Example sentences of "the company yesterday " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the annual general meeting of the company yesterday , Mr Ian Mackeson-Sandbach , a trustee and executive of the estate of the late Sir Basil de Ferranti , called on the board to publish the investigation findings of accountants Coopers & Lybrand into the frauds at ISC Technologies , part of Ferranti 's US subsidiary . |
| 2 | The company yesterday announced a 19.7 p.c. increase in net profit to £208m , despite the recession and the impact of the Gulf war during the first half of its financial year . |
| 3 | Takes more than a little snow ( like four feet of it in the suburbs ) to slow down the charging bull of Oracle Corp , and the company yesterday said that ‘ Through Rain , Sleet or the Coldest Arctic Snow in Century , the show will go on for Oracle 's Product Announcement of Cooperative Development Environment in New York City today ! ’ adding that ‘ If you are stuck on the sunny west coast attending UniForum , please join us for the delayed CDE announcement and demonstration . ’ |
| 4 | Lending the lie to the sceptics that saw no hope of NeXT Computer Inc winning any significant licensees for its object-oriented NeXTstep environment now that the company has abandoned its hardware side , the company yesterday announced that three blue chip names , Hewlett-Packard Co , Dell Computer Corp and Data General Corp had signed up for the NeXTstep 486 version . |
| 5 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 6 | The company yesterday announced a final 12.6p dividend , lifting the total to 21.9p for the year , compared with 20.9p in 1991 . |