Who Are Mondelez International’s Biggest Shareholders?

Take a look at Mondelez International's (NASDAQ: MDLZ) largest shareholder list and you'll find typical large institutional holders such as BlackRock, a New York-based money manager that owns 5.8% of the shares, and The Vanguard Group, manager of the Vanguard mutual funds which owns 6.2%.

But the largest shareholder is Bill Ackman's Pershing Square which owns 6.5% of Mondelez shares. Pershing Square is joined by another activist investor, Nelson Peltz and his Trian Fund, which follows a similar investment strategy as Pershing Square and owns 2.9% of Mondelez shares. Both investors are known for their strategy of taking sizable stakes in companies and pushing for management change or, at the very least, a change in the company's growth strategy.

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