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Shell Ditches ‘Dutch’ From Name and Makes Britain Its HQ<blockquote>壳牌从名称中删除“荷兰”并将英国作为总部</blockquote>

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The Dutch government immediately said it was “unpleasantly surprised” by the announcement.<blockquote>壳牌周一表示，计划取消目前的双重股权结构，从名称中删除“荷兰皇家”，将其纳税居住地迁至英国，并将其高管从海牙迁至伦敦。荷兰政府立即表示，对这一宣布感到“不愉快的惊讶”。</blockquote> Adopting a simplified structure has been on the cards for years, but Shell’s relations in its country of origin have become increasingly fraught of late. Dutch pension fund ABP said last month it would drop the oil major -- and all fossil fuels -- from its portfolio without warning, while in May a court in The Hague ruled the firm must slash its emissions harder and faster than planned.<blockquote>多年来，采用简化的结构一直是可能的，但壳牌在其原产国的关系最近变得越来越令人担忧。荷兰养老基金ABP上个月表示，它将在没有警告的情况下从其投资组合中删除石油大宗商品——以及所有化石燃料——而今年5月海牙一家法院裁定，该公司必须比计划更严厉、更快地削减排放量。</blockquote> “The simplification will normalize our share structure under the tax and legal jurisdictions of a single country and make us more competitive,” Chairman Andrew Mackenzie said in a statement. “Shell will be better positioned to seize opportunities and play a leading role in the energy transition.”<blockquote>董事长安德鲁·麦肯齐(Andrew Mackenzie)在一份声明中表示：“简化将使我们的股份结构在单一国家的税收和法律管辖下正常化，并使我们更具竞争力。”“壳牌将更好地抓住机遇，在能源转型中发挥主导作用。”</blockquote> The firm has been incorporated in the U.K. with Dutch tax residence and a dual share listing since the 2005 unification of Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij and Shell Transport &amp; Trading Co. It was not envisaged at the time that the share structure would be permanent, the company said.<blockquote>自2005年Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij和Shell Transport&amp;Trading Co.合并以来，该公司已在英国注册成立，拥有荷兰纳税住所并双重上市。该公司表示，当时并未设想这种股权结构将是永久性的。</blockquote> Shell also said it’ll likely no longer meet the conditions for using “Royal” in its title -- a part of its name since 1907 -- and expects to become Shell Plc, subject to shareholder approval.<blockquote>壳牌还表示，它可能不再满足在其名称中使用“Royal”的条件（自1907年以来一直是其名称的一部分），并预计在股东批准的情况下成为壳牌公司。</blockquote> U.K. Boost<blockquote>英国提振</blockquote> U.K. Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng welcomed the news, saying it was a “clear vote of confidence in the British economy” and would “attract investment and create jobs.” Shell said about 10 executives -- including Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden and Chief Financial Officer Jessica Uhl -- would be relocating to Britain.<blockquote>英国商务大臣夸西·夸腾对这一消息表示欢迎，称这是“对英国经济投下的明确信任票”，将“吸引投资并创造就业机会”。壳牌表示，包括首席执行官Ben van Beurden和首席财务官Jessica Uhl在内的约10名高管将迁往英国。</blockquote> “Shell informed the cabinet about this intention yesterday,” Dutch Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy Stef Blok said. “We are unpleasantly surprised by this news. The government deeply regrets that Shell wants to move its head office to the United Kingdom.”<blockquote>荷兰经济事务和气候政策大臣斯特夫·布洛克表示：“壳牌昨天向内阁通报了这一意图。”“我们对这一消息感到不愉快的惊讶。政府对壳牌要将总部迁至英国深感遗憾。”</blockquote> Although the Netherlands is famously business-friendly, Prime Minister Mark Rutte has had to act on growing sentiment that companies don’t give back enough. He had to backtrack on a 2017 plan to scrap a dividend tax, throwing Shell’s head-office structure into doubt. Consumer-goods maker Unilever Plc also ended its dual structure in 2020 and registered as a fully British company.<blockquote>尽管荷兰以商业友好而闻名，但首相马克·吕特不得不针对日益增长的企业回馈不够的情绪采取行动。他不得不放弃2017年取消股息税的计划，这让壳牌的总部结构受到质疑。消费品制造商联合利华公司也于2020年结束了双重结构，注册为一家全资英国公司。