Archive for the 'gross up' Tag

The filings are pouring in fast and furiously today, but the footnoted staff is taking time out to share some celebratory news that’s definitely worth a gold star… maybe even two! We’ve come across several companies that are eliminating one of the grossest perks out there – the tax gross-up. Anyone who wades through proxies [...]

The Ides of March may have been unlucky for Julius Caesar, but it was a pretty good day for Raymond Milchovich. That’s because March 15th is the day that Milchovich, the Chairman/CEO of Foster Wheeler, Inc., (a subsidiary of Foster Wheeler AG) (FWLT), signed an agreement to retire as CEO on May 31, 2010 and [...]

Recently, I was talking to a reporter and they asked me if I ever highlight anything good in the filings and it reminded me of how we used to do this thing called “Gold Star Fridays” where we tried to focus on good corporate behavior. But it’s been forever — well, February — since we [...]