The Plan then uses the employees money that has been payroll deducted during the offering period to automatically purchase shares at a 15% discount to the purchase price.
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Employees may be able to purchase their shares at a discount, but often the main pressure is corporate culture.
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Say the rate on the Spanish bond was 5% and Corzine was able to purchase at a 10% discount to par (100) or 90% of face value.
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In 1995, I took advantage of the student discount program at NYU to purchase the PowerBook 5300cs, which was part of the first family of Apple Powerbooks.
Although the firm recently halved its dividend to 2%, it did so to pay down debt acquired during its purchase of Albertsons and from investing in discount supermarkets.
The initial deal, which is redeemable at all 61 Big Y stores on June 7, offers consumers a 40% discount on a pre-packaged seafood purchase.
For example, an employee's spouse worked at a major discount retailer and was able to take advantage of the employee discount program, allowing the company to purchase such things as supplies for less money than usual.
Depending on what assumptions you make about how much of the deferred purchase price will ever be paid, Virgin is probably paying a discount of around 20% to the book value of the Rock.
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The spur for the latest round of discounting was the purchase of the third biggest chain, Asda, earlier this year by US discount giant WalMart.
It is also a significant discount from the 49.25 baht a share that Temasek-linked units paid in 2006 to purchase a controlling stake in Shin Corp from the family of Thaksin Shinawatra.
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