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Aon COO asks for indoor office space…

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

They may be putting up the Christmas Tree over on Daley Plaza, but it’s unseasonably balmy here in Chicago this week. Still, we couldn’t help but chuckle when we read a line in this transition agreement between Aon Corp. (AON) and outgoing COO Andrew Appel that was filed yesterday: enclosed office space and secretarial assistance [...]

Rosetta Stone Says “Bienvenue” to New CFO…

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

Foreign languages offer so many great daydreams… the fantasy of ordering lunch in fluent French at a small bistro in Dijon, perhaps, or imagining yourself sharing a laugh with the clerk who just sold you a ticket at the train station in Stuttgart. We don’t know if Stephen Swad thinks like we do or not, [...]

Death by Powerpoint at A. Schulman…

Friday, October 1st, 2010

The last time we checked in on A. Schulman (SHLM), they were selling a fishing camp to their former CEO for a song. That disclosure, which was buried in a footnote, earned them the top prize in our annual “Footnote of the Year” contest in 2008. And it remains one of our favorite finds in [...]

PG&E tries to manage the heat from San Bruno explosion…

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Since September 9, when one of Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s (PG&E) natural gas transmission pipes ruptured and resulted in the San Bruno fire, the company filed four SEC filings that mention the explosion. PG&E – which has about 20,000 employees and delivers electricity and natural gas to about 15 million people in northern and [...]

Orbitz at the Friday night dump…

Monday, September 27th, 2010

It seems like such a cliché: bury the stuff you hope your investors never find out about after the market closes on Friday. Indeed, it’s almost as much of a cliché as the Monday morning merger announcement, of which there are several this morning, including Wal-Mart’s (WMT) $4.25 billion deal to buy Massmart in Africa [...]