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Exclusive: Herbalife to share more data on pay in investor fight
Reuters: Business News
Wed, 6 Feb 2013
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Herbalife Inc , the embattled nutritional supplements company, is disclosing more information about how much its U.S. distributors earned in 2012 than it did in 2011, though the details are unlikely to satisfy critics like billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman.
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