{"id":57258,"date":"2017-03-29T06:13:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T10:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=57258"},"modified":"2017-03-29T06:13:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T10:13:15","slug":"akzo-shareholder-elliott-says-25-percent-of-owners-want-ppg-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2017\/akzo-shareholder-elliott-says-25-percent-of-owners-want-ppg-talks.html","title":{"rendered":"Akzo Shareholder Elliott says 25 Percent of Owners Want PPG Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Elliott Advisors, the hedge fund with a 3.25 percent stake in Dutch paint maker Akzo Nobel (AKZO.AS), has identified shareholders representing 25 percent of the company&#8217;s owners who want it to engage in takeover talks with PPG Industries (PPG.N), according to Dutch newspaper FD.<\/p>\n<p>Akzo has rebuffed a 24.4 billion euro ($26.4 billion)takeover proposal from PPG and declined &#8220;engaging&#8221; with the U.S. company, saying it will detail plans to spin off its chemicals division instead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-akzo-nobel-m-a-ppg-inds-shareholders-idUSKBN1700DA?il=0\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Elliott Advisors, the hedge fund with a 3.25 percent stake in Dutch paint maker Akzo Nobel (AKZO.AS), has identified shareholders representing 25 percent of the company&#8217;s owners who want it to engage in takeover talks with PPG Industries (PPG.N), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57258","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57259,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57258\/revisions\/57259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}