Sentence examples for shareholder has decided from inspiring English sources

Carl C. Icahn, the billionaire investor and activist shareholder, has decided to move ahead with plans for a proxy fight at Yahoo and will propose a dissident slate of directors, people with knowledge of the plans said Wednesday.

"The only reason that short-term shareholders are able to influence the outcome of a bid is because a (supposedly stable) long-term shareholder has decided to sell their shares (as they are entitled to do in a free market)," he wrote.

It said: "Despite a strong level of interaction with and interest from institutional investors, the company and its majority shareholder have decided to discontinue its plans for an IPO at this stage.

In a statement, British Telecom said that "regrettably, a meeting of the Blu shareholders has decided that the company should not continue in the auction process".

Airgas shareholders have decided where the hot air was coming from.

This has helped generate bumper profits and cash, which shareholders have decided they can trust companies to spend wisely through either capital expenditure or acquisitions.

In October, the company announced that the board and a majority of shareholders had decided to freeze out small investors, who were not consulted on the decision.

"We are pleased that these shareholders have decided to accept our offer," Peabody's chief executive, Gregory Boyce, said in a statement.

With stocks generally down -- and cable industry stocks down a lot -- some controlling shareholders have decided it may be best to go private so they can milk their cash cows and work out kinks in the business by themselves rather than on CNBC.

The Cambrigde, Mass.-based company announced early at its shareholder meeting Thursday morning that Icahn's nominees were not the chosen ones, but that shareholders had decided to stick with current management's proposed slate– Cecil B. Pickett Cecil B. Pickett, Lynn Schenk Lynn Schenk, Phillip A. Sharp Phillip A. Sharp, and Stelios Papadopoulos to fill the four open slots of the 12-member board.

The statement added: "Nevertheless, following pressure from certain shareholders, he has decided to leave at the time of the group's pre-close trading statement next January".