Sentences with phrase «of its activist campaign»

«I think it's a concerted effort that there is too much money to be made here and (they're) not going to be deterred by the structural or cultural defences (anymore),» said Chris Young, who works with companies on the receiving end of activist campaigns at Credit Suisse in New York.

Activist investors are also pushing for more distributions, with 2015 marking an all - time high for the number of activist campaigns.

These are not situations for which I have considered the underlying value proposition, just interesting situations from the perspective of the activist campaign or the Schedule 13D.

For one, research supports the view that stocks the subject of activist campaigns can generate significant above market returns, on the filing and, importantly, in the subsequent year.

For one, research supports the view that stocks the subject of activist campaigns can generate significant above market returns, on the filing and, im...

Lots of Washington voters, primed by years of activist campaigns against oil trains and coal terminals in the Pacific Northwest, were ready for climate action.

In many ways it's no different from the Timberline / Changents sponsorship of activist campaigns like Dirty for Swain - although sponsored street protest is an interesting twist.

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Although Ottawa and industry associations continue supporting it, a consortium of activist groups called the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability has begun campaigning for an ombudsman reminiscent of that proposed by Mackay years earlier.

One of the hedge fund managers behind an activist campaign at United Airlines explained why he's bullish on the company, now officially called United Continental Holdings (ual).

Activist hedge funds are launching more campaigns against larger companies this year, according to ActivistMonitor, a division of research firm Acuris.

It's why the volunteer who led his campaign in the Youngstown area had no issue saying racism was a creation of Barack Obama's Presidency and that Black Lives Matter activists were full of it.

Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30 years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.

The Romney campaign's response — which included whiny demands that the president apologize for his attacks — has unsettled GOP activists, causing them to wonder how prepared Mr. Romney and his team are for the mudfest they've entered.The attacks have drawn attention to the Obama campaign's demands that Mr. Romney release more years of tax returns.

When asked about the campaign by a journalist, one of the unnamed activists remarked the «campaign is not meant to harm the gay people who live in the nine cities» [in unprotected states] that are bidding for Amazon's foothold.

The right - to - work campaign gathered momentum when the activists linked up with Dick DeVos, the son of Richard DeVos, co-founder of Michigan - based Amway, and Ronald Weiser, former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party and ambassador to Slovakia under President George W. Bush.

A tech - savvy and surefooted negotiator, Cohn has since led more than 30 shareholder campaigns against the likes of Compuware, BMC Software, and lately EMC, becoming one of the most powerful and effective activists in the finance industry.

Elliott declined to comment on the use of private investigators in its activist campaigns.

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.

«I don't know if anyone has any more experience than he does prosecuting activist campaigns,» says Chris Young, head of contested situations at Credit Suisse, who has known Cohn since the latter started at Elliott.

Elliott owned only 4 % of Hess's stock — not enough to necessitate an activist warning - shot 13D filing with the SEC — in January 2013 when the fund went public with a proxy campaign to replace five of the board's directors.

The time and effort Elliott put in to researching companies before launching campaigns often imbued the activists with an intimate knowledge of, and deep appreciation for, their targets.

Pollock belongs to the younger generation of Elliott principals that has doubled down on activist campaigns.

That put him on the opposite side of the table from activist investor Carl Icahn, who turned into Herbalife's largest shareholder even as Ackman mounted a campaign against the company.

He stepped down as CEO of CN Rail in 2009; a few years later, he became a major figure in Bill Ackman's activist campaign to oust CP's management.

SAN FRANCISCO Facebook is expanding its response to people using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a «troll factory» indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 3 Facebook is expanding its response to what it sees as malicious actors using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a «troll factory» indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

Student gun control activist David Hogg attended Saturday's White House Correspondents» Association dinner and campaigned against the NRA as he mingled with members of Congress.

Ari specializes in developing creative, political, and social impact campaigns to reach a new generation of activists, consumers, and voters.

For an understanding of the agency - based model in practice, there is no better place to look than an activist campaign.

This wasn't the work of activists or a public arts campaign, but a move by the suits at advertising agency McCann New York.

In what apparently is the latest incident in a campaign to push children toward becoming LGBT - rights activists, a teacher has instructed a middle - school student to sign up for «recurring text messages» associated with an LGBT «Day of Silence» campaign.

Following a multi-year period of underperforming shareholder returns, amid a slump in comparable store sales and hampered by relatively high expenses, the Company would appear to be vulnerable to an activist campaign.

These were two of the first activist short campaigns in history.

Activist hacking group Anonymous have declared this Friday December 11 a «trolling day» against the so - called terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS) as part of its cyber campaign against the militant Islamist group.

With a proxy contest looming, activist investor Voce Capital has released yet another broadside against target company FBR & Co., this time in the form of a comprehensive presentation detailing the rationale behind Voce's campaign and advocating for the election of the hedge fund's three board candidates.

It reflects a years - long campaign by liberal Catholic activists to push back against the leadership of their church on controversial political matters - and years of White House bridge - building with a spectrum of Catholic groups.

The Israelis closed the mosque after the shooting of an activist who campaigns for Jews to be able to pray at Al Aqsa, Islam's third most holy site.

The campaign involves clergy, concerned activists and individuals from various faiths calling for equal protection of the law for all and access to a better life in this country.

From writers who are creatively exhausted from managing a constant stream of online feedback, to readers who can't seem to pull themselves away from their smartphones, to activists who are burned out from responding to yet another crisis with a social media campaign, to foodies who can't enjoy a meal without snapping a photo for Instagram, our writing, reading, and sharing habits consume more of our time and mental energy than ever.

Doubling as an activist campaign to pressure companies to make changes, NCOSE produced a watch list, which includes several household companies used by millions of Americans daily.

It began a campaign of terrorism against Israel, which retaliated by imprisoning the founder of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmad Yasin, in 1991 and arresting hundreds of Hamas activists.

My, my, my... There are disturbing problems with the GOP Tea Party Activists... the shot of Santorum with this article is the same group shot President Obama had with the Bapists Ministers during the 2008 Campaign.

Subsequent chapters look at the worldview of Jackson and Robertson, the role of their respective church affiliates in the 1988 campaign, the relationship between their activists and the major parties, and an opinion survey of their respective followers.

DeRay is a civil rights activist, an educator and a co-founder of the Campaign Zero movement.

CNN: Liberal Catholics use election results to battle bishops Emboldened by the re-election of President Barack Obama, a cadre of liberal Catholic activists and groups is waging a campaign alleging that America's Catholic bishops are out of touch with Catholic laypeople.

(CNN)- Despite Jon Huntsman's attempts to speak up during the first few Republican primary debates, the results from a recent straw poll of GOP activists in Florida spell bad news for his campaign: Like the beleaguered former front - runner Michele Bachmann, Huntsman received 2 % of the vote.

Amid the furor over Akin's comments - for which he apologized this week, even as many Republican leaders have called for him to end his campaign - many anti-abortion activists have stuck by their stance against abortion rights in the case of rape.

She added: «Through this campaign, peace activists, lawyers, city mayors, faith leaders, survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and many others are speaking with one voice.

Both sets of guidelines chime not only with the meat - reducing aim of the Meat Free Monday campaign but also with the seven - word green - eating mantra coined by journalist and food activist Michael Pollan in his 2009 book Food Rules: An Eater's Manual: «Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.»

Organic marketers and anti-GMO activists exaggerate these efforts, making claims that organics are «pesticide - free» and don't use «harmful» chemicals that they claim are the mainstay of conventional agriculture, and often linked in their campaigns to genetically modified crops.