NEW YORK, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis on Thursday recommended that Air Products and Chemicals APD.N investors elect all four of activist investor Mantle Ridge's board candidates.
Mantle Ridge is asking shareholders in the industrial gases company to elect its nominees, including its founder Paul Hilal, to the nine-member board to help improve operations and ultimately find a new chief executive.
(Reporting by Svea Herbst-Bayliss; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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