Sentences with phrase «target of activist»

The company, which has seen its revenues fall sharply in recent years, has become a target of activist investors amid its struggles.

Calgary - based oil and gas producer Talisman Energy has become the target of an activist investor.

Since last January, the Little Rock - based investment firm Stephens Group Inc., Huntingdon's largest shareholder, has been the target of activists, and Huntingdon's New Jersey lab has been the scene of protests, vandalism, and, in April, a nighttime raid that «liberated» 14 beagles.

It has become the target of activists recently, who are seeking to have it banned in both supermarkets and in school lunches.

In recent years Planned Parenthood has been the target of activists attempting to portray the organization negatively by secretly videotaping inside health centers and publicizing heavily edited versions of those tapes to the media.

Not exact matches

In terms of other technical IT platforms, an FSB cyber operative flagged up the «Telegram» enciphered commercial system as having been of especial concern and therefore heavily targeted by the FSB, not least because it was used frequently by Russian internal political activists and oppositionists.

Most likely activist targets in 2016: Lumbering corporate giants, including General Electric (GM), of which activist Nelson Peltz already has taken a 3 % share; IBM (IBM); and General Motors (GM).

Costs are both financial, including listing fees and the expenses associated with mandatory disclosures and other regulatory requirements, and less tangible, such as the perceived burden of quarterly earnings releases, the risk of being targeted by activist investors, and higher visibility that can result in political or competitive pressure.

While Burnett said he believes the release of the passwords is ethical, he said he has concerns the release might make him the target of an FBI raid, citing the case of a former Anonymous activist who was sentenced to five years in prison for posting hacked data on the Internet.

PARIS, Jan 17 - France is expected to announce measures this week to accelerate the installation of wind turbines and overcome long - running opposition from activists who have frustrated the country's attempts to hit renewable energy targets.

Climate - change activists on Tuesday disrupted the flow of millions of barrels of crude from Canada to the United States in rare, coordinated action that targeted several key pipelines simultaneously.

Now, DuPont's research labs, which produced discoveries such as nylon, rayon, Teflon, and solar cells, is the target of persistent activist attacks.

The time and effort Elliott put in to researching companies before launching campaigns often imbued the activists with an intimate knowledge of, and deep appreciation for, their targets.

(The domestic market has also presented another sort of challenge: Animal - welfare activists targeted Saputo Inc. for what they describe as inhumane practices on the part of one of its suppliers.

Expansion of Alberta's oil sands has become an international target for climate activists.

In crafting it, she took into account board composition and tenure, capital ratio and compensation, working down a checklist of anything and everything that might make the company an attractive target for activist investors.

A recent survey on corporate reputation conducted by the Corporate Responsibility Association (CRA) showed that nearly 50 % of the companies who responded had been targeted by activist citizen groups, and now engage with these non-governmental organizations in order to help improve public perceptions.

David Hogg, a 17 - year - old high school senior and one of the most vocal activists, became a particular target.

There is no shortage of targets out for activists that truly want to unlock long - term value.

Activist - targeted Hain Celestial Group Inc. (HAIN) founder and CEO Irwin Simon suggested to TheStreet's (TST) sister publication The Deal on Monday, April 30, that the maker of Terra Chips and other organic and vegetarian foods could be sold down the road because «we're probably not the best guys to take it to the next level.»

In June, activist hedge fund Third Point unveiled a $ 3.5 billion stake in Nestlé and asked for a series of actions including a formal margin target of 18 to 20 percent.

Plaintiffs would go after easy targets and companies like Whitehaven Coal — which are already in the sights of climate activists — and other companies that resisted the need to change the way they do business to help slow man - made global warming or funded climate sceptics could be vulnerable.

One of the largest activist investors in the world is taking on his biggest target yet.

Activists often agitate for the exact opposite of acquisitions: either an outright sale of the targeted company or divestment of business units, believing such actions can «unlock» value.

A wide array of people have complained about being successfully targeted by this sort of attack, including a Black Lives Matter activist and the chief technologist of the Federal Trade Commission.

With a proxy contest looming, activist investor Voce Capital has released yet another broadside against target company FBR & Co., this time in the form of a comprehensive presentation detailing the rationale behind Voce's campaign and advocating for the election of the hedge fund's three board candidates.

