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A public limited company is a business organisation that is recognised by the people who deal with these matters.

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The remuneration committee of a public limited company advises the board on the pay of executive directors.

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But they have produced an enormous amount of data which an ordinary public limited company, an ordinary plc, is under no obligation to produce.

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That is its purpose and the purpose of every public limited company.

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The public limited company route was not the only route possible.

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That will allow the successor company to pay dividends and ensure that it can be registered as a public limited company.

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It will be like any other public limited company; it will be a bank like any other bank.

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In a public limited company, each director has to stand for election on a separate ticket.

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There should be no question of the public limited company having the right to determine whether there shall be a trade union organisation.

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Massive constraints are built into the idea that a building society can convert into a public limited company.

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This question of a mandatory change in status from a trust port to a public limited company is causing great concern.

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Professional and trading functions and possible special refurbishment activity would represent the core of a new public limited company.

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The holding company will be a normal public limited company and it will be able to use its resources flexibly as it wishes.

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It is because such building societies will have greater commercial freedom that they may be less tempted to go down the public limited company route.

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A public limited company cannot be like a nationalised industry in that sense.

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How will the boundaries be defined for the purpose of this public limited company?

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If a public limited company appoints a non-executive director to its board, it appoints him or her to represent the shareholders.

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I infinitely prefer the more proven method of forming a public limited company.

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Some have suggested that each airport should become a public limited company which could be sold; others that groups should be kept in common ownership.

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It will become completely a plc, a public limited company, in the private sector.

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Does my noble friend intend that it should be a public limited company or a private company?

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The publicity for the accounts of a public limited company is much wider than for a private company.

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The fact is that the proposed structure is not a full public limited company.

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They would also prevent the change from private to public limited company occurring before the appointed day.

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In all these important respects, the change from statutory corporation to public limited company will bring about no change.

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Will it be a public limited company or an executive agency, or will it have some other public body status?

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Surely the very fact of privatisation, thereby creating a public limited company, must make all the activities of that company commercial.

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The questions whether a building society should convert into a public limited company and, if so, how the process should be regulated are important ones.

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The fact is that a public limited company in a truly competitive industry can set its own prices.

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It would not be necessary to go as far as having a public limited company.

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One cannot have a public limited company without a memorandum and articles of association.

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Once the port authority is a public limited company, shareholders and others will not have that stricture.

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My new schedule was designed to provide the companies with the opportunity of adding after their existing name the description “public limited company”.

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In all those countries the post offices are being steadily commercialised to the point of public limited company status, and then on to privatisation.

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The argument is that the public limited company form of development is essential to raise new capital.

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The amendment makes clear that a company can choose to register either with its designation in full—that is, “public limited company”—or with an abbreviation.

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That is not a welcome position for a public limited company to be in only six years after privatisation.

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The one-man company is far more analogous to the private business than it is to the big public limited company.

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One has to ask whether there has been any great pressure from account holders or the staff for conversion to a public limited company.

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The situation facing the sales managers of the new public limited company must be making the mouths of every salesman water.

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He referred to “private company”and to”public limited company”.

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The vital issues associated with a public limited company concern the allocation of shares and protection from takeovers.

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There will be an application for the private limited company to be re-registered as a public limited company.

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It is clear from the criticisms of the licence that insufficient information will be provided about the profit levels of the new public limited company.

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As for cross-subsidy and fair competition, putting each airport into a separate public limited company means that any transfer of funds will be transparent.

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For the bank to be organised as a public limited company would be in the interests of depositors.

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The royal ordnance factories were established as a public limited company at the beginning of this year.

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I have strong reservations about the prospect of a building society changing to a public limited company.

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However, any group of citizens can arrange the shareholding for a public limited company.

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I suggest that if a public limited company were able to take its important decisions only on a fixed monthly basis it would be in dire trouble.

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Are we really going to hand over this giant monopoly to a public limited company without being absolutely certain that the consumer will be given instant attention where necessary?

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One view, strongly held and advanced in another place, is that mutuality should, if possible, be retained, and conversion to a public limited company should be made difficult.

