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Corvex urges Whitbread to add board seat via GM

Corvex Management urged Whitbread, owner of Premier Inn, to hold a general meeting and include activist investor James Gemmel on its board, saying Whitbread’s strategic review didn’t address underlying challenges.

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Corvex Management has urged Premier Inn owner Whitbread LSE:WTB to call a general meeting so the activist investor’s partner James Gemmel can be added to the board, saying the company’s recent strategic review did not address underlying challenges.