Cànem-CBD empresa Charlotte's Web substitueix CEO després accionista grup's revolta

Cànem-CBD productes empresa Charlotte's Web Holdings ha designat Bill Morachnick as cap executiu i junta director, substitució Jacques Tortoroli, qui dimitit as CEO i de el empresa's junta.

Tanmateix, Charlotte's Web rebutjat el dimissions de tres altres juntes directors després a retenció campanya per a grup de activista accionistes en juny, acord a a dimecres notícies alliberament.

Morachnick previly served as president of Santa Fe Reynolds Tobacco International and "led the subsequent integration" of the company after it was adquirit by the Japan Tobacco Group.

Basat en Colorado Charlotte's Web hailed Morachnick in the release as "a provat emprenedor professional skilled in taking empreses global and creating and managing strategies for consistent and sustained growth."

Sortint CEO Tortoroli was designat cap executiu at el final de 2021. He had sat on the Charlotte's Web board des de novembre 2019.

Tortoroli's sortida comes després ell i tres altres juntes membres fracassats a rebre a majoria de vots emissió en a juny accionista's vot i licitat seu dimissions.

Ahead of that board election, Charlotte's Web co-founders Jesse and Joel Stanley and a group of other concerned shareholders – including Major League Baseball, a high-profile Charlotte's Web partner – campaigned for investors to withhold their votes for four of six board nominees, including Tortoroli.

"The truth is that the actions of this board have clearly contributed to the destruction of shareholder value," Jesse Stanley said in a June statement.

El preocupat accionistes, qui posseït gairebé a trimestre de Charlotte's Web, cited la empresa's caiguda en picat estoc preu i declivi ingressos després Joel Stanley left el tauler en 2021.

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In its Wednesday news release, Charlotte's Web said a committee of independent board members had reviewed the issue "and determined that there are excepcional circumstàncies that warrant the rejection of the offers to resign."

Consell directors Joan Held, Thomas Lardieri i Alicia Morga romandre on el tauler, Charlotte's Web Director de Inversor Relacions Cory Pala confirmed to .

Tortoroli's seient on el tauler té ha estat omplert per Morachnick as a no independent director.

"El majoritari vot objectius de el Toronto Stock Exchange and (the company's majority voting) policy are the continuous improvement of corporate governance standards through provision of a meaningful means for security holders to hold individual directors accountable," Charlotte's Web said in a statement.

"El retenció campanya llançat per el activista accionistes, però, was not alineat amb aquells objectius."

Accions de Charlotte's Web comerç as CWEB on el Toronto Stock Exchange i CWBHF on over-the-counter markets.