shareholder-rights

The term is commonly applied to so-called shareholder-rights plans, defense tactics designed to make hostile takeovers prohibitively expensive.

Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002

The term is commonly applied to so-called shareholder-rights plans, defense tactics designed to make hostile takeovers prohibitively expensive.

Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002

Talbots board said Tuesday it adopted the shareholder-rights plans with a 10% trigger, attempting to make it prohibitively expensive for a suitor to take over the company.

Talbots Adopts Shareholder Rights Plan Karen Talley 2011

The shareholder-rights plan, commonly referred to as a poison pill, would trigger a "significant dilution" in the stake of any individual or group that acquired more than 15% of the company.

Fortune Brands Adopts Poison Pill for Home and Security Unit Tess Stynes 2011

Family Dollar promptly installed a shareholder-rights plan, or "poison pill," designed to deter any investor from acquiring 10% or more of the company without the board's permission.

Ackman, With 8.9%, Becomes Family Dollar's Biggest Holder Maxwell Murphy 2011

Also Monday, Nelson Peltz 's Trian Fund Management sent a letter to Family Dollar disagreeing with the chain's contention that its offer to buy the company undervalues it, and criticizing its adoption of a shareholder-rights plan takeover defense.

Family Dollar Raises Earnings Forecast as Sales Rise 8.3% Nathan Becker 2011

"Adopting a shareholder-rights plan is an appropriate step for Fortune Brands Home & Security to protect the interests of shareholders as the company becomes an independent business and realizes its upside potential as the U.S. housing market recovers," said Chris Klein , president and chief executive officer of the unit.

Fortune Brands Adopts Poison Pill for Home and Security Unit Tess Stynes 2011

Morningstar's legal responsibility is to disclose what its star ratings represent, not to audit funds' claims—unless they promised they would, says Mercer Bullard , an associate professor of law at the University of Mississippi and a shareholder-rights advocate.

Fund Ratings Under Scrutiny Sarah Morgan 2011

Fortune Brands Inc.'s home-and-security unit adopted a shareholder-rights plan ahead of its spinoff next month to protect itself against a hostile takeover and a potentially large tax bill that would come with it.

Fortune Brands Adopts Poison Pill for Home and Security Unit Tess Stynes 2011

That followed a similar endorsement Friday for the Maple bid by Stephen Jarislowsky , CEO of Canadian money manager Jarislowsky Fraser Ltd., a well-known shareholder-rights activist.

As Deadline Nears, TMX Battle Heats Up Ben Dummett 2011