Sentences with phrase «in company schemes»
The budget announced that the state pension's once again to be linked with earnings, and the Government plans to enroll workers in company schemes unless they opt - out.
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Commercial painting franchise opportunities helps connect painters to companies and individuals in need of choosing the right interior and exterior paint schemes for their business.
At least 35 companies, among them Anheuser - Busch InBev, BP, and BASF, have been told to pay back taxes of about 700 million euros to Belgium because of their participation in an illegal tax scheme.
This is a logical extension of the company's «acceptable ads» scheme and a new way in which Adblock Plus can make money from that program — a useful move for the company due to a recent court ruling in its home country of Germany.
Great Southern receiver McGrathNicol has opted to wind up the olive schemes operated by the fallen agribusiness company after failing to overcome a stalemate with two of the biggest names in Western Australian horticulture.
French media savant Frederic Filloux, clearly affected by temporarily residing in sunny California, supports a scheme whereby media companies would band together to negotiate with Google (goog) and Facebook (fb) to sell subscriptions on their behalf.
The CFTC has charged Patrick McDonnell and his company CabbageTech for engaging in a fraudulent virtual currency scheme.
Victims of the scheme included financial services companies in New York; Boston; Omaha, Nebraska; St. Louis; Charlotte, North Carolina and elsewhere, the indictment said.
Also driving the trend is a collective cultural disgust with «obscene comp programs — the Monopoly money, the pay schemes that screw the little investor» — that have been proffered in recent years, says Charles A. (Chuck) Coonradt, author of The Game of Work and CEO of a consulting company by the same name in Park City, Utah.
In view of the buzz, a number of other companies decided to experiment with their own pay - whatever - you - want pricing schemes.
The creditors of Atlas Iron have voted in favour of the iron ore miner's proposed debt - for - equity swap, with the fate of the scheme, and the company, now in the hands of shareholders who will vote next week.
Block schemes in which the companies try to extend their power to new areas.
However, the entities incorporated by CASPERSEN (the «Fake Funds») were merely shell companies created by CASPERSEN solely for the purpose of perpetrating his fraud scheme, and were in no way affiliated with or authorized by the Legitimate Funds.
On April 15, 2011, a day that would later become known as Black Friday in the online poker community, the Department of Justice shuttered two major online poker giants, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, accusing the company founders of fraud, money laundering, and operating a Ponzi scheme.
A spokesperson for the drug company told the Financial Times that revenue from increased prices would go to investing in «schemes that ensured more patients could access the medicine.»
Alnylam in court papers filed in Middlesex County Superior Court said the scheme allowed Dicerna to develop «strikingly similar» technologies within a year and unjustly enriched the company by up to $ 325 million.
With approval rating in the low teens just five months into her second term, Rousseff's also struggling to win back the public trust amid Brazil's biggest corruption investigation, an inquiry into a massive kickback scheme at state - run oil company Petrobras.
So with such an innovative and potentially cost - reducing scheme in place, how is it that Better Place has only managed to sell 500 cars in nine months, a fact that led the company's board to fire founder Agassi just a few weeks ago?
«Daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as other forms of illegal gambling, and misleading New York consumers... Daily fantasy sports is neither victimless nor harmless, and it is clear that DraftKings and FanDuel are the leaders of a massive, multi-billion-dollar scheme intended to evade the law and fleece sports fans across the country.
Billionaire investor William Ackman in 2012 claimed the company was running a pyramid scheme, recruiting members with a promise of payment for enrolling others in distribution, rather than depending on the actual sale of its nutritional supplements and weight management products.
When Chris Johnson sought to expand his food company, which sells private - label meats and dry goods, by purchasing a competitor in 1999, he had to devise an inventive funding scheme.
Herbalife's (HLF) stock has see - sawed for more than two years, beginning in late 2012 when Ackman initially called the company a pyramid scheme and disclosed he held an «enormous» short position in Herbalife's stock.
While Ackman asserts that Herbalife (HLF)-- a $ 5 billion business, second only to the beauty care product - seller Avon (AVP) in the $ 34.5 billion multilevel marketing industry — is nothing more than an irredeemably fallacious get - rich - quick scheme, Johnson insists that his company is legitimate and ethical.
Icahn had already received permission to buy as much as 35 % of Herbalife stock in July, which he announced the same day the nutrition products company reached a controversial settlement with the FTC that imposed restrictions on its business model but stopped short of calling it a pyramid scheme.
The schemes detailed in the suit included having Retrophin «enter into sham consulting agreements» through which the company paid investors who were «defrauded» by Shkreli's hedge fund.
