But the company did note that it had switched from maximising gasoline production to maximising the output of jet fuel by changing the cut points in its distillation process.
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The CMA must try to minimise costs while maximising benefits.
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But clubs' unrelenting focus upon maximising revenue is now universal.
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The country must pick between curbing migration and maximising wealth.
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Maximising benefits to society is too lofty a goal for regulators.
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The reality is that the organising principle of civilisation is maximising consumption.
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As a result, maximising ticket sales would add only €2222m a year.
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Cynics suspect that the chancellor is interested in more than maximising value.
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Other areas include maximising what companies can get out of secondary data.
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The counsellor nudges the offender towards minimising negative influences and maximising positive ones.
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As ever, the goal is efficiency, maximising the rate at which products flow.
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A related problem is the ruling Communist Party's obsession with maximising rice production.
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Haddish is really maximising that cost-per-wear logic and we love it.
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So a profit-maximising camel-owner would chivvy the whole herd onto the tracks.
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Not all of this money was given with the intention of maximising human welfare.
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Welfare-maximising decisions are hard to make, and sometimes people need a little help.
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Seeking and maximising these kinds of pleasures can boost our health and well-being.
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A study based, like ours, on Hotelling's policy-preference-maximising automatons, captures this confusion.
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"It's about maximising the dimensions of the telescope and the number of frequencies," he explained.
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Maximising the returns from this investment in education means ensuring that autistic adults find work.
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Another reading is that it must emulate Mr Trump's approach, by maximising turnout in existing constituencies.
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Sonatrach has focused on maximising output at its mature fields and seeking foreign partners for technology.
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Maximising pleasure, unlike with debauchery or addiction, need not take the form of more, bigger, better.
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HNA described the foundation as furthering its philanthropic mission and maximising "efforts in corporate social responsibility".
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"All shareholders can expect us to be working on maximising the returns to them," Gregory said.
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"We are maximising efforts at all levels for evacuation," Odisha's Special Relief Commissioner Bishnupada Sethi told Reuters.
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For both campaigns, clawing back third-party votes is now the second biggest priority after maximising turnout.
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Utility-maximising automatons might see the sense in buying mosquito nets over the internet for distant strangers.
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Sonatrach is now focused on maximising output at its mature fields and seeking foreign partners for technology.
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"We are maximising bitumen production and cutting fuel oil so for that we need heavy oil," he said.
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Instead, his rise is the product of a Republican electoral strategy of maximising turnout among older white voters.
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Vigilantes have become vastly outnumbered by bondholders with no real interest in maximising the return on their portfolios.
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The emphasis within the entire transport system is shifting from minimising (fuel) cost to maximising speed and convenience.
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HNA said the change was aimed at advancing its philanthropic mission and maximising "efforts in corporate social responsibility".
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Economists would be more useful if they could recognise when and why maximising efficiency takes a back seat.
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All of which suggests Chinese producers have been maximising production to compensate for the coming collective power-down.
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India says a programme of maximising its water usage by building hydroelectric plants is in line with the treaty.
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There's the gentle over-ear hooks and softened silicone eartips that float in place when you workout, maximising comfort.
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But their animating philosophy is really utilitarianism: the idea that doing good means maximising the overall level of happiness.
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One possibility is that firms have not been as strenuous as might be expected in maximising output per worker.
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These beads have a large surface area relative to their volume, maximising the amount of polymer available for reaction.
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The first involves maximising turnout on voting day, too often by pandering and stoking the passions of core supporters.
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Single-mindedly maximising scores for positive traits like intelligence or height may therefore increase the risk of genetic disorders.
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The leadership election is turning into a machine for maximising the conflict between the party and the country at large.
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Why not give your child the best chance in life by maximising the possibility that they are seen this way?
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But one plausible explanation is that Mr Westbrook may have focused more on maximising his own glory than on winning games.
