{"id":2009,"date":"2019-01-14T08:02:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T08:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2019-01-14T08:02:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T08:02:03","slug":"shareholders-pushing-for-kier-chiefs-to-be-ousted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/shareholders-pushing-for-kier-chiefs-to-be-ousted\/","title":{"rendered":"Shareholders pushing for Kier chiefs to be ousted"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leading shareholders in Kier are understood to be calling for a shake-up of its executive team.<\/p>\n

Sky News<\/em> reported that Woodford Investment Management – which holds a 16% stake in Kier – is among a group of investors questioning the future of chief executive Haydn Mursell and finance director Bev Dew.<\/p>\n

The report said that fund manager Neil Woodford was keen to see “one or both” of the executices replaced.<\/p>\n

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Kier completed a \u00a3250m rights issue last month but just one third of shares were taken up leaving bank underwriters to take-up the rest.<\/p>\n

Kier’s share price had dipped below the rights issue level of 409p but has recovered recently to close at 529p on Friday.<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer http:\/\/bit.ly\/2VTynuT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leading shareholders in Kier are understood to be calling for a shake-up of its executive team. Sky News reported that Woodford Investment Management – which holds a 16% stake in Kier – is among a group of investors questioning the future of chief executive Haydn Mursell and finance director Bev Dew. The report said that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2010,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/2010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}