Example sentences of "to shareholders " in BNC.
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| 1 | The directors recommended that the dividend payout to shareholders should be increased by 25 per cent to 7.5p a share which was widely regarded as a move designed to ward off a takeover bid . |
| 2 | DENNIS SKINNER , the Labour Party chairman , won loud cheers from conference delegates yesterday when he demanded the return of water to public ownership without compensation to shareholders by the next Labour government . |
| 3 | It was revealed yesterday when the document detailing the William Hill sale was sent to shareholders . |
| 4 | But Ferranti said yesterday : ‘ The report confirms that Coopers & Lybrand have found no information which would lead them to suspect that the Ferranti International balance sheet exposure to fraud was any different from that referred to in the letter to shareholders dated 29 September . |
| 5 | Knighton has promised to post a formal offer document to shareholders by 11 October , but he could run into problems with the City Panel on Takeovers and Mergers , which is likely to require details of his financial backing . |
| 6 | ABTRUST New Dawn Investment Trust , which specialises in the developing markets of the Far East , is raising £18.9m net through a conditional placing and offer to shareholders . |
| 7 | Forced to convene yet another extraordinary meeting by sacked directors trying to get back on the board , Amalgamated Financial Investments has sent out a suitably apologetic letter to shareholders . |
| 8 | The Panel 's ruling refers to a document sent to shareholders on October 5 in which the Twigrealm offer was incorrectly valued at 314p a share . |
| 9 | The board of MTS does not accept every detail of the Panel 's criticism and will be writing to shareholders with further information . |
| 10 | In London , a spokesman for Knighton said the offer document for the take-over was ready to be sent to shareholders on Wednesday . |
| 11 | Under the terms of Knighton 's original contract with Edwards , he set midnight tomorrow as the deadline for posting a formal offer to shareholders . |
| 12 | Pennine , with a £3.2m capitalisation , is raising £2.2m through an open offer to shareholders on a two-for-three basis at 70p . |
| 13 | It requires member states to set rules on mandatory bids , providing information to shareholders and treating them equally . |
| 14 | That is only reasonable given that , in the new age of investor protection , the aim of a new system would be to improve the quality of information which was made available to shareholders . |
| 15 | The small annual profits of the Edinburgh and Dundee clubs were interspersed with losses and no dividends were distributed to shareholders . |
| 16 | Jaguar shareholders will be sent details of Ford 's £1.6billion takeover terms in a circular due to be posted today to shareholders in the UK and also the US , where a simultaneous offer is to be made to investors holding Jaguar shares in the form of American Depository Receipts . |
| 17 | The suspensions of Bond and Taylor , which the companies regarded as harsh because photocopies of the audited results were lodged with the Australian Stock Exchange last week , may be lifted today after the companies begin mailing reports to shareholders . |
| 18 | BET 's safari to Africa , while limited to shareholders , costs between £1,355 and £1,675 . |
| 19 | He is confident that a further cut in borrowings will be reported in the next report to shareholders . |
| 20 | What they already owned will be taken from them , and they will pay higher bills to feed cash to shareholders who 've done nothing . |
| 21 | One City analyst said he thought Mr Ritblat would not be deterred by ‘ a little setback ’ and that the original offer was not too bad being a tax-efficient distribution of British Land assets to shareholders . |
| 22 | It is thought that merchant bank Warburg , adviser to British Land , will work on a new scheme to distribute more to shareholders . |
| 23 | And to provide the same information to shareholders and competitive bidders as they provide to the banks which are coming up with the funding . |
| 24 | Mr Gates would be happy to get his financial information from the quarterly report to shareholders — so long as he can be confident that the news will be as consistently good as it has been during Mr Shirley 's seven years in charge . |
| 25 | In any case there is nothing wrong in principle with handing money to shareholders through dividends or share repurchases ( as long as it is tax-efficient ) ; the money is not lost to the economy since it will be invested elsewhere . |
| 26 | The profitability of LBOs fell and the premiums paid to shareholders rose . |
| 27 | Dividend pay-outs are much lower in Japan and Germany than in Britain and America , but this is not the only or even the main source of returns to shareholders : they receive capital gains ( indeed they prefer them in Japan , where dividends are taxed much more heavily than capital gains ) and , especially in Japan , gain business advantages through shareholdings in customers or suppliers , for instance . |
| 28 | Western managers talk about the need for firms to pay attention not just to shareholders but also to other ‘ stakeholders ’ such as customers , suppliers , employees and neighbours . |
| 29 | UNITED Friendly , the insurance group floated last July , is lifting the payment to shareholders 20 p.c. to 12.3p , with an 8.1p final on May 29 , after pushing profits up from £18.8m to £20.1m in 1991 . |
| 30 | Profits and earnings per share rose 17 per cent and dividends to shareholders were up 10 per cent . |