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Here's how to turn 17 days of Australian annual leave into 43 days by maximising public holidays, weekends and annual leave.
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Executives from Poland are increasing their visits to Chile as they make maximising the project's potential one of their top priorities.
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The objective of maximising wealth is deeply embedded in the global savings system, with asset managers obliged to protect clients' money.
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The first step widened the central bank's monetary policy mandate to include maximising sustainable employment alongside its goal of inflation targeting.
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It has boosted storage facilities and domestic output, while maximising use of pipelines from Asia and LNG terminals are being maximised.
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Saudi Arabia, alone among the oil-producing countries, has always had an effective choice between maximising output and seeking higher prices.
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Hedonism for health and well-being Maximising everyday pleasures can be used in therapy and shows promise as an intervention for depression.
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English cricket has struggled partly because it is loved (and run) by people for whom maximising revenue is not always a priority.
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But it wasn't really a question we wanted to ask ourselves, because we lived in a trade-maximising world with secure alliances.
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Asset managers have defined their mission as maximising the market value of their clients' portfolios, and in turn demand that firms maximise profits.
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Zuckerberg said investments in security would significantly impact Facebook's profitability, but "keeping people safe will always be more important than maximising our profits".
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For instance, if you are interested in maximising the public enjoyment of art, you could choose to buy an expensive picture for a museum.
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Toby Ord, another philosopher at Oxford, argues that people from rich countries who are interested in maximising human welfare should focus their charity abroad.
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Whatever his pay grade, Fink is nonetheless doing a public service by encouraging companies to develop and articulate purposes that go beyond maximising profits.
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Flipkart has become a tangle of interlinked entities, including a holding company in Singapore, in an attempt to obey India's rules while maximising profits.
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But with water demand still on the rise, it must strike a balance between bolstering economic growth, maximising agricultural output and protecting its rivers.
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Others argue that the social-media platforms which dominate the attention economy have become utilities and should no longer be run as profit-maximising companies.
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The decision has led some experts to speculate that Mr Prabowo is less interested in winning the election than in maximising Gerindra's power in parliament.
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As erstwhile trader Alexis Stenfors describes it, this is a world more akin to ruthless gladiatorial contests than the profit-maximising rationality of economic models.
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Ma Jinhai, who attended a similar "study group", was looking at maximising credit card limits as an easy alternative to relatively hard-to-get bank loans.
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Modern liberalism is the philosophy of the airport hotel: liberals believe that nothing should be allowed to interfere in the efficiency-maximising power of free exchange.
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As a result, the optimal strategy is usually simply to ensure that you make it in every year, maximising your number of opportunities to get lucky.
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Public-sector workers have been insulated from this, in part because governments are not profit-maximising and in part because teaching cannot be outsourced to China.
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But what if you realised that maximising the efficiency of your workforce meant that in the process you would unfairly distribute the work between your employees?
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"The platform firms … tell their workers they are autonomous entrepreneurs while their efforts are in fact very subordinate, heavily monitored parts of a large profit-maximising machine".
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"The board will consider any potential offer alongside the other strategic options that it has, with the aim of maximising value for all its stakeholders," it said.
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But I would only recommend a deal if I felt that we were maximising the intrinsic value of the business and we are certainly not doing that.
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Finally, state trust lands often have a mission of maximising revenue, which stands in contrast to the mandate federal agencies must follow that land has multiple uses.
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In America B Corps are associated with (but different from) Benefit Corporations, a legal status for firms that lets them seek goals other than maximising shareholder welfare.
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For the past 231.9 months, refiners have been rewarded for maximising output of gasoline and minimising production of diesel, but that could all be about to change.
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An example is Ferguson, Missouri, where in 2015 the Department of Justice found the city was "maximising revenue" on the backs of its poor African-American residents.
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Their interests – clearing the ground for building and then maximising profit – are rather at odds with those of the club, who generally wish to remain in situ.
