Norway's Norges Bank Investment Management to back Kohl's nominees in proxy fight

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss

NEWYORK – Norway’s sovereign wealth fund mentioned on Friday that it plans to vote for Kohl’s board administrators, backing administration in a hotly contested company battle with hedge fund Macellum Advisors.

Norges Financial institution Funding Administration detailed its intentions in a desk on its web site. It plans to vote for the 13 nominees offered by the retailer and doesn't intend to vote for any of the ten director candidates nominated by activist funding agency Macellum Advisor.

Buyers will be capable of vote on the Might 11 assembly. Norges owned 1.49 million shares or 1.16% of the corporate on the finish of December, in accordance with Refinitiv knowledge.

Norway’s announcement comes on the heels of the same announcement final month when T. Rowe Value Associates, one of many largest traders in Kohl’s Corp, mentioned it plans to again the entire division retailer’s administrators.

Macellum, led by Jonathan Duskin, has accused Kohl’s of not doing sufficient to enhance its enterprise. The fund known as for the corporate to place itself up on the market, which it's now doing by reviewing potential bidders.

The battle for management of Kohl’s boardroom has develop into one in every of this 12 months’s most contentious proxy battles and happens as the corporate is reviewing bids from potential patrons.

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