It’s no secret that Gap (GPS), whose brands also include Old Navy and Banana Republic, has been treading water for quite some time. Just take a look at the 10 year chart. And just last week, the company reported an 18% drop in same store sales.
Late yesterday, Gap filed its latest proxy and while much [...]

We couldn’t help but do a double-take as we read the proxy that Exxon Mobil (XOM) filed yesterday. And it had nothing — really — to do with compensation or perks. As the WSJ pointed out this morning, last year was pretty good for the company and yet the compensation for Chairman and CEO Rex [...]

Last week, Choice Hotels (CHH) filed this proxy and unlike a lot of directors who tend to take to company freebies like pigs at the trough — Al Gore’s use of Apple (AAPL) products is just one example — there’s plenty of room at the inn that Choice directors aren’t using.
The giveaways, which are [...]

We seem to be honoring the sport of golf today at footnoted, although that’s not particularly unusual around here.
In its proxy filed Friday, Callaway Golf (ELY) explained that the “complexity and competitiveness” of its business necessitates paying “above median compensation” so it can attract executives with sufficient smarts. (Yes, theirs is a complex business. Take [...]

I would have preferred to get through the week without hearing the phrase “FAA whistleblowers.” Here we are, already trying to survive various and sundry blows to the global economy. And now, as we’re sitting on the runway, we’ll be wondering if anyone has recently inspected the Scotch tape that’s keeping the wing on the plane to [...]