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HLS Shareholders Dropped! Wachovia, Axa & Rathbones

Smash HLS | 17.11.2007 19:52 | Animal Liberation | Cambridge | World

Rathbones, after one demonstration out side their office in London, made the right decision and sold their 20,000 shares in HLS. Huntingdon Life Sciences are on the ropes after AXA and Wachovia both sold all their share very recently. Please get out and help kill off this sick and dying company once and for all.



Rathbones, after one demonstration out side their office in London, made the right decision and sold their 20,000 shares in HLS. Huntingdon Life Sciences are on the ropes after AXA and Wachovia both sold all their share very recently. Please get out and help kill off this sick and dying company once and for all.

Since May 2007 the following companies have dropped their shares:

Rathbones Brothers
Wachovia Bank
Axa
Dresdner Bank
Deutsche Bank
La Grange Capital
Robeco Investment Management
Fairfield Grenwich Associates

The campaign against HLS has seen some of the world's largest corporations bow to public pressure and stop supporting Huntingdon Life Sciences.

Throughout the campaign activists have made financial history as one by one major corporations have yielded to protester power and severed their links with the failing company.

HLS's key weakness is their finances and by throwing the spotlight on those funding their abuse SHAC campaigners across the globe have managed to bring HLS to the brink of financial collapse.

The following companies were at one time associated with HLS either as shareholders, stockbrokers, market makers, suppliers or clients.In this list you will find some of the world's largest companies including all four main high street banks in the UK, the world's largest financial institution, the world's second largest bank and the world's largest insurance broker. All these companies have made clear and unequivocal statements to SHAC stating that they will never deal with Huntingdon ever again. Incredible isn't it? But there again with Huntingdon $89 million dollars in debt and with NO commercial bank and insurance company anywhere in the world prepared to deal with them it's hardly surprising.