The 2006 ruling endorsed a tax arrangement that IKEA's core company used to shift «a significant part» of its revenues to a special tax scheme in Luxembourg that was exempt from corporation tax.
Though the company had to alter parts of its branding, like changing its colour scheme from red to pink (the latter being less provocative), nixing forbidden photos of skin - baring women and axing Cupid imagery due to its religious connotations, it was still adapting to a culture that celebrates sexuality, albeit in a different way.
The sinister extortion scheme — in which victims must pay to recover precious data — has already hit hundreds of thousands of computers at companies, schools, and hospitals.
Prosecutors accused two Israelis, Gery Shalon and Ziv Orenstein, and one American, Joshua Samuel Aaron, of being involved in a variety of schemes fueled by hacking JPMorgan and 11 other companies.
In 2005, the SEC adopted new rules designed to prevent pump - and - dump schemes by requiring shells to release financial records of acquired companies immediately after a merger.
Back then, shells — that is, companies with ticker symbols but no operations — became synonymous with so - called pump - and - dump schemes in which stockbrokers artificially inflated share prices after a shell merged with a private company, without making financial statements on the acquisition available to investors.
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.
The idea of paying more for privacy is unusual and would require a major shift to current thinking, but it might not be a bad deal in the grand scheme of things if it leads to keeping companies and governments out of our business.
Despite meeting with President Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, U.K. prime minister Theresa May will not give written support for China's ambitious Belt and Road project, due to concerns that contracts under the scheme will unfairly favour Chinese companies.
Rival company Gett offers New Yorkers free rides that would match the prices charged by Uber in its surge pricing scheme.
That said, he noted: «In the grand scheme of things, if we have a belief that this could be the next $ 400 - billion company, arguing over a pre-money valuation of $ 1.8 billion or $ 1.9 billion isn't really that relevant to us.»
Buyers may not use the Services to engage in any commercial activities, including, without limitation, raising money; advertising or promoting a product, service, or company; or engaging in any pyramid or other multi-tiered marketing scheme;
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement that the charges show «Volkswagen's scheme to cheat its legal requirements went all the way to the top of the company.»
For one, Amazon, like other e-book sellers, has used a scheme known as «digital rights management» (DRM), which limits the types of devices that can read certain e-book formats.259 Compelling readers to purchase a Kindle through cheap e-books locks them into future e-book purchases from Amazon.260 Moreover, buying — or even browsing — e-books on Amazon's platform hands the company information about your reading habits and preferences, data the company uses to tailor recommendations and future deals.261 Replicated across a few more purchases, Amazon's lock - in becomes strong.
Not in the manner of Ponzi schemes, but by the even more devilish leaky faucet in which a significant portion of the returns of the capital markets are diverted away from Main Street investors and into the arms of Wall Street and the insurance companies.
Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase would pay $ 35.7 million for participating in a mortgage kickback scheme with a now - defunct Owings Mills - based title company under a federal consent order filed Thursday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and...
The former owner of Giokas Wealth Advisors in Williamsville also admitted using a fake company, Trinity Council LLC, as part of a scheme to solicit investments he knew were fraudulent.
Some users saw the announcement as proof that the company had engaged in «planned obsolescence,» a scheme to degrade the old devices to force users to upgrade.
The company has consistently disclosed that it may be «susceptible to legal challenge because its business model contains multiple components that resemble those found in illegitimate pyramid schemes,» according to Fischer.
Lo was leading a six - day Hong Kong - Shanghai business mission to Jakarta and Manila in the Philippines to explore the infrastructure needs of the two Asean countries, which Hong Kong and mainland Chinese companies will be incentivised to fulfil under the belt and road scheme.
Even in 2014, many SEO companies will pay for links that they did not earn, or dabble in dubious linking schemes that raise Google's red flags — all to manipulate the system for quick gains and successes.
Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) Crypto unlawfully engaged in a scheme to promote and manipulate the Company's stock; and (ii) as a result, Crypto's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
In the case of Mining Max, prosecutors say the company was actually running a pyramid scheme, pushing investors to recruit others to receive better returns.
Earlier this week Loblaw Companies Ltd., Canada's largest grocery chain, admitted it took part in an industry - wide scheme to jack up the price of bread.
Where the offering of any cryptocurrency - related product involves an invitation to the Hong Kong public to acquire «securities» or «structured products», or to participate in a «collective investment scheme», authorisation or registration requirements under the SFO or the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (if relevant) may be triggered unless an exemption applies.