Toshiba has held an emergency board meeting and called on Goldman Sachs for help as the Japanese technology conglomerate battles with an unprecedented shareholder revolt on two fronts...
Baking company has been approached by almost 20 parties interested in business about an hour ago Aryzta owns the Cuisine de France brand in Ireland and supplies internationally to the likes of McDonald’s, Subway and Lidl. The board of Aryzta is at odds over whether to continue to entertain a potential takeover bid from a unit of US activist hedge fund group Elliott Management , or start assessing approaches from almost 20 parties eyeing parts of the baked goods group, according to sources...
Activist investor trying to block Aryzta’s €800m share sale Larius Capital seeking to amass up to 10% of Cuisine De France owner 28 minutes ago Aryzta makes burger buns for clients including McDonald’s. Photograph: Bobby Yip/Reuters A Swiss activist investor is mounting a campaign to block Aryzta’s €800 million share sale, arguing the troubled McDonald’s bun maker should instead sell assets and slash management layers, according to two people familiar with the matter...
Glass Lewis has called on Ryanair shareholders not to re-elect chairman David Bonderman over his links to chief executive Michael O’Leary. Ryanair shareholders have been advised to reject the company’s pay proposal at its annual general meeting later this month due to a lack of transparency around how executives are compensated...
Brexit ‘making UK more attractive’ to investors Depressed valuations leading to more investment, says Cevian co-founder about 3 hours ago Brexit ‘probably more a positive than a negative’, said Christer Gardell. Brexit is making the UK more attractive to investors by depressing valuations, according to Europe’s largest activist shareholder, flush with cash from the sector’s biggest-ever exit...
Advisers are urging Ryanair shareholders to vote against executive pay and the re-election of chairman David Bonderman and other board members at its annual general meeting this month...
The row that led to David Bonderman’s resignation from the board of internet taxi service Uber is embarrassing for the man who is best-known in Ireland as Ryanair’s chairman...
Former CRH chief executive has been appointed a director of global diversified firm...
France’s second-largest bank names former ECBoard member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi chairman as it separates the post from that of CEO...
‘We are very pleased to have those type of shareholders,’ says founder Dómhnal Slattery...
How unfortunate, then, for the employers' lobby group that on precisely the same morning, an umbrella body of which Ibec is a member released a statement urging politicians to torpedo a proposal designed to address the dearth of women in boardrooms...
Actavis rumoured to be going head-to-head with rival Valeant for botox and eyecare group...
That is not much evidence upon which to base conclusions about global corporate governance – and I have often wondered how serious they really were. But the story does illustrate what we know about corporate governance around the world: it is a very
Conference told women still face more difficulties than men in business
“seriously under-represented” in economic decision-making positions, especially in senior management and on corporate boards, an EU conference at Dublin Castle was told yesterday.
INDEPENDENT NEWS & Media yesterday appointed Leslie Buckley as its new chairman, just hours after the businessman had been re-elected to the board of the company at a shareholders’ meeting.
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The Health Information and Quality Authority’s proposals would create confusion over who has overall responsibility THE REPORT last month by the Health Information and Quality Authority on Tallaght hospital dealt in some detail with the issue of corporate governance at the hospital. However, its recommendations on corporate governance are intended to apply to all publicly-funded hospitals. Many of these recommendations represent good corporate governance practice and many are already implemented
