Sentence examples for attended shareholders from inspiring English sources

A few hours later, the company's chairman, James H. Keyes, and its chief executive, John M. Barth, presided at the sparsely attended shareholders meeting at the Grand Hyatt in Midtown Manhattan.

Mr. Agnelli was an omnipresent figure at Fiat and attended shareholders' meetings and news conferences, but he did not meddle in daily operations of the company and he repeatedly praised the work of Mr. Morchio.

He added that during the years in which he was selling Lincoln stock and bonds, he attended shareholder meetings, met frequently with management officials in Phoenix, and was in personal touch with Mr. Keating, who repeatedly told him how well the company was doing.

Of attending shareholders, 49.8percentt voted for Elliott's slate while 47.2percentt voted for Vivendi's.

And while only shareholders (or their proxies) have an absolute right to attend shareholders' meetings, others may attend the meetings provided they have the board's consent.

The last half of the agenda is sometimes taken up by resolutions that have been presented by shareholders and there is the usual well managed and deftly timed Q&A where the chair entertains the queries of attending shareholders.

To patriots, who appear to attend shareholder meetings primarily to praise her sophisticated skirt suits, there is her frustrating denial that she bats for Britain.

Besides, they said, they would rather hold onto the shares so that city officials can attend shareholder meetings and raise the issue.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., the civil rights leader, has drawn attention to the issue by regularly attending shareholder meetings in Silicon Valley and has encouraged companies to release reports on the demographic makeup of their work forces and leadership teams.

This advocacy is achieved through attending shareholder meetings, filing proposals, writing letters to management and exercising voting rights.

Friedmann bought his first share of CCA in 2004 for about $20. Owning it allowed him to attend shareholder meetings — the same tactic Michael Moore used to attend a GM shareholder meeting in his 1989 film Roger & Me — where he was often the only outsider in the room.