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The EU has succeeded in increasing renewables and the use of reverse-flow pipelines to allow gas to course east as well as west, maximising available supplies.
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His views on how corporations should act also puts him in a similar league as Warren, who has railed against a short-term focus on maximising shareholder value.
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One year ago the LME nickel price was below $10,000 per tonne and producers such as Brazil's Vale are still focused on operating margins rather than maximising production.
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Tenants are often willing to pay a yield premium in exchange for terms under which they can be more certain of maximising the utilisation of their work spaces.
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However, it was far from the only time that they will need to decide between paying up to keep a player happy or maximising their short-term gain.
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By preventing American firms from maximising their efficiency using complex supply chains, they would reduce their competitiveness, deter new investment and, eventually, hurt workers' wages across the economy.
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Europe has a chance to shape the development of AI so that this vital technology takes more goals into account than simply maximising advertising income and minimising dissent.
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"Fields like Chestnut underline the importance of maximising the potential of as many North Sea fields as possible, whether they be major finds or small pools," he added.
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"Any gold production in India is great news and maximising mining is the way forward," said Rajesh Khosla, head of MMTC-PAMP India, the country's biggest gold refiner.
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EnQuest, which specialises in maximising oil output from old fields using new technology, said on Monday Delek would bear its share in the project capital expenditure from Jan.
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In subsidised environments, the profit-maximising game for investors is to invest only when they think they have maximised their net return from future expected subsidies, revenues and costs.
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The decision was closely watched as economists and investors looked for clues on how Orr would handle a new policy goal of "maximising sustainable employment" alongside traditional inflation targeting.
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"Knocking a few stockists out of the loop for a time by maximising pressure on them may be the best he could have hoped for," says one media lawyer.
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Sky noted the decision regarding both Fox and Comcast, and said its independent directors were mindful of their fiduciary duties and remained focused on maximising value for Sky shareholders.
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Something crucial is missing in the financial world when every investor thinks only about maximising their own returns and bankers strive solely to capture the highest possible income for themselves.
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Large majorities of Leavers and Remainers back policies that seem soft, such as letting EU migrants stay in Britain, allowing banks to sell services across Europe or maximising free trade.
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The traditional pricing model focused on setting a risk-adjusted return premium on the development and marketing costs for a drug with a view to maximising volume and market share.
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They were doing this because the profit margin for a tonne of steel rose as high as 1,200 yuan a tonne earlier in the year, meaning maximising output made sense.
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Steinhoff, which has its primary listing in Frankfurt, said Wiese would "embark on a detailed review of all aspects of the company's business with a view to maximising shareholder value".
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On everyone's lips in Assisi was the decision by 181 chief executives in America's Business Roundtable in August to reject the idea that maximising shareholder value was their main goal.
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Producers have also been maximising the efficiency of their blast furnaces by using higher grades of iron ore, allowing them to make more steel without a corresponding increase in emissions.
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Mid-cap Just Group climbed 12.7% on its best day since December after the specialist pension provider's chairman said his focus was on maximising shareholder value with "no options excluded".
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"The group is committed to its open access approach, working in partnership with our customers to promote greater choice and innovation, reducing risk and maximising capital and operational efficiencies," said Maguire.
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The intricate detailing found in Foster + Partners' processes and attention to cultural sensitivity means that each development gives a nod to local culture and is conscious of maximising on its climate.
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The union, though, helps to ensure that the two parties will reach the minimum threshold of 3.25% of the vote required to take seats in the Knesset, maximising right-wing votes.
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The affirmation reflects CR Land's stable financial profile, which is based on a business model of maximising operating cash flow from development properties to support stable investment property (IP) portfolio expansion.
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To that end he campaigned for a board seat at CalPERS on the basis of letting the fund invest in law-abiding, profit-maximising companies purely on the basis of potential returns.
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Most obviously, maximising barrier-free access to the EU's single market will make it hard to take back full control of migration and laws and to cease contributions to the EU's budget.
