Archive for the 'retention bonus' Tag

Although the global workplace has a lot of advantages, occasionally a company decides that people need to move in order to work in a particular location – a decision that doesn’t always sit well with those who are affected. That seems to be the case at Wendy’s/Arby’s Group, Inc. (WEN), which announced in Jan. 2011 [...]

Shareholders of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (EPD) are probably happy that – for the 25th consecutive quarter – the company has increased its dividend. Just yesterday, Enterprise announced that it will pay a quarterly cash dividend of $0.5825 per share. To be sure, a 1.3% increase over last year’s distribution rate is modest, but it gives [...]

You know how those ornately painted matryoshka dolls open to reveal hidden dolls inside? That image came to mind after we discovered a newsworthy nugget in the eighth exhibit to the 10-Q that J. Crew Group, Inc. (JCG) filed with the SEC at 4:10 p.m. last Friday. Pre-holiday weekend filings often make for the juiciest [...]

CenturyLink (CTL) got some attention last week for an 8-K it filed, reporting that shareholders of CenturyLink and Qwest Communications International, Inc. (Q) overwhelmingly approved a merger proposal. But the company also filed a second 8-K, which received no real attention, even though it involves more than $10.2 million of shareholders’ money. That filing disclosed that CenturyLink (formerly [...]