confirmed the lower court's view that net profits for tax purposes were not net profits as disclosed in a set of accounts presented to shareholders. |
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Sounds like a clear cut case of rapacious health care companies heartlessly trying to squeeze the hospitals for the benefit of their greedy shareholders, doesn't it? |
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This prompted some vehement criticism from shareholders in May. |
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