Sentences with phrase «shareholders of companies including»

I have been trying to notify regulators & authorities of a ONE TRILLION DOLLAR scam that is putting states like NY & FL at risk, as well as, shareholders of companies including Intel, Lockheed, SGI, Warner Bros., Time Warner, AOL & IBM.

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.

Nedlands - based Advanced Share Registry has purchased 51 per cent of Perth start - up Private Company Platform, which is targeting unlisted companies with multiple shareholders, including those pursuing crowd - sourced funding.

The ratio of debt - to - capital excluding after - tax net unrealized investment gains included in shareholders» equity was 23.4 %, within the Company's target range of 15 % to 25 %.

The CEO of a publicly - traded company has a wide range of obligations, including to shareholders and employees.

Engineering contractor Calibre Group has announced a radical restructuring that includes a partial buyout of minority shareholders, delisting from the ASX, and the purchase of Sydney - based company Diona for $ 45 million.

Principal shareholders include Lightspeed Venture Partners, which owns 23 % of the company, and Khosla Ventures, with a 10.9 % stake.

«Canada has left the impression that we'll sell anything,» says Dick Haskayne, a Potash Corp. shareholder who has served on 20 company boards, chairing six of them, including TransAlta and Nova Corp. «The world thinks buying Canadian companies is just a matter of price.

Those include a shareholder lawsuit before a court in the German town of Braunschweig that alleges company officials were too slow in disclosing the scandal, depriving investors of information they needed to make decisions about their holdings.

The three shareholder - friendly policies the company announced include retirement of treasury stock, quarterly dividends payment and mid - and long - term profit goals.

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.

GE said nine of the company's directors will stand for re-election including major shareholder Trian Fund Management's Edward Garden, who was appointed to GE's board in October.

Cree believes that these non-GAAP measures, when shown in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP measures, enhance investors» and management's overall understanding of the Company's current financial performance and the Company's prospects for the future, including cash flows available to pursue opportunities to enhance shareholder value.

For better or for worse, shareholders are, under most companies» systems of governance, the ones to whom all insiders, including the CEO and Board of Directors, swear allegiance.

«While the company faces a number of significant challenges, including the continued rise of Amazon and Google, its high margin and large sales figures enable the company to generate significant free cash flow, which it increasingly returns to shareholders via buybacks and dividends.»

Under the new system, statements which UK companies file when they are set up and on each anniversary of that date showing changes in shareholders or directors are supposed to include details of «Persons with significant control (PSC).»

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.

CAPRICORN Resources Australia shareholders have approved a major restructuring of the company, including the acquisition of B2B.net.

CDW is a one share, one vote company, unlike many tech companies including Facebook, Zynga, and Google, whose controlling shareholders make most of the decisions.

RESOLVED: Shareholders request the Board Compensation Committee prepare a report assessing the feasibility of integrating sustainability metrics, including metrics regarding diversity among senior executives, into the performance measures of the CEO under the Company's compensation incentive plans.

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.

There are several instances where conversion into common could be advantageous to a preferred shareholder including an acquisition of the company at a value well exceeding the liquidation preferences, where common shareholders receive a greater amount of the acquisition proceeds.

Elliott disclosed a 7 percent stake in Mednax last month and said it would discuss several options to boost value for shareholders, including a sale of the company.

The spinoff of Lamb Weston, which provides french fries to fast - food chains including McDonald's and KFC, is expected to be tax - free to shareholders, the company said Wednesday.

The five shareholders who demanded Mr. Kalanick's resignation include some of the technology industry's most prestigious venture capital firms, which invested in Uber at an early stage of the company's life, as well as a mutual fund firm.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

Because the CNGC already regularly analyzes whether our incentive compensation programs provide proper incentives to our NEOs to achieve our Company's strategic priorities (including ROI) and because our shareholders already receive annual reports on those matters in the CD&A s in our annual proxy statements, we believe the adoption of the policy requested by the proposal is unnecessary, duplicative of practices already followed by the CNGC and our Company, and would result in an expenditure of Walmart's resources and our management's and directors» time that ultimately would not be in our shareholders» best interests.

