date:Dec 28, 2012
Mickey MacDonald has snuffed out the possibility of a Cooke Aquaculture Inc. takeover of Clearwater Seafood Inc.
The Halifax entrepreneur has purchased 5,591,575 or 11 per cent of Clearwaters common shares from two different Cooke-related entities at $3.30 a share. The $18.45 million buy gives MacDonald 20.8 per cent of Clearwaters outstanding shares.
With his brother Colin MacDonald and John Risley the two co-founders of Clearwater the trio own 69.1 per cent of the Bedford-based seafood