Sentence examples for important shareholders from inspiring English sources

He's supposed to be running 21st Century Fox and keeping his most important shareholders happy.

The agreement announced Monday seemed to satisfy many important shareholders who have been demanding change in the company.

The trial against the men, important shareholders in the Yukos oil group, has been accompanied by a tax investigation into Yukos itself.

The pressure on Vedanta was increased by Survival's complaint to the UK government under the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development guidelines for multinational companies, which in turn helped persuade many important shareholders, including the Church of England, to disinvest on ethical grounds from a company that had become notorious for the Niyamgiri project.

It didn't work with the stock markets, which sank again, and it did nothing to reassure the most important shareholders: ordinary Americans living from one paycheck to another, worried about their jobs or wondering how they will replace the one they lost.

Important shareholders including Bill Huff, an activist American investor, and Sir Richard Branson, the founder of the Virgin brand, who together controlled about 17% of the company, stood beside managers and urged others to give the firm time to pull up its socks.But this time the familiar actors have been cast in different roles.

Why was that? A. Well, D.K.B. owns 27percentt of CIT, so they are an important shareholder.

MORE important, shareholder votes often take on companies where executive pay is out of line with industry norms.

While the founders' families carry great influence, some important shareholder advisers say the family foundations may have different interests than other shareholders.

A KPN spokesman said on Thursday that América Móvil remained an important shareholder, with a nearly 30 percent stake and two seats on its supervisory board.

Spain's BBVA, which owns almost 15% of BNL and has been an important shareholder since BNL was privatised in 1998, made an unsuccessful bid in March.