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Odds and ends…

Friday, March 28th, 2008

It’s been another one of those weeks here at footnoted, with so many filings that it’s been hard to pick and choose. So instead of just focusing on one or two, I thought I’d do a bit of “spring cleaning” and talk about some of the things that wound up in the footnoted net this [...]

Of body armor and lots of Ipods…

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Every now and then, I come across a disclosure that really makes me scratch my head, which is exactly what I did when I caught this amended 10-K filed by Point Blank Solutions (PBSO.PK) last week. Not familiar with Point Blank? They provide body armor to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And judging by [...]

Extra, extra: NYT target letter filed…

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Over the weekend, you might have heard the news about a hedge fund’s interest in electing four directors to the New York Times (NYT). Firebrand Partners, headed by NYU Professor Scott Galloway sent the letter to Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger yesterday and it was filed this morning. Here’s a snippet: There is nothing wrong with [...]

Those pesky Chamber of Commerce folks…

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Back when I was a local business reporter, avoiding Chamber of Commerce events was akin to trying to avoid the local loan shark: you could get away with it once, maybe twice. But sooner or later it would catch up with you. I thought about this recently after catching an interesting disclosure in the proxy [...]

Activist Thursday (Part Two)…

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

So Carl Icahn just spoke at the World Business Forum and the insta-review, judging by the chatter in the ladies’ room, was that it was interesting, but contained “no content”. Still, these women said they’d be happy to have Icahn at their dinner party. Then again, this doesn’t seem like the type of crowd that [...]