***OVER 250 COMPANIES HAVE DROPPED HLS***

3663
A&A Builders
ACC (Shipping) Limited
Accent Hansen
ACS office solutions
ADT Fire and Security plc
Agrisearch Shepparton (Austrailian customer)
Algar Signcraft
Allergan
Allied Irish Bank
Allport
Alpha Electronics
Amberdale Manufacturing Ltd
Andrews Sykes Group PLC (hire services)
APC Overnight Ltd
APT fire protection
Aramark
Archer
Archipelago (US market maker)
ARCO
ARK FORWARDING LIMITED
ARROW COURIERS
ASC Metals
ASCOT AUTOCLAVES LTD
Ashtead Plant Hire
Avenance plc (catering)
Axa
Awad
B&V Water Ttreatments
Barclays Bank
BAX Global (UK) Ltd
Bedfordshire Growers
BH ELLIS
BOC Gases
Brake Bros Limited
Brett Martin
BRIGHT INSTRUMENTS
British Biotech
British Gypsum
Britvic Soft Drinks
Brook Street Foods Ltd
BSS
Bulk Gas
Bunzl
Cambridge Courier Services
Cambridge Pet Crematorium
Cambridge Plant and Demolition Ltd
Caterfix
CBC
CCF Couriers
CCS Landhaul
CED
CHARLES KENDALL FREIGHT LTD
Charles Schwab (world’s largest online broker)
Charterhouse clinical research
Chiltern
Chubb
Citibank (World’s largest financial institution)
Cleanaway
Clearance
COMPUTER IMPRINTABLE LABEL SYSTEMS
Concurrent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (customer)
Cortina
Courier network Uk Ltd
Couriers
CPS Fuels
Creative Air Express
Cross Country Carriers
D & G Noble
Danish Bakery
Data Sciences
David Ball Group
DAWSON RENTALS
Deloitte&Touche (One of the worlds largest auditors)
Den Caney Coaches
Deutsche Bank
DG Freight
Dickerson Group
Direct Telecom
Domestic Securities
Douglas Brass
Dresdner Bank
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
Durapipe
DW Clark
EarthCheck
ECOLAB
ECR
EMJ
Enviro-Waste
Eyre & Elliston Ltd
Fairfield Grenwich Associates
First Choice Coffee
First Flight Forwarders
Flex-Able Travel
Freightroute Ltd
Front Row
Fryers Catering Services Ltd
Gattefosse (now part of Alfa Chemicals)
Gemmix Ltd
GeoLogistics
Greenville Capital
GREGORY FRYER Associates
Griffiths and Nielsen Ltd' (clinical waste bins)
Guilbert office supplies
GVR Co
H.E BALDRY (HAULAGE) LTD'
Hales waste company
Hamilton Rentals
Hankyu
Hargreaves Landsdown
Hartrodt
Healthcare Logistics
Heathrow Import Clearance
Herzog Heine Geduld Inc
Hewden
Hexagon
HICHROM
Hill Thompson Magid &Co
Hire Station
Hobart UK
House of James
HQ Forklifts
HSBC (the world’s second largest bank)
HSS
Huntingdon Plant Hire
Industrial Boiler Services
INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES
Initial City Link
Innaphase (software)
Instruments
Interior Motives
Interlink Express
Ipswich Plastics
J Watson Scaffolding
J.K.Environmental & Sons Ltd.
James Latham
JCH Laundry
Jewsons
Johns Taxis
Johnson and Johnson
JOHNSON MATTHEY (customer)
Johnstones Leyland Decorating Centre
K&H MEDICAL
Kinesis Ltd
KINTETSU (courier)
Knights of Old
L.C. Services
La Grange Capital
Labtronics
Ladenburg
Laminar Medica
Leapfrog Day Nurseries
Legal & General
Lloyds TSB
Looses Ltd (catering equipment)
LS Express Ltd
Lynn Star
Lynx Express Limited
Management, Inc.
Marken Ltd
Markets
Marsh (The world's largest insurance broker)
Matthews Transport
MC Freeze
Medifacts
Merchants
Merck
Mercury Asset Management
Merrill Lynch
Messer
MFI
Mike Beer Transport Ltd
National Securities
Nationwide Access (sky lifts)
NatWest Bank
Network Services
Newey & Eyre
Night Freight
Nightspeed Services Limited
NOMADIC DISPLAYS
North Yorkshire Timber
Northgate Information Solutions plc
Nucryst Pharmaceutical
OAKWOOD VETERINARY GROUP
Oracle Partners
P.A.G.E. Group (Peterborough) Ltd
Pall-Ex
PBS International Freight Ltd
Pearsons Waste
Persching Keen (Credit Suisse First Boston)
Phillips & Drew
Phoenix Medical
PHS Washrooms
Planet Same Day Couriers
Plastic Pipe Supplies
Prestons of Potto
PTS
Quilcap
Rathbones Brothers
Ray Harvey Fish Merchants
RDM Distribution
Regional Freight Services Ltd
Rexel Senate
Rhys Davies
Rilko Nominees
RJ Warren
RJJ Worldwide
Robeco Investment Management
RL Slaughter
Rohm & Haas
Royal Bank of Scotland
Royce
Sanderson Transport
Santen
Sawtry college
Scarlet Couriers
Schroders
SDV
Securicor
Seko
SERCK INTERTRUCK
Services
Shanks
Shaw builders
Shop Direct Group /Shop Direct Group and Reality White Arrow Express
Simonds Coach and Travel
Smiths Medical
Solvit Plastic Binding Co Ltd
Souters Transport
SOUTHERN SYRINGE SUPPLIES
Speedy Hire
Spencer Edwards
Stan Robinson transport
Star Transport
State Street
Stephens Inc
Sunlight
Suttons
TARGET EXPRESS (couriers)
TD Waterhouse (UK’s largest execution only broker)
TERRY'S TAXIS
Thalmann & Co
The Labour Party
Thomas Ridley Foodservices
Thomson
Toxweb
Travis Perkins
Trimark
Trio
Tuffnells Parcels Express
UBS Global Capital (Worlds largest private bank)
Unipart Group of Companies
United Pallet Network
USS CATERING AND BAKERY EQUIPMENT LTD
UTi Worldwide Inc.
Vertical
Vet Diagnostics
Vindon
Vitech Security
W.E.DEANE
Wachovia Bank
Washington Mutual
Wein Securities
West LB Panmure
White Rose Environmental
Whittle Painting
Windsor Engineering
Winterfloods
WK THOMAS (courier)
Wm Lillico & Son (horse feed supplier)
WMV Frankel & Co
WOLSELEY Group
World Courier (UK) Limited
World Precision Instruments
Wormald Fire Systems
Wyko Industrial Services

Smash HLS
- Homepage: http://www.shac.net

Comments

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Way to go!

17.11.2007 21:53

The sooner that place is shut down forever the better.

