Sentences with phrase «company shareholder meetings»

Press release 19 April 2012 Media coverage: Dairy Reporter 20 April 2012 At the company shareholder meeting in Lausanne on 19 April, Nestlé Chairman, Peter Brabeck - Letmathé, rejected proposals from Baby Milk Action that could ultimately bring to an end the...

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He saw the PC mogul wading into crowds of shareholders and signing autographs at the company's annual meeting, noting how a larger - than - life CEO could inspire loyalty and garner loads of free publicity.

The British engineering company provided the reassuring update ahead of its annual shareholder meeting in Derby, northern England, where it is likely to face questions...

CNBC's Contessa Brewer reports on the ongoing Wynn Resorts saga as Steve Wynn's ex-wife Elaine Wynn sues to delay the company's annual shareholders meeting.

That was chief executive Thorsten Heins's message at the annual shareholders meeting in Ontario today, as he tried to defend the company's trajectory after sales of the new BlackBerry 10 line of smartphones fell well below analyst expectations.

CANADA - APRIL 26: Rick George, chief executive officer of Suncor Energy Inc., speaks to shareholders at the company's annual general meeting, Thursday, April, 26, 2007, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

PayPal's flirtation with Bitcoin integration has been percolating for months, with eBay CEO John Donahoe dropping hints at the company's annual shareholder meeting last May that it was getting more serious about the world's first digital currency.

It's a big part of Berkshire that stands to get only bigger, Buffett said in May at the company's annual shareholder meeting, adding that it's «hard to imagine a better - run operation.»

General Motors Chairperson and CEO Mary Barra speaks to the news media at the company's annual meeting of shareholders June 6, 2017 in Detroit, Michigan.

In a fraught environment where small businesses owners are extremely guarded about their intellectual property — in particular their patents — wizard inventor Elon Musk caused quite a stir on Tuesday at the electric car company's shareholder meeting in Mountain View, California.

But the notoriously secretive company will probably never allow the public to see inside, CEO Tim Cook said at a shareholder meeting earlier this week.

At Warren Buffett's annual Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a) shareholders meeting in early May, the investor wistfully expressed his regret for missing out on the booming growth of America's biggest companies, particularly Google and Amazon.

IBM shareholders CalSTRS and The State Board of Administration for the Florida Retirement System (SBA FLA) each voted against Rommety's proposed pay package at the company's annual general meeting.

Balcatta - based drilling services company Imdex has lined up a new debt funding deal after cancelling a $ 21.5 million placement just hours before today's shareholders meeting.

Dissident shareholders are seeking to shake up the board of Empire Oil & Gas at the energy company's annual general meeting next month.

It is unusual for companies to delay such a special meeting of shareholders so close to the date but it is possible, said Jesse Fried, professor of law at Harvard University.

Diess said Thursday at the shareholder meeting that company's six divisions would make their own decisions and without always getting approval from the top.

«Not every decision is an economic decision,» Schultz said at the company's 2013 shareholders meeting, when a shareholder argued that Starbucks had lost customers because of its support of same - sex marriage.

That proposal goes to a vote of shareholders at the company's annual meeting for other shareholders to weigh in on.

He told the shareholder meeting that the company still faces several legal issues from the diesel scandal and that the company «can not draw the line under it» yet.

At the meeting, Buffett, whose insurance and investing conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) is Coke's largest shareholder, said that he still believes in the soda company, which has struggled lately.

Berkshire Hathaway signage appears on screens above the stage ahead of the company's annual shareholders meeting.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Coke's largest shareholder, also criticized the plan, saying in April, it was «excessive,» but abstained from voting on the plan at Coca - Cola's annual meeting in April, citing loyalty to the company.

«Over the past 50 years, we've seen a tremendous increase in the interest around our shareholders meeting,» said Buffett, the company's CEO, in a statement.

The beverage company's new guidelines for a plan already approved by shareholders at the annual meeting earlier this year mean it will issue fewer stock awards each year, addressing concerns that the plan would dilute their investments and was too generous.

As Tesla CEO Elon Musk recounted at the company's annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday, a bug in the car's systems prevented the vehicle from going any faster when the two Google cofounders hopped aboard.

