{"id":3877,"date":"2017-02-24T14:03:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T14:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2021-07-05T11:44:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T10:44:37","slug":"barington-capital-group-best-activist-investor-corporate-governance-team-united-states-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/finance\/2017\/barington-capital-group-best-activist-investor-corporate-governance-team-united-states-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Barington Capital Group: Best Activist Investor Corporate Governance Team United States 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3879\" src=\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Barington.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Barington.jpg 334w, https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Barington-300x75.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>A value-oriented activist investor since early 2000, Barington Capital Group, L.P. invests in undervalued publicly-traded companies that it believes can appreciate significantly in value via improved corporate governance, operations, capital allocation and business strategy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barington\u2019s team of seasoned professionals leverage their experience to help companies design and implement policies and initiatives to significantly improve long-term shareholder value.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The firm\u2019s founder James Mitarotonda has established a solid reputation for investing in\u00a0undervalued companies and moving quickly and decisively to help such companies unlock their value potential.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barington has helped improve corporate governance and transparency at numerous publicly traded companies and is one of the first activist investment funds to recognize that strengthening a company\u2019s corporate governance helps facilitate the introduction and implementation of new measures to improve long-term performance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barington Capital Group boasts considerable experience investing in consumer-focused companies. \u00a0It has held significant stakes in companies such as Avon Products, Chico\u2019s, The Children\u2019s Place, Darden Restaurants, Dillard&#8217;s, The Jones Group, Lone Star Steakhouse, Nautica, Pep Boys, Steven Madden and Warnaco.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the past three years, nine companies have made significant improvements to their boards after Barington\u2019s involvement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The CFI.co judging panel is delighted to offer Barington Capital Group its 2016 Best Activist Investor Corporate Governance Team United States Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A value-oriented activist investor since early 2000, Barington Capital Group, L.P. invests in undervalued publicly-traded companies that it believes can appreciate significantly in value via improved corporate governance, operations, capital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,23,11,53],"tags":[191],"class_list":["post-3877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-practice","category-corporate-governance","category-finance","category-front","tag-usa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.6 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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