Author(s): Brites, Afonso
Date: 2018
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/35667
Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
Subject(s): Whole foods market; Amazon; Jana partners; Shareholder activism.; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
The case-study describes the situation involving Whole Foods Market, Jana Partners and Amazon. The case-study describes the situation for Whole Foods Market and the shareholder activism by Jana Partners leading up to the take-over bid announcement by Amazon on June 16th 2017, when the Whole Foods Market management team invited shareholders to a special meeting to vote on the approval of the merger. The accompanying teaching note for the case-study addresses the financial analysis and valuation of Whole Foods, the rationale behind the merger, value creation through shareholder activism and the EPS fallacy as a measure of value creation.
