Still, York did prod GM to cut its dividend and move more quickly on certain divestitures.
Note that the company has already cut 36, 000 jobs, some of those through divestitures.
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Analysts say Chesapeake now must consider even more aggressive divestitures to shore up its business.
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While asset sales in the company's industrial unit are possible, Parent said large-scale divestitures are not likely.
But divestitures in smaller markets ought to go a long way toward assuaging genuine concerns about market concentration.
No divestitures or conditions can remedy these fundamental anti-consumer and anti-competitive harms.
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He found that one effect of giving bosses a significant portion of their pay in share options was to stimulate acquisitions and divestitures.
Getting paid some grand bonus for mergers or divestitures is ridiculous.
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Corporate divestitures, meanwhile, remained sidelined, accounting for 12% of third-quarter volume.
The one-year process of divestitures has clipped a third from revenues.
Intel's Business Outlook does not include the potential impact of any business combinations, asset acquisitions, divestitures or other investments that may be completed after Jan. 17.
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One reason for the rise in Pfizer shares this year was that the company is openly talking about making divestitures, including one of its baby formula business.
And given rapidly changing markets and the endless succession of acquisitions, divestitures and new strategic partnerships, they need to be able to change their business processes swiftly.
May has done 15 to 20 deals involving divestitures from public companies, which were transitioned to employee ownership, often through the use of an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).
Next year, the company expects underlying production of oil and gas to grow, but estimate the total number of oil-equivalent barrels produced will drop about 150, 000 per day given asset divestitures.
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The Wall Street Journal said its unnamed sources say all options are still on the table for a deal, including continuing to pursue the divestitures as well as simply abandoning a deal altogether.
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The company noted that 6 of the 9 percentage points in revenue growth stemmed from organic growth and 4 were derived from currency gains, while a full percentage point was lost due to divestitures.
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If you had shares in the Bell system before divestiture and held them through the myriad mergers, subsequent divestitures and stock splits, you'd now have stakes in 11 telecommunications firms, including such performers as Lucent Technologies, BellSouth and SBC Communications.
However, once firms have purchased spectrum in excess of the cap, they would have substantial incentive to use their political muscle to delay or cancel any divestitures, or to sell off properties which are inferior to those acquired in the auction.
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In an industry that is known more for stability than for growth, Campbell has organically increased its earnings (exclusive of acquisitions, divestitures and the like) by up to 4% a year over the last eight years, with earnings per share growing 5% to 10% a year.
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