Shareholder Advocates Shatter Records (A)
Shareholder resolutions reached new highs in Spring 2004, both in terms of the numbers shareholders filed and in the levels of support they received. …
Home Depot’s Endangered Forest Policy: The View From Five Years Later(A)
Our assessment of Home Depot's progress and remaining challenges. …
Wall Street Security Analysts Miss the Boat on Bad Guys, Hammer on the Good Guys(A)
It’s clear by now that the books were cooked at three sizeable corporations: Enron, Tyco International and WorldCom. So, did any Wall Street security analyst spot these shenanigans as they pored over the financial statements issued by these companies? Not one, as far as I have heard. On the other hand, there are some financial figures that security analysts fixate on. They recently shot down the stock of Costco Wholesale, complaining that this operator of more than 400 warehouse club stores was paying its workers too much. Checkout people at Costco start at $10 an hour, considerably more than the …
2003-04 Advocacy Roundup(A)
Shareholder activism professionals (admittedly, a job category you will not find in any Labor Department surveys) refer to it as “the season” – the months between the autumn deadlines for filing shareholder proposals and the spring shareholder meetings in which the voting results are announced. The season is the opposite of a quiet week in Lake Wobegon. We trade legalistic paperwork challenges at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), meet with companies to persuade them to implement our proposals, and if that fails, we try to get large institutional investors to vote for them. (If that fails, well, summer’s on …
Human Rights Activist Bianca Jagger Seconds Trillium Asset Managment Shareholder Proposal at ChevronTexaco (A)
Company's Legacy of Environmental Contamination in Ecuador Dominates Annual Meeting …
Is Fairness in Fashion?(A)
Gap's New Social Resonsibility Report Highlights Progress and Challenges in the Global Fight Against Sweatshops. …
Trillium Asset Management Withdraws Shareholder Proposal as Avon Agrees to Phase Out Dibutyl Phthalates From Its Products (A)
Studies Have Implicated DBP as a Possible Cause of Birth Defects …
Leading Institutional Investors in Exxon Mobil Call On CEO Lee Raymond to Update Nondiscrimination Statement to Include Sexual Orientation (A)
Stockholders owning more than $2.36 billion dollars of common stock in ExxonMobil have written to CEO Lee Raymond calling upon the company to implement a sexual orientation nondiscrimination policy …
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