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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 [...]
As footnoted regulars know, occasionally Michelle bestows the coveted footnoted gold star to companies whose executives set the bar high for good corporate behavior.
When we read the proxy that the Sara Lee Corporation (SLE) filed on Wednesday, it seemed worthy of an approving nod. Although for reasons we’ll explain, while this can’t be an 18-karat gold [...]
Anyone who reads filings regularly knows that they’re often painfully dry. That’s mostly because they’re written in a foreign language: accounting-speak combined with legal-speak and a bit of PR/marketing speak for good measure. Which is why it’s so refreshing when you come across a filing with something of a sense of humor. It’s almost like [...]
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