Sentences with phrase «other shareholders of the company»

We encourage the Board of Directors and management to consider and adopt this strategy immediately and speak with other shareholders of the Company who may be equally frustrated and share our views.

Not exact matches

Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.

But the trade - off of this focus on shareholder value is spending that benefits other stakeholders, like employees and customers, said Bill George, the former CEO of medical - device company Medtronic.

The companies paid out $ 77.5 billion (42.1 %) in Total Tax Contribution (TTC), royalties and other fees to the government — ahead of employee payroll (28.3 %) and dividends to shareholders and business reinvestment (28.3 %).

He gave it a name and a face: a modern Robin Hood helping the working class by stealing from himself — and perhaps from shareholders of other companies whose bosses are now also putting employees ahead of profits: #imwithdan!

Apple is now paying out more cash in the form of dividends to its shareholders than any other major publicly traded company in the U.S.

In response to a shareholder question about what could be done to speed up the glacial pace of adoption of electric car production by other car companies, Musk said he was «playing with doing something fairly significant on this front which would be kind of controversial with respect to Tesla's patents.»

The person you're looking for, Richard, is Jack Stack of SRC Holdings (formerly Springfield Remanufacturing Corp.), who started the company in 1983 with 12 other managers as shareholders.

Unfortunately for Facebook's shareholders, it appears Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and the company's other leaders did not understand this basic rule of crisis management when handling the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

In other words, Dorsey's stake in the company was already publicly disclosed, so the amount of his options grant was already factored into the stock purchase decision of existing shareholders who had already bought the stock.

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

The firm's investigation seeks to determine, among other things, whether the Company's Board of Directors failed to satisfy their duties to shareholders, including whether the Board adequately pursued alternatives to the acquisition and whether the Board obtained the best price possible for the Company's shares of common stock.

The corporate trail leads to a clutch of other «Euro Forex» companies in Britain and New Zealand, held in the names of company formation agents, nominee directors, or offshore shareholders.

He added that he thinks «the vast majority of the company's employees, shareholders, analysts, and other stakeholders» would support replacing Green with Harrison.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

The investor, together with other shareholders, has demanded Yahoo separate the Asian assets, including stakes in Chinese ecommerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Yahoo Japan Corp, and conduct an immediate public auction of the core business, including search and advertising businesses.

Today, Apple got credit for its bountiful buyback plans, but there are tons of other companies returning huge slugs of cash to their shareholders and I think you'll miss out if you ignore them,» the «Mad Money» host concluded.

«HomeServices is on track to do only about 3 % of the country's home - brokerage business in 2018,» Buffett wrote in his most recent shareholders report, referring to HomeServices of America Inc., which controls Trident and two other mortgage companies.

But that feels a little like a flag that the company is running up the flagpole to see if it can force any of tronc's other shareholders to join the battle.

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.

White Tale, coupled with other Clariant shareholders who came out against the deal, left the Swiss company doubtful of mustering the two - thirds support necessary for the merger to go through.

I don't mean run it in the red — I mean pay yourself a huge salary, reward yourself with a gigantic bonus regardless of actual company performance, and issue a special class of shares that only you own that gives you ten times the dividends the other shareholders receive.

For example, the expected timing and likelihood of completion of the proposed merger, including the timing, receipt and terms and conditions of any required governmental and regulatory approvals of the proposed merger that could reduce anticipated benefits or cause the parties to abandon the transaction, the ability to successfully integrate the businesses, the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the merger agreement, the possibility that Kraft shareholders may not approve the merger agreement, the risk that the parties may not be able to satisfy the conditions to the proposed transaction in a timely manner or at all, risks related to disruption of management time from ongoing business operations due to the proposed transaction, the risk that any announcements relating to the proposed transaction could have adverse effects on the market price of Kraft's common stock, and the risk that the proposed transaction and its announcement could have an adverse effect on the ability of Kraft and Heinz to retain customers and retain and hire key personnel and maintain relationships with their suppliers and customers and on their operating results and businesses generally, problems may arise in successfully integrating the businesses of the companies, which may result in the combined company not operating as effectively and efficiently as expected, the combined company may be unable to achieve cost - cutting synergies or it may take longer than expected to achieve those synergies, and other factors.

Beyond common and preferred stocks, companies may also choose to issue other types of stocks based on ownership rights of shareholders.

Based on the company's performance or other factors, the value of its stock may rise or fall, meaning that its shareholders either gain or lose money.

