Shareholders Meeting Changing With Times

A significant number of companies that bills in the past year are ready to keep. Their annual shareholder meetings 

In the meetings of this year, more than 300 companies plan as their primary concern defense measures against hostile takeover bids.

Interestingly, more companies introduced systems to allow shareholders to vote via the Internet and mobile phones cater, the new way and will hold shareholder meetings on different dates from other companies.

This year has also seen companies more desperate to secure long-term shareholders by placing more importance on the interests of shareholders.
According to a Forbes magazine survey, among the more than 130 companies considering defensive measures against takeovers, the ten so-called poison pill defense of issuing warrants to introduce such actions go. At

Also, 90 of those companies plan to revisions of their corporate charters proposals to extend the meetings this year. Possible issuance of authorized stocks

A new corporate law that is set next year to establish the rules for so-called triangular mergers taking to liberalize. Foreign companies buying different companies using their own shares

For each of the enterprises, the introduction of defensive measures against hostile takeover bids is an urgent task. But unfortunately, some of the measures are not necessarily shareholders.

Attention is focused on how shareholders on both sides - who seek acquisitions and individual shareholders in target companies - defense measures in the proposed meetings will judge.

To shareholders a technological enterprise in this past spring in San Francisco, managers hoped to obtain. Shareholder approval for the business integration with another company

But big stick holder, James Harold Garrison, 61, Palo Alto, California called to oppose the plan, calling attention to the outcome of the meeting. Other shareholders

Another trend is the increasing number of companies using information technology for voting and other purposes.

Systems on the own voting via the Internet somewhere were liberalized in 2002, and according to the four major trust banks, the number of corporations offering online voting increased from 403 last year to 698 this year. The number of companies allow voting by mobile phone has increased from 59 last year to 354. Many companies are also planning to establish live Internet broadcasts of their shareholder meetings.

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