And hedge funds and other activist investors own a substantial chunk of the company's shares.
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He says that it is likely to happen, driven either by activist investors, private equity buyers or some combination.
In the past companies have condemned activist investors for focusing on short-term profits.
Meanwhile, a pair of activist investors, including Bernard Arnault, France's richest man, bought a big stake in the French-based retail chain.
Further, rather than pursue the tack laid out above, a group of activist investors are arguing that RIM should aggressively reorganize its business.
Similarly, activist investors in Knight Ridder, formerly America's second-biggest newspaper company, forced the firm to put itself up for sale late last year.
Companies with a rising cash balance have become a popular target for activist investors, and size is no longer a roadblock for many agitators.
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The increasing emergence of activist investors within tech companies like Yahoo!
Hess made a modest concession to the activist investors staging a proxy fight Friday, but hedge fund Elliott Management says the move is an empty gesture.
It appears that activist investors are focusing on the defense sector as an area of opportunity as companies adjust to the reality of declining defense budgets.
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So while activist investors may succeed in improving near-term returns to shareholders, that windfall could be bought by undermining the long-term success of the enterprises they target.
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But it has thrust him into the media spotlight and heightened concerns about the way in which activist investors can determine the fate of the world's largest corporations.
But he has not moved fast enough for activist investors such as Mr Marcus (with a stake of 10.3%) and Guy Wyser-Pratte, an American raider (with a 5% stake).
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Activist investors are stepping up the pressure on military contractors to bolster shareholder returns, even if that means abandoning strategies aimed at making companies more resilient for the long term.
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They position activist investors to assert control by demanding board seats, marshalling shareholder support for reforms, and launching or threatening a proxy contest before management can catch its breath.
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Activist investors, then called corporate raiders, have been part of the American business environment since the 1980s, when the fictional Gordon Gekko attacked corporate boards and executive vice-presidents in the name of public shareholders.
Loeb has also helped usher in a new era for so-called activist investors, agitators for corporate change who used to be derided, but now are increasingly accepted and even celebrated for brining accountability to corporate America.
Once upon a time, activist investors like Carl Icahn would acquire a sizable stake in a company, something in the 10% range, and push for changes up to and including a sale of the business.
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Dell today again urged shareholders to allow the company to sell itself to billionaire founder Michael Dell and private equity shop Silver Lake Partners, prompting the activist investors opposing the deal to step up their campaign to scuttle it.
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Sometimes activist investors force the transaction.
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The significance of these buyers stepping up is that, like activist investors, players at private-equity firms typically hail from outside the defense sector and are looking for relatively fast returns compared with executives who have made their careers in military contracting.
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VW, and Commerzbank came under pressure last year from small groups of activist foreign investors.
He was just unseated by activist institutional investors, but it took nearly forever.
Whitworth, co-founder of the activist investment firm Relational Investors, to the HP board, effective immediately.
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But the reforms now being demanded by investors and activist advisory groups will be much more of a burden.
Along with activist hedge funds, many institutional investors have idolised short-term profits and share-price increases rather than engaging recalcitrant managers in discussions about corporate governance or executive pay.
By contrast, most value investors do not initiate activist stakes.
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Other Burger King investors included financiers Martin Franklin and Nicolas Berggruen and activist investor William Ackman.
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