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Op-Ed | How Macy’s Can Repel the Barbarians at Its Gate

The company, under siege from Arkhouse Management Co. and Brigade Capital Management, doesn’t need the activists when it can be its own, writes Andrea Felsted.
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Macy’s is usually portrayed as a dinosaurs, lumbering behind more agile competitors such as Amazon and Inditex SA’s Zara. But that’s not the whole picture. (Shutterstock)

Macy’s Inc. is under siege from Arkhouse Management Co. and Brigade Capital Management, which earlier this spring raised their initial bid for the retailer to $6.6 billion.

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