DealBook points us today to the conclusion by Fortune that there are no winners, no "heros" in the Heinz proxy contest. Well, except for the shareholders that have seen a 23% gain in stock price since the beginning of the contest. Shareholder's don't make for sexy financial reporting copy, however.
(Art: "Vampire," 1893-94, Edvard Munch. Purportedly, was originally titled "Love and Pain" until being allegedly rechristened (so to speak) by friend and poet Stanislaw Przybyszewski as "Vampire." As I use it here both to foil DealBook's artwork and to make a statement about certain financial writers, it is left to the Going Private reader to determine which is the more appropriate interpretation when applied to Fortune Magazine and the CNN/Money logo that lies above its every article).
