On Thursday, Dow Chemical Co (NYSE:DOW)’s shares inclined 0.25% to $52.23.
Boulevard Acquisition Corp. an entity sponsored by an associate of Avenue Capital Group, recently declared the date for the special meeting of stockholders to approve Boulevard’s projected acquisition from The Dow Chemical Company (DOW) of AgroFresh, Dow’s post-harvest specialty chemical business.
AgroFresh is a global industry leader in providing innovative data-driven specialty chemical solutions aimed at enabling growers and packers of fresh produce to preserve and enhance the freshness, quality and value of fresh produce and to maximize the percentage of produce supplied to the market relative to the amount of produce grown. Its flagship product is the SmartFreshSM Quality System, a freshness protection technology proven to maintain firmness, texture and appearance of fruits during storage and transport. SmartFresh™ is presently commercialized in 45 countries worldwide.
The Dow Chemical Company manufactures and supplies products that are used primarily as raw materials in the manufacture of customer products and services worldwide. It operates through Agricultural Sciences, Consumer Solutions, Infrastructure Solutions, Performance Materials & Chemicals, and Performance Plastics segments. The Agricultural Sciences segment provides crop protection and seed/plant biotechnology products and technologies, urban pest administration solutions and healthy oils, insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, and seeds.
NetApp Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP)’s shares gained 0.26% to $31.22.
NetApp ( NTAP) experts will share the latest innovations in flash and enterprise application integration technology at the Flash Memory Summit 2015, August 11-13, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA.
The NetApp team will deliver perspectives on flash trends and industry issues at six summit speaking sessions. In booth 511, attendees can learn more about NetApp’s unique ability to assist customers manage enterprise data from flash to disk cloud and the company’s newest all-flash offering, the NetApp® AFF8000 series.
NetApp, Inc. provides software, systems, and services to manage and store computer data worldwide. It offers Data ONTAP storage operating system that delivers integrated data protection, comprehensive data administration, and built-in software for virtualized, shared infrastructures, cloud computing, and mixed workload business applications; E-Series storage systems for storage area network workloads (SAN); all-flash arrays that deliver input/output operations per second and ultralow latency to drive speed, responsiveness, and value from the applications that control key business operations; and hybrid arrays for mainstream business applications.
At the end of Thursday’s trade, Laredo Petroleum Inc (NYSE:LPI)‘s shares dipped -2.74% to $11.01.
Laredo Petroleum, Inc. (LPI) will host a conference call on Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. CT (10:00 a.m. ET) to talk about its second-quarter 2015 financial and operating results. Laredo plans to release earnings the same day before market open. The Company also declares preliminary results for its commodity derivatives for the second quarter of 2015 and its updated basic and diluted weighted-average shares outstanding.
Laredo Petroleum, Inc. operates as an independent energy company in the United States. It focuses on the acquisition, exploration, and development of oil and natural gas properties primarily in the Permian Basin in west Texas. As of December 31, 2014, it had interests in the 196,683 net acres in the Permian Basin; and had total proved reserves of 247,322 thousand barrels of oil equivalent.
American Realty Capital Properties Inc (NASDAQ:ARCP), ended its Thursday’s trading session with -0.23% loss, and closed at $8.73.
The Board of Directors of American Realty Capital Properties, Inc. (ARCP) has planned the Company’s 2015 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) for Tuesday, September 29, 2015. Stockholders of record as of the close of business on Thursday, August 6, 2015 will be entitled to notice of and to vote at the Annual Meeting. Because the September 29, 2015 Annual Meeting date is more than 30 days after the anniversary of the Company’s 2014 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, the deadline for submitting stockholder proposals made following Rule 14a-8 (“Rule 14a-8″) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and for non-Rule 14a-8 stockholder proposals has been extended.
American Realty Capital Properties, Inc. owns and acquires single tenant, freestanding commercial real estate that is net leased on a medium-term basis, primarily to investment grade credit rated and other creditworthy tenants. The company principally invests in retail and office properties.
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