Activist funds aiming to overhaul the board of Italian dairy group Parmalat (PLT.MI) in a bid to boost growth named a slate of nine directors on Friday. Investment funds Mackenzie Financial Corp, part of Canada's IGM Financial (IGM.TO); Norway's Skagen AS; and Zenit Asset Management AB want to revamp the 11-member board when shareholders of Parmalat, one of Italy's leading food companies, meet on April 12. The funds hold a combined 15.2 percent of Parmalat and have said they want to boost growth and shareholder value. [ID:nLDE70P1IS] The three funds have nominated Rainer Masera, 66, the head of the economics department at Rome's Guglielmo Marconi University, to be chairman, they said in an e-mailed statement.
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