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As we flipped through the preliminary proxy that supermarket chain Safeway (SWY) filed the other day, we found ourselves humming “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” — that song by the Gershwin Brothers that was famously sung by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald:
You say either and I say either, You say neither and I say [...]
While we haven’t yet seen the new movie Alice in Wonderland, we definitely felt like we had fallen down a rabbit hole when we read Airvana, Inc.’s (AIRV) recent merger proxy.
The Chelmsford, Mass-based company, which sells network infrastructure products to the wireless companies that provide mobile broadband services, announced last December that it planned to go [...]
I was in Chicago earlier this week working on some integration issues with the folks at Morningstar, but found time to tape this video on proxy season which is going on right now. You can watch the video here:
It’s been a rocky couple of years for the car industry, which still employs hundreds of thousands of Americans, and now the public owns hefty chunks of General Motors and Chrysler. So we wouldn’t be surprised if more than a few corporate boards see it as patriotic to support automakers.
But pay $87,378 for automotive transportation [...]
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 [...]
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