Sentence examples for offering preferred from inspiring English sources

The F.T.C. staff considered filing a lawsuit accusing McCormick of violating the Depression-era Robinson-Patman Act by offering preferred treatment to large chains to ensure prominent shelf display.

Accordingly, traditional feeding practices include strategies intended to soothe infant distress and promote intake, growth, and health such as use of feeding as the first response to crying and other distress, offering preferred foods, promoting intake in the absence of hunger, offering large portions, coercing children to eat beyond satiety, and providing palatable, preferred foods [ 52- 54].

The move follows market speculation that many institutional investors will steer clear of the share offering, preferring instead to see how the shares fare when they start trading.

Other types of offerings prefer to do so through less savory means.

Britons seem to shrug at the chain's hormone-free, natural-raised, organic offerings, prefer lower prices, and may be put off by Chipotle's industrial décor.

But in 1999, the company went after high-risk drivers by offering them preferred rates and discounts up to 35percentt.

Like many independent hoteliers, he said he preferred offering guests a different experience when they traveled, as opposed to the chains' cookie-cutter standards.

Francis Gaskins, president of IPOdesktop.com, said GM's decision to sell preferred shares rather than common stock is a sign that it is having trouble attracting interest from investors and felt the need to sweeten the offering with the preferred dividends.

For example, he said, although personal computer companies can load non-Microsoft products and icons to competing software on a new computer's Windows desktop, Microsoft would be permitted under the settlement to install software that asks users after 14 days if they want to change the PC maker's selections, presumably to Microsoft's preferred offerings.

Petco intends to use proceeds from the initial public offering to buy back preferred stock from two private investment firms, a spokesman, Don Cowan, said.

The Xerox Corporation said yesterday that it had raised more than $1 billion in an offering of convertible trust preferred securities, double its initial projection.