TALLAHASSEE — Few government contractors could orchestrate getting the $7.5 million compensation package the head of the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence managed to obtain for three years of work, but Tiffany Carr did it by leveraging connections...
TAMPA — An activist investor in Outback Steakhouse owner Bloomin’ Brands is nominating up to three people to join the restaurant company’s board of directors, according to a notice filed with the the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...
TAMPA — The same activist investor who pushed the owners of Outback Steakhouse to explore a sale have purchased another large share of the restaurant company. Jana Partners, LLC, a New York hedge fund, now holds about a 9 percent stake in Bloomin’ Brands. The hedge fund purchased $127.7 million worth of shares between July 9 and Aug. 30, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission made on Friday...
RALEIGH, N.C. — Duke Energy Corp.’s board is striving to keep CEO Lynn Good on the job, promising a bigger severance package if she’s forced out the door in addition to raising her pay by 55 percent. A report released Thursday ahead of May’s annual shareholders meeting shows company directors increased Good’s potential severance package to more than $41 million last year, a nearly 50 percent increase over 2016...
Shareholder fights between activist investors and publicly traded companies are getting nastier, especially in some industries, and a lot of them don’t involve corporate giants like General Motors and Procter & Gamble. In 2015, according to Raymond James, 208 activist campaigns were launched against 169 companies valued between $50 million and $1 billion. Since 2009, the number of campaigns against companies that size has grown 163 percent...
CEOs of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan are worth $261 million more since the election Wednesday, February 22, 2017 12:54pm I want to see more articles tagged I'm already following articles tagged Next CEOs at the country's largest publicly traded companies may not have been big supporters of Donald Trump during his campaign...
A food distributor with bay area ties has announced the resignation and replacement of its CEO in the wake of a viral video showing him repeatedly kicking a dog on an elevator...