Sentences with phrase «with shareholder groups»

Exxon and Chevron executives, however, showed no sign of taking a more cooperative stance with shareholder groups worried about climate change.

Not exact matches

In addition, our approach to connecting business with social change is based on addressing the priorities of a wide range of stakeholders including employees, business partners, shareholders, government regulators, advocacy groups and consumers.

So with one group of shareholders essentially writing a very large check to the government for all shareholders to reap the benefits of lower corporate income taxes in the future, it begs the question: Are the shareholders who are most at risk in an inversion scenario even aware of this disadvantage?

The company has come under pressure from outside shareholders to separate its higher - growth assets — notably its stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group — from its struggling core search and e-mail businesses, but such a split would be complicated by the fact that it could land the company with a large tax bill.

Pluton Resources is in the midst of a battle between creditors, with major shareholder General Nice Resources and secured creditor Rizhao Port Group Logistics fighting over who gets to appoint receivers to the iron ore miner.

VDM Group has finalised terms for an $ 18 million loan facility with its largest shareholder to fund an investment in a copper project located in the Republic of Angola.

The tussle for control of Phoenix Gold intensified today after Zijin Mining Group struck a pre-sales agreement with one of the miner's largest shareholders, boosting its interest to 17.9 per cent ahead of announcing a cash takeover bid that values the business at $ 47 million.

That's an interpretation by management, and some boards have bought into the notion that the stakeholder group they need to concern themselves with is shareholders.»

Over the past week, two advisory firms recommended TMX Group shareholders vote in favour of the proposed merger with the London Stock Exchange on June 30, and reject the rival takeover offer from the Maple Group.

The new policy, in which Unilever is moving to a «fixed pay» structure, was approved by 64.2 percent of the UK group's shareholders, with nearly 35.8 percent opposing it.

In a document released online on Tuesday, media group Vivendi - which is the top TIM shareholder - said it provided «stability and expertise» to the Italian phone company, in contrast with the «quick fixes» that Elliott would bring.

He is Nex Group's largest shareholder, with a stake of around 18 %.

Elliott owns 9 percent of the former state phone monopoly and is calling on other investors to help it wrest control away from French media group Vivendi, which effectively runs Telecom Italia as its top shareholder with a 24 percent stake.

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.

Mining services provider Viento Group has entered a trading halt after a legal dispute with a minority shareholder in its 65 per cent owned subsidiary, Power Infrastructure Services.

Iluka Resources has been served with a class action, with a group of shareholders alleging the mineral sands miner misled the market six years ago.

Starwood shareholders will also get about $ 7.80 per share from the spinoff of its timeshare business and subsequent merger with Interval Leisure Group Inc..

TD Ameritrade shareholders may communicate with any member of the board of directors, including the chairperson of any committee, an entire committee or the independent directors or all directors as a group, by sending written communications to:

TORONTO (Reuters)- Proxy advisory firm ISS said on Thursday it recommends that TMX Group shareholders vote in favor of a proposed combination with the London Stock Exchange.

The proposed rules call for companies to report their annual total shareholder return (TSR) over time, along with annual TSR figures for their peer group, and to describe the relationships between their TSR and their executive compensation and between their TSR and the TSR of their peers.

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.

Investors have filed a record number of shareholder proposals on ESG issues this year, with a focus on climate change and corporate political activity, according to the As You Sow shareholder advocacy group.

General Motors recently responded to an activist group with a plan to return cash to shareholders through share repurchase, and Lear had previously undertaken this action.

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** Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City Development Joint Stock Bank, better known as HDBank, said its shareholders approved on Saturday a plan to merge with the unlisted Petrolimex Group Commercial Joint Stock Bank as it seeks to expand operations in the country.

«It used to be that gender was dismissed out of hand as unimportant, but boy has that changed in the last two years,» says Laura O'Neill, director of law and policy with SHARE, an advisor group to institutional shareholders.

While studies show that mergers and acquisitions as a group are value neutral or negative for shareholders (on average the selling company gets all the excess returns), The Outsiders explored how some management teams focused on driving shareholder value with their M&A rather than simply using it as a mechanism to get bigger, have shown extraordinary success.

Since then, Trian has had several discussions with the industrial group's management about its corporate structure and improving shareholder returns.

Vanke is in the midst of a control battle with an «unwelcome» major shareholder, Baoneng group.

