{"id":63586,"date":"2018-05-07T00:07:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T04:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=63586"},"modified":"2018-05-09T00:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T04:29:49","slug":"jana-conagra-end-standstill-as-pinnacle-foods-comes-under-pressure-to-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2018\/jana-conagra-end-standstill-as-pinnacle-foods-comes-under-pressure-to-sell.html","title":{"rendered":"Jana, Conagra End Standstill as Pinnacle Foods Comes Under Pressure to Sell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) ConAgra Brands Inc (CAG.N), the maker of Hunt\u2019s ketchup and Marie Callender\u2019s microwave dinners, said on Friday it had ended a standstill agreement with Jana Partners LLC, the activist hedge fund pushing for a sale of Pinnacle Foods Inc (PF.N).   The termination of the agreement, which dates back to 2015 when ConAgra and Jana reached a deal for two new mutually agreed directors to join ConAgra\u2019s board, allows Jana to more freely push both ConAgra and Pinnacle Foods to explore a combination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-conagra-brands-jana-pinnacle-foods\/jana-conagra-end-standstill-as-pinnacle-foods-comes-under-pressure-to-sell-idUSKBN1I5251\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) ConAgra Brands Inc (CAG.N), the maker of Hunt\u2019s ketchup and Marie Callender\u2019s microwave dinners, said on Friday it had ended a standstill agreement with Jana Partners LLC, the activist hedge fund pushing for a sale of Pinnacle Foods Inc [&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-63586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63586","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=63586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63587,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63586\/revisions\/63587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}