Sentences with phrase «by multinational such»

It was controlled at the top by multinational such as the Belize Estate and Produce Company, which controlled the marketing and owned most of the plantations in the country.

Fears have also been expressed that the patenting of seeds by multinationals such as Cargill will result in traditional farmers being displaced.

Not exact matches

A year ago, the London - based multinational undertook a study entitled «The World in 2050,» which projected Canada would be the only major developed economy to hold its position in the world — at the No. 10 spot — at mid-century, largely because of the demand for its resources and its ties through immigration to emerging markets (which by that time will no longer be labelled as such).

The primary beneficiaries of the Trans Mountain pipeline are Houston's Kinder Morgan, Alberta's slumping oil sector, controlled by foreign multinationals such as Exxon and Shell, and export markets in Asia, primarily China.

A European Commission plan to tax the digital turnover of large companies drew scepticism.The criticism came at the first meeting of EU ministers to discuss the plan, which was presented by the Commission last month and entails a 3 % levy on the digital revenues of large multinational corporations such as Google, Facebook and Amazon.

The industry, she says, is dominated by Brazilian and Australian producers, such as Brazilian multinational corporation Vale, British - Australian mining multinational Rio Tinto, Anglo - Australian multinational mining company BHP Billiton and Australian iron - ore company Fortescue Metals.

India's Asian Paints controls 40 % of the market for house paints in its home base, despite aggressive moves by such major multinationals as ICI, Kansai Paints, and Sherwin Williams.

This event will allow Canadian suppliers to save time and money by making direct contact with 50 multinational buyers companies established in the Mexico such as Flextronics, IBM de Mexico, Jabil Circuit, Sanmina, Emerson Electronic, Sanyo, Whirlpool, Pirelli and Mazda, with specific requirements in products and processes that represent an estimated market of $ 1.4 billion

On the international level he is encouraged by shifts within the World Bank (such as the hiring of Herman Daly) toward more ecologically viable programs; the spread of vital information through organizations like the World Resources Institute and the Worldwatch Institute and through various United Nations programs; world conferences on the future of the living species; and even stirrings among national and multinational business corporations.

Such poverty and repression do not deter investment by multinational corporations.

But to have the computer lines and terminals, specialists in image analysis, specialists in food production, geology, land management, ocean ecology, investment specialists, and, finally, to own the worldwide satellite facilities to move the information instantly — such capability can be achieved only by very large, multinational corporations.

Bruggman calls this «the royal consciousness» but I think we could also refer to it as «the Powers that Be» and here in the United States goes by such names as «the multinational corporation» and «politics in Washington D. C.»

Unprecedented wholesale and retail control of the organic marketplace by UNFI andWhole Foods, employing a business model of selling twice as much so - called «natural» food as certified organic food, coupled with the takeover of many organic companies by multinational food corporations such as Dean Foods, threatens the growth of the organic movement.

The DA - AO is also used by multinational companies and offices such as the Philrice, IRRI and universities such as UPLB in applying for contained use and field testing of GM crops such as Golden Rice, Bt cotton, GM corn, GM Papaya and many others.

His concerns over multinational suppliers» conduct echoed those last week by Woolworths, which said that Australian wholesale prices for products such as toothpaste and deodorant were sometimes 25 to 40 per cent higher than the retail price for identical products in the US and UK.

Mr Kerr said the international food industry was dominated by multinationals that enjoyed the benefits of scale such as Nestle or the French group Danone, the world's biggest producer of organic food since this year's US$ 12.5 billion purchase of US organic food producer WhiteWave.

The multinational food processors» presence spurred competitive investment and brand - building by national companies [for China see Wei and Cacho (19); liberalization led to rapid capital - deepening in the food processing sector, such as in India (20)-RSB-.

Science in the Big League, an essay written by Norwegian particle physicist Egil Lillestol, who has spent a lot of time at CERN, is a great introduction to CERN's multinational environment and the joys and challenges of doing science on such a big scale.

Nevertheless, corporations such as Hindustan Unilever, Ltd., (the Indian subsidiary of the multinational Unilever) have shown interest by talking to the researchers a number of times.

The first is a single grand international fund through which all mitigation and adaptation would be financed − such as, say, a greatly expanded version of the Multinational Climate Change Fund proposed by Mexico.

Indeed, the jurisdictional reach of statutes such as the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977 and the UK Bribery Act 2010 means that conduct in Asia is often at the heart of enforcement actions by UK and US authorities, making the rules of privilege in the UK and US particularly important to multinational corporates.

The changes at Vodafone's corporate - focused subsidiary, which provides telecoms solutions to large multinationals such as Unilever, Volkswagen and The Linde Group, have been overseen by legal director Kerry Phillip (pictured), who started the process six months after being appointed in September 2014.

They recently represented Allergan on the local aspects of the USD40 billion sale of its generic drug division to Teva and are frequently instructed by major multinationals such as Mars Caribbean & Central America, UBS and Toyota.

Other multinational law firms operate as single worldwide partnerships, such as British or American limited liability partnerships, in which partners also participate in local operating entities in various countries as required by local regulations.

I have taken over such positions in local, multinational and international companies and finally after getting my MBA degree, I decided to establish my own private business as a business consultant relying on my previous experience and supported by my MBA degree.