Sentences with phrase «only shareholder activist»
Only shareholder activist Ralph Whitworth wasn't on the board when HP authorized Apotheker to buy Autonomy in August 2011.
http://www.dailyherald.com/ Not exact matches
Last month, Dimon prevailed at the bank's annual meeting when only 32 percent of shareholders voted in favor of a proposal — backed by activist groups after the «London Whale» trading losses — to strip him of the chairmanship.
Nooyi, only the fifth person to run PepsiCo and a dark - horse choice — a woman, a foreigner, a onetime strategy consultant — has outlasted all but one of her predecessors and, at least for now, a powerful shareholder activist.
This DealBook article about the new alliances between activist hedge funds and long - only institutional shareholders is full of enjoyable oddities; here is my favorite part:
The bottom line is that Nelson Peltz, perhaps the most prolific and successful food and restaurant shareholder activist of all time, may have trimmed his exposure in this sector, but he's likely only easing off the trigger as opposed to removing the ammo from the gun.
In fact I think I was lucky that the shares «only» declined 48 % and that's due the fact that the two large investors have taken an activist role to make sure that most of the remaining cash is returned to shareholder; without them the cash would have probably been «re-invested» by management to keep the company alive (and thus feeding management their salaries) as long as possible.
To be fair, the situation at ACPO looks slightly more favorable for shareholders: not only one activist like at WOC, but even two are pressuring the board to take action quickly.
I helped lead a protest outside Duke headquarters a few weeks ago, and last week activists rallied at Duke's annual shareholder meeting, calling for the retirement of the Asheville plant and the cleanup of not only the Dan River spill, but all of Duke's coal ash sites in the state.