Third Point Files Definitive Proxy Materials for Campbell Soup Company’s 2018 Annual Meeting
Publication Titled “The Independents” Shares Third Point’s View that Campbell’s Entrenched Board Destroyed Shareholder Value While Overpaying for Dreadful Management
ReleasesIn-Depth Presentation Outlining Why the Company’s Continuously Deteriorating Performance – Exemplified Most Recently by the Company’s10-K Which Third Point Believes Strongly Signals an Expectation for Lower Earnings than Forecast – Cannot Be Turned Around with Existing Leadership in Place and the New Slate is Necessary to #RefreshTheRecipe
Urges CPB Shareholders to VOTE the WHITE Proxy Card to Elect the Independent Slate, Which Will Bring Superior Expertise and Necessary Fresh Perspectives to the Board
New York, New York, October 1, 2018 — Third Point LLC (NYSE: TPRE; LSE: TPOU)(“Third Point”), a New York-based investment firm managing approximately $18 billion in assets, holds approximately 6% of the outstanding common shares of Campbell Soup Company (NYSE: CPB) (“Campbell” or the “Company”) and has filed a definitive proxy statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to replace the entire Board of Directors with its highly qualified nominees (the “Independent Slate”) at Campbell’s 2018 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Shareholders expect the Company to announce the meeting date shortly.
Along with its filing, Third Point has mailed to fellow shareholders a booklet introducing its slate – The Independents – which highlights the outstanding qualifications of its twelve directors and their unique ability to save this deteriorating business. Third Point also released anin-depth presentation which is available atwww.RefreshCampbells.com. The presentation lays out why, in Third Point’s view, the Company’s current leadership is incapable of turning Campbell around at this critical juncture and how two decades of blunders in leadership, strategy, and execution have destroyed shareholder value.
To introduce its proxy to shareholders, Third Point sent the following letter to its fellow shareholders, urging them to VOTE the WHITE Proxy Card to #RefreshTheRecipe at this year’s Annual Meeting:
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September 28, 2018
Dear Fellow Campbell Soup Company Shareholder:
We are sending you this letter because you are a fellow owner of Campbell Soup Company (“Campbell” or the “Company”).During this proxy season, you have an opportunity to vote for new, energetic, shareholder-aligned leadership, known as the “Independent Slate”, and replace Campbell’s entrenched Board of Directors (the “Board”) who we believe made a series of strategic mistakes and operational failures that have destroyed the value of your holdings. We want to work with you to help reverse Campbell’s deteriorating performance, regain your lost investment, and put this important American company on a new path of growth, innovation, and profitability.