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Feathers Fly for Applebee's, PETA The restaurant declines PETA's demand to study more humane ways of killing chickens. It would be better for PETA to back its convictions with financial support when advocating a cause than to expect the other shareholders of the company to use company resources to fund those studies. |
The Motley Fool
June 28, 2011
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Shame on These Boards and CEOs! Holding shareholder meetings at locations away from HQ, where attendance will be lower, is a red flag. |
InternetNews
February 25, 2010 |
Apple Holds to Its Cash Hoard, Green Policies Shareholders meeting has no real conflict but a lot of ideas on what Apple can do with its massive cash reserves. Steve Jobs has his own ideas, however. |
The Motley Fool
February 7, 2007
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Repair Work for Home Depot Extending the olive branch to shareholders is the first step. The next is bringing back growth. |
The Motley Fool
May 21, 2010
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Foreshadowed Losses You Shouldn't Ignore You might one day regret that complacent proxy vote. |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2011
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Meet the Companies in the Hot Seat This Year Shareholders plan to turn up the heat on environmental sustainability issues. |
The Motley Fool
October 26, 2011
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Are Special Interests Taking Over Your Companies? Shareholder democracy isn't the problem; passive investing is. I ran a search on Proxy Monitor's site for socially based shareholder resolutions filed at public companies by "special interest" activists from 2008 until the present. |
The Motley Fool
March 11, 2011
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When Shareholders Show True Grit Buy-and-hold investors who hold their ground when the market flees, entrepreneurs who doggedly pursue their ambitions, and activist shareholders who won't stop pushing for the right kind of change all deserve our thanks -- and our applause. |
The Motley Fool
October 29, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Building Materials' Double-Pronged Problems On top of evaporating earnings, Building Materials' CEO is being threatened by a big shareholder. It's difficult to properly time the bottom of the housing cycle and to know when to reinvest in the industry, but this company has more than just cyclical business problems. |
The Motley Fool
April 15, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
Keeping Score at Major Companies Big issues abound in proxy statements this year. Don't miss your chance to chime in. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2011
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Who's Targeting Your Stock? The Manhattan Institute's Proxy Monitor database is a tool that lets shareholder proposals point you toward real investment risks. |
BusinessWeek
January 15, 2007
Jena McGregor |
This Proxy Season, Expect A Brawl Add up shareholder anger over the backdating scandal, a slate of new rules on executive pay disclosure, increasing pressure from activist hedge funds, and more companies requiring directors to be elected by a majority shareholder vote, and a tempestuous proxy period lies ahead. |
The Motley Fool
May 20, 2011
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Shareholders Want This Power More and more investors agitate for the right to act by written consent. |
CFO
September 1, 2010
Joseph McCafferty |
Who's in Charge Here? Listening to shareholders is easy. Making sense of their concerns is not. |
The Motley Fool
January 25, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Home Depot Trims CEO Salary Frank Blake draws a more modest paycheck than his much-criticized predecessor. He "gets" that investors in Home Depot are fed up with the board of directors giving away their wealth to the CEO. |
The Motley Fool
November 12, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Shareholders Are Winning ... Slowly CEO overcompensation is gradually being challenged in corporate America by shareholders, through resolutions and annual meeting proposals. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2009
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Shareholders Are Forcing Change You're not as powerless as you might think when it comes to important social issues. |
ifeminists
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Pamela Anderson and PETA's Animal Rights Insanity When it comes to the loopy, obsessive "animal rights" agenda advanced by Hollywood celebrities and "animal rights" activists, it's obvious that all and any modicums of rationality and sanity pertaining to the issue just, in a word, fly the coop. |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2006
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Dirty Corporate Secrets Many companies are giving away your money to politicians you hate. Investors, if this kind of information is important to you, look into your holdings' donations. |
The Motley Fool
June 7, 2005
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Covance Under Fire The contract research company could suffer at the hands of the animal-rights group PETA. The value of a company's public image is hard to quantify. For investors, this is definitely a case worth watching. |
Reason
October 2003
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Meat Markets PETA praises McDonald's as the nation's top burger peddler has begun to show a more animal-friendly face |
The Motley Fool
February 4, 2011
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Not-So-Indecent Proposals Watch out for shareholders, especially of Apple Computer, shaking things up at public companies this year. |
The Motley Fool
February 20, 2007
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Get Out and Vote! Proxy voting lets your shareholder voice be heard. |
The Motley Fool
April 2, 2007
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The Truth About CEO Compensation While CEOs fulfill very important roles, they should remember that they are employees, too. They must answer to shareholders, instead of their own greed and hubris. |
The Motley Fool
June 29, 2007
Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Are the CEOs of Google and Apple Underpaid? Did the former CEO of Home Depot deserve to get nailed for his pay package? What do investors really need to know about executive compensation? |
The Motley Fool
October 11, 2006 |
On Funds and Meetings If you hold shares through a mutual fund, can you attend annual company meetings? |
Reason
January 2002
Sara Rimensnyder |
Tasty Animals Don't mock animal rights activists -- they might take you to court. Michael Doughney found that out when he borrowed the acronym of the world's most prominent animal rights group to create www.peta.org, the People Eating Tasty Animals site... |
The Motley Fool
July 8, 2009
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Shareholders 1, Board Bozos 0 Score one for shareholder empowerment. |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2009
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You Can Make a Difference Shareholders can propose changes for companies, and if they gain enough support, they can make a big difference. |
Reason
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Science and Self-Doubt Why animal researchers must remember that human beings are special... |
