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...In the Midwestern state of Nebraska, community bankers who objected to having their hands tied when doing business helped doom the legislation....
...and long-term Lamb Weston goals and sustainable growth in value for our stockholders....
...WaPo’s figures come from an article Cohan wrote for Inc, an American business magazine....
...Of Gold, he wrote, “The notion that a non-profit company could take donated funds and pay them to a principal of the company to invest in a for-profit business is simply absurd.”...
...Coleman added a $12.8mn position in a small company called Lamb Weston....
...Prices for customers are rising too. Uber, a company born in the midst of the financial crisis, is trying to deliver profits just as the labour market is in flux....
...“I started doing business in Vietnam before the diplomatic normalisation between the US and Vietnam” in 1995, he said....
...BlackRock had some of the biggest holdings of fossil fuel stocks in the world, via its passive money management business, and a patchy record of voting at shareholder meetings for climate proposals....
...As a result, companies have fought for regulations that stifle proxy advisers. But with the new administration in Washington, proxy adviser scrutiny has significantly eased....
...Idaho-based Lamb Weston, a purveyor of frozen food products such as french fries and mashed potatoes, increased its sales to food service customers and its smaller restaurant chain customers by 5 per cent...
...From 2006 to 2011, hundreds of bankers, lawyers and investors siphoned $60bn from the state coffers of European countries using a scheme built around “cum-ex trading” (from the Latin for “with-without”):...
...But as 3G slashed costs to boost its profits and focused on a doomed $143bn bid for rival Unilever, the partners failed to anticipate a shift in the market, away from big-brand packaged foods like Kraft’...
...But the company, founded in the 1990s, is doing something right, at least from the perspective of investors. Haidilao just raised $936m in an IPO this month, valuing it at about $12bn....
...The chain is the flagship of L Brands, the business he founded as The Limited in 1963....
...This gives him a good understanding of the Japanese way of doing business, which benefits Adaro....
...The consumer brands business will be renamed ConAgra Brands, while the frozen potato business will operate as Lamb Weston....
...In the spring of 2013, Jobs’s successor as CEO of Apple Inc., Tim Cook, decided the company needed to borrow $17 billion. Yes, borrow....
...Companies in much of the US already have to pay more than the federal minimum, after 29 states introduced higher minimum wages from January, including Washington state, Oregon and Connecticut....
...“There’s a lot more competition, a lot more entrants into the marketplace as well as conventional supermarkets copying and imitating a lot of what we’re doing.”...
...The polite opening salvos belie Mr Peltz’s history of aggressively pressing his case for change at companies, most famously in the food and drink sector, where he agitated for the sale of Cadbury to Kraft...
...The five start-ups below are just a few examples from a flourishing ecosystem of early-stage companies in areas of particular strength for the UK, from Oxbridge spinouts to the arts and state-backed healthcare...
...The company known as Cofco is now in talks with Hong Kong-based Noble Group, one of Asia’s leading commodities traders, to establish a joint venture in sugar, soyabeans and wheat....
...Last month’s index of business optimism showed a 2.6 point increase, as companies see the effects of innovation....
...It captures the cut-throat world of 1980s Wall Street, a time when anything could, and did, happen as the traditional way of doing business was turned on its head by upstarts such as KKR....
...The setting for the showdown was the National Archives building in Washington, the grand neoclassical home of the American constitution, the Bill of Rights and a copy of the Magna Carta....
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