Tag Archives: Starboard Value

Starboard Value Nudges Office Depot To Create Some Shareholder Value. In Totally Unrelated News, Office Depot to Merge With OfficeMax.

Posted on February 20, 2013 by db

On September 18, 2012, we reported that Starboard Value was having a shredding party with Office Depot (ODP), announcing it owned over 13% of its shares and telling them how to run their business.  ODP closed at $2.59/share that day.  … Continue reading →

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Starboard Value Comes Out Swinging in the New Year

Posted on January 29, 2013 by db

Hedge Fund begins the year by picking a couple of board fights Starboard Value L.P. comes banging into 2013, putting the smack down on Calgon Carbon Corporation (CCC) and Wausau Paper Corp. (WPP). On January 22, Starboard filed a Schedule … Continue reading →

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Oh Boy! Office Depot In Play? WWDMD (What Would Dunder Mifflin Do)?

Posted on September 18, 2012 by db

Activist investor Starboard Value jammed Office Depot’s printer with its notice that it owns over 13% of the shares of the common stock of ODP, the home of office supply savings (60% off of store brand printer ink as we … Continue reading →

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