{"id":43886,"date":"2014-09-08T09:15:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T13:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=43886"},"modified":"2014-09-08T09:15:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T13:15:29","slug":"walgreen-adds-activist-hedge-fund-founder-to-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2014\/walgreen-adds-activist-hedge-fund-founder-to-board.html","title":{"rendered":"Walgreen adds activist hedge fund founder to board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle PI &#8211; Walgreen has named Jana Partners founder Barry Rosenstein to its board, and the activist investor will get a say in choosing at least one additional director for the nation&#8217;s largest drugstore chain.<\/p>\n<p>Walgreen Co. is feeling shareholder pressure after lowering its forecast for the earnings it expects after combining with health and beauty retailer Alliance Boots, which runs the United Kingdom&#8217;s largest drugstore chain. The Deerfield, Illinois, company&#8217;s shares have largely plunged since it dropped that forecast last month and said it will no longer consider an overseas reorganization that would have trimmed its U.S. taxes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/business\/article\/Walgreen-adds-activist-hedge-fund-founder-to-board-5740975.php\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle PI &#8211; Walgreen has named Jana Partners founder Barry Rosenstein to its board, and the activist investor will get a say in choosing at least one additional director for the nation&#8217;s largest drugstore chain. Walgreen Co. is feeling shareholder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43886","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43889,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43886\/revisions\/43889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}