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...Harrington declined to say whether the 2016 Brexit vote had made it harder to secure inward investment, but the increase in UK corporation tax rates from 19 per cent to 25 per cent in April has not helped...
...It means we have not just the lowest headline corporation tax rate in the G7 but its most generous capital allowances....
...Activists such as John Harrington of Harrington Investments and Natasha Lamb of Arjuna Capital have used similar tactics to push banks and tech companies into adjusting their articles of incorporation....
...John Harrington, the head of Harrington Investments, told Moral Money that he disagreed with the bank’s findings, but this response was enough to satisfy him for now....
...But the fate of China’s nascent league is also tied to the fortunes of some of the country’s biggest corporations....
...Activist investor Harrington Investments, as we reported last month, filed a similar resolution at Bank of America and intends to file one next year with JPMorgan Chase....
...Over the past few weeks the corporation has started asking users to register for the service, although the BBC says this is not to catch licence fee cheats....
...In 2014 it chose a non-lawyer — Tony Harrington, a former head of consultancy firm PwC Australia and managing partner at investment bank Moelis & Co — as its chief executive....
...John Harrington, who began his shareholder activism trying to get corporations to divest from apartheid-era South Africa, offers a philosophical justification for taking these campaigns to the annual meeting...
...Richard Harrington, a Tory MP, articulated widespread unease at the unilateral move. Treating tax as “a charitable donation” was not the solution, he said, and would set an unfortunate precedent....
...Three-and-a-half years after what had been presented as a merger, Mr Glocer’s former colleagues from the London-listed Reuters have been reminded that the deal was a takeover by Canada’s Thomson Corporation...
...The news media can only fulfil their democratic boast – that they hold power to account – by being put under an owner who is not a baron, a corporation or a state. They must work for the public....
...That represents 41 per cent of net new money, says Financial Research Corporation....
...Thomson Corporation and Reuters are expected to have to make only minimal concessions to secure approval for the Canadian group’s £7.9bn ($15.3bn) takeover of the UK financial information group....
...Mr Beattie says there were good reasons for him, rather than Mr Harrington, to conduct the discussions....
...Thomson Corporation is hoping to secure regulatory clearance for its £8.6bn ($17.7bn) offer for Reuters by the first quarter of next year, the Canadian business information group said on Thursday as it reported...
...Dick Harrington, chief executive of Thomson, described its discussions with regulators as productive....
...Concerns about the regulatory and integration challenges of Thomson Corporation’s £8bn bid for Reuters weighed on both companies’ shares on Wednesday as it emerged that the Thomson family intends to take...
...When Thomson Corporation’s interest in Reuters leaked out on May 4, there were so many complexities to be ironed out that Niall FitzGerald, Reuters’ chairman, thought the two sides had just a 50 per cent...
...We have agreed with The Thomson Corporation to combine our two businesses to create a unique and dynamic global information company; one that will deliver trusted information, software solutions and transaction...
...Takeover talks between Thomson Corporation and Reuters were clearly much more advanced than was generally realised on Friday, when news of discussions leaked, sending Reuters’stock hurtling higher....
...The Reuters chief executive has paid discreet visits to Canada over the past two years, to see if the majority shareholders of Thomson Corporation would sell him Thomson Financial....
...Any doubts that this proposed takeover of Reuters by Thomson Corporation is friendly are dispelled by news today that Reuters chief executive Tom Glocer has been sweet-talking the Thomson family for two...
...“It could take a year to get it done,” said Dick Harrington, Thomson’s outgoing chief executive....
...David Thomson has been chairman of the Thomson Corporation for five years, following a plan set out in his grandfather’s autobiography....
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