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Disney Opponents Hope to Send Signal.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2004
The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 3--PHILADELPHIA -- Foes of the Walt Disney Co.'s board made a last-minute pitch Tuesday to oust Michael Eisner, urging shareholders to send a message to the embattled Disney chairman and CEO at today's annual meeting.
"This is your company," former board member Stanley Gold told a large crowd of supporters at a Philadelphia hotel. "Our goal is to send a loud signal of disapproval to Michael Eisner and the Disney board of directors for how they have managed this company."
Disney has said it expects as many as 30 percent of all shareholders to "withhold" votes from Eisner today. Gold -- who along with former board member Roy Disney has recruited a growing number of...
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