As per reports, Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is dropping a proxy fight focused on the treatment of pregnant pigs at Kroger Co. (KR) after losing a similar fight with McDonald’s Corp last month.
In March Carl Icahn nominated two directors to the supermarket chain’s board and sent a letter to its boss pointing out the company’s inability to create policies concerning animal welfare and also criticizing its wage disparities.
Icahn, a billionaire who owns roughly $50,000 worth of McDonald’s stock, had also nominated two director candidates to push McDonald’s (MCD) to fulfill the decade-old promise to stop buying pork from suppliers that house the animals in crates by the end of this year.
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