Sentences with phrase «of international conglomerate»

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wildlife advocates expressed bitter disappointment today at the refusal of international conglomerate, SoftBank Corp., to ban advertisements for elephant ivory and whale and dolphin products on Yahoo! Japan — the dominant company in SoftBank's internet division with revenues of nearly USD 4 billion in 2012.

As the Chairman and CEO of the international conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett has grown the business from a dying manufacturing company into a ubiquitous company that owns household names like Dairy Queen, Fruit of the Loom, and GEICO Insurance.

Not exact matches

Fosun International, one of China's largest conglomerates, is still pursuing acquisitions overseas, despite curbs on capital outflows by Chinese regulators.

Sons Paul Jr. and André marked the start of a new era this year — overseeing Power Corp., the international financial services conglomerate, without the man who founded it: Paul Sr., who died late last year.

They included the publicly traded arms of Fosun International, which in recent years bought the Club Med chain of resorts and other properties; Dalian Wanda, which owns the AMC Theaters chain in the United States and has long sought deals in Hollywood; and the HNA Group, an acquisitive conglomerate with murky ownership.

The deal is the latest move in Chinese conglomerate Fosun International's overhaul of the 2.2 million - square - foot former Chase Manhattan Plaza, which includes a new restaurant on the 60th floor by celebrity chef Danny Meyer.

KLX also owns the exclusive right to supply a large catalog of aviation parts made by industrial conglomerate Honeywell International.

Wanda Group, along with a number of China's biggest conglomerates including HNA Group and Fosun International - has seen higher levels of scrutiny on its finances and debt over the past year as Beijing clamps down on what it sees as «irrational» overseas acquisitions.

Do current regulations favor international media conglomerates at the expense of local, traditional and distinct cultures?

The sales - pitch, bottom - line, every - sadness - a-sales-op mentality that Mitford wrote about 40 years ago has not disappeared, especially among the three large mortuary conglomerates — Service Corporation International, Alderwoods and Stewart Enterprises — that own nearly 20 percent of the funeral homes and cemeteries around the country.

Coopers is the largest Australian - owned beer company and commands almost 5 per cent of the national beer market, behind industry giants Carlton & United Breweries, owned by international conglomerate AB InBev, and Lion, owned by Japan's Kirin Corporation.

The forum was organized by media conglomerate, Media General, parent company of TV3, 3 FM, Onua FM, Connect FM, Akoma FM, 3news.com and APL, as part of activities marking International Press Freedom Day.

According to the sources, Shagaya, who is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bolmus Group International — a diversified Nigerian conglomerate with interests in oil, real estate, banking, communications and photography — became a subject of investigation due to her links to Dame Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

It was learnt that Shagaya, who is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bolmus Group International — a diversified Nigerian conglomerate with interests in oil, real estate, banking, communications and photography — had become a subject of investigation due to her links to Dame Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Celebrated Ghanaian entrepreneur and President and Chairman of Groupe Nduom (GN), a multinational conglomerate, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has won another international award in the United Kingdom (UK).

In September, the group of scientists and epidemiologists from the International Atomic Energy Agency and the WHO will visit the Rossing complex, owned bythe British conglomerate Rio Tinto Zinc.

Founder and managing director of Genesis Colors and Genesis Luxury, India's only luxury retail conglomerate, Sanjay Kapoor oversees the operations of several Indian brands as well as holding exclusive distribution rights for international labels such as Jimmy Choo, Bottega Veneta and Armani.

The very timely plotline revolves around the efforts of Interpol Agent Louis Salinger (Owen) and Manhattan Assistant D.A. Eleanor Whitman (Watts) to crack an intercontinental money - laundering operation hatched somewhere inside a conglomerate called the International Bank of Business and Credit.

LDV is an offshoot of the giant SAIC (Shanghai Automotive International Group), which is a conglomerate of automotive brands targeting worldwide sales of 7.6 million vehicles this year.

Having pointed out how advances work (in case we needed a refresher), Leonard moves on to his real concern: Amazon's «unfair» treatment of an international publishing conglomerate.

International media conglomerate Bertelsmann, which owns Random House in the USA, recently unveiled its earnings report for the first half of 2011 and profits are up nearly 200 % from last year.

Can we really lay the international consolidation of publishing conglomerates over the past several decades at the feet of digital publishing?

«There were hedge fund guys with no background in publishing buying up publishing houses,» says André Schiffrin, founder of the New Press and author of «The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read.»