Nestle is being targeted by activist investor Dan Loeb's hedge fund Third Point, which has built a stake of more than $ US3.5 billion ($ 4.6 billion) in the world's biggest food company.

As for results, while the Supreme Court is essentially immune to online outreach, the broader public isn't — and these activists were targeting a much bigger court, that of public opinion.

Gibson has managed to keep his seat, but he remains a top target of the DCCC heading into the 2014 midterm elections, and his opponent, Democratic activist and political newcomer Sean Eldridge, is making the selfsame argument about the GOP congressman — that he leans too far to the right and in doing so is contributing to the dysfunction down in D.C.

Before you were targeting a tiny audience of influentials and uber - activists.

Leaving aside your counterintuitive choice of target, you are a seasoned media player: you could have predicted in advance the headlines resulting from your action, that they would feature your name prominently, and the other activists with you would be ignored; that the majority of the press would use it as an excuse to criticise Corbyn (again) and that Syria would be mentioned only in passing.

And while targeting our friendly neighborhood corporate - owned information filters probably won't make any of them change tack, turning a mainstream media figure into a piñata now and then is a nice break for activists tired of emailing Congress again and again.

(You were one of the 23 people who did X in your Congressional District) Organize call - ins to talk shows at the local level (thanks Wellstone Camp) Target specialized media (ethnic, religious, association, etc.) Do something newsworthy, eg «activists are collecting dead bugs to deliver to Congressman Porker today.

Whether it be obsessive journalists with a personal axe to grind, hostile colleagues or opposing politicians and activists, secretaries of state are big targets.

A big limitation of Change.org and other targeted social networks is that they have to persuade people to join; this Facebook app lets them bring their tools to online spaces that are already full of potential activists.

Blogads are usually quite inexpensive for the number of people they allow you to reach (though prices on popular blogs have gone up significantly in the past few years), and they're putting you before a targeted audience: activists on a red - meat wave - the - bloody - flag political blog, pacifists on a peace - oriented site, enviros on a green energy blog, and so on.

«We can't address any concerns they might have if we don't know what they are... he might have been targeted because of his activist work or even just because he is from Eastern Europe we just don't know.»

Well done, Sunder, for not mentioning Labour's record on tax (up for the lower - paid, down for the rich), ID cards and 3,000 new crimes, increase in inequality, lost personal data, obsession with targets rather than actual service delivery — and in consequence the fact that in many marginal seats a couple of dozen Labour activists will be opposing a couple of hundred Tory volunteers...

Some politicians and activists have denounced Trump's visit, saying that it will encourage the targeting of undocumented immigrants.

The party has mobilized nearly two dozen activist groups, including the CNY Solidarity Coalition, to target Democratic voters who live in the eight districts of the IDC members.

Her team could have created a system to optimize and deliver messages to thousands of electoral niches via online targeting — in fact, some of us urged anti-Trump activists to do just that.

The grassroots activist group Momentum has been holding high - profile campaign days in the target councils of Barnet, Wandsworth, Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea, aiming to recapture some of the energy that led to Jeremy Corbyn's surge late in the general election campaign.

The online activist group Color of Change is targeting ten members of the Congressional Black Caucus for opposing net neutrality and «doing the bidding of big phone and cable companies.»

Immigrant advocates have noted a growing trend of ICE targeting immigrant activists who criticize the immigration system.

«While the Bangladeshi authorities have failed to bring these violent groups to justice, the attackers have expanded their range of targets to now include a university professor and LGBTI activists.»

Too many of the party's seats are not hitting their target funding, one activist claims, because the incumbents have simply given up the ghost and there is no real effort to hold them.

Clarke worked as director of the RoadTrip2015 and RoadTrip2020 campaigns, which involved bussing hundreds of young activists to Tory target seats across the country.

«Tea Party activists are kicking off a grand national tour this weekend with an event targeting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D - NV) in his small home town of Searchlight, Nevada — an event that Tea Party Express describes as a «conservative Woodstock.»

Elected officials, activists, advocates and university students have a number of actions planned for this week to decry the president's policy dictates targeting Muslims and undocumented immigrants, as well as to provide support and guidance to impacted people.

He has also caught flak for not moving as swiftly on police reform and his continued embracing of broken windows policing, a method that activists and some elected officials say disproportionately targets communities of color.