Sentence examples for shareholdings from inspiring English sources

His entry in the parliamentary register of members' interest for 2005 and 2006 lists his directorships and shareholdings in a printing firm and How To Corp, the "marketing" company then fronted by Michael Green.

An analysis by the Guardian shows that 26 MPs declared more earnings from directorships, paid employment or shareholdings than they did from their parliamentary salary, with more than 20 declaring more than £100,000 in outside earnings in the latest register of members' interests.

With the infamous cross shareholdings among Japanese firms unravelling and return-seeking investors gaining influence, there has long been talk that a similar, if smaller, takeover trend may start in Japan.

Foreign investors are likely to buy many of the industrial shareholdings that the insurers sell.

But the government's need to create an easily saleable asset has led it to scrap that plan: the state's 38% shareholding in Rostelecom will now go into Svyazinvest.Svyazinvest's shareholdings in its main subsidiaries, usually 38%, carry voting control because each subsidiary has 25% of its stock issued in non-voting form.

Now it is shedding large shareholdings in such industries as computers, furniture and food.This process, known as "unbundling", is just getting started.

Another is that in Japan's keiretsu system of cross-shareholdings, many shareholders are corporate buddies facing similar dilemmas.

Nor is there much pressure from big shareholders to increase profits: the cross-shareholdings of the keiretsu come with an implicit non-aggression pact.

They are not keen on rococo corporate structures (cross-shareholdings between units based in assorted offshore jurisdictions, say) which mere mortals can scarcely understand, let alone disentangle in a crisis.

Re-introduce a capital-gains tax on the sale of cross-shareholdings in companies.

This system wove together firms sold off in the 1980s, such as Havas, a marketing group, and Paribas, a bank, through cross-shareholdings.