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The vicious fight for control of Campbell Soup is over. For months, activist investor Daniel Loeb’s hedge fund Third Point has been attempting to overhaul the soup company’s board and install ...
Proxy advisory service Institutional Shareholder Services endorsed all five of Loeb’s candidates to the 12-person Campbell Soup board ... fresh ideas, and a greater sense of urgency,” ISS ...
Rapidly changing ideas about ... campaign to replace the soup maker’s board, announced last week, needs backing from descendants of John T. Dorrance, the inventor of Campbell’s condensed ...
McLoughlin will remain on as a board director ... sued the company and accused Campbell of making boring, expensive soup; Campbell said that Third Point’s ideas were unoriginal and uninformed.
Wall Street is suddenly salivating over embattled Campbell ... board of being “asleep at the switch.” The vote is expected to be “close” even though descendants of condensed soup inventor ...
Campbell Soup Co.'s independent chair Les Vinney sent a letter to shareholders asking them to reject an attempt from hedge fund Third Point to "seize control" of the board by voting in support of ...
NEW YORK, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Activist investor Third Point LLC sued Campbell Soup Co on Thursday, alleging the soup and snack maker's board misled ... presented any new ideas or specific strategic ...
Shifting consumers tastes are being blamed for four straight years of decline at Campbell's. The majority of analysts place the blame for the losses at Campbell Soup on Morrison and the board of ...
Bennett Dorrance, the longest-serving member of Camden-based Campbell Soup Co.‘s board of directors, and grandson of condensed soup inventor John Dorrance, has decided to retire from the board.
CAMDEN, NJ. — The Campbell Soup Co. announced that Bennett Dorrance has decided to retire from the company’s board of directors. Mr. Dorrance is the grandson of John T. Dorrance, PhD ...
After more than 150 years, the Campbell Soup Company is dropping "soup" from its name. The iconic brand has branched out into much broader territory since it was founded as the Anderson & Campbell ...