The CNGC, via the CD&A s included in the Company's annual proxy statements, also already reports to shareholders on an annual basis regarding the relationship between our incentive compensation programs and the Company's ROI performance and how the Company's ROI performance may have a meaningful impact on the amount of compensation our NEOs receive.

Those so - called buybacks are good for shareholders, including the senior executives who tend to be big owners of their companies» stock.

Groups including Dutch telecommunications group Altice, US conglomerates Honeywell and General Electric, UK oil major BP and French luxury group Kering are considering setting up independent companies for some of their activities as a way to generate value for shareholders.

The tender would include nearly $ 9 billion of shares from existing shareholders, the amount needed to get the SoftBank - led group its desired 14 % of the company.

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.

Boards of directors are responsible for the governance of their companies... The responsibilities of the board include setting the company's strategic aims, providing the leadership to put them into effect, supervising the management of the business and reporting to shareholders on their stewardship...»

Since 2006 (the first year in the ProxyMonitor.org database), the three most frequent sponsors of shareholder proposals at Fortune 250 companies have been corporate gadflies: John Chevedden (including, in earlier years, his family trust and now - deceased father, Ray); William Steiner (and son, Kenneth); and Evelyn Davis.

Having previously worked across the corporate governance, equities research, private equity and strategy consulting sectors, Michael now advises ASX boards and senior managers on governance - related matters and in the execution of corporate actions and vote - related company meetings, including shareholder activism campaigns and proxy battles both in Australia and abroad.

According to the SEC's own figures, the cost per company of including a shareholder proposal in the proxy statement is $ 87,000.

It's true that the activist investors on the Exxon vote likely include heavy hitters like financial firms BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street (though the specific votes are not made public), which are the company's biggest shareholders, owning more than 18 percent of the stock.

Review and recommend to the Board for approval the frequency with which the Company will conduct «Say on Pay» votes, taking into account the results of the most recent shareholder advisory vote on frequency of Say on Pay votes required by Section 14A of the Exchange Act, and review and approve the proposals regarding the Say on Pay vote and the frequency of the Say on Pay vote to be included in the Company's proxy statement.

During the past year, the Leadership Development and Compensation Committee met with management and reviewed matters that included the design, amounts, and effectiveness of the Company's compensation of senior executives, management succession planning, the Company's benefit and compensation programs, the Company's human resources programs, including review of workplace discrimination and harassment reports, and feedback from the Company's shareholder engagement.

Prepare and issue the report of the Committee required by the rules of the SEC to be included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K (or the Annual Report to Shareholders if distributed prior to the filing of a Form 10 - K).

BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry, and the company's previously disclosed review of strategic alternatives.

Statements in this press release are not historical facts, including but not limited to the statements regarding JHL's future plans and its ability to complete the proposed Voluntary Delisting and maximize shareholder value, represent only the current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections of the Company and are forward - looking statements.

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 new law carves out a brand - new tax deduction for owners of pass - through entities, including partners in partnerships, shareholders in S corporations, members of limited liability companies (LLCs) and sole proprietors.

Notice of any proposal that a shareholder intends to present at the 2015 annual meeting of shareholders, but does not intend to have included in the Company's proxy statement and form of proxy relating to the 2015 annual meeting of shareholders, as well as any director nominations, must be delivered to the Company's Secretary by mail at 1 Infinite Loop, MS: 301 - 4GC, Cupertino, California 95014, or by email at [email protected], not earlier than the close of business on October 31, 2014 and not later than the close of business on November 30, 2014.

A handful of shareholders, including two C - suite execs, are in line for nine - figure payouts once Novartis completes its acquisition of local pharma company AveXis.

Notably, the new law carves out a brand - new tax deduction for owners of pass - through entities, including partners in partnerships, shareholders in S corporations, members of limited liability companies (LLCs) and sole proprietors.

Companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate».

There are many other tactics shareowners use as levers including, investor statements endorsed by a broad group of institutional investors; direct outreach to other shareholders; proxy voting services; and other investment advisors to gain support for specific shareholder proposals; and, outreach to consumers and the press as a way to draw public attention to an issue or a company.