On January 24, 2017, Wintergreen Advisers, LLC announced that in a letter dated January 23, 2017 from litigation counsel to Wintergreen Advisers to the Csolidateds counsel, Wintergreen Advisers responded to the Company's January 10, 2017 letter in which the Company again maintained that it would not allow Wintergreen Advisers to nominate directors to be voted on at the Company's 2017 annual meeting.