</blockquote> Like its European peers, Shell has embarked on a multi-decade strategy to rein in its emissions, in part by selling more low-carbon fuels. But its approach to the energy transition is struggling to gain traction. Ahead of its earnings report last month, activist investor Loeb revealed his fund Third Point LLC had taken a $750 million stake in Shell and was pushing to break up the company.<blockquote>与欧洲同行一样，壳牌已开始实施一项长达数十年的控制排放战略，部分原因是销售更多低碳燃料。但其能源转型方法正在努力获得关注。在上个月发布财报之前，激进投资者勒布透露，他的基金Third Point LLC已持有壳牌价值7.5亿美元的股份，并正在推动分拆该公司。</blockquote> Third Point’s position came to light just days after long-time Shell ally ABP said it would divest 15 billion euros ($17.2 billion) of fossil-fuel assets by early 2023, including its holding in the energy giant.<blockquote>就在Third Point的立场曝光几天前，壳牌的长期盟友ABP表示将在2023年初之前剥离150亿欧元（172亿美元）的化石燃料资产，其中包括其在这家能源巨头的股份。</blockquote> Legal Appeal<blockquote>法律上诉</blockquote> The investor pressure comes on top of legal challenges. Shell is appealing the May court verdict, which said the company must cut its emissions 45% by 2030.<blockquote>除了法律挑战之外，投资者的压力也随之而来。壳牌正在对5月份法院的判决提出上诉，该判决称该公司必须到2030年将排放量减少45%。</blockquote> “The simplification will have no impact on legal proceedings related to the Dutch court ruling,” Mackenzie said, adding that the company has already expanded its carbon-reduction targets.<blockquote>麦肯齐表示：“简化不会对与荷兰法院裁决相关的法律诉讼产生影响。”他补充说，该公司已经扩大了碳减排目标。</blockquote> The change to the share classes removes a disadvantage Shell had versus its peers, according to Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Oswald Clint. It will end the misalignment of two different tax and revenue authorities, removing the “friction and withholding tax issues around buybacks, while allowing them to increase materially,” he said.<blockquote>桑福德·伯恩斯坦(Sanford C.Bernstein)分析师奥斯瓦尔德·克林特(Oswald Clint)表示，股票类别的变化消除了壳牌相对于同行的劣势。他表示，这将结束两个不同税务和税收机构的错位，消除“围绕回购的摩擦和预扣税问题，同时允许回购大幅增加”。</blockquote> Having cut its dividend at the height of the pandemic last year, Shell has spent the last 1 1/2 years trying to repair relations with shareholders. The company reintroduced buybacks in July and has promised to return an additional $7 billion of proceeds from the sale of its U.S. Permian assets to investors.<blockquote>壳牌在去年疫情最严重的时候削减了股息，在过去的一年半时间里试图修复与股东的关系。该公司于7月重新引入回购，并承诺将出售美国二叠纪资产的额外70亿美元收益返还给投资者。</blockquote> Shell is currently limited to around $2.5 billion of share repurchases per quarter, a figure that could double under the new structure, according to RBC Europe Ltd. analyst Biraj Borkhataria. “To us, this suggests Shell’s intention to return more than this to shareholders over the coming years,” he said.<blockquote>加拿大皇家银行欧洲有限公司分析师Biraj Borkhataria表示，壳牌目前每季度的股票回购金额仅限于25亿美元左右，在新结构下，这一数字可能会翻一番。“对我们来说，这表明壳牌打算在未来几年向股东回报更多，”他说。</blockquote> Investors will be asked to vote on a special resolution on the simplification plans. 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The Dutch government immediately said it was “unpleasantly surprised” by the announcement.<blockquote>壳牌周一表示，计划取消目前的双重股权结构，从名称中删除“荷兰皇家”，将其纳税居住地迁至英国，并将其高管从海牙迁至伦敦。荷兰政府立即表示，对这一宣布感到“不愉快的惊讶”。</blockquote> Adopting a simplified structure has been on the cards for years, but Shell’s relations in its country of origin have become increasingly fraught of late. Dutch pension fund ABP said last month it would drop the oil major -- and all fossil fuels -- from its portfolio without warning, while in May a court in The Hague ruled the firm must slash its emissions harder and faster than planned.<blockquote>多年来，采用简化的结构一直是可能的，但壳牌在其原产国的关系最近变得越来越令人担忧。荷兰养老基金ABP上个月表示，它将在没有警告的情况下从其投资组合中删除石油大宗商品——以及所有化石燃料——而今年5月海牙一家法院裁定，该公司必须比计划更严厉、更快地削减排放量。