The rest were rabbiting on about share prices, company takeovers, fashion accessories, holiday destinations or some such guff. |
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The software sector lends itself to mergers and takeovers as firms scramble to keep pace with market changes and shifting demand. |
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One of the premier advantages to keiretsu strategies is that it toughens the conglomerate against takeovers and drastic losses. |
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In financial circles his reputation for tough decision-taking and high-risk takeovers is legendary. |
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Fearing hostile takeovers and falling share prices, firms seem to become overly fixated on quarterly returns. |
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Industry observers say there have been no other successful hostile takeovers of a large European bank. |
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Among sunfishes, gobies, and darters, 8 of 122 nests surveyed were probable takeovers. |
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Wall Street has a retro '80s look these days with buyouts and takeovers back in vogue. |
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Even with the Golf's huge profits, does Ferdinand Piech have a bottomless well of capital for more takeovers aimed at expanding the empire? |
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Such foreign direct investment is less about hostile takeovers than about friendly acquisitions. |
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This article develops a model in which greenmail and other forms of management resistance to takeovers can benefit shareholders. |
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Football is dominated by money, takeovers, shares, bungs and tap-ups. |
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But residents and ratepayers have been protesting these private takeovers. |
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Although some pension funds supported corporate raiders to dislodge ineffective managers, broad-based long-term investors lose more than they gain from takeovers. |
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It lists company headquarters, numbers of employees per country, subsidiaries, and past mergers or takeovers. |
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Meanwhile, takeovers and mergers are banned, to prevent the present situation from getting worse. |
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We wanted to create a level playing field in Europe as regards company takeovers. |
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Finally, regarding company law on mergers and takeovers, the presidency has done a wonderful job in fashioning a difficult compromise. |
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All other methods of countering company takeovers, such as government intervention, are being left out of the equation. |
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Compared with stealthy takeovers, tender offers respect minority investors. |
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We cannot allow PCS to simply become the latest Canadian economic jewel to be swept up by a relentless surge of foreign takeovers. |
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That may be why CME Group, the biggest and savviest derivatives-exchange operator, has always stuck to domestic takeovers. |
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Its political creation continues every time a developing country is blackmailed into opening its capital market and permitting foreign takeovers. |
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Those fixer-upper takeovers are important for the quality of governance in an economy. |
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The fall in demand leads to layoffs and rationalization, as do mergers and takeovers, and to a new culture and the axing of jobs. |
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It was BP's then chief executive, John Browne, who set the pace with quick takeovers of first Amoco, followed by Arco and then Castrol. |
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For its future growth the company looks both for organic growth and selective takeovers. |
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Empirical analysis provides no evidence of a link between the dollar and foreign takeovers. |
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We are fighting the devastating effects of foreign takeovers of our natural resources and industries. |
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This list contains all launchings, takeovers, workforce changes and other important events. |
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International mergers and takeovers of financial institutions often entail the need to rationalise the product ranges of the firms concerned. |
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The takeovers are based on Acts passed by the Danish Parliament, which define the overall framework for the field in question. |
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Its opponents, who believe in market efficiency, fear lest it bring a reduction in the number of takeovers aimed at improving productivity. |
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This can be achieved by way of direct acquisitions, purchases, mergers and takeovers. |
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Some service managers have been far too quick to use receivership and takeovers to solve problems. |
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Following recent takeovers, it has now extended its range to include wine gums, fruit pastilles, jelly beans and traditional boiled sweets, toffees and fudge. |
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Under the pressure of tight margins, hostile takeovers and cutthroat rivalry, air safety has been increasingly sacrificed to the requirements of profit and the markets. |
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Private investigators are infiltrating Scottish firms to identify ambitious high-flyers and talentless time-servers for companies planning takeovers. |
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In recent months we have seen the European Parliament compromise on the Services Directive, high profile resistance to a number of cross border takeovers, the espousal of national champions and talk of economic patriotism. |
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The last round of energy industry takeovers was in the late 1990s when new production in the North Sea, Alaska and Mexico caused the oil price to collapse. |
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Under competition rules in the UK, takeovers can be referred to the competition commission if there are doubts over the suitability of the new owner. |
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But success on the world ballet stage is not accomplished by hostile takeovers and the Mikhailovsky needs to become more than a holding company for Danilian's star clients. |
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During the leveraged buyout boom of the early 1980s, many corporations were the targets of hostile takeovers. |
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Today, these undeserved gains are used to finance and justify cross-border takeovers to the detriment of socially responsible companies and society at large. |
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The question of whether there should be takeovers or mergers of stock exchanges in different parts of the world is entirely a matter for the market players and one about which I am entirely agnostic. |
