Submission to the NYSE re: Request by the U.S. Council of Institutional Investors that NYSE adopt a majority
voting listing standard in uncontested elections of directors
Submission to the NASDAQ re: Request by the U.S. Council of Institutional Investors that NASDAQ adopt a majority
voting listing standard in uncontested elections of directors
Submission to the NYSE re: Request by the U.S. Council of Institutional Investors that NYSE adopt a majority
voting listing standard in uncontested elections of directors
Not exact matches
Following completion of this offering, the Principal Stockholders will control more than 50 % of the combined
voting power of our common stock, so under current
listing standards, we would qualify as a «controlled company» and accordingly, will be exempt from requirements to have a majority of independent directors, a fully independent nominating and corporate governance committee and a fully independent compensation committee.
New rules will require CBCA companies — about 40 % of companies
listed on the TSX — to hold an election for their entire board of directors annually,
vote for each director individually and, most importantly, use uniquely crafted majority -
voting rules that only let shareholders
vote «no» or «yes» for a director, eliminating the use of «withhold»
votes which is
standard practice under existing TSX rules.
Materials
listed as approved in the National Organic Program (NOP)
standards are subject to review every five years, at which time the NOSB board can
vote to either a) relist them as allowed or prohibited or b) remove them from the organic
standards.
The following subcommittee proposals related to the National
List or other organic
standards issues were discussed and
voted on by the NOSB:
Impressively, attending the school with the strongest civic climate (where 85 percent of students
listed voting as a component of good citizenship) rather than the school with the weakest civic climate (where 46 percent chose
voting) increased anticipated participation by a quarter of a
standard deviation, or by about twice the effect of the individual student's having
listed voting as a component of good citizenship.