Sentence examples for corporate contests from inspiring English sources

We're all used to that in political campaigns, but it is unheard of in corporate contests.

It was the culmination of one of the most closely watched corporate contests in recent memory — one that pitted a small but vocal group of shareholders against the most powerful banker in America.

Corporate contests are promising because people are competitive in nature, it gives them the opportunity to make a name for themselves at a big company, and great PR.

But as it looks now, authors and readers, the sometimes partisan civilians in a corporate contest, will continue to pay.

Nine of the victims were sales representatives from its offices in southwestern France, having won the trip as part of a corporate contest.

It comes after a corporate contest that included the rejection of a first offer from PepsiCo, a preliminary bid from the Coca-Cola Company that was rescinded after Coke's board blocked the deal and maneuvers by Danone of France that were eventually abandoned.

As swipe fees dominate the Congressional agenda, a handful of other intra-corporate contests consume most of what remains on the Congressional calendar: a squabble over a jet engine, industry tussling over health-care spoils and the never-ending fight over the corporate tax code.

The Securities and Exchange Commission will consider a proposal this week that would require mutual funds to reveal how they vote shares in corporate proxy contests.

There is the yearly Corporate Poetry Contest, for example, in which users send in actual e-mail exchanges with customer service representatives.

But McDonald's officials say they believe their corporate singing contest is the first of its kind, at least on this scale.

So it should come as no surprise that Tuesday's shareholder vote turned out to be a cliffhanger, more befitting a political race than a corporate proxy contest.