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...Competition from smaller upstarts and the collapse of retailer Toys R Us have added to the pressure....
...The company behind Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit said its revenues fell nearly 16 per cent to $716.3m and were about $100m shy of consensus estimates as a result of the liquidation of Toys R Us in the US...
...Mattel has welcomed its new chief executive with a set of quarterly results that showed the toymaker’s sales sliding in the wake of retailer Toys R Us’s liquidation, though less quickly than analysts had...
...On the former, Broadcom is accused of using a debt-fuelled private equity style buyout to support short-termist R&D spending cuts....
...“The Chinese are an important partner, in the long run they have such critical mass that you want them to be not just a client, but part owners,” says R. Blair Thomas, chief executive of EIG....
...The government told them they were being given this on the condition they invested in R&D and worker training. They were not to hand it all out to shareholders through dividends and buybacks....
...’ shareholders, employees, patients and caregivers”....
...Our culture of innovation continued to drive R&D productivity, with six regulatory approvals in the year....
...Judge Thomas Wheeler ruled in favour of Mr Greenberg at the end of a four-year legal battle that has captivated Washington and New York, deciding that the government had indeed acted unlawfully when it seized...
...However, the plaintiff in the case, Hank Greenberg, the feisty 90-year-old former chief executive and leading shareholder of AIG, is appealing because he was awarded nary a penny of the $40bn in damages...
...Google’s R&D and G&A spending are out of control....
...failing to justly compensate shareholders....
...There was David Boies, star attorney for the plaintiff; a less glamorous team of government lawyers who occasionally chipped in with an objection; and presiding over it all, Judge Thomas Wheeler....
...A judge has ruled that some emails cited by the complainants do not constitute evidence of wrongdoing, dismissing the case against private equity firms including Thomas H Lee and Apollo Global Management...
...Both sides say they are happy with the agreement, and Nokia shareholders have responded positively to the prospect of a significant return of cash and the resumption of a dividend....
...locking horns once again with John Malone’s Liberty Global over cable acquisitions in Europe, writes Daniel Thomas....
...Busy executives carve out copious amounts of time to talk to investors and the media; behind the scenes, advisers espouse the benefits of the combination; teams of people try to ensure that employees, shareholders...
...Through the rights agreement, Illumina shareholders can buy new common stock if a bidder acquires 15 per cent of the company’s shares....
...In fact, many of the larger groups are reflecting this approach, with GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and AstraZeneca among those that have focused on increasing returns to shareholders while cutting back on R&D...
...Bain, Thomas H Lee and the buyout units of JPMorgan and Credit Suisse remain Warner Chilcott’s four largest shareholders, with control of more than half the shares, according to Bloomberg data....
...Ahold, which holds its annual shareholders’ meeting in Amsterdam on Wednesday, is itself seen as a potential private equity target....
...The private equity firm used those proceeds to redeem a so-called shareholder loan to Brakes....
...“This will come home to roost,” says Thomas Burnett at Wall Street Access, an independent research firm....
...Nicholas Brealey (UK) Portfolio (US) Thomas Friedman THE WORLD IS FLAT: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the 21st Century....
...THE WORLD IS FLAT: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century Thomas Friedman Farrar, Strauss Giroux $27.50 Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman argues...
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