Disney Shareholders Back CEO Bob Iger, Ending Boardroom Battle
WSJ What’s News
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 1:01.0 | This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that moved the world today. |
| 1:07.0 | Disney defeated activist shareholder Nelson Peltz in a fight for influence in the |
| 1:17.3 | company's boardroom handing CEO Bob Eiger a major victory over one of Wall Street's |
| 1:22.2 | most aggressive investors. |
| 1:24.0 | Disney said today, shareholders voted to elect its entire slate of board nominees. |
| 1:29.0 | Pelt, who has argued that Disney needs a fresh voice to hold management accountable, lost his bid to become a director. |
| 1:35.6 | Robbie Wielin covers the Walt Disney Company and he joins me now. |
| 1:39.1 | Robbie, this is a big win for Bob Eiger? |
| 1:41.8 | Yeah, it's a very big win. This has been sort of a thorn in |
| 1:45.3 | Iger's side for the better part of the last two years. It's been a major |
| 1:49.7 | distraction for him and there's been a lot of sort of public back and forth that's gotten a little |
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