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- IHOP Corp. serves up $2.1b buyout offer for Applebee's: turnaround plans include activist investor Breeden's suggestions
- GLENDALE, CALIF. -- If IHOP Corp. completes its pending $2.1 billion acquisition of Applebee's International Inc., it could create a company that boasts systemwide sales of $6.8 billion and, in time, two successful turnaround stories under one umbrella.
- Research articles 2007-07-23
- Citigroup shrugs off activist investors.
- Byline: Anuj Gangahar in New York Byline: Anuj Gangahar in New York
- Research articles 2004-04-21
- Activist investors target Vodafone.
- Efficient Capital Structures wants Vodafone to return 73p per share to investors by gearing up and capping acquisition sizes Tim Bradshaw Efficient Capital Structures wants Vodafone to return 73p per share to investors by gearing up and capping acquisition sizes Tim Bradshaw
- Research articles 2007-06-07
- Three SEC Chairmen and Activist Investor CalPERS Among Directorship Honorees
- BOSTON -- CalPERS CEO Fred Buenrostro, selected as the most influential player in the first corporate governance ranking by Directorship magazine will address the 8th annual Directorship Institute on December 11 in New York. Buenrostro will speak at a dinner that opens a two-conference conference and honors recipients named to...
- Research articles 2007-12-05
- Is Starbucks Management too Good for Norman Peltz?
- Perhaps counterintuitively, Nelson Peltz's decision to sell his stake in Starbucks could be seen as a vote of confidence in the struggling coffee chain's management. Investors seem to think so â€" they've sent Starbucks' shares way up as of midday Thursday. Peltz,...
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Activist investor group becomes No. 1 institutional holder of
- An investment advisor whose activist tactics caused a seismic shift at newspaper publisher Knight Ridder Inc. has become the No. 1 institutional holder of software maker CA Inc. with a stock position worth about $2.4 billion.The 86.5 million shares controlled by Private Capital Management, as of Sept. 30, make it...
- Research articles 2006-01-27
- Activist investor buys Tribune stake.(Nelson Peltz investing in Tribune Co. (Chicago, Illinois))(Brief article)
- Nelson Peltz, the billionaire investor agitating for change at the top of H. J. Heinz, has amassed a significant stake in Chicago media giant Tribune. Mr. Peltz's investment fund bought about 2.83 million shares in the quarter ended June 30, about 1% Nelson Peltz, the billionaire...
- Research articles 2006-08-21
- Icahn gains ground in fight with Moto; Shareholders lining up for activist investor; big shake-up predicted.(News)(investor Carl Icahn and Motorola Inc. )
- Byline: STEVEN R. STRAHLER Carl Icahn is gaining support from Motorola Inc. shareholders, increasing the likelihood the activist investor will land a seat on the company's board next week. Despite CEO Edward Zander's recent lobbying of large in Byline: STEVEN...
- Research articles 2007-04-30
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- The self-taught intellectual used to be an American type
- The self-taught intellectual used to be an American type. Now the country has one fewer. Richard Nadler, 60, was a high-school dropout and musician. In the 1980s he became a conservative activist, working to promote school choice, phonics, and low taxes. He wrote books on Phil Gramm, Pat Buchanan, and...
- Articles 2009-06-22
- Determinants of institutional investor activism: a test of the Ryan-Schneider model
- Corporate experiences with consequences of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 SOX, changes in the listing standards for the New York Stock Exchange NYSE and NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc. NASDAQ, recent corporate scandals, and the emergence of activist investors have fostered a climate of intense scrutiny of corporate governance structures and...
- Articles 2009-06-22
- Anger and mistrust have only just begun.
- Byline: Robert Harley Jun 10, 2009 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- City Pacific First Mortgage Fund investors are preparing to vote on whether City Pacific should be replaced as the fund's manager. The meeting, at the Brisbane Exhibition Centre...
- Articles 2009-06-10
- SugarHouse plans unanimously pass Council panel
- The most interesting thing yesterday about a City Council committee hearing on legislation for SugarHouse, a casino planned for the banks of the Delaware, wasn't what was approved but rather who didn't show up. Neighborhood opponents from Fishtown and Northern Liberties, and anti-gambling activists from Casino-Free Philadelphia, who have often...
- Articles 2009-05-27
- Trikona announces buy-back.
- Byline: Claer Barrett SHARE TIP UPDATE: Indian property player surges on buy-back deal Aim-traded Indian property play Trikona Trinity has announced its intention to buy back 19.3m shares for cancellation at a maximum price of 60p a share. ...
- Articles 2009-05-27
- Dillard's NY investors sell most of holdings
- Dillard's Inc. shareholders re-elected the four directors installed last year to avoid a proxy fight with activist investors at its annual shareholders' meeting on May 16. Curiously, those investment groups have recently reduced their holdings in the Arkansas department store chain. Barington Capital Group of New...
- Articles 2009-05-25
- Proxy Governance has backed dissenting Target investors, led by activist investor Bill Ackman.(FINANCIAL NEWS)
- Proxy Governance has backed dissenting Target investors, led by activist investor Bill Ackman. Proxy has recommended that its clients vote for two of the five nominees supported by Ackman's Pershing Square funds as well as voting against Target's proposal to reduce its board from 13 to...
- Articles 2009-05-22
- Target strikes back
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MINNEAPOLIS -- On the eve of Target Corp.'s May 28 annual meeting, it is becoming increasingly apparent that William Ackman, the activist investor who is challenging several of the retailer's policies and positions, is tilting at windmills. The reality appears to be that Target, despite a...
- Articles 2009-05-18
- Hirco soars on Laxey defeat.
- Byline: Claer Barrett TIP UPDATE: Indian property developer defeats activist at AGM, and is 109 per cent up on our tip Shares in Aim-traded Indian real estate developer, Hirco, soared 8 per cent on Wednesday when the company announced that...
- Articles 2009-05-06
- Laxey sued for libel in Hirco spat.
- Byline: Claer Barrett TIP UPDATE: Libel writ issued against activist a week ahead of Laxey-proposed EGM A project company of Aim-traded Indian property developer Hirco has issued a libel writ against activist investor and 10 per cent shareholder Laxey...
- Articles 2009-04-29
- Dillard's executive salaries frozen in 2008, proxy shows
- Dillard's Inc. executives had their salaries frozen in 2008 and received less in stock awards and no bonuses, according to the corporate proxy statement. Dillard's will hold its annual stockholders meeting on May 16 at its corporate headquarters in Little Rock. Other than re-electing the current...
- Articles 2009-04-27
- Amylin board facing pressure from key investors
- Last week, billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn made known his intentions to push for a sale of San Diego-based Amylin Pharmaceuticals to partner Eli Lilly & Co. Before it came to light in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Amylin independent director James Wilson revealed Icahn's...
- Articles 2009-04-27
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