Corporate governance - Vigil

C’est une initiative peu commune ici, mais dans le secteur des technologies — en Californie notamment –, c’est fréquent, selon le grand patron du fournisseur de solutions technologiques pour les commerces.

With Cineworld, the world’s no.2 cinema operator, staring at a possible bankruptcy as it struggles to cut debt and recover from the pandemic, the spotlight is on the challenges the industry faces as a whole to compete with the popularity of streaming movies at home.

The owner of Regal cinemas in the United States and operator of theaters in nine other countries, said last week a lack of blockbusters was keeping movie-goers away and impacting its cash flows.

Gross domestic product fell by 11.0 per cent in 2020, the Office for National Statistics said. This was a bigger drop than any of the ONS’s previous estimates and the largest fall since 1709, according to historical data hosted by the Bank of England.

They believe the sector can become a driving force of the province’s economy, pointing to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s scheduled meeting in Stephenville, N.L., this week to sign a hydrogen agreement.

Entre avril et juin 2022, le total de la perte liée aux investissements sur les marchés s’élève à 53 milliards de dollars, qui n’a pas pu être compensée par la hausse de 38,8 %, à 9,3 milliards de dollars, du bénéfice opérationnel dégagé par les entreprises que la société possède (des compagnies d’assurances aux trains en passant par l’énergie et les desserts glacés).

Ce mécanisme rendra « contraignante » la réduction de 15 %, mais cet objectif sera adapté aux réalités de chaque État, notamment aux capacités d’exporter les quantités de gaz économisées aux pays dans le besoin, et prévoit donc une série de dérogations.

« Ces infrastructures remplissent des fonctions locales et jouent des rôles importants », explique l’expert, dans un courriel à La Presse, en s’interrogeant toutefois sur la viabilité actuelle des ports sous l’égide de la Société.

Two former bank executives and the former chief technology and product officer of the point-of-sale software company Lightspeed have joined Framework Venture Partners, as the startup financier attempts to raise its second fund during challenging economic times.

BUY BACK BETTER — ExxonMobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. reported record earnings Friday. And if that weren’t enough for shareholders, the companies and their European rivals added a sweetener: Massive share buybacks. A buyback, or share repurchase, is exactly what it sounds like – a company uses excess capital to buy its own stock and boost its share price. Buybacks have been around for decades and they’re all but routine at many companies. [...] Here’s some history. Companies can spend their money on almost anything: research and development, employee bonuses, increased investment. But they couldn’t easily send excess capital to shareholders until 1982, when the Securities and Exchange Commission made it easier to execute buybacks. The practice started taking off in the early 2000s. In 2019, share repurchases hit a record $1 trillion, according to the SEC. In the first three months of 2022, companies reported a record $281 billion in buybacks, breaking a record set in the prior quarter, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices.

How do you push corporate leaders to meaningfully connect their business decisions to the deadly flooding we saw in Kentucky this week or the heat waves that are disproportionately harming lower-income regions? One fast-emerging, if imperfect, solution is to link sustainability and social metrics to executive pay, a practice that’s become far more common in Europe than anywhere else, according to a new survey by Corporate Secretary. Some 60% of respondents in Europe say their board ties ESG goals to executive pay, compared to only 37% of their North American counterparts. In 2021, the investor advisory firm Glass Lewis found that one-quarter of U.S. companies linked ESG metrics to executive pay. At S&P 500 companies, that figure jumped to 57%.

NSO n’a pas confirmé ces chiffres, mais indiqué « rationaliser ses opérations », afin de « demeurer l’une des plus grandes sociétés de cybertech au monde », et concentrer ses ventes « aux pays membres de l’OTAN ».   

Les PME du domaine de la construction figurent en tête des entreprises ayant essuyé le plus de pertes (2219,7 millions), suivies par celles du secteur des services professionnels et administratifs (2078 millions). Les domaines de l’hébergement et de la restauration arrivent au quatrième rang (1024,4 millions).

From Kenya to California and nearly half of Europe, a shortage of fresh water has grabbed the attention of policy-makers and given millions of citizens a fresh window into the stressed state of the planet.

Against that backdrop, a group of investors managing nearly $10-trillion on Aug. 16 said they planned to step up efforts to pressure boards to better manage the critical resource and could vote against directors of laggard firms.

Canadians need not worry about it. Heated seats “are standard equipment” on the vast majority of the company’s products in Canada, BMW Group Canada spokesperson Marc Belcourt said by e-mail. And “there are currently no plans to introduce subscription services such as this in Canada,” he added.

Le dernier rapport annuel d’IBM sur le coût d’une violation de données, publié en juillet dernier, indique qu’une seule attaque cause en moyenne un coût total de 5,62 millions dans le monde ― et 7,29 millions au Canada. De plus, pas moins de 83 % des 550 entreprises internationales interrogées n’en étaient pas à leur première brèche.

« Avec nos vaccins candidats adaptés aux variants de la COVID-19, nous prévoyons une augmentation de la demande dans nos marchés clés au quatrième trimestre de 2022, sous réserve que ces vaccins reçoivent les autorisations nécessaires », a souligné par voie de communiqué le directeur financier de BioNTech, Jens Holstein.

Unifor’s coming election will serve as a referendum on former president Jerry Dias’s governance style, labour-movement observers say, after an ethics controversy surrounding the founding leader hurt the reputation of Canada’s largest private-sector union.

Mr. Seitz was appointed in January on an interim basis after the shock exit of Mayo Schmidt who was terminated after only eight months on the job. Mr. Schmidt’s predecessor, Chuck Magro, was also terminated by the board last year.