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...Oklahoma’s state pension board voted nine to one against a proposal from treasurer Todd Russ to fire BlackRock and State Street, and state pensioners have sued to prevent Russ from overriding them, alleging...
...Concerns about the environmental impact of livestock, animal cruelty and health have spurred investments in alternative proteins over the past few years....
...In August, J&J was ordered by a judge in Oklahoma to pay $465m after it was found responsible at a 2019 trial for the public nuisance of the opioid crisis in the state....
...It limits use of the term “meat” to livestock and poultry meat. Missouri has since been sued....
...J&J was never a large part of the opioid market in the US — it had less than 1 per cent of the market in Oklahoma — but the judge in the case did find that it followed a similar marketing plan to other larger...
...The Oklahoma case centred on whether J&J could be charged with creating a public nuisance through mis-marketing of its two opioid products and its manufacturing and sale of the raw material to other opioid...
...“What they are showing in Oklahoma, I wouldn’t even call it the tip of the iceberg. It is barely poking out of the water....
...Mr Bressler and Jefferies, which was marketing the fund, did not tell potential investors about the existence of the side accounts....
...When Purdue Pharma settled a case in Oklahoma earlier this year, it included a letter of credit issued by a third party and a guarantee that enables it to access the settlement money even if the company...
...Many are civil cases brought by state attorneys-general, including a case against Johnson & Johnson and Teva Pharmaceuticals set to go to trial in Oklahoma at the end of May....
...CME’s light, sweet WTI benchmark is delivered to the storage hub of Cushing, Oklahoma — a small town about 500 miles north of Houston....
...In the second quarter of 2018 the difference between beef “cut-out” and live cattle was $3.47 a pound, up 23 per cent on year, according to the Livestock Marketing Information Center....
...Supplies of red meat and poultry will hover at 221lb per capita in the US this year, the highest in more than a decade, said John Nalivka, president of Sterling Marketing, a livestock consultancy....
...“When you get out to Oklahoma, the middle of the country, it just makes more sense to invest in that [Walmart] brand,” he said. “Jet will not grow as quickly as it did in the early days.”...
...The company attributed its solid quarterly earnings to booming growth for its companion-animal products, which offset sluggish sales in its livestock division....
...The company credited booming growth for companion animal products, which offset sluggish sales in its livestock division....
...Ms Hamm, a lawyer, joined the company in 1989 and worked there off and on for another two decades, including for a period as head of crude oil marketing....
...The Toronto-listed company said it had been granted a licence to export crude produced in Canada through a subsidiary, Tidal Energy Marketing (US), confirming weeks of speculation in oil market circles....
...That usually means marketing, operational efficiencies, recruiting and career path development....
...Sanford Coats, US attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, said: “This was a systemic, corporate effort to seek profit over safety....
...Sinofert, the Chinese state-owned fertiliser company, signed a deal with Canpotex, the North American marketing cartel....
...Oklahoma is also suffering....
...The pair built the business aggressively, branching into production of animal feed and later, after Dhanin joined his elders, livestock farming, marketing and distribution....
...The asking price for the property is €39m, and it is being sold through Beatrice Sidoli at the Real Luxury Inc....
...The challenge now is to take the business from “the locker room to the mass market” without the marketing firepower of a Nike or Adidas, and without damaging the brand....
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