Ma says his rule is customers are first, employees are second and shareholders are third.
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The bank has mustered support from almost a third of shareholders (considerably more than the 20% required by law), which will oblige Arcelor's board to call an extraordinary shareholder meeting to consider the rules for a vote on the Severstal deal.
And third, black shareholders, particularly if they are unions' investment arms, should foster calmer labour relations.
The third reason is that shareholders have not been able to make banks concentrate on profitable lending.
Current shareholders' rights for going after third parties that aid or abet corporate fraud are not as clearly defined as one would think.
It also announced it expects to reduce its third-quarter dividend to common shareholders to preserve capital.
That's what more than a third of the company's shareholders told the Vodafone executive when they failed to vote in favor of the company's option scheme at the annual general meeting on July 25.
Third, shutting out Petrobras's outside shareholders might scare off foreign investors from Brazil in general.
Mattel also declared a cash dividend of 23 cents per share for the third quarter, payable Sept. 23 to shareholders of record as of Aug. 31.
It is also unlikely: only about one-third of Arcelor's widely dispersed group of shareholders usually attend such meetings.
He did that in 1973, selling a third of the company, but decided he hated dealing with shareholders and a board.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego, the third-richest man in Mexico, disdains monopolies, dismisses minority shareholders and loves to trash the SEC.
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Mr Icahn called the management's move - which was not put to a shareholder vote - "an example of poor corporate governance", and criticised the fact that only a third of the company's board is up for election by shareholders each year.
The company also announced a third quarter cash dividend of 10 cents per common share which will be available to shareholders until Aug 30.
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If a third party purchased BNP's remaining stake, it could join forces with other minority shareholders and make a bid for control.
This matters because of the third, and most difficult, challenge that Mr Trahar faces: to win the trust of big shareholders.
Third, Porsche was counting on the repeal of the so-called Volkswagen Law that restricts individual shareholders to 20% of the voting rights, regardless of the number of shares they own, and gives the state of Lower Saxony a veto on major decisions.
Because many shareholders own their shares through a mutual fund, a pension plan, or other investment pool actively managed by a third party, they are indirect or passive owners.
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