US EditionActivist Investor Fails to Win Swatch Board Seat
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Femi Otedola wins ‘Activist Investor and Market Maker of the Year’ at Nairametrics Capital Market Awards
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The Annual General Meeting of the Bieler Watch Group rejected its election to the Supervisory Board on Wednesday with 79.2% votes against.
Steven Wood, the candidate for the Swatch Board of Directors as representative of bearer shareholders, was unsurprisingly not elected at the group's general meeting on Wednesday. His candidacy was rejected by 79.8% of the vote.
Activist targets Swatch board seat in challenge to Hayek family control
Swatch Group is facing a rare moment of shareholder activism as Steven Wood, founder of New York-based activist hedge fund GreenWood Investors, makes a bold bid to secure a seat on the Swiss watchmaker’s board at its annual general meeting on Wednesday, according to a report by Reuters. Wood, whose firm holds a modest 0.5% stake in Swatch, is seeking to represent the largely sidelined bearer shareholders – who own a majority of the capital but l…
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