The company was spun off from Altria Group (MO) in 2008, in an effort to separate the international operations of the tobacco conglomerate from potential harmful litigation in the US.

Last Friday, Eli Lilly Elanco US Inc. (Elanco) initiated a legal action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin against international dairy conglomerate Arla Foods demanding that Arla immediately cease its false advertising campaign and unfair business practices against rbST, a proven and safe dairy technology approved by the FDA in 1993.

Whereas the medical and veterinary «professions» receive huge sums of money from international multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical conglomerates, please note that homoeopaths do not.

Kirkland & Ellis and Linklaters are advising on the restructuring of South African conglomerate Steinhoff International, which plunged into crisis last month after admitting to accounting irregularities.

Acting for a company in the CIS in claims against an international metals and mining conglomerate for breach of contract and economic torts in relation to the operation of a mining complex in the CIS.

Representing a major international conglomerate in a state aid investigation arising from the acquisition of a Bank in the Czech Republic.

Squire Patton Boggs and Bird & Bird have won top mandates on the sale of Wolverhampton Wanderers FC to Chinese conglomerate Fosun International.

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But successful firms look ahead: if your biggest source of referrals has just been taken over by an international conglomerate with an all - powerful in - house counsel outside of Canada, that demands action.

For example, the international firm acted for Silk Road Fund on its acquisition of 10 % interest in Sibur, Russia's largest gas processing and petrochemical conglomerate.

Represented a large multi-industry holding company in the closing of a complex multiple step transaction involving the acquisition of four companies and other tangible and intangible assets from a Japanese - owned international conglomerate and the simultaneous spin - off of one the acquired companies to a strategic buyer.

Represented G - III Apparel Group Ltd., a Nasdaq - listed company that is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of branded apparel and accessories, in its acquisition of Donna Karan International Inc., owner of the Donna Karan and DKNY brands, from luxury goods conglomerate LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton in a deal valued at USD$ 650 million including cash and debt.

Europe Our European practice has recently focused on representing (i) the Fédération Internationale de Football Association («FIFA») in connection with U.S. and Swiss criminal investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world («Investigation»), including conducting an internal investigation on behalf of the organization; (ii) two major European banks, including by investigating whether the banks knew or should have known that accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes; (iii) a multinational logistics and transportation company based in Switzerland in a DOJ investigation of alleged violations of the FCPA; (iv) a Switzerland - based, international private bank, in connection with the global criminal investigations involving 1MDB, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund; (v) several major European banks in connection with the «Panama Papers» investigation focused on whether accounts at the bank held under the names of companies created by the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, were used to evade taxes, conduct business with sanctioned individuals or companies, or otherwise engage in criminal activity; (vi) ENRC, a large mining conglomerate formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange, in a high - profile investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office of alleged bribery in the company's operations in Africa and Kazikhstan; and (vii) several European banks in connection with the Petrobras and PdVSA investigations focused on whether accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes to Petrobras or PdVSA officials in return for contracts.

Aegon, an international provider of life insurance, pensions and asset management and Bennett, Coleman & Company, India's leading media conglomerate, have come together to launch Aegon Life Insurance.

Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance Company Limited (ABSLI) is a joint venture between the Aditya Birla Group, a well known Indian conglomerate and Sun Life Financial Inc, one of the leading international financial services organizations from Canada.

Birla Sun Life Insurance Company Limited (BSLI) is a joint venture between the Aditya Birla Group, a well known Indian conglomerate and Sun Life Financial Inc, one of the leading international financial services organizations from Canada.

In other words, the guy came across as a little overwhelmed with the responsibility of running his massive international data - hoarding conglomerate, and more than a little like he didn't appreciate having to go on camera about it.

Perhaps most damaging among the exposed data are Viacom's secret cloud keys, an exposure that, in the most damaging circumstances, could put the international media conglomerate's cloud - based servers in the hands of hackers.

Some notable victims of the attack included British Media Advertising Conglomerate WPP plc, global law firm DLA Piper, international commercial shipping company Maersk, pharmaceutical juggernaut Merck and FedEx.

«LinkedIn is probably the most underutilized platform on the face of the planet,» according B. Bonin Bough, vice president of Global Media and Consumer Engagement, Mondelez International, a global snack foods conglomerate.

As a former engineer who built a set of back end utility scripts for Resumix integration at a major international conglomerate, I've noticed a few really bad directions the overall «Human Resources ATS» automation has gone.