{"id":3377,"date":"2005-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-puts-pressure-on-a-schulman-to-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2005\/hedge-fund-puts-pressure-on-a-schulman-to-sell.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund puts pressure on A. Schulman to sell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  BOSTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) &#8211; A group of hedge funds headed by Barington Capital Group wants plastics company A. Schulman Inc.(SHLM.O: <a href=\"..\/stocks\/overview.aspx?symbol=SHLM.O\">Quote<\/a>,  <a href=\"..\/stocks\/CompanyProfile.aspx?symbol=SHLM.O\">Profile<\/a>, <a href=\"..\/stocks\/ResearchReports.aspx?symbol=SHLM.O\">Research<\/a>), whose shares have lagged the broader market for years, to  sell itself to boost its stock price.<\/p>\n<p>  This week the hedge funds ratcheted up the pressure by raising Barington&#8217;s stake in the Akron, Ohio-based company after management appeared to shrug off shareholders&#8217; request to hire an investment  bank to help put the company up for sale.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/c.moreover.com\/click\/here.pl?b398342335&amp;r=MSNnews\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) &#8211; A group of hedge funds headed by Barington Capital Group wants plastics company A. Schulman Inc.(SHLM.O: Quote, Profile, Research), whose shares have lagged the broader market for years, to sell itself to boost its stock [&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":[],"class_list":["post-3377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377","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=3377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}