The Manitowoc Company Inc. Settles With Icahn

Manitowoc Co. MTW buried he hatched with activist investor Carl C. Icahn, granting the billionaire investor a seat on its board. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/61986/000092846415000010/mtwsch13damd2020915ex1.htm In exchange, Icahn agreed to support the company's slate of directors at its upcoming shareholders' meeting. Manitowoc had already acquiesced last month to activist demands that it split its construction crane manufacturing and food service units into two separately traded companies. In pre-market trading, Manitowoc changed hands recently at $20.80, up $0.36. Icahn disclosed a 7.7 percent stake in Manitowoc in December and called for separating its crane operations and food-service business. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/61986/000092846414000125/mtwsch13d12292014.htm Ralph Whitworth's Relational Investors, made a similar demand in June when it took an 8.5 percent stake. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/61986/000110465914048756/a14-15956_1sc13d.htm Whitworth said the widely divergent business characteristics of the Food and Crane businesses causes Manitowoc to trade at "a perpetual discount" Manitowoc on Monday also agreed that 10-percent stakeholders in its food-service spin-off will be permitted to call a special shareholders' meeting and that any shareholder rights plan adopted by the business won't have a trigger below 20 percent.