Now I am
a small shareholder of Treasury Wines and Mr Jones is definitely not representing me nor all the other shareholders of Treasury Wines.
I'm
a small shareholder of PG and will be adding more soon.
Not exact matches
Although on balance these total amounts may be financially immaterial to
shareholders, they may represent only a
small part
of what a company spends to influence political outcomes in the United States or here in Canada.
Nevertheless, all three major
shareholder advisory firms have recommended Michael Dell's offer, potentially influencing the decisions
of a plethora
of small mutual funds that typically follow their lead.
Think
of it: Partnering with hundreds
of unsophisticated
small shareholders is a pretty inefficient way to fund a company.
A
small investor in Research In Motion Ltd.... is anticipating big support for a
shareholder resolution calling on the BlackBerry maker to split the jobs
of CEO and chairman.
Many
of Shell and BG's big
shareholders have voiced support for the deal but a slump in oil prices below $ 30 a barrel has raised concerns that Shell may be overpaying for the
smaller rival.
The U.S. - Belgian conglomerate sweetened its terms to
smaller shareholders by some 4.3 % to 44 British pounds a share, and the terms for the strategic
shareholders who control 41 %
of SABMiller's stock by 4.1 % to the equivalent
of GBP39.03.
It plans a special
shareholder meeting to get approval for a reverse stock split that would aim to exchange outstanding shares for a
smaller number
of consolidated shares, with a price in the range
of C$ 10 to $ 20 each.
In most circumstances, what is best for the managers
of a
small business is what is best for its
shareholders, as they are normally one and the same.
She is active in numerous outside groups and
shareholder coalitions focusing on responsible investment practices including the Investor Network on Climate Risk and the United Nations backed Principles for Responsible Investment, for which she served as the Co-Chair
of the
Small Funds Initiative Work Stream.
Because the
shareholders hold the residual claim, and all corporate expenditures thus come out
of their pocket, it is not entirely clear why other
shareholders should have to subsidize speech by a
small minority.
Absent such a standard, the
shareholder proposal rule becomes nothing less than a species
of private eminent domain by which the federal government allows a
small minority to appropriate someone else's property — the company is a legal person, after all, and it is the company's proxy statement at issue — for use as a soap - box to disseminate their views.
«Moreover, we believe that a supermajority vote requirement can enable a
small group
of shareholders to overrule the will
of the majority
shareholders.
The deal makes Levy the controlling
shareholder in this
small but growing pharmacy chain at a cost
of NIS 16 million.
Rami Levy Chain Stores Hashikma Marketing 2006 Ltd. (TASE: RMLI) is likely to acquire 50.01 %
of Good Pharm for NIS 16 million in a deal that will make Levy the controlling
shareholder in a
small but growing pharmacy chain.
[27] In contrast, the expected benefits
of becoming informed are quite low, as most
shareholders» holdings are too
small to have significant effect on the vote's outcome.
Soon after the results were released, the company's stock price plunged to its lowest level in a decade and a number
of small shareholders called for the resignation
of Karl - Johan Persson, chief executive and grandson
of the company's founder.
A study
of S corporations (
small firms with 100 or fewer
shareholders who are taxed as a partnership) found that those with ESOPs had higher average employment growth in the 2006 - 2008 pre-recession period than did the economy as a whole, and they also had faster growth following the recession from 2009 to 2011.
McDonald's has delivered $ 4.5 billion to
shareholders through dividends and stock repurchases so far this year, which is just a
small part
of the $ 23 billion that it expects to pay out between 2017 and 2019.
The
small but growing number
of shareholder votes on diversity proposals is on pace to match or exceed the record set last year, according to data compiled by ISS Analytics,...
The
small but growing number
of shareholder votes on diversity proposals is on pace to match or exceed the record set last year, according to data compiled by ISS Analytics, which tracks proxies.
That relaxation
of restrictions itself has been controversial among a number
of Tronc investors; poison pills often are designed to protect the interests
of all
shareholders» values, and investors have complained about the chairman and vice chairman's abilities to leverage more control, at
smaller benefit to other
shareholders.
In your 1987 letter to
shareholders, you commented on the kind
of companies Berkshire liked to buy: those that required only
small amounts
of capital.
The book is a series
of case studies that describes how a
small number
of CEOs have used cash generative businesses as platforms to drive massive returns for
shareholders by directing excess cash opportunistically between large stock buybacks, special dividends and acquisitions
of other businesses.
