Archive for the 'activist investing' Tag

Yesterday, Chico’s (CHS), a company I’ve known for quite some time because of its roots in Florida, announced that its 51 year-old CEO, Scott Edmonds, was “retiring”. Make that had retired the day before, according to the agreement attached to the 8K filed yesterday. As the WSJ reports this morning, Chico’s had been under pressure [...]

Every now and then, we come across something in a filing that just makes us slap our head and say, “What the heck were they thinking?”. And that’s exactly what happened when we skimmed the proxy that A. Schulman (SHLM) filed yesterday. Here’s the head-slapping part: During fiscal 2008, the Compensation Committee determined that maintaining [...]

The motto of discount clothing retailer Syms Corp (SYMS) is: “An educated consumer is our best customer.” An educated shareholder, on the other hand, can be a pain in the butt.  Esopus Creek, an activist hedge fund holding about 4% of Syms stock (the Syms family controls the majority), has been educating itself about the firm’s [...]

Last week, on May Day no less, investors in Furniture Brands International (FBN), the furniture company whose brands include Thomasville and Broyhill, appear to have elected three directors proposed by activist investors, Sun Capital, which owns about 9.5% of FBN’s shares. Sun offered to buy the company, whose stock has declined sharply since 2002, back [...]

It’s been another one of those weeks here at footnoted, with so many filings that it’s been hard to pick and choose. So instead of just focusing on one or two, I thought I’d do a bit of “spring cleaning” and talk about some of the things that wound up in the footnoted net this [...]