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Blockbuster finally says the B-word…

Monday, August 16th, 2010

For the past few years, there’s been bankruptcy chatter about Blockbuster (BLOKA). Indeed, at times the speculation has been so rampant that company executives have had to actually issues statements to the media (see this story from last year and this interview with CEO Jim Keyes from this past June) that the company was not [...]

HP and me: Coincidence or not?

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Careful readers of footnoted — the type of folks who revel in reading the fine print — might have noticed that I haven’t been writing lately, even though if you Google footnoted you’ll see that it’s called “Michelle Leder’s Guide to What’s Hiding in SEC filings”. That’s because I had a baby boy — his [...]

Medtronic’s “Home Sweet (Relocation Bonus) Home”…

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Medtronic, Inc. filed its proxy late last week, and we found the high-dollar salaries one might expect at such a high-profile company: Chairman/CEO William Hawkins got a total compensation package of more than $9.6 million, for example. But was another interesting section as well. It seems that the company required Christopher O’Connell to move from California [...]

Raising the Stakes at BB&T Corporation…

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Last Friday, BB&T Corporation (BBT) filed an 8-K to disclose that the company’s 10-member executive management group had each received “a special, one-time award of performance-based restricted stock units.” That group includes Chairman/CEO Kelly King, Senior Executive VP Robert Greene, Senior Executive VP C. Leon Wilson III, COO Christopher Henson, and CFO Daryl Bible, as [...]

Williams Sonoma’s recipe for an upscale retirement…

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

With Father’s Day less than a week away, it seemed like a good time to see what’s cookin’ at Williams Sonoma (WSM).  This has been a better year so far for the company, with the stock trading about 34 percent higher than it did at the end of 2009, increased revenues, and the dividend bump that [...]