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Callouts & quotes from 71+ activist slides

Every emphasised callout and every pulled quote, extracted slide-by-slide. Search by keyword, filter by slide type or by source.

Showing 61–71 of 71 matching "failed"
quote villain critique

"“I heard the light source in the new Lasertec tool, the A300, doesn’t work, and TSMC evaluated it, but I heard that it failed at TSMC. Is that true?” “Yes. It failed.” — Longtime ex-TSMC procurement executive who introduced Lasertec inspection tools into TSMC"

Lasertec Corporation · 6920 Scorpion Capital · p. 25
quote villain critique

"be available to shareholders should they have any concerns that the normal channel of approaching the Chair, Group CEO, or Chief Financial Officer has failed to resolve or where such contact would not be appropriate — Aviva Corporate Governance Policy"

BP plc · BP Bluebell Capital · p. 2
quote villain critique

"On 30 June 2013, after receiving notice from the Group a wholesale investor owing $34.80m failed to settle in full the purchases of 580 hectares of plantation located in the Burdekin Queensland. — TFS FY 2013 Annual Report"

Quintis Limited · QIN Viceroy Research · p. 15
quote villain critique

"Prestige Brands "accepted the benefit of XPO's services ... without objection, protest or rejection," the complaint states, "yet failed to compensate XPO for the reasonable value of its services." — XPO Logistics Complaint"

Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc. · PBH Spruce Point Capital · p. 43
quote demand list

"In our view, it is clearly now necessary for the supervisory board to take direct responsibility for this investigation immediately and to resolve the outstanding questions that the report has failed to answer."

Wirecard AG · WDI TCI Fund · p. 2
quote villain critique

"“be available to address shareholders’ concerns which have failed to be resolved by the chair, CEO or CFO or for which such contact is inappropriate” — BP Corporate Governance Document"

BP plc · BP Bluebell Capital · p. 1
quote ceo quote

""We took it to clinical, Phase 1 later on, six years, and it failed again." — Senior pharmaceutical executive/scientist, previously at Abbott and now at another major pharma company"

Harmony Biosciences Holdings · HRMY Scorpion Capital · p. 83
quote villain critique

"consensus is very similar — Pfizer senior scientist. tricked — Novartis ex-manager. failed purchase — Novartis ex-manager. not worth the hassle — Novartis ex-manager."

Berkeley Lights · BLI Scorpion Capital · p. 33
quote table of contents

"Novartis ex-manager describes a farce: we got "tricked" and machine doesn't work; "failed purchase" that he wanted to return — Novartis ex-manager."

Berkeley Lights · BLI Scorpion Capital · p. 4
quote villain critique

""Ninety percent of the surgery I did came from other people who had failed. It was high-risk." — Dr. John P. Kostuik"

Stryker Corp. · SYK Spruce Point Capital · p. 141