Sentences with phrase «shareholder meeting over»

(Peoria Journal Star) • Advocates pressure We Energies at its annual shareholder meeting over a coal storage site negatively impacting residents.

TSE: 2325 — Meeting Date: March 30, 2016 The directors of NJS are expected to face tough questions from their shareholders at the upcoming shareholder meeting over the arrest of six of their employees for suspicion of bid - rigging in regards to sewage related projects in Chiba - City.

Not exact matches

ROZZANO, Italy, April 24 - Telecom Italia Chief Executive Amos Genish was backed by nearly all shareholders present at a general meeting on Tuesday, days before a showdown over board seats between the Italian phone group's top two investors.

Diess was addressing his first shareholder meeting since taking over as CEO from Matthias Mueller on April 12.

«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.

Rite Aid's board should prepare to take some heat over concerns about board member independence and other issues at its annual shareholders meeting this week.

TIM will still hold its AGM on Tuesday to approve financial results and confirm Amos Genish as chief executive, but the standoff over the board seats will now be delayed to another shareholder meeting scheduled for May.

Questions about Berkshire will likely comprise a majority of the roughly 60 questions that Buffett and Munger will field over five hours at Saturday's annual shareholder meeting.

Buffett, who presided over Berkshire's 51st annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska over the weekend, told cable television network CNBC: «We would be much more likely to buy more in the next 12 or 24 months than we would be to sell shares, but we will make that call as time goes along.»

As Duke Energy takes heat over private meetings it had with its regulator, corporate boards should expect tough questions from shareholders on political activities this proxy season.

The special committee, which was formed to independently assess what the best option for Dell shareholders is, came to that conclusion based on its meetings with investors as well as concerns over a key upcoming recommendation by investment advisory firm ISS, the person said.

TIM will still hold its AGM on Tuesday to approve financial results for 2017 and confirm Amos Genish as chief executive, but the standoff over the board seats will now be delayed to another shareholder meeting scheduled for May.

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.

You have consented to receive shareholder communications, including your Annual Meeting materials, over the Internet instead of by mail.

In March, at the company's Annual Meeting of Shareholders, Starbucks announced it would be dedicating 100 more stores with a MFS designation over the next five years.

«Over the past 50 years, we've seen a tremendous increase in the interest around our shareholders meeting.

Over the past month, we have had a number of meetings with representatives of Gannett in which we have explained at length the importance of shareholder friendly corporate governance at newly spun - off companies.

Ball says she travels all over the country courting wealthy conservatives and libertarians, and attends Koch donor retreats and Cato «shareholder» meetings.

At the annual shareholders meeting this year, Buffett explained that he thought Berkshire Hathaway's intrinsic value grew at an average annual rate of about 10 % over the last decade, but he warned that future returns would be lower if interest rates remained near generational lows.

Another reason for the outperformance could very well be that over a longer time frame, giving good management teams the ability to run a business without concerns over meeting short - term expectations may lead to long - term shareholder value creation.

His annual meeting (called Woodstock for Capitalists) attracts 40,000 shareholders, guests and media from all over the world.

On Friday, the SNB held its SHAREHOLDER meeting (yes, it's publicly held) and it was reported in the WSJ that over the last year the price of SNB shares have risen to 7180 CHF from 1760 CHF, actually hitting a 10,000 per share in the interim.

So he sings, and he quips, but Berkshire shareholders — not least those in attendance at Berkshire's annual meetings — have been privy to some fine advice over the years.

Mr Chaney, who will pass the chairman's reins to Richard Goyder at the end of the meeting, told shareholders that the stand - off over corporate tax in Canberra is «symptomatic of a polarisation of political debate that jeopardises common sense outcomes».

Watching my team go backwards this season hurts, I've invested God knows how many thousands of pounds on season tickets and travel over the past 40 + years, plus the emotional turmoil involved to let me sit back and say nothing, the Shareholder meeting was a joke, the questions were obviously selected by the board to make life easy for them, none of the real issues were addressed, just a lot of soft soaping for the hard of thinking.

Should American Kroenke ultimately obtain Usmanov's significant stock, then the remaining minority shareholders, which include the AST, have concerns over the possibility of Arsenal becoming a privately - owned company, so therefore not required to hold an Annual General Meeting, the next of which is set for October 26.

There were over 2,700 shareholders attending the meeting, representing 66 % of the shares, with more watching the live webcast.

Baby Milk Action attended the Nestlé shareholder meeting on 16 April 2015 and raised concerns over Nestlé doing the same thing.

Then earlier this year, McDonald's CEO Don Thompson lied over and over at the company's shareholder meeting, claiming for example, that the company doesn't market to children, and provides «high - quality food.»