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The finance director of a major public limited company told me last week that, were it not for the imminent election, interest rates would have been raised well before today.

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Thus, if it feels that it requires time to stabilise itself in its new form as a public limited company, it is protected for up to five years.

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We are talking about the procedures to be carried out by a public limited company which will have a board of directors who will represent the interests of shareholders.

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That one matter is that management has not yet told the unions what will be the date of transfer from the corporation to the public limited company.

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Those of us on this side are sincerely worried about the possible damage to the public of handing it over as a monopoly to a public limited company.

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Therefore, we reject the argument that some building societies have put forward for wanting to become a public limited company, and we do not consider that to be necessary.

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If a society transfers its business to a public limited company, the proposals for enhanced remuneration of the society’s directors will be subject to a separate resolution for members’ approval.

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Of course, only the directors could propose to a society general meeting or annual general meeting that it should convert and become a public limited company.

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If those provisions were made, as the bank changed from being some—but not very clear—form of mutual organisation to a public limited company, part of the traditions would be preserved.

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It would be possible to require each public limited company to publish a statement in its annual report setting out its fuel consumption per square meter.

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A few days ago it was announced that there had been a management and staff buy-out of the water research centre, which has now become a public limited company.

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It will still be the subsidiary of a public limited company whose shareholders will still have the same interest in the successful and prosperous expansion of the dock.

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In the same year the company was transformed into a public limited company (plc).

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In contrast, anyone may buy shares in a public limited company.

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In 1967, it became a public limited company, the shareholders were its founders, faculty and non-faculty personnel were working for the institution.

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Ltd. was founded in 1953 as a private company, and in 1963 was reorganized as a public limited company.

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The very next year, it was converted into a public limited company.

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Grohe was also restructured as a public limited company.

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In 1991, it was converted into a public limited company.

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It was established in 1992, as a public limited company with limited liability under the bank companies act of 1991.

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In 1995, the privatisation of the state enterprise became possible and a public limited company was founded.

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It has shareholders with limited liability and its shares may not be offered to the general public, unlike those of a public limited company (plc).

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This is the major distinguishing feature between a private limited company and a public limited company.

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It was incorporated as a public limited company in 1957.

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There was a capital restructuring in 1895, and in 1899 the business became a public limited company.

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In 1978, it became a public limited company and diversified into processing synthetic yarn.

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In 1975, the company became a public limited company.

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It was incorporated in 1995 as a private limited company and was later on converted into public limited company in year 2000.

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In 2006, it was converted to a public limited company.

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This public limited company provides reliable, round-the-clock drinking water throughout the state.

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It became a public limited company in 1937.

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When the company was made a public limited company, there was created a foundation that was to own part of the corporation.

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It consists of a parent company which includes one public limited company and 16 enterprises which are organized as joint-stock companies.

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It was incorporated as a private company in 1946, and was converted into a public limited company in 1988.

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After thirty years of socialism the brewery achieved independence in 1991 and in 1992 became a public limited company.

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Depending on language, it means “anonymous company”, “anonymous partnership”, or “share company”, roughly equivalent to public limited company in common law jurisdictions.

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Following government legislation, the airport became a public limited company in 1987, distancing it from all-out control by the local authorities.

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Since becoming a public limited company in 2007, the airline has reduced staff and begun to modernise its fleet.

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It is a public limited company.

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There are numerous types of business entities available throughout the world such as a corporation, limited liability company, cooperative, business trust, partnership, private limited company, and public limited company.

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Several old government postal and telephone companies have been converted to public limited companies.

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The objective is to achieve a single set of global accounting standards, particularly for public limited companies.

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There is a great deal of evidence to prove that different political parties have benefited from donations from private and public limited companies.

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One talks about public schools when one really means private schools; one talks about public limited companies when one really means private organisations.

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The public and indeed the nation—everyone will be involved and will be watching—will put the privatised sector, the 10 public limited companies, on test.

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It can merge with other public limited companies or divest itself of part of its activities.

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