During Tesla's annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday, Musk recounted the company's bumpy road to building an electric car.

bemoaned Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google's parent company, Alphabet, at a shareholder meeting in June.

At Ford's annual shareholder meeting in May, a frustrated investor even asked about bringing former CEO Alan Mulally out of retirement to boost the company's share price.

Walmart said after the meeting that shareholders had approved all 12 company - recommended board members and rejected shareholder proposals it had opposed.

The topic arose at Berkshire Hathaway's shareholder meeting in Omaha, where Buffett talked about his struggles to find ways to deploy the company's enormous hoard of more than $ 90 billion in cash, at a time when it has been difficult to find worthy investments at an attractive price.

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. says in a report that investors should vote for Dallas Howe and Herbert Pinder, nominated by Cation Capital Inc., instead of Crescent Point nominees Rene Amirault and Mike Jackson at the company's annual meeting May 4.

This week the U.S. Treasury asked Qualcomm to postpone by 30 days an annual shareholder meeting that could have resulted in the company's hostile takeover by Broadcom, a Singapore - based rival.

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Weston told shareholders at his company's annual meeting Thursday.

CANADA — MAY 09: Frank Stronach, chairman of Magna Entertainment Corp., at the company's annual shareholders» meeting, May 9, 2007 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Protests broke out last week at the first annual shareholders» meeting of Canadian energy company, Emera.

The announcement comes a week after Tesla's annual shareholder meeting, at which Musk — a billionaire who is also CEO at private space exploration company SpaceX — said he plans to stay on as Tesla's CEO for at least another four or five years.

Starbucks announced at its annual shareholders» meeting on Wednesday that it hit its initial goal of hiring 10,000 veterans and military spouses one year ahead of the company's 2018 deadline.

One boon for shareholders for next year's annual meeting: SEC rules that went into effect earlier this week will allow shareholders to change company's governance procedures when it comes to director nominations, which could give shareholders power to nominate directors.

By Monday morning, the NBA will have crowned a champion and Facebook's shareholders will be gathering for the company's annual meeting, with votes concerning Mark Zuckerberg's majority voting control planned.

The Federal Court of Australia has ordered a meeting of Aquila Resources Ltd's shareholders in October to consider the «scheme» for the demerger of certain of the company's exploration interests in new company Aquila Exploration Limited.

McMillon said at Walmart's annual shareholder meeting that the company had been waiting to «aggressively market» the site until all the tech building blocks were in place.

Fifty - two percent of shareholders voted against Disney's compensation plan for Iger and other executives, the company said at its annual shareholder meeting in Houston.

A COMPANIES and Securities Advisory Committee review of the calling of shareholder meetings of public listed companies has not yet settled on a firm COMPANIES and Securities Advisory Committee review of the calling of shareholder meetings of public listed companies has not yet settled on a firm companies has not yet settled on a firm position.

This week, shareholders and protesters rallied outside of the company's annual meeting in Des Moines, Iowa.

While no new directors have been nominated, shareholders who've owned 3 % or more of the company's outstanding shares continuously for three years did win the right — widely known as proxy access — to nominate board directors at this year's annual meeting.

Last week's offer from Tracinda, which tried to buy Chrysler in 1995 and lost out when the company merged with Daimler - Benz three years later, came a day after a DaimlerChrysler shareholders» meeting in Berlin marked by simmering tension over the automaker's future.

Wells Fargo executives and board members faced shareholders and protestors Tuesday at the company's annual meeting in Des Moines, Iowa.

Preliminary results from the Annual Meeting of Shareholders held today indicate that the company's 12 director nominees were re-elected to one - year terms and that shareholders ratified the selection of KPMG LLP as Pfizer's independent registered public accounting firm for the 2018 Shareholders held today indicate that the company's 12 director nominees were re-elected to one - year terms and that shareholders ratified the selection of KPMG LLP as Pfizer's independent registered public accounting firm for the 2018 shareholders ratified the selection of KPMG LLP as Pfizer's independent registered public accounting firm for the 2018 fiscal year.