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"Ample inventories were due to weaker demand in Asia, but more generally were driven by excess supply generated by refiners maximising runs, notably to produce gasoline in the U.S.," BNP Paribas said.
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The ambiguity may be intentional to increase pressure on Iran, but it is also maximising uncertainty in the oil market about future supplies and is likely to keep upward pressure on prices.
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Roland Paoletti, who served as the commissioning architect, preached an "underlying philosophy" of spaciousness, maximising natural light and using materials such as polished metal and concrete, but considered each station an individual entity.
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Yet the question on the ballot paper was only about whether to leave the EU. A clear trade-off exists between the goals of maximising market access and adopting tougher controls on migration.
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"As we are a premium ad-funded business, the balance for us is maximising our audience while still making sure that audience is human, engaged and high quality," he said in an email.
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In Becker's world of utility-maximising miscreants, places that have larger gaps between the poor (the would-be criminals) and the rich (the victims) will, all other things being equal, have higher crime.
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For now, Saudi Arabia seems determined to keep propping up prices in the hope of maximising the earnings from its planned sale of a 220% stake in Saudi Aramco, the national oil company.
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"The board of directors continues to consider options for maximising shareholder value, including a potential delisting of the company's global depositary receipts, although no decision has been taken," Nordgold said in a statement.
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S-Oil is currently maximising gasoline output, as its margin is healthier than that of diesel, said Bang, adding that gasoline output will increase dramatically in 2018 once its expansion project is completed.
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This ongoing trend reflects the fact that the Premier League is the highest importer of playing talent in the world with its clubs prioritising on-field performance ahead of maximising player trading profits.
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"tpMATCH will help members to manage their broken-dated card risk by centralising liquidity, creating cost efficiencies and maximising volume through algorithmic matching technology," said Tullett's managing director of risk management Paul Ribbins.
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Orr will play a crucial role in a key period of the central bank's history, as the new Labour-led government plans to add maximising employment to the bank's objectives alongside its inflation target.
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Politicians such as Trump and Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, either do not accept that international dependencies are good for the economy or think there are goals more important than maximising GDP growth.
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Edmund Reid, an analyst at Lazarus, a consultancy, says that the big six have "generally focused on maximising the profitability of their disengaged customers", as they make much less money on the other tariffs.
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"At the moment our resource laws are outdated ... we will look into maximising gain from what God has given this country from our natural resources," he said in his first address to parliament as prime minister.
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"I see it as escapism," says Ali, who spent close to two weeks with KK. He and Leeson shot her with drones and underwater cameras, often maximising the sense of isolation, but also freedom, surfing afforded.
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You might think that if two economists were forced to bid on an apple, the winner would desire the apple more and the auction would thereby have found the best, welfare-maximising use for the apple.
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The past century has shown us that automation technologies have more often than not been introduced by employers as a way of simply maximising productivity without sharing the surplus time and/or the profits with employees.
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The new Government Tendering and Procurement law is an "important measure" within those reforms, the ministry said, as it helps to improve the government's fiscal position by maximising costs and improving the efficiency of financial planning.
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Zablit, now a senior vice president of business development at the alliance, takes up the new position on Monday and will focus on maximising the contribution of the alliance's scale to the profits of each company.
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In March, when Adrian Orr became RBNZ chief, he and Finance Minister Grant Robertson agreed that maximising sustainable employment would be a goal alongside inflation targeting, in a policy agreement covering the governor's five-year term.
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In a 2015 report on the police department of Ferguson, Missouri, the Department of Justice found the city made "maximising revenue" the chief priority of law-enforcement, burdening its poor African-American residents unduly in the process.
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"The GameSparks platform offers a single integrated tool to build these server components, boosting player retention and maximising revenue without ever having to set up and run a server," the startup notes in its AWS Marketplace listing.
