The Guardian (UK): New Shell shares start trading
“The merger is one of a number of measures implemented after last year’s damaging reserves overbooking scandal which dented investor confidence.”: “Under the terms of the merger the new company will be listed in London and will have its headquarters in the Netherlands.”
Wednesday 20 July 2005
Mark Milner
Wednesday July 20, 2005
Shares in Royal Dutch Shell will begin trading in London this morning after the world’s third-largest oil group cleared the last hurdle in the merger of its UK and Dutch components.
Almost 92% of Royal Dutch shareholders have exchanged their shares for a stake in the unified group, allowing the deal with Shell Transport and Trading to go ahead.
“Shareholders have shown strong support throughout the process and voted overwhelmingly in support of the proposals at the recent shareholder meetings to move to one company,” chief executive Jeroen van der Veer said.
Some non-Dutch shareholders in Royal Dutch had voiced opposition to the structure of the deal because it has left them facing large tax bills.
The merger is one of a number of measures implemented after last year’s damaging reserves overbooking scandal which dented investor confidence. The group’s complicated ownership and management structure was partly blamed for the reserves problem.
Under the terms of the merger the new company will be listed in London and will have its headquarters in the Netherlands.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1531978,00.html
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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