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SEC Grants No-Action Relief to Whole Foods to Exclude Proxy Access Shareholder Proposal
2014-12-11 19:01:25| Grocery - Topix.net
On December 1, 2014, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission granted no-action relief to Whole Foods Market regarding its request to omit a shareholder proposal from its proxy materials pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Rule 14a-8 states that a company may exclude a shareholder proposal if such proposal directly conflicts with one of the company's own proposals to be submitted to shareholders at the same meeting.
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FTC warns of using big data to exclude consumers
2014-09-15 23:19:45| InfoWorld: Top News
The collection and analysis of big data holds great promise, but may also lead some companies to create profiles of consumers leading to discrimination, the chairwoman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Monday.
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EU parliament exclude shale gas from tougher environmental code
2014-03-12 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: EU politicians on Wednesday voted for tougher rules on exposing the environmental impact of oil and conventional gas exploration, while excluding shale gas. Member states such as Britain and Poland are pushing hard for the development of shale gas, seen as one way to lessen dependence on Russian gas, as well as to lower energy costs as it has in the United States. The plenary vote of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France follows a compromise deal on the draft law in December, which...
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New FDA limits exclude this common over-the-counter medicine
2014-01-17 02:22:12| Biotech - Topix.net
Tylenol Extra Strength is sold over-the-counter at a drugstore June 30, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Brazilian cattle producers standardize audits to exclude deforestation from supply chain
2013-12-19 00:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Brazil's largest cattle producers have agreed to standardize and make public their audits as part of an effort to exclude from their supply chains livestock produced via deforestation, reports Greenpeace, which has led a campaign to improve the environmental performance of the sector. The agreement on a standard auditing protocol means that the companies' progress toward eliminating deforestation will now be directly comparable. The companies - JBS, Marfrig and Minerva, which represent 60 percent...
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