Carter-Wallace majority shareholder rejects financier's $835 mil. takeover bid; Trojan wars?.
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
TROJAN WARS?: FINANCIER DAVIS' $18-PER-SHARE BID FOR CARTER-WALLACE is rejected by CPI Development, the Princeton, New Jersey-based company's largest shareholder, Carter-Wallace reports Nov. 1. CPI, which is headed by Carter-Wallace Chairman and CEO Henry Hoyt and Richard Cruess, who sits on the Carter-Wallace board, may be hoping for a bidding war over the consumer products and pharmaceuticals firm.