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Wal-Mart’s $1.1 million “associate”…

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Friday’s announcement by Wal-Mart (WMT) that H. Lee Scott Jr. would be stepping down as president and CEO caught lots of people by surprise, according to the WSJ and others. While we don’t profess to know Wal-Mart all that intimately, we were surprised by Scott’s agreement in the 8K that the company filed on Friday [...]

Heinz stops saying never…

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Annual report season is long gone, but 10-Ks still dribble in now and then, courtesy of companies with oddball fiscal years. One of these stragglers is H.J. Heinz (HNZ), which filed its 10-K yesterday. In what’s probably a sign of the times, a comparison with last year’s 10-K reveals that Heinz has tightened up its [...]

Can’t forget the discount card at Wal-Mart…

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Wal-Mart Stores (WMT), the company everyone loves to hate, has been garnering some fan mail recently as CEO Lee Scott turns ostentatiously green (tree-hugger green, that is, not Wicked Witch of the West green). But that doesn’t mean Wal-Mart can’t give us new material to footnote. On Friday it filed this very nice Separation Agreement [...]