Should the Board have any question that the plan outlined above is in the best interests of shareholders, and that any attempts to pursue an alternative course of action would be over the objection of your stockholders, then we urge you to call a Special Meeting to allow the shareholders to reinforce our own conclusions and those suggested in correspondence from shareholders representing 65 % of NTI stock.

Over the weekend, Berkshire held its annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, a festival - like event that draws nearly 40,000 people for an hours - long question - and - answer session with Buffett and Berkshire Vice Chairman Charlie Munger.

A little over a week ago — 17 months after Mr. Crouse's letter — Cadus informed him that it will hold its annual meeting on Oct. 6, that his resolution will be included and that the board will recommend that shareholders reject it.

Share price has trended up over the last couple of days, but was this the effect of trying to buy the last few votes for the August 20 shareholder meeting and vote???? Could the share price now decline without this support?

This evidence totally contradicts the consistent stand of the industry, articulated over and over again at the annual membership meetings of the Investment Company Institute, that «the interests of mutual fund managers are directly aligned with the interests of mutual fund shareholders.»

For decades, academics as well as private and professional investors have picked over the words of both men, delivered in open letters and at Berkshire's annual shareholder meetings.

GAMCO has announced that, to the extent it has voting authority over its investment advisory accounts, GAMCO intends to vote AGAINST approval of the Incentive Bonus Agreement between the Issuer and Sardar Biglari, dated April 30, 2010 (the «Agreement») at a special meeting of shareholders of the Issuer at which the Agreement will be submitted for approval by the shareholders of the Issuer.

Meeting the needs of the business to maintain or increase the asset base and servicing creditors has to take priority over paying out cash to shareholders.

Over the next few days VXGN stock fell almost 50 % and the merger was terminated the day before the special meeting, apparently due to shareholder opposition.

As a brief overview, the Management and Board have embarked upon a failed merger that garnered virtually no support from its shareholders, and was opposed by ISS, and continued on that path until the date of the special shareholders meeting and scheduled vote, spending lavishly in a failed effort to close it; attempted to implement substantial new options to itself, a plan opposed by ISS and the shareholders, which was withdrawn; continually paid itself outrageous sums of the shareholders money over the past three years; rejected highly qualified outside board members with deep, broad healthcare company experience supported by its shareholders; held many Board and Committee meetings with nothing to show for it; formed a new Strategic Transactions Committee that is highly paid but that has produced no deals for the shareholders to consider or for any outside valuation experts to formally review; spent lavishly on accountants, auditors and counsel; failed to successfully hire any outside professional negotiators and finally extinguish or remove the outstanding lease obligations; distributed no cash to the shareholders despite holding excess amounts; formed no special purpose entity to hold any royalty and milestone rights and payments for the benefit of its shareholders; and thus generally failed in its fiduciary duties to shareholders.

His annual meeting (called Woodstock for Capitalists) attracts 40,000 shareholders, guests and media from all over the world.

In a nod to the politically charged nature of the inquiry, which quickly spilled over into Congress and corporate shareholders meetings, the pact says signatories of the agreement should keep discussions private and «refuse to disclose any shared information unless required by law.»..

At Google's annual shareholder meeting today, the company faced an uprising from stakeholder groups and shareholders over its membership in and financial support for lobbying groups that include some of the biggest opponents to climate change and renewable energy on offer in Washington, DC, a town which boasts quite a collection.

The internet has been buzzing this weekend over Apple CEO Tim Cook's passionate take - down of a representative from the National Center for Public Policy Research or NCPPR at the company's annual shareholder meeting.

In the General Court's opinion, the Commission and the Council had made their decision to refuse MET status without sufficient investigation into whether the fact that the State was a substantial shareholder in Xinanchem and had influenced the appointment and composition of the board of directors necessarily amounted to State control over decisions regarding production and pricing (para. 19).

In the years after his resignation was handed in (albeit improperly), Mr. Mennillo advanced over four hundred thousand dollars to the company, met with the other shareholder, and received money from the company.

The Tellabs case calls on the Supreme Court to resolve a split among federal appeals courts over how stringent a legal standard shareholders must meet in showing an intent to deceive on the part of companies or executives.

We advise clients on structuring considerations, related - party rules, special committee obligations, take - over defences and contested shareholder meetings.

Minutes of shareholder's meetings and records of any actions taken by shareholders without meetings over the last three years.

Qualcomm removed Jacobs from his role as executive chairman and installed an independent director, and then delayed the shareholder meeting that would give Broadcom an opportunity to pick up the votes to take over control of part of Qualcomm's board of directors.