Archive for the 'PR Spin' Category

Companies have to disclose all kinds of things to investors. Companies dearly like to spin those disclosures to seem as positive as possible. In a pinch, guess which impulse wins out? Look no further than Walgreen Co. (WAG) the big pharmacy and drug-store chain, which filed a quarterly report with the SEC on Friday that [...]

When Hewlett Packard (HPQ) announced its $1 billion reorganization plan on Tuesday — including plans to lay off as many as 9,000 people, and hire some 6,000 others over three years — we wanted to take a look at a few of the company’s filings to get some perspective. The 8-K that contained HP’s announcement [...]

Last August, Boeing (BA) announced a management reshuffling that included the departure of Scott Carson, who had been running the company’s Commercial Airplanes unit. The release, which was dated Aug. 31 — when few people were likely paying attention, given how sleepy things are at the end of August — noted that the changes would [...]

This morning’s NY Times had an interesting story about the Obama Administration going after what it describes as “excessive rate increases” that some health insurance companies — the article talks about Anthem Blue Cross specifically, a subsidiary of WellPoint (WLP) — are trying to pass along to their subscribers. And just last week, a friend [...]

One of the more popular posts we’ve done here at footnoted — at least in terms of reader comments — was this one from two years ago on the lack of adequate products at a Rite Aid (RAD) store in Manhattan. Even after all this time, Rite Aid employees still write in to grouse about [...]