Although the films Alibaba Pictures Group has invested in like So Young (by actress - turned director Zhao Wei, who is also a major shareholder of the company) and Tiny Times (by popular writer Guo Jingming) have recorded remarkable box - office revenues, the company has yet to turn a profit, with a net loss of HK$ 443.54 million for the first half of last year.

HOOPP was an initial private equity investor at Teranet's founding, remained the largest shareholder when the company was taken public on the TSX, and eventually sold its stake into a $ 2.0 billion take - over bid in 2008; Ducati Motorcycle Company, initially an NYSE / Milan listed Italian sport motorcycle manufacturer, which was the subject of a deleveraging capital increase, taken private and eventually sold to Volkswagen / Audi Group in 2012 for US$ 1.1 billion; and Novadaq Technologies Inc., a medical devices company in which HOOPP was the largest private investor, with such company completing an initial public offering on the TSX in 2005 and which continues today with a market capitalization in excess of $ 730 million.

Lesser known Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc. (NXST) is making their shareholders happier with an increased dividend of $ 0.24 per share up from $ 0.19.

Tabcorp will present Tatts Group shareholders with a scrip and cash takeover bid on Wednesday morning, proposing to take full control of the wagering and lotteries company.

Institutional Shareholder Services, a leading proxy advisory service, has recommended on Wednesday that GFI Group Inc (NYSE: GFIG) shareholders reject the proposed merger agreement with CME Group Inc (NYSE: CME), given $ 5.85 stock and cash offer is inferior to BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ:...

20th December 2017 - London Stock Exchange Group result of general meeting: majority of shareholders vote with board against proposed resolution to remove Donald Brydon

F. Work with U.S. companies through such groups as the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility3 on shareholder actions to persuade U.S. companies to respect nations» attempts to protect their cultural sovereignty.

In July, an agreement was signed over a strategic alliance with Raiffeisen - holding Niederosterreich - Wien, majority shareholder of the Austrian company Nom, involving the purchase by Parmalat of a 25 per cent stake in the Austrian dairy group for $ 30 million.

Bayer & Monsanto - Keep Your Fingers Off Our Food!High - level panel discussion with international guests, 27 April, University of CologneOn the evening before BAYER's Annual Shareholders» Meeting, 28 April in Bonn, a panel discussion on the planned takeover of Monsanto by the BAYER Group will take place in the tradition of an American Townhall... more

In contrast to your board of directors (the «Board»), which has taken — and will continue to take — substantial steps to further drive high performance and long - term profitable growth at your Company, this dissident group has offered no specific plan to enhance shareholder value and is proposing to install as CEO a candidate with no experience managing a public company and no C - suite experience at any company.

The election of all of the LF - RB Group's nominees would replace all but two members of your Board with directors who lack institutional knowledge of your Company and who have offered no clear plan to enhance shareholder value.

LF - RB Management, LLC and certain shareholders named below (referred to as the «LF - RB Group»), which beneficially own an aggregate of 952,569 shares of the common stock of RiceBran Technologies (RIBT), filed definitive proxy materials with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the «SEC») on June 13, 2016, available at www.sec.gov.

We have heard nothing strategic or constructive regarding any ideas to increase shareholder value — either publicly or during our face - to - face meeting with the LF - RB Group.

In the interest of its shareholders, the Company negotiated a comprehensive agreement with the LF - RB Group and made changes it sees as beneficial to our shareholders and the Company's ultimate goal of building shareholder value.

At the annual general shareholders» meeting on 22 June, the Omira shareholders approved the takeover of German dairy Omira by France's Lactalis Group with an overwhelming majority of 97.8 %.

I think shareholders all having equal shares, with a supporters group being among the shareholders.

By not being aligned with a single farm like traditional community - supported agriculture groups, Deryck said consumers get more variety and shareholders are protected from the risks of dealing with only one farm.

The documents emerged from negotiations with several activist shareholder groups that had pressed Exxon Mobil to disclose to investors the risks it faces from climate change and steps the company was taking to reduce such risks.

Looking at board members and principal shareholders, Acemoglu and his colleagues divided the firms into four main groups: those with connections to the NDP, those with military connections, those with Muslim brotherhood connections, and those that were unconnected to the other groups.

The group in question, the Friends of Pulau Redang, point out that their only direct involvement with RIR has been to attend an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders to monitor the company's activities.

Vincent Tan, the major shareholder of RIR, says he is now working closely with «green groups».