Staples already had contact with shareholders CE

Here is an interesting piece of news in Dutch from Betten Financial News. Basically the article mentions comments made by Mr. Paul Capelli, spokesperson of Staples, who states that Staples has been in contact with shareholders in order to get their opinion about the initial offer. These conversations have resulted in the current offer. The rest of the article talks about comments from both CE and Staples that it is the other party that did not want to talk until now. I am pretty sure that talks will now take place soon. If the above is true, I think that Mr. Ventress has to work quite hard to get an additional EUR 0.50, and even harder to get more. (end of post)