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Archive for the 'Shareholder proposals' Category

A look at Western Union’s position on immigration…

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Update: The link we included yesterday to NorthStar Asset Management, Inc. turned out to be a link to a temporary host while the company was doing website maintenance. We have replaced the old link with the current, correct one and appreciate NorthStar bringing the matter to our attention. There were several tempting topics to write [...]

Activism of another kind, at Apple…

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

Chickening out on humane eggs at Bob Evans…

Monday, July 18th, 2011

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 [...]

Bristol-Myers Squibb asked to cure high drug costs…

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

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 [...]

The Sisters bite into McDonald’s…

Friday, March 4th, 2011

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, [...]