"After another year of substantial land investment in 2012, the group expects to deliver a strong increase in active sales outlets in 2013, " said David Ritchie, Bovis chief executive.
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"The evidence will show blatant conflicts of interest, " Dopp said, referring to the alleged practice of compensating analysts for flattering the companies they cover in a bid to land investment banking deals.
It's not clear whether Diageo wooed CIC to land this investment, but the company has gone out of its way to ramp up Chinese activities over the past few years.
"The drive for more biofuels means more investment is going into those crops, meaning less land and less investment going in for food crops, causing a massive conflict and resulting in rising prices, which is having a huge negative impact, especially on developing countries, " said Clare Oxborrow, food campaigner for Friends of the Earth.
They built economic development structures to attract foreign direct investment, streamlined bureaucracy, then traded land and labor for investment.
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And the threat of losing the lease on the land jeopardizes the investment.
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There is a good chance that the deductions attributable to unproductive land held for investment will be of little or no current benefit.
This is because, in a normal lease agreement, the lessee is expected to use the land more or less as it is with minimal investment in the land itself, while paying rent to the lessor.
Even in Ethiopia, one of the prime recipients of land-based foreign direct investment in Africa, the law does not allow private ownership of the land, which belongs to the State.
They are free to engage in practices that would land a SEC registered investment adviser in jail.
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Our development strategy is to focus our investment on land in the outskirts of a city where there is good growth and price appreciation potential.
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Native claims on timber and mining land have held back investment.
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Will the investment in content land a company more sales and loyal customers?
Still, the government remains interested in encouraging investment by issuing land concessions.
He recently signed a tax abatement bill to spur investment in plants, land and equipment, and has improved relations with U.S. Steel, which has announced that Gary will become the center of its steel operation.
Just ask Hisham Elzanaty, the man who is part of the investment group who purchased the land last year for 4.8 million dollars.
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Somali pirates, whose oceanic depredations deter investment and trade on dry land, have been much less successful in the past year, thanks mainly to more effective protection of shipping convoys.
While this is a common problem among traders, I see a similar trait playing out across our great land in the Human Resource departments and Investment Committees that are indirectly responsible for the fiduciary responsibilities of a vast majority of retirement plans and pensions.
On January 4th, the company filed an 8-K with the SEC detailing an investment in 54 acres of land under a 5.7 MW solar farm in Salisbury, MA. Given its size, location, and 54 acre site with 43 buildable acres, I identified the farm as the solar farm recently completed by Power Partners MasTec (NYSE:MTZ), and owned by True North, LLC.
Most of this feeds demand for gold jewellery in rural India, where the only other investment options are bank deposits and land.
Mr Misick denied claims of selling Crown Land, and said he had attracted valuable foreign investment.
At least one state infrastructure official said this week that lack of funds, lack of land, general lawlessness and environmental policy were hindering investment in railway development.
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Continuing wrangling has acted as a serious disincentive to further investment in the country's valuable arable land.
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Initially the REIT approach to real estate investment, as established by Congress, contemplated land and the improvements on it.
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He was applauded by many for the strategic diversification move from shipping investment on the high seas to investing on land.
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The Housing Executive said it intended to use its land assembly powers to work with private developers to target investment towards urban areas.
Instead, they seek hedges against the very devaluation sought by monetarists which is most often investment in the wealth of yesterday: think land, commodities, rare stamps, art, etc.
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It is mindful of the way cheap money in the 1980s stoked up such a firestorm of investment in the private sector that stock and land prices soared.
We got married and together we got poorer. (Laughter.) After we graduated, we were lucky enough to land good jobs, so it was still a great investment for us to go to college and law school.
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