Wendy’s might be saying bye-bye to Wall Street. Activist investor Nelson Peltz is leading a group that has offered about $1.4 billion to take Wendy’s private, according to The Wall Street Journal. The $7.35-per-share cash bid is a roughly 20% premium, and shares rose about 15% Wednesday. Joining Peltz’s Trian Fund Management are BlueFive Capital, Sixth Street Partners and franchisee Flynn Group, which operates more than 300 Wendy’s locations worldwide. Trian and related parties own roughly 16% of Wendy’s, and Peltz’s son Bradley sits on the board. This is not Trian’s first attempt. The hedge fund pushed for a sale…
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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Match employee demands with scalable solutions. Consider accessible financial education, debt assistance and working with benefits providers that personalize retirement income strategies. Ease rising cost-of-living pressures with annual salary increases and hybrid work arrangements. Identify underused benefits and redirect those funds to more high-impact support. Use flexibility to reclaim the talent advantage — flexible hours, remote work arrangements and dependent care stipends allow employees to better manage caregiving responsibilities. Employees gravitate to small businesses for a variety of reasons, including a more intimate workplace environment, stronger community ties or direct…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 705.28 points or 1.10% to 64,659.47 • Shanghai decreased 30.035 points or -0.82% to 3,651.434 • Hang Seng decreased 136.18 points or -0.59% to 22,958.65 • ASX 200 increased 44.50 points or 0.50% to 8,891.80 • SENSEX increased 905.01 points or 1.24% to 74,151.04 • Nifty50 increased 237.90 points or 1.05% to 22,936.75 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD decreased 0.00219 or -0.31% to 0.70319 • NZDUSD increased 0.00045 or 0.08% to 0.56295 • USDJPY decreased 0.159 or -0.10%…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Ranking the order history first beats brainstorming, because real purchases reveal demand that meetings can’t. Cap your own judgment calls in advance, or the result drifts back toward your taste. Most product ideas start in a meeting. Someone has a hunch, the team falls in love with it and the customer gets a vote only after the money is spent. That sequence is expensive. When CB Insights studied 431 venture-backed startups that have shut down since 2023, poor product-market fit was cited in 43% of failures it could trace. Plenty of…
If you were a film geek in the ’80s and ’90s like me, Bruce Campbell’s face and voice are permanently etched into your brain. He’s the legendary actor behind Ash in the Evil Dead films, the star of Burn Notice and Bubba Ho-Tep, and the author of three New York Times bestsellers. Now, with his wife Ida Gearon, he has written, directed, produced and self-funded Ernie & Emma, a sweet, funny, chainsaw-free film about a widowed salesman. Bruce skipped traditional distribution and is touring with the film himself on an 18-city Alamo Drafthouse run continuing through November. Bruce joined me…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Start with a clear plan about what should change for the customer. Business goals and metrics alone do not define the design problem. Features and technology should support the intended customer outcome, not drive it. Test usability and business results separately, and let evidence challenge the original idea. Most website design projects become specific very quickly. Teams discuss a content management system, navigation, landing pages, search, personalization, integrations and the other capabilities the site may need. By the time business or brand owners review the project, there may already be an impressive…
China is exporting a record amount of clean energy technology and equipment as the energy crisis from the Iran war drives surging demand for renewables, and that will help reduce global emissions, according to a report released Thursday.Once installed or deployed, these 2026 exports will likely avert emissions of about 450 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, roughly equal to Brazil’s annual emissions, says the analysis by the Finland-based Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air.It’s a small sign of progress as global efforts to curb climate change fall short. In November, Turkey will host annual U.N.…
Launching a bank in the U.S. involves layers of super complex compliance, legal requirements, and auditing. For Nubank, a Brazilian-based digital bank that launched in the U.S. last month under the name Nu, the branding was actually the hardest part. Building a customer support team or launching a platform for credit cards “are clear, more objective things that we need to do,” cofounder Cristina Junqueira tells Fast Company. “The brand is, in my opinion, the hardest thing that we need to do because there’s no playbook.” [Image: Nu] Founded in 2013 with a purple outline logo of mirrored shapes in…
QUESTION: Marty, your computer forecast for civil unrest beginning in 2026 is plainly correct. Is this becoming a global phenomenon? Jason ANSWER: I have stressed that the computer has warned that this is (1) Global Civil Unrest, and (2) It is an International political risk assessment against the abuse of Republics. There is evidence of a widening wave of civil unrest across Europe and parts of Asia, including Serbia, India, and Indonesia. However, it is not one coordinated revolutionary movement. Different countries are experiencing protests over inflation, energy prices, education, corruption, housing, unemployment, and declining confidence in political institutions.…
Agentic artificial intelligence is gaining popularity far beyond tech circles, with Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and other companies going head-to-head in the surging market for consumer-friendly AI agents.While the leading AI labs have offered tools with agentic capabilities for years, agents that are designed to work proactively on a user’s behalf for tasks from buying groceries to managing to-do lists have taken off this year.For anyone getting started, it can be overwhelming to understand the differences between the companies’ various offerings and which agents might be best suited for specific tasks.Here are some pointers on where to begin if you’re looking…