DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Consolidated-Tomoka Land Co. (NYSE MKT: CTO) (the “Company”) today announced that Jeffry B. Fuqua, the Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”), has notified the Company that he does not intend to stand for re-election to the Board at the Company’s 2017 annual shareholder meeting in April 2017.
John P. Albright, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, stated, “Jeff joined our Board in 2009 as a nominee of our largest shareholder, represented by Wintergreen Advisers, LLC (“Wintergreen”), and became Chairman in April of 2011. As Chairman, Jeff led the Company to extraordinary success in terms of shareholder returns in our stock price, which experienced a compounded annual return of approximately 10.4% through mid-February 2017, outperforming the Russell 2000 and RMZ indices. In addition, under his oversight, the Company achieved record earnings in 2016 and transformational land sales totaling more than 2,500 acres for projects including the 350,000 square foot Tanger Outlets, a 600,000 square foot distribution center, and the recently announced 1,600-acre Latitude Margaritaville.”
Mr. Albright continued, “You can’t simply measure Jeff’s impact on our Company in financial terms. Jeff has led the historic transformation of our more than 100-year old company and that has benefited all of our shareholders in terms of greatly enhanced governance, expanded transparency and disclosure and most importantly, measured leadership and stewardship of the Company. We wish Jeff the very best in the future.”
Mr. Fuqua stated, “I am very proud of the Company’s remarkable success and extend to the Company, its employees and shareholders my very best wishes for their continued success. I have decided to step down in what I believe are the best interests of the Company and its other shareholders, given the protracted attacks by Wintergreen, which have been an unfair distraction and resulted in substantial expense to our shareholders.”
About Consolidated-Tomoka Land Co.
Consolidated-Tomoka Land Co. is a Florida-based publicly traded real estate company, which owns a portfolio of income investments in diversified markets in the United States including approximately 1.7 million square feet of income properties, as well as approximately 8,200 acres of land in the Daytona Beach area. Visit our website at www.ctlc.com.
We encourage you to review our most recent investor presentations for year end 2016 pertaining to the results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2016, available on our website at www.ctlc.com.
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