Interesting.
Might be nice to see companies compete on price again.
the fuck’s an “activist investor”? No, I read the article and clicked the link, it’s some “activist investment company”, which still leaves the question open. Maybe I should ask “What the fuck is activist investing”?
Someone who buys significant shares of a company and leverages them to convince a coalition of other investors to demand changes.
You think a company could make better decisions, so you buy a large (but not controlling) chunk of shares. With a relatively large chunk of shares, you can then start making demands and hope that other shareholders bandwagon behind you to make demands from the board. Ideally stock price goes up as a result and then people sell higher than they bought for.
Basically people who believe they have all the answers to running a successful business, yet don’t feel the need to apply that towards just running a successful business themselves.
When the solution to the problems are ‘low prices sell more product’ and literally every company seems to be ignoring that, maybe this is the way to finally get things moving in the right direction.
Requiring the company to do more than provide short term stock growth. Generally they want the company to behave somewhat responsibly or ethically. A desire to not simply maximize profits. They have to have a big chunk of stock or proxy votes since the only way they can influence the company is by removing or adding board members.
Investment group buys a significant portion of stock (large enough to sway shareholder voting), then they demand changes in the company with the threat of ousting the current executives/board via their voting power. Their goal is to make the stock valuation go up, then sell off the stock for profit.
I mean, the name should make it self-explanatory, but here, I googled it for you: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shareholderactivist.asp
more free ads disguised as news for dyed sugar water, fried corn shit and single use plastic waste purveyors? hail megacorp.
have you seen that prebiotic pepsi shit? who the fuck thought that up…garbage. absolutely garbage.
good news for serious sugar water consumers
Maybe that activist investor should be pushing them to leave the Russian market like competitors such as Coca Cola due to the invasion of Ukraine. Pepsi is actively increasing their market in the country and thereby helping fund the war with increased tax revenue.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm…
As long as they don’t mess with my Mountain Dew, we’re good.
Ewwwww, I’ll have the crab juice
Good, that means more for me.
Do they have something not poisonous?
PepsiCo said it also plans to accelerate the introduction of new offerings with simpler and more functional ingredients, including Doritos Protein and Simply NKD Cheetos and Doritos, which contain no artificial flavors or colors. The company also recently introduced a prebiotic version of its signature cola.
I mean, no, they don’t, but it’s at least a small step in the right direction.
doritos protein in a pepsi, that sounds disgusting.