Michael


Funny - not on SHAC

19.11.2007 10:00

Normally SHAC would have posted this on their site - its not there!

Not SHAC


Update on SHAC.net says Wachovia & AXA dropped

19.11.2007 20:48

Link:  http://www.shac.net/ARCHIVES/2007/november/19.htm

No mention of Rathbones, but they sent out a myspace bulletin mentioning that after their first demo at their offices in London, they dumped all their shares. This was when the AXA / Wachovia victories were mentioned.

It will probably mention when they load up the report of the demo day...

It's there now


not on SHAC yet

19.11.2007 20:56

Link to Rathbones victory


Complain to EU about State Aid

19.11.2007 22:58

Apparently the State is not allowed to aid private business under EU rules for longer than so many months (see Northern Rock!) so how come the British Government has aided HLS with a bank account etc at public expense? Could SHAC complain to the EU about state aid to HLS? Got to be worth a try.



Watching from afar


Through the courts

20.11.2007 00:33

SHAC-UK have mentioned in British courts time and time again that government are intimately invovled (in various different ways), but it never works out. The three individuals who were running SHAC-UK are now in prison and have been on remand since May 2007 and will have their hearing June/November 2008 - aparantly its called internment, Keith Mann (british animal rights lawyer) claims.

The same has happened in America with the 7 activists who ran SHAC-USA (www.shac7.com), they got 40 years. This is all about destroying freedom of speech and all about aiding HLS, there is no compromise in political terms. All 10 activists have not done anything criminal, only ran an above board campaign. The charges are not even for protesting (but for inciting protests at HLS targets).

We are forgetting more and more every day that Labour actually distributed 100'000 leaflets to members of the public claiming that New Labout would provide "A new life for laboratory animals and a grand inquisition into vivisection". Clearly they have done neither, Barry Horne even starved himself to death in prison calling on the government to do one in 1997/1998.

Despite all this though, HLS lost $10 million in 2006 and are now $100 million in debt in total, mainly deferred debts (another blatant government aid).

The fight is global, and it continues.

Please look at some AR cases though, as now half of our prisoners are there for speaking out, imprisoning legal campaigners is clearly only going to spill over to other movements...

never works


Pressure from all sides

20.11.2007 12:49

I know it's been mentioned in court about just how much the state has helped private companies (even giving out activists details to hired thugs!) But has anyone tried to invoke this state-aid clause from the EU. I guess it would be a european court rather than a British one.

Got to be worth a go just to keep the pressure on from all sides. Maybe someone like Animal Aid would be beter than SHAC for trying to complain about state-aid to private companies via the EU.

Does anyone know if anyone has tried this? I'm just a watcher on these issues so wouldn't have the first clue who to contact to suggest this as a tactic.

Still watching from afar


lack of faith

20.11.2007 16:35

Both groups are unable to speak out against HLS, some stupid restraining order against them both (as well as a other mainstream ar groups) from the 1990's. It's probably true that Shac haven't tried taking it to the EU courts, but I guess its because whenever 'their' name comes up in court, its with a VERY long list of thousands of actions across the globe in support of the campaign which includes smashing windows and burning buildings.

Agreed though, given a group like animal aid did take it to court, it would have a very different outcome - most likely very positive.

I personally also think it would be a complete waste of money, time and effort. HLS have already had their licence revoked once (for 6 months) for falisifying data and animal cruelty, and then went on and did it again and again. But there licence was never revoked again...

More important than taking HLS to court is trying to allow campaigns to legally operate in the UK / USA which is landing activists who run websites in jail....I think the EU courts would only do what British / US courts have done and try and close the campaign down, I don't think they would bother looking into "foul-play" by the state.

Over a douzen companies (hls associates) now have injunctions whereby activists can be arrested within 1k radius' for wearing a bag which has an "anti-vivisection" badge, not even leafleting anymore!

I'm talking about walking through town, not being allowd to wear what you want, because of an injunction (you've now become a part of) for the business down the road.

Watch out Climate Action activists....the courts won't listen to you forever ;-)

I don't think I've ever heard of a "good court case" for shac...

Animal Aid & PETA


Great news!

28.11.2007 02:24

Not too far to go now

: )

Drop HLS


just curious...

02.03.2011 23:17

i noticed that there was an HLS related protest by AXA HQ today, just wondering why if they've already dropped all their shares?

pangolin


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