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CR Land will continue to adopt a prudent land acquisition strategy, targeting quality locations in tier 13 and 2 cities and maximising operating cash flow from its property development business to expand its IP portfolio and deleverage.
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Sources at Singapore Refining Company (SRC) said they were sending spare cargoes to the United States, and a source from a Thai refiner said its plant is maximising output in response to the jump in refining margins.
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In theory, George McPhee, the new club's general manager, could have simply taken the best players on offer for the next season in the hope of maximising its chances of qualifying for the playoffs during its first year.
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THIS PROCESS WILL FOCUS ON MAXIMISING VALUE FOR SHAREHOLDERS, WITH ALL OPTIONS TO BE CONSIDERED AND NO FIXED TIMETABLE * PROCEEDS WILL BE USED TO FURTHER REDUCE LEVERAGE AND TO FUND FUTURE INVESTMENT IN GROWTH IN OUR CORE PLATFORMS.
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But when the old owners of the LME, predominantly the exchanges users, took HKEx's money in 2012, they would have been extremely naive if they thought the Hong Kong company wouldn't make changes aimed at maximising its return.
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The Digital Single Market Strategy aims at maximising the growth potential of the European Digital Economy, so that every European can fully enjoy its benefits – notably by enhancing digital skills, which are essential for an inclusive digital society.
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Most refiners in Asia have a policy of not commenting on operations, but refinery sources across the region said their plants were maximising runs to reap profits from higher fuel prices and to sell to the United States.
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PROFESSOR KAUSHIK BASUFormer chief economist at the World BankIthaca, New York The stirring among some billionaire chief executives at the Business Roundtable who want to redefine the purpose of a company beyond maximising shareholder value is not unprecedented.
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The startling speed and secrecy with which such a major policy shift was executed suggest its intent was more about delivering a shock to markets that would weaken the yen, than about maximising the stimulative impact of further easing.
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"We see robust traffic growth ahead and we will continue to grow and strengthen our network with a view to maximising our long term profitability," company president Aditya Ghosh said in a statement to the stock exchanges on Tuesday.
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Those exoplanets that have had their photographs taken so far are ones for which these problems are least troublesome—gigantic orbs (which thus reflect a lot of light) circling at great distances (maximising angular separation) from dim hosts (minimising glare).
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"It will be a single, skills-based immigration system built around the talent and expertise people can bring, rather than where they come from – maximising the benefits of immigration and demonstrating the UK is open for business," Javid will say.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Incoming Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) governor Adrian Orr steered clear of suggestions he would be soft on inflation even as he signed a new policy deal with the government to include the goal of "maximising sustainable employment".
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It's fair to say that we have crossed the Rubicon in this regard, leaving us to look back fondly on a simpler time – a time when powerful football executives conceived a bloated tournament with strange qualification criteria based on maximising revenues.
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"The agreements reached today...are key to bringing in a new period of financial stability for the group and enabling management to focus on maximising the potential of the group's various businesses," Commercial Director and Chief Executive designate Louis du Preez said.
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CR Land will continue to adopt a prudent land acquisition strategy, targeting good locations in Tier-1 and Tier-2 cities and maximising operating cash flow from its property development business to support the expansion of its investment property portfolio and deleverage.
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"That the combined actions of traders and warehouses to maximise their profits negatively impacted downstream purchasers through a rise in the Midwest Premium is clear but (...) this was an unintended consequence of rational profit maximising behaviour rather than the product of conspiratorial design".
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He said Zalando would focus on maximising sales growth in the fourth quarter rather than its margin, adding that this focus will continue in 2018, when Zalando should grow sales by 20-25 percent but does not expect to increase its margin.
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"Implementation of the restructuring is a major milestone on our recovery journey, bringing with it the stability that will allow us to turn the page and concentrate fully on maximising value from our operating companies," Group Chief Executive Louis du Preez said in a statement.
