Novo Nordisk (NVO) faces a shareholder backlash as minority investors plan a protest vote against a board overhaul pushed by its dominant shareholder, the Novo Nordisk Foundation, Reuters’ Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Maggie Fick report. The Foundation, holding 77% of voting rights, aims to appoint its chairman, Lars Rebien Sorensen, as Novo’s new board chair to drive a more aggressive strategy in the obesity drug market amid intensifying competition from Eli Lilly (LLY), according to the report.
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