Genesco Inc. said that Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), an independent provider of proxy research and vote recommendations to the institutional investment community, has recommended that Genesco shareholders vote for all nine of the company’s director nominees at Genesco’s annual meeting on July 20. Legion Partners, the activist shareholder group, described ISS’s recommendation as “contradictory” and continued to push for changes to the board.
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