This means that when investors buy stocks they own a very
small percentage
of the company they buy stocks from; for that reason, investors owning a company share are called
shareholders.
Warren has created his wealth and many
of his
shareholders» wealth by investing in
small pieces
of other people's businesses, first through the stockmarket and then buying the business in its entirety.
Because the company has a call option that it can (and will) use to its own benefit (and to the
shareholder's detriment as its counterparty), preferred shares end up offering all
of the potential price downside
of long - term fixed income securities, with only a
small amount
of the potential price upside.
In other words, as Copland puts it, «At least when it comes to
shareholder proposals, a
small, thinly funded outfit with 600 employees in Rockville, Maryland, is acting like an owner
of fifteen percent
of the total stock market.»
In addition, its new management team announced a $ 50 million share - repurchase program that could add a lot
of value for its
shareholders if the company is cleared from any wrongdoing, or gets away with only paying
small fines.
The
shareholders perpetuate the myth
of Buffett as a
small - town investor who does things the «right way.»
Even though it's a
small amount, an increase is an increase, and you're right, creating value for
shareholders is also just as important as the size
of any increase in dividends.
Before Martin was eight, his father, along with a partner, had a lease
of a foundry, having borrowed capital from a merchant — he was a
shareholder in one
of the
small firms engaged in mining.
Shareholders of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (NASDAQ: CBRL) voted to support the restaurant outlet's recently - adopted policy to eliminate gestation crates —
small cages used to virtually immobilize breeding pigs for months on end — from its pork supply chain.
Trevor O'Hoy, who was chief executive
of Australia's biggest beer company, Foster's Group, from 2004 to 2008, hit serious paydirt last year when he was among the
smaller shareholders in vitamins firm Swisse Wellness, when the business was sold for $ 1.67 billion to Hong Kong - listed Biostime International.
Head says it is a «wide, open register» where big holders like Stehr sat alongside plenty
of small retail
shareholders.
Shareholders, sales targets, and growth models should probably be eschewed in favour
of cooperatives, not - for - profits, and mindfully remaining
small and local.
This would give him 97 %
of the shares and he could then force the remaining
small shareholders to sell him the remaining 3 %.
They are a For - Profit organization that is debt heavy and have the primary & fiduciary responsibility to their
shareholders (primarily WME along with a bunch
of other
smaller share holders).
The power
of the state is minimal, but contrary to anarcho - capitalism, this power is transferred to
small - scale democratically owned organs, not to huge multinational
shareholder - owned corporations.
I did not recognise, at the point that this visit was arranged, a need to disclose to my officials and the High Commission that Abid Hussain and I have a common business interest as minority
shareholders in a
small food company... I sincerely regret that I did not consider the significance
of this relationship with Mr Hussain when the arrangements for the visit were being made... I am sorry.
Economic reforms in the late 1990s helped encourage production through the designation
of land, decentralization
of control over land - use licensing and a subsidization credit to
smaller shareholders.
When you've lost half your crop
of chickens, when 40 %
of your animals can't reproduce, you're going to go out
of business and especially if you're a
small farmer, there are a few
of those left, but if you're a larger farmer and you have
shareholders and boards
of directors.
Shareholder agreements have been widely used in Italy for decades, allowing
small groups
of people to wield...
They'd crawled their way to the front
of the agent line and their books were enough like all the other books already out there to be published by companies - those owned by
shareholders and governed by a board, or those owned by a
small group
of people who didn't answer to
shareholders.
Under the conditions
of high concentration
of ownership and weak legal protection for
small - and medium - sized
shareholders in China, the distribution
of dividends can be used as a way to limit large
shareholders» ability to expropriate minority
shareholders» rights or improper government intervention in the listed companies.
An example
of this would be when a large company spins off a much
smaller subsidiary and distributes the stock free to
shareholders.
The International Fund may invest in emerging markets, which are generally more volatile and can have relatively unstable governments, social and legal systems that do not protect
shareholders, economies based on only a few industries and securities markets that are substantially
smaller, less liquid, more volatile and may have a lower level
of government oversight than securities markets in more developed countries.
The board forthrightly attributed the closure to «recent Fund performance, the inability
of the Fund to garner additional assets, the relatively
small asset size
of the Fund, recent significant
shareholder redemptions, and other factors.»
He launched the European
Smaller Companies Fund (formerly Family Enterprise) in 2007 and is a significant
shareholder of the firm.