</blockquote> “The simplification will normalize our share structure under the tax and legal jurisdictions of a single country and make us more competitive,” Chairman Andrew Mackenzie said in a statement. “Shell will be better positioned to seize opportunities and play a leading role in the energy transition.”<blockquote>董事长安德鲁·麦肯齐(Andrew Mackenzie)在一份声明中表示：“简化将使我们的股份结构在单一国家的税收和法律管辖下正常化，并使我们更具竞争力。”“壳牌将更好地抓住机遇，在能源转型中发挥主导作用。”</blockquote> The firm has been incorporated in the U.K. with Dutch tax residence and a dual share listing since the 2005 unification of Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij and Shell Transport &amp; Trading Co. It was not envisaged at the time that the share structure would be permanent, the company said.<blockquote>自2005年Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij和Shell Transport&amp;Trading Co.合并以来，该公司已在英国注册成立，拥有荷兰纳税住所并双重上市。该公司表示，当时并未设想这种股权结构将是永久性的。</blockquote> Shell also said it’ll likely no longer meet the conditions for using “Royal” in its title -- a part of its name since 1907 -- and expects to become Shell Plc, subject to shareholder approval.<blockquote>壳牌还表示，它可能不再满足在其名称中使用“Royal”的条件（自1907年以来一直是其名称的一部分），并预计在股东批准的情况下成为壳牌公司。</blockquote> U.K. Boost<blockquote>英国提振</blockquote> U.K. Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng welcomed the news, saying it was a “clear vote of confidence in the British economy” and would “attract investment and create jobs.” Shell said about 10 executives -- including Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden and Chief Financial Officer Jessica Uhl -- would be relocating to Britain.<blockquote>英国商务大臣夸西·夸腾对这一消息表示欢迎，称这是“对英国经济投下的明确信任票”，将“吸引投资并创造就业机会”。壳牌表示，包括首席执行官Ben van Beurden和首席财务官Jessica Uhl在内的约10名高管将迁往英国。</blockquote> “Shell informed the cabinet about this intention yesterday,” Dutch Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy Stef Blok said. “We are unpleasantly surprised by this news. The government deeply regrets that Shell wants to move its head office to the United Kingdom.”<blockquote>荷兰经济事务和气候政策大臣斯特夫·布洛克表示：“壳牌昨天向内阁通报了这一意图。”“我们对这一消息感到不愉快的惊讶。政府对壳牌要将总部迁至英国深感遗憾。”</blockquote> Although the Netherlands is famously business-friendly, Prime Minister Mark Rutte has had to act on growing sentiment that companies don’t give back enough. He had to backtrack on a 2017 plan to scrap a dividend tax, throwing Shell’s head-office structure into doubt. Consumer-goods maker Unilever Plc also ended its dual structure in 2020 and registered as a fully British company.<blockquote>尽管荷兰以商业友好而闻名，但首相马克·吕特不得不针对日益增长的企业回馈不够的情绪采取行动。他不得不放弃2017年取消股息税的计划，这让壳牌的总部结构受到质疑。消费品制造商联合利华公司也于2020年结束了双重结构，注册为一家全资英国公司。</blockquote> Like its European peers, Shell has embarked on a multi-decade strategy to rein in its emissions, in part by selling more low-carbon fuels. But its approach to the energy transition is struggling to gain traction. Ahead of its earnings report last month, activist investor Loeb revealed his fund Third Point LLC had taken a $750 million stake in Shell and was pushing to break up the company.<blockquote>与欧洲同行一样，壳牌已开始实施一项长达数十年的控制排放战略，部分原因是销售更多低碳燃料。但其能源转型方法正在努力获得关注。在上个月发布财报之前，激进投资者勒布透露，他的基金Third Point LLC已持有壳牌价值7.5亿美元的股份，并正在推动分拆该公司。</blockquote> Third Point’s position came to light just days after long-time Shell ally ABP said it would divest 15 billion euros ($17.2 billion) of fossil-fuel assets by early 2023, including its holding in the energy giant.<blockquote>就在Third Point的立场曝光几天前，壳牌的长期盟友ABP表示将在2023年初之前剥离150亿欧元（172亿美元）的化石燃料资产，其中包括其在这家能源巨头的股份。</blockquote> Legal Appeal<blockquote>法律上诉</blockquote> The investor pressure comes on top of legal challenges. Shell is appealing the May court verdict, which said the company must cut its emissions 45% by 2030.<blockquote>除了法律挑战之外，投资者的压力也随之而来。