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January is half over, the news from Haiti is heartbreaking, and right now it seems that the snow will never melt. In all, it’s been a tough few weeks. Fortunately, the 8-K that Red Robin (RRGB) recently filed lets us focus for a moment on something positive and bestow footnoted’s first Gold Star of 2010. Red Robins [...]
As footnoted regulars know, occasionally Michelle bestows the coveted footnoted gold star to companies whose executives set the bar high for good corporate behavior. When we read the proxy that the Sara Lee Corporation (SLE) filed on Wednesday, it seemed worthy of an approving nod. Although for reasons we’ll explain, while this can’t be an 18-karat [...]
Anyone who reads filings regularly knows that they’re often painfully dry. That’s mostly because they’re written in a foreign language: accounting-speak combined with legal-speak and a bit of PR/marketing speak for good measure. Which is why it’s so refreshing when you come across a filing with something of a sense of humor. It’s almost like [...]
Normally, anything filed late on a Friday means that a company is trying to bury something pretty juicy. That’s doubly true when that late Friday filing happens before a holiday weekend when the markets are closed. So you can imagine my surprise to see this 8K filed by Chipotle (CMG) at 5:27 pm on Friday [...]
The folks on the Compensation and Benefits Committee at Ameriprise Financial (AMP) feel our pain. “We realize,” they say in the company’s proxy, filed Monday, “executive compensation can be a complicated subject,” so they’ve “tried to make this year’s Compensation Discussion and Analysis easier to read.” And yes, the font used in the footnotes to [...]