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But how much should MacKenzie listen to shareholders such as Elliott, given they are most likely focused on maximising returns on a fairly short-term basis, as opposed to longer-term investors such as pension funds that make up the bulk of BHP's shareholders.
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Phrases like "maximising the full potential of the sector" and "comprehensive strategic review" are prime examples of the way the language of business is a form of dehumanization, wherein real, living, breathing human beings are nothing more than problems to be solved, variables in a system.
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The bottom line: "The lack of ambitious and sustained policies to drive decarbonisation in the heating, cooling and transport sectors means that countries are not maximising the benefits of the transition — including cleaner air and energy security — for their populations," states the Renewables 2019 Global Status Report.
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"The management team and the board remain committed to maximising shareholder value and believe that the best way to achieve this in the current environment is to focus on execution and improving the bank's business," the company said in a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange.
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" One panel to be delivered by the Heads of Digital of the British Army, Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force, is titled 'Maximising Media Support to Armed Forces Activities Within the UK', and will explore: "How changing perceptions of social media are enhancing media operations at home.
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While there is no indication of fraudulent or illegal practice, the company could end up joining a pantheon of corporate fiascos that includes Enron (which pledged to "create significant value for our shareholders"), Lehman Brothers, ("maximising shareholder value") and MCI WorldCom ("a proven record of shareholder value creation").
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Numerous experiments have shown that we human beings are not "rational individuals who engage in maximising behaviour," but instead place little emphasis on long-term rewards, tend to prefer avoiding losses to acquiring gains and, in general, are motivated by cognitive biases of which we are largely unaware.
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"The engineering of the equipment is based on a push/pull movement that syncs the arms and legs of the user simultaneously, maximising a dual action movement," said Josh Grimm, a certified personal trainer and fitness expert with Zeamo, an app that helps you find a gym while traveling.
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"This shows that not only is there an important societal imperative for this change but a business imperative as well; it's an important journey that we must go on if we want to ensure we are truly maximising the potential of our creative outputs for today's audiences," said Santos.
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Using data on Sweden's income distribution and assumptions about how taxpayers respond to different tax rates, Mr Lundberg found that, even though five countries in his sample have top income-tax rates that exceed their revenue-maximising levels, only Sweden could meaningfully boost revenue by cutting tax rates on high-income earners.
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Alberto Gallo, head of macro strategies and manager of the Algebris Macro Credit Fund, told CNBC earlier this week that these factors include the scars left on the economy and labour markets by the recession, misallocation of resources due to prolonged low-interest rates, new technologies maximising resource-sharing and stagnant demographics.
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" Just as he boasted in an undercover sting operation broadcast by Channel 4 News last month, Nix in 2015 said SCL had seen a "100 percent success rate" in more than 100 election campaigns across Asia, Africa, India and western Europe, adding that the firm's methods could get a "fundamentally flawed" candidate elected by maximising their "likeable traits.
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"The potential harms outlined in this report can be considered the direct result of the way in which the 'attention economy' is driven by the objective of maximising user engagement," the committee writes in a summary of the report which it says explores "how data-rich immersive technologies are driven by business models that combine people's data with design practices to have powerful psychological effects".
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The European Commission plans to take a tough stance on rules that could provide a post-Brexit lifeline for the UK financial sector, according to a document obtained by the Financial Times, dealing a blow to the City of London's hopes of maximising access to the EU. The Father of the House of Commons, Gerald Kaufman, died on Sunday evening having been ill for several months, his family said.
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LONDON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Electra Private Equity Plc * Board of Electra Private Equity announces that it is reviewing company's investment strategy and policy and its structure * Review will look at all options for maximising long-term shareholder value * The Company's current Investment Strategy and Policy was approved by shareholders in October 2006 and some amendments regarding capital structure, distributions and fees were announced in February 2015 * The board presently anticipates that the current review will be completed during the autumn, and the outcome will be announced to shareholders as soon as appropriate Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: (Reporting By Anjuli Davies)
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