壳牌正在对5月份法院的判决提出上诉，该判决称该公司必须到2030年将排放量减少45%。</blockquote> “The simplification will have no impact on legal proceedings related to the Dutch court ruling,” Mackenzie said, adding that the company has already expanded its carbon-reduction targets.<blockquote>麦肯齐表示：“简化不会对与荷兰法院裁决相关的法律诉讼产生影响。”他补充说，该公司已经扩大了碳减排目标。</blockquote> The change to the share classes removes a disadvantage Shell had versus its peers, according to Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Oswald Clint. It will end the misalignment of two different tax and revenue authorities, removing the “friction and withholding tax issues around buybacks, while allowing them to increase materially,” he said.<blockquote>桑福德·伯恩斯坦(Sanford C.Bernstein)分析师奥斯瓦尔德·克林特(Oswald Clint)表示，股票类别的变化消除了壳牌相对于同行的劣势。他表示，这将结束两个不同税务和税收机构的错位，消除“围绕回购的摩擦和预扣税问题，同时允许回购大幅增加”。</blockquote> Having cut its dividend at the height of the pandemic last year, Shell has spent the last 1 1/2 years trying to repair relations with shareholders. The company reintroduced buybacks in July and has promised to return an additional $7 billion of proceeds from the sale of its U.S. Permian assets to investors.<blockquote>壳牌在去年疫情最严重的时候削减了股息，在过去的一年半时间里试图修复与股东的关系。该公司于7月重新引入回购，并承诺将出售美国二叠纪资产的额外70亿美元收益返还给投资者。</blockquote> Shell is currently limited to around $2.5 billion of share repurchases per quarter, a figure that could double under the new structure, according to RBC Europe Ltd. analyst Biraj Borkhataria. “To us, this suggests Shell’s intention to return more than this to shareholders over the coming years,” he said.<blockquote>加拿大皇家银行欧洲有限公司分析师Biraj Borkhataria表示，壳牌目前每季度的股票回购金额仅限于25亿美元左右，在新结构下，这一数字可能会翻一番。“对我们来说，这表明壳牌打算在未来几年向股东回报更多，”他说。</blockquote> Investors will be asked to vote on a special resolution on the simplification plans. A general meeting is scheduled to be held in Rotterdam on Dec. 10.<blockquote>投资者将被要求就简化计划的特别决议进行投票。股东大会定于12月10日在鹿特丹举行。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/shell-drop-dutch-name-end-080628231.html\">Bloomberg</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"RDS.A":"荷兰皇家壳牌石油A类股","RDS.B":"荷兰皇家壳牌石油B类股"},"source_url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/shell-drop-dutch-name-end-080628231.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1174315829","content_text":"(Bloomberg) -- Royal Dutch Shell Plc announced a major overhaul of its legal and tax structure that will see the company walk away from the Netherlands amid deteriorating relations with what’s been its home country for a century.\nThe changes come as Shell is battling activist investor Dan Loeb, who’s demanding the company split itself into two to attract shareholders leaving the energy sector because of concerns over climate change.\nShell said Monday that it planned to eliminate its current dual share structure, drop “Royal Dutch” from its name, relocate its tax residence to the U.K. and move its top executives from The Hague to London. The Dutch government immediately said it was “unpleasantly surprised” by the announcement.\nAdopting a simplified structure has been on the cards for years, but Shell’s relations in its country of origin have become increasingly fraught of late. Dutch pension fund ABP said last month it would drop the oil major -- and all fossil fuels -- from its portfolio without warning, while in May a court in The Hague ruled the firm must slash its emissions harder and faster than planned.\n“The simplification will normalize our share structure under the tax and legal jurisdictions of a single country and make us more competitive,” Chairman Andrew Mackenzie said in a statement. “Shell will be better positioned to seize opportunities and play a leading role in the energy transition.”