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We’ve certainly picked on cruise line Carnival Corp. (CCL) and its Chairman and CEO, Micky Arison over the years for some unusual perks like Miami Heat tickets and corporate jet usage (see here and here among others). But as we were reading the company’s recent proxy, we actually came across a footnote that seemed worth [...]
Last week’s celebrity telethon and other appeals raised a lot of money for relief efforts in Haiti, where current estimates are that the January 12 earthquake in Port-au-Prince affected 3 million people and killed more than 112,000.
We wondered if any publicly-traded companies had filed SEC documents that mentioned efforts to help the beleaguered nation, where there’s [...]
January is half over, the news from Haiti is heartbreaking, and right now it seems that the snow will never melt. In all, it’s been a tough few weeks. Fortunately, the 8-K that Red Robin (RRGB) recently filed lets us focus for a moment on something positive and bestow footnoted’s first Gold Star of 2010.
Red Robins are [...]
Maybe we can chalk this all up to a sudden surge in holiday spirit — you know, how it’s better to give than receive. How else to explain why three top executives at Constellation Energy Group (CEG) voluntarily agreed to give up their change in control payments? But there it was in this short, but [...]
In the proxy, that Microsoft (MSFT) filed earlier this week, there was an interesting new disclosure about Microsoft’s political contributions:
Microsoft recognizes the increasing interest of U.S. public company shareholders in establishing greater transparency of corporate political contributions. Microsoft discloses its political contributions to support candidates and ballot measures. Microsoft has also adopted principles for disclosure [...]
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