Archive for the 'Shareholder proposals' Category

We’re out of the thick of proxy season, but a few are still trickling in, and with them, occasionally, a shareholder proposal that catches out attention. We’re usually interested when an ordinarily low-profile group — nuns at McDonald’s, for example — makes a serious proposal that shakes a company up a little. This time, it’s [...]

It’s still high season for proxies, which means we’re spending a lot of time wading through pages filled with discussions about executive compensation, board members’ qualifications to serve, the justification for perquisites, and so forth. But yesterday, we came across another shareholder resolution that reminded us of the post from a few weeks ago (the [...]

Despite the overwhelming popularity of shows like The Biggest Loser and Heavy, which often show obese people chowing down on fast food, not to mention increasingly alarming statistics on childhood obesity, McDonald’s Corp. (MCD) has essentially managed to duck that bullet. (Though in the interest of full disclosure, during the Morningstar Stocks Forum last November, [...]

Disney’s annual meeting this coming spring probably won’t be the happiest place on earth, but it sure could be interesting. UNITE HERE, the big service union that started in the needle and hospitality trades, fired a warning shot across the company’s bow yesterday with two shareholder proposals in Disney’s preliminary proxy: 1.  That the Board of [...]