Wayne is a proven senior executive and lawyer with over 25 years business experience, most recently as Executive Vice-President of Kingsdale Shareholder Service, a company involved in providing strategic consulting and other services to companies involved in takeover bids and proxy fights.

Analysts and shareholders expect to hear more of the same when the company reports results May 21 for the quarter ended May 3 and worry that the company could disclose other problems as well.

And the interaction between big S&P 500 companies and their shareholders consists mainly of the companies giving money to the investors, not the other way around.

Companies will need to figure out if they're run for the purpose of providing financial returns to shareholders, or for some other higher / lower / more self - interested purpose.

Patrick McGurn of Institutional Shareholder Services, like other expert observers, has frequently questioned the financial literacy of troubled companies» audit committee members.

Acquiring other brands from food companies under pressure from uppity shareholders could be one way of boosting returns.

Several other major Uber shareholders, though, have been pressed to sell some of their position in the company by Uber's new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.

Shareholders who wish to bring business before Walmart's 2014 Annual Shareholders» Meeting other than through a shareholder proposal pursuant to the SEC's rules must notify the Corporate Secretary of our company in writing and provide the information required by the provision of the Bylaws dealing with shareholder proposals.

National Amusements is the controlling shareholder of both media companies, which separated from each other 10 years ago.

As manager of the firm's Corporate Governance Consulting Group with over 30 years of experience in the field, Bill has guided companies through a wide range of governance and takeover challenges, including contentious shareholder proposals and compensation - based initiatives, proxy contests, tender offers, and other corporate control matters.

In other words, those companies that combine the two positions will have to explain why this is in the best interests of shareholders.

The attempted raids on McDonalds and other companies in recent years provide object lessons in this destructive financial policy of «shareholder activists.»

It was great for Nexen shareholders, but CNOOC received a lot of negative sentiment from Canadians because it's a State Owned Enterprise, which gives it an unfair market advantage over other energy companies because it's financially and politically backed by one of the richest countries in the world.

Part 2: Most major U.S. companies tie part of executive pay to earnings per share and other metrics to align the interests of management and shareholders.

One of the governance principles is that «Shareholders should be entitled to voting rights in proportion to their economic interest...» In other words, the Group does not favour multi-voting share structures that characterize over 80 companies on the TSX and that have been popular in Canadian IPOs over the last few years (see comments on Aritzia's IPO here).

If granted, the MCTO should not affect the ability of other shareholders to trade in the securities of the company.

Since word of the merger of Heinz Co. and then - Oscar Mayer parent company Kraft Foods broke more than seven months ago — foretelling cuts and other «restructuring» in the never - ending quest to increase shareholder value — Madison's and the state's open wallets have been on full display.

The vote - counting methodology used by the Company does not inherently favor proposals submitted by the Board over proposals submitted by shareholders, as the vote - counting standard for approving any proposal other than for the election of directors is identical.

In determining the long - term incentive component of CEO compensation, the Committee shall consider, among other factors, the Company's performance and relative shareholder return, the value of similar incentive awards to chief executive officers at comparable companies, the awards given to the CEO in past years, and other factors considered relevant by the Committee.

According to the agreement signed yesterday, Backbone Hosting will hold 75 % of the merged company, and the existing shareholders in Natural Resource, headed by Sebag, will hold the other 25 %.

RESOLVED: That Berkshire Hathaway Inc. («Berkshire») establish reasonable, quantitative goals for reduction of greenhouse gas and other air emissions at its energy - generating holdings; and that Berkshire publish a report to shareholders by January 31, 2015 (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) on how it will achieve these goals — including possible plans to retrofit or retire existing coal - burning plants at Berkshire - held companies.

The Company knows of no other matters to be submitted to the shareholders at the Annual Meeting, other than the proposals referred to in this Proxy Statement and the possible submission of the Floor Proposal.

The notice must be submitted by a shareholder of record and must set forth the information required by the Company's bylaws with respect to each director nomination or other proposal that the shareholder intends to present at the 2015 annual meeting of shareholders.

We thank you for being receptive to us and other large shareholders, all of whom are investment professionals offering advice concerning an investment decision, as the decision to repurchase shares is in effect the company making an investment in itself.

The election of directors (Proposal No. 1), the other proposals for the amendment of the Company's Articles (Proposal No. 2, and No. 3), the non-binding advisory resolution approving the Company's executive compensation (Proposal No. 6), the proposal to approve the Apple Inc. 2014 Employee Stock Plan (Proposal No. 7), and the five shareholder proposals (Proposals No. 8, No. 9, No. 10, No. 11, and the Floor Proposal) are considered non-routine matters under applicable rules.