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Kiev and Washington have blamed Russia for inciting the takeovers. |
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Today, with the influx of group products and group brokers to the voluntary market, traditional takeovers are becoming more popular. |
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Levi pointed out further that most criminals are prodigal, so the notion there is large amounts of profit susceptible of either staging takeovers of legitimate business or being available for forfeiture is misleading. |
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When that cover-up failed, he admitted to investigators that he had provided information to Mr. Boesky, who was then the best-known risk arbitrager, as traders who specialized in betting on takeovers were known. |
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Yesterday's predators, obsessed by their takeovers and mergers, will give way to nimbler, smarter carmakers that will reshape the global industry. |
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Pennsylvania was a state whose industries had been particularly hard hit in the 1980s by corporate raiders, takeovers, and investment capital. |
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Greater shareholder activism, mostly on the part of foreign investors, and fear of hostile takeovers prompted managers to adopt mutual shareholdings to insulate themselves from nettlesome outsiders. |
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My research with Andrei Shleifer at Harvard and Robert Vishny at the University of Chicago shows that a lot of corporate takeovers are people buying fixer-upper firms. |
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Front-running takeovers is just one concern. |
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Britain's open-door policy on foreign takeovers is a net gain for the economy. |
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Mr. Speaker, was the hon. member for Mississauga South concerned about the same degree of Americanization when his Liberal government approved 11,000 takeovers of Canadian firms through the course of its 12 years in power? |
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It has homed in on deficiencies such as the use of poison pills to prevent takeovers and shareholders' inability to nominate directors to corporate boards. |
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The 1998 law that required them to break up into separate retail and network businesses led to a frenzy of mergers and takeovers, and the already-high valuations of the companies were further inflated. |
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Provision should therefore be made for the offers to be examined in two periods, and timetables should be laid down for the submission of offers for maize and for deliveries and the associated takeovers. |
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At the time, Swiss law did not provide any specific legal framework to cover hostile takeovers, nor did it prescribe the disclosure of substantial shareholdings. |
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When the government puts income trusts on their knees, when it devalues their worth and make them vulnerable to foreign takeovers, that is a totally different thing. |
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The demutualization trend and other industries struggling through hostile takeovers, however, clearly threaten this goal. |
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For most people, hostile takeovers, junk bonds and ESOP leveraged buyouts seem largely a relic of another age. |
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Identify candidates for corporate takeovers, mergers and or partnerships. |
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Two takeovers later, I continue to work, but it's still family first. |
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Deficit-increasing discretionary changes occurred most notably in 2002, reflecting among other things the recapitalisation of public entities, debt takeovers and a one-off extra pension payment. |
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In both cases, the takeovers were done on friendly terms. |
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The world economy is caught up in a frenzy of corporate takeovers. |
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On the foreign ownership thing, I think there really is a case to be made that some takeovers are indeed megalomaniac foreign CEOs trying to build empires. |
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Because account takeovers make up a large percentage of identity theft, several potential authentication techniques appear possible now or in the near future. |
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Moreover, they argued that adoption of new cultures could occur through trade or internal political developments rather than only military takeovers. |
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I don't like the basics of the plan,'' said Bergan, whose group passed a resolution at its convention earlier this year opposing all mayoral takeovers of school districts. |
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American companies are not interested in engaging in hostile takeovers. |
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A steady stream of military contracts for armored vehicles has set off a flurry of industry takeovers and lash-ups that would have been inconceivable only a few years ago. |
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In the 1980s, he pioneered so-called greenmail raids in which financiers threatened companies with hostile takeovers unless they were paid a premium to go away. |
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It might be hard to top the 80s with its friendly and hostile takeovers, leveraged buy-outs and aggressive maneuvers by foreign rubber firms in the North American market. |
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The rapid increase in Chinese takeovers of European companies has fuelled concerns among political observers and policymakers over a wide range of issues. |
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Qantas Airways Ltd, whose share prices have dropped significantly, is said to be building a team of banks and key executive management to prevent any hostile takeovers. |
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The pledges contained in the Labour manifesto include proposals to increase to two thirds the number of shareholders who must vote for a change in hostile takeovers. |
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Greenmailing is a corporate acquisition strategy for generating large amounts of money from attempted hostile takeovers of large, often undervalued or inefficient companies. |
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Takeovers of car companies are always rationalized on the basis of finding new markets for the struggling company's vehicles. |
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Takeovers of foreign companies and government intervention in the markets have spooked investors, hollowing out key industries. |
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The Government is pleased to announce the appointment of four new members to the Takeovers Panel. |
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This same price will be offered to all shareholders in a full takeover offer by the Rank Group, in compliance with the New Zealand Takeovers Code. |
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