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The $1.4 million apology…

Friday, August 15th, 2008

We’re still digging out from a heaping pile of Qs here at footnoted, but didn’t want to let this one from Key Corp. (KEY) filed last Friday slip through the cracks. It’s not so much the Q, but the exhibit attached to the filing that sparked our interest.
First, the back story: back on July 8, [...]

Paris Hilton’s romp through SEC filings…

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Last week, we learned that Paris Hilton has a strong sense of irony. And on Friday, during a conference call following Sally Beauty’s third quarter earnings, we learned that Paris has some other hidden talents as well. Here’s what Sally President and CEO Gary Winterhalter had to say about Paris:
As you recall, in May we [...]

Overstock’s real estate and naked short risks…

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

In a little less than two weeks, footnoted will celebrate its fifth anniversary and in all of that time writing about odd disclosures at all sorts of companies, I’ve managed to avoid writing about Overstock (OSTK). It was definitely a conscious decision, mostly because so many other people were beating the drum, including my friend [...]

Being CEO at Vonage better than consulting…

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Last week, Vonage (VG) named Cingular marketing executive Marc Lefar as its new CEO. Lefar had left Cingular in April 2007, just before the company was renamed AT&T Wireless and had been doing consulting work for his own firm, Marketing Insights, which doesn’t appear to have been all that active, other than for a few [...]

Sensitive stuff at Cintas…

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Earlier this year a Canadian publication called uniform maker Cintas Corporation (CTAS) one of the best employers in Canada. But last week, here in America, a union-backed group - angered by the 2007 death of a Cintas worker dragged into an industrial dryer at the firm’s Tulsa plant - embarked on a “Painful Truth Tour” [...]