Were live until am this morning. Are you waiting for a non urgent operation . If so, wed love to hear from you this morning about how long youve been waiting. Are you one of the many people whove arrived at hospital only to have your operation cancelled on the day . Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victorialive. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. We are going to go and live now to hear from donald we are going to go and live now to hearfrom donald tusk, the president of the European Council. You can see the podium there, he is waiting to speak in malta in the next few minutes, he will of course be talking about those brexit negotiations, so we will go back to that live as soon as it happens, you wont miss anything at all. Our top Story Today Patients will have to wait longer for routine operations, such as hip and knee replacements as a trade off, so that improvements can be made in other areas like a e. That
Communication twun jona, but the firm is trying to engage the ceo. The interesting part of this story, jana was once short whole foods in 2014. It knows the company and its business quite well result of that campaign. In this case, im told jana is focusing on two tracks here. Operational improvements and b possibly a merger, depending on what offer might be out there. Im told januaa wants to put al the opgs on the table. Jana said to be heavily focused on the board, which has had one new member since 2008. Shares have lost half their value in the last many years. Have lagged the s p 500 over the past year. Leslie. Great reporting, now, Jana Partners took massive stake in whole foods. The firm said that it intended to speak with the company and underperformance in whole foods stock. A refresh of the board and Senior Management as well as how it can optimize real estate and improve its technology. Now, the activist firm came armed with a slate of potential nominees, each of whom took the
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Term elections, the committee for Economic Development hosted this conference. Ok. Good morning, everyone. And thank you for joining us r the committee for Economic Developments spring policy conference. For those of you i have not met, im steve, the ceo for the committee. I would like to first thank our sponsors. You should see signs. Without these wonderful people we would not be able to do this. Triple creek ranch, henrietta for. The rand corporation, tiaa, insignature numb, cal tech, pace communications, kelly services. Thank you, karl, for everything that you do. Arizona state university, corn ferry, the Aerospace Corporation. Host hotels and resorts, air bus, broad view networks. Thunder bird school of Global Management and finally the the National Aeronautic association. So lets give a round of applause to all of our sponsors. [applause] we have a terrific lineup over the next two days. We will have conversations on the new administration and Congress First 100 days. Well look a
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