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Circuit City execs try it and like it…

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Here at footnoted.org, we’re all about kicking the tires to see how something works, tastes or feels. Before my recent trip to Copenhagen, I bought an Ipod Touch to see how well the WiFi worked, only to return it and wait for whenever the new Iphone comes out. But the “officer evaluation program” at Circuit [...]

Fun with 13Fs…

Friday, May 16th, 2008

I don’t tend to pay much attention to 13Fs, the institutional holdings reports that hedge funds and other large investors are required to file 45 days after the close of the quarter, mostly because there’s only so many filings that my dog — the brain behind footnoted.org — is willing to read. Besides, the folks [...]

Pier One gives its directors a big raise…

Monday, May 12th, 2008

One of the last filings to come over the wire on Friday was this proxy filed by Pier One (PIR), which according to the SEC, was filed at 5:22. As footnoted regulars know, anything filed late on a Friday almost certainly has something in it worth the time to at least skim and Pier One’s [...]

Reading between the lines at the NY Times…

Friday, May 9th, 2008

On Wednesday, the New York Times announced that it didn’t get enough volunteers who were willing to leave the paper voluntarily and that as a result, there would be “relatively small numbers of layoffs”, prompting the Writer’s Newspaper Guild to file a grievance. Later that day, the New York Times Co. (NYT) filed this 10Q [...]

A warm welcome at Choice Hotels…

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

It must be nice to get a raise before you even start your job. Congratulations to Stephen P. Joyce, who received one the day before his official arrival at Choice Hotels International (CHH). 
Back in March, Choice announced that Joyce would become President and COO starting May 1. (He’ll ascend in October to the CEO post, [...]