Sentence examples for shareholder remuneration from inspiring English sources

"Their primary goal is not shareholder remuneration," he said.

"Banco Santander has shown it is able to generate results and, at the same time, meet the capital requirements set out by the E.B.A., significantly increase provisions for property exposure and maintain shareholder remuneration at 0.60 euros a share for the third consecutive year," the bank's chairman, Emilio Botín, said in a statement.

After all, many tech companies are valued more on their expansion prospects than on their potential for near-term shareholder remuneration via cash disbursements or buybacks.

Last year IMPALA complained to the EU that consolidation among big music companies would hurt competition.The board of Portugal Telecom rejected an improved €11.8 billion ($15.5 billion) bid from Sonae, a Portuguese conglomerate, and bolstered its defences by announcing a €6.2 billion shareholder-remuneration package.

The business secretary, Vince Cable, has circulated a consultative paper suggesting a number of reforms, such as making a vote on a firm's future pay policy binding; requiring at least 75% of shareholders to approve remuneration policies; a binding shareholder vote where directors who leave collect more than a year's worth of basic salary.

A second top 10 shareholder said: "The remuneration issue was really poorly conducted.

The meeting had been billed as a moment of shareholder revolt against remuneration packages for Bob Diamond (left), Barclays' chief executive, and other managers.

Moving on to the need to make businesses more responsible, May said she wanted employee representatives on company boards and to make shareholder votes about remuneration for bosses legally binding.

"To receive significant shareholder dissent on remuneration one year might be regarded as a misfortune, but to do so a second year really does not reflect well," said Will Pomroy, corporate governance expert at the association.

In response Chuka Umuna, Labour's shadow business secretary, said: "After promising to introduce annual binding shareholder votes on remuneration, Vince Cable and the Tory-led government caved in and have failed to match their rhetoric with action".

"Is it not the case that this will simply incentivize boards to draft policy as broadly as possible?" Shareholder opposition against remuneration practices has been building in Britain, the United States and elsewhere after some companies continued to hand out large paychecks even though their share prices had declined.