Sentences with phrase «campaigns by activist investors»

Management Corporate Boards Led by investors such as Carl Icahn, Bill Ackman and Jeff Smith, and targeting companies from DuPont to PepsiCo, campaigns by activist investors have become a common occurrence in the United States in the past few decades.

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Rather than circulating reports among fund managers and investors behind closed doors, so - called activist short sellers are adept at deploying «shock and awe» campaigns by publicizing information and allegations on Twitter.

As if Nooyi wasn't facing enough pressure, she soon had to contend with a major activist investor: Nelson Peltz, who took a stake in the company and began agitating for PepsiCo to undo its merger of Pepsi and Frito - Lay, just as Kraft (KRFT) had spun off Mondelez after a similar campaign by Peltz.

* Tech - savvy farmers using social media * Agribusiness, food safety activists pour money into campaigns * Whistleblowers see new laws aimed at them By P.J. Huffstutter and Lisa Baertlein April 16 (Reuters)- Standing before a crowd of McDonald's Corp shareholders at its headquarters last spring, an unlikely investor prepared for battle.

Portect Our Democracy PAC, a political action committee founded over the summer by investor / activist Sean Eldridge, husband of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, to work in coordination with the Cuomo administration on campaign finance reform, is out with its first mailers of the election cycle in support of Democratic state Senate candidate Cecilia Tkacyzk.