(IN BRIEF) Lagardère acknowledges that its shareholder, Vivendi SE, has unanimously approved the extension of the exercise period for the rights to sell Lagardère shares until June 15, 2025. This extension maintains the terms and conditions outlined in the public … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, France, Industrial, Investment, Management, News, Retail, Travel
Tagged acquisition, Financial, investment, Lagardère, shareholder, Vivendi
(IN BRIEF) BBVA, with a robust capital position boasting a fully-loaded CET1 ratio of 12.99 percent as of June 2023, has announced its intention to initiate a new share buyback program worth €1 billion. This program is considered an extraordinary … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Management, News, Spain
Tagged BBVA, Financial, investment, Share Buyback Program, shareholder
(IN BRIEF) Neste, a Finnish company, has decided to pay a second extraordinary dividend of EUR 0.25 per share, in addition to the regular dividend approved at its Annual General Meeting in March. The second extraordinary dividend will be paid … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Financial, Finland, Industrial, Investment, Management
Tagged AGM, Annual General Meeting, dividend, extraordinary dividend, Neste, shareholder
(IN BRIEF) Novartis has confirmed its plans for a full Spin-off of its Sandoz business, with trading of new Sandoz Group AG shares and ADRs scheduled to begin on October 4, 2023. This comes after receiving shareholder approval and key … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Investment, Pharma & Biotech, Switzerland
Tagged ADRs, American Depositary Receipts, Novartis, Novartis ADR, OTCQX®, Sandoz, Sandoz Group AG, SDZ, shareholder, shares, SIX Exchange Regulation, SIX Swiss Exchange, SLI®, spin-off, SPI®, Swiss indices, Swiss Leader Index, Swiss Performance Index
(IN BRIEF) Health technology leader Royal Philips and diversified holding company Exor N.V. announce a relationship agreement where Exor acquires a 15% shareholding in Philips. This investment supports Philips’ strategy and value creation plan focused on health and well-being through … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, Netherlands, News, Technology
Tagged EXOR, Feike Sijbesma, health technology, innovation strategy, investment, John Elkann, partnership, Philips, Roy Jakobs, shareholder
(IN BRIEF) The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has signed two share purchase agreements with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to become a core shareholder of ProCredit Holding AG & Co. KGaA (ProCredit Holding), replacing the IFC. Under … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Economy, Financial, Germany, Investment, Management, News
Tagged EBRD, Francis Malige, Germany, Hubert Spechtenhauser, ProCredit Holding, shareholder, Tomasz Telma
(PRESS RELEASE) STAVANGER, 1-Jun-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — Equinor ASA (OSE:EQNR, NYSE:EQNR),Norway-based energy company with a proud history (formerly Statoil), has announced that its nomination committee recommends its corporate assembly to re-elect all the shareholder elected members of Equinor ASA’s board … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Investment, Management, News, Norway
Tagged Anne Drinkwater, Bjørn Tore Godal, Board of Directors, Equinor ASA, Finn Bjørn Ruyter, Jeroen van der Veer, Jon Erik Reinhardsen, Jonathan Lewis, Nomination Committee, Rebekka Glasser Herlofsen, shareholder, Tone Lunde Bakker, Tove Andersen
“Telefónica has been privileged of being part of the solution during the pandemic and is now ready to conquer the future,” said José María Álvarez-Pallete in his speech. (PRESS RELEASE) MADRID, 23-Apr-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — Telefónica has held its AGM … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Investment, Management, News, Spain, Technology, Telecom
Tagged 5G technology, AGM, augmented reality, Carmen García de Andrés, COVID-19, digitalization, Directors, Francisco José Riberas, Ignacio Moreno, José María Álvarez-Pallete, Liberty Global, pandemic, shareholder, telecommunications, Telefónica, Telefónica Infra
(PRESS RELEASE) PARIS, 7-Oct-2020 — /EuropaWire/ — Total (EPA: FP) a French multinational integrated oil and gas company, has announced it has purchased a 20% shareholder in the Eolmed floating wind farm pilot project, located in the Mediterranean, off the … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, France, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, News
Tagged electricity, Eolmed, Eolmed floating wind farm, Erebus, floating offshore wind, floating wind technology, fuels, Julien Pouget, natural gas, offshore, Qair, renewable energies, renewables, shareholder, Total
(PRESS RELEASE) AARAU, 8-Jan-2020 — /EuropaWire/ — Swissgrid has announced it has made an entry into the commercial register for a capital increase and amendments to the articles of incorporation. The entry, which has been recorded on 6 January 2020, … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Financial, Investment, News, Switzerland
Tagged amendments to the articles of incorporation, capital increase, electricity, ENTSO-E, extra-high-voltage grid, grid planning, shareholder, Swiss Electricity Commission, Swissgrid, transmission grid system, valuation adjustment
Today, September 14th 2018 in Ljubljana NLB d.d. signed a purchase and sales agreement with Zavarovalnica Triglav d.d. for the sale of 9,102 shares of Skupna pokojninska družba d.d., representing 28.13% of company’s share capital. Ljubljana, Slovenia, 17-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — NLB d.d. … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Investment, Management, Slovenia
Tagged bank, NLB d.d., PE, shareholder, shares, Skupna pokojninska družba d.d, stake, Zavarovalnica Triglav d.d.
PARIS, 01-Aug-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — A founding signatory of the PRI since their creation in 2006, Amundi actively contributes to enforcing these principles by placing responsible finance at the heart of its strategy, its development and its offer: ISR funds, solutions to finance the energy transition … Read the full press release
Posted in France, Investment, Management
Tagged Amundi, ESG, ESG analysis, Governance, investment, PRI, PRI rating A+, rating, responsible_investment, shareholder
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