FROM A MAJOR ARTICLE ON TWO-THIRDS OF PAGE 8 OF THE SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS SECTION OCT 31, 2021
How should Shell, Glencore and British American Tobacco deal with their “toxic” legacy businesses?
Robert Watts: Sunday October 31 2021, 12.01am, The Sunday Times
Ben Van Beurden knew last weekend that he was facing one of the more trying weeks of his 38 years at Shell. But he still had no clue of the impending ambush being prepared by an American billionaire activist investor.
Shell’s chief executive knew the quarterly figures for the oil and gas giant he would unveil on Thursday would be bad. Profits between July and September came in at $4.1 billion (£3 billion) — well below the $5.4 billion expected and 25 per cent down on the previous quarter.
It was just a few hours before Van Beurden unveiled these limp results that Daniel Loeb struck. His New York-based Third Point Management, which has inconspicuously built up a $750 million stake in Shell, sent a
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