{"id":10559,"date":"2009-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"targets-activist-shareholder-to-hold-town-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2009\/targets-activist-shareholder-to-hold-town-meeting.html","title":{"rendered":"Target&#8217;s activist shareholder to hold town meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Times &#8211; Less than three weeks ahead of what&rsquo;s expected to be a heated proxy contest at Target&rsquo;s annual shareholders&rsquo; meeting, activist shareholder William Ackman aims to strengthen his case to investors for a new slate of directors by personally introducing his roster at a town hall meeting here Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to documents filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ackman, who runs Pershing Square Capital Management, which owns a 7.8 percent stake in the discounter, intends to &ldquo;improve Target&rsquo;s board and consequently, help make Target a stronger, more profitable and more valuable company.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  <strong><a href=\"..\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.thedailytimes.com\/article\/20090511\/BIZ\/905119991\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Times &#8211; Less than three weeks ahead of what&rsquo;s expected to be a heated proxy contest at Target&rsquo;s annual shareholders&rsquo; meeting, activist shareholder William Ackman aims to strengthen his case to investors for a new slate of directors by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1619,4504,243,5213,5209,1484,11183,6008,35,21,1099,5661,510,247,976,5210],"class_list":["post-10559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-activist","tag-investors","tag-percent-stake","tag-pershing-square","tag-pershing-square-capital-management","tag-pershing-square-capital","tag-rsquo","tag-s-board","tag-securities-and-exchange","tag-securities-and-exchange-commission","tag-shareholder","tag-shareholders","tag-slate","tag-target","tag-town-hall","tag-william-ackman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}