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Sard Verbinnen is handling media for Bed Bath & Beyond as the retailer is pressed by billionaire investor Ryan Cohen to revamp its operations and explore strategic alternatives.
Cohen, co-founder of Chewy Inc., online pet products retailer, and chairman of GameStop, owns a 9.8 percent in BB&B via his RC Ventures investment arm.
BB&B says it will “carefully review” RCV’s letter and hopes “to engage constructively around the ideas they have put forth.”
It also noted that 2021 marked the first year “our bold, multi-year transformation plan, which we believe will create significant long-term shareholder value.”
Sard Verbinnen has Jim Barron and Jared Levy working the BB&B account.
The firm is part of Finsbury Glover Hering.
Hut 8, energy infrastructure platform, has named NextEra Energy's Mark Eidelman head of IR and SVP of strategic finance.
Teneo handles easyJet as Minneapolis investment firm Castlelake mulls a possible takeover of the British budget airline.
Brunswick Group represents Universal Music Group as it rejects the unsolicited $65B takeover offer by billionaire Ed Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management because it “fundamentally and materially undervalues” the world’s largest music company.
Prosek Partners brings on Danielle O’Brien as a managing director in its investor relations practice, based in the firm’s New York office.
Houston’s Dancie Perugini Ware PR represents Fertitta Entertainment as it takes Caesars Entertainment private in a $17.6B cash deal. 