\nThe firm has been incorporated in the U.K. with Dutch tax residence and a dual share listing since the 2005 unification of Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij and Shell Transport & Trading Co. It was not envisaged at the time that the share structure would be permanent, the company said.\nShell also said it’ll likely no longer meet the conditions for using “Royal” in its title -- a part of its name since 1907 -- and expects to become Shell Plc, subject to shareholder approval.\nU.K. Boost\nU.K. Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng welcomed the news, saying it was a “clear vote of confidence in the British economy” and would “attract investment and create jobs.” Shell said about 10 executives -- including Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden and Chief Financial Officer Jessica Uhl -- would be relocating to Britain.\n“Shell informed the cabinet about this intention yesterday,” Dutch Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy Stef Blok said. “We are unpleasantly surprised by this news. The government deeply regrets that Shell wants to move its head office to the United Kingdom.”\nAlthough the Netherlands is famously business-friendly, Prime Minister Mark Rutte has had to act on growing sentiment that companies don’t give back enough. He had to backtrack on a 2017 plan to scrap a dividend tax, throwing Shell’s head-office structure into doubt. Consumer-goods maker Unilever Plc also ended its dual structure in 2020 and registered as a fully British company.\nLike its European peers, Shell has embarked on a multi-decade strategy to rein in its emissions, in part by selling more low-carbon fuels. But its approach to the energy transition is struggling to gain traction. Ahead of its earnings report last month, activist investor Loeb revealed his fund Third Point LLC had taken a $750 million stake in Shell and was pushing to break up the company.\nThird Point’s position came to light just days after long-time Shell ally ABP said it would divest 15 billion euros ($17.2 billion) of fossil-fuel assets by early 2023, including its holding in the energy giant.\nLegal Appeal\nThe investor pressure comes on top of legal challenges. Shell is appealing the May court verdict, which said the company must cut its emissions 45% by 2030.\n“The simplification will have no impact on legal proceedings related to the Dutch court ruling,” Mackenzie said, adding that the company has already expanded its carbon-reduction targets.\nThe change to the share classes removes a disadvantage Shell had versus its peers, according to Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Oswald Clint. It will end the misalignment of two different tax and revenue authorities, removing the “friction and withholding tax issues around buybacks, while allowing them to increase materially,” he said.\nHaving cut its dividend at the height of the pandemic last year, Shell has spent the last 1 1/2 years trying to repair relations with shareholders. The company reintroduced buybacks in July and has promised to return an additional $7 billion of proceeds from the sale of its U.S. Permian assets to investors.\nShell is currently limited to around $2.5 billion of share repurchases per quarter, a figure that could double under the new structure, according to RBC Europe Ltd. analyst Biraj Borkhataria. “To us, this suggests Shell’s intention to return more than this to shareholders over the coming years,” he said.\nInvestors will be asked to vote on a special resolution on the simplification plans. 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