By Paul Hodgson – Chief Communications Officer I want you to just get out there and give it the whole 60% Thank you, thank you, thank you, Events Analyst Dovid Muyderman for finding this absolute gem. Let’s read it first. On June 6, 2011 the Corporation (Ascent Media Corporation) and Mr. William R. Fitzgerald, Chief [...]
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June 3, 2011 in Small Print
By Paul Hodgson – Chief Communications Officer Resume Highlight of the Week In the first entry into our new Resume Highlight of the Week Competition, a hard to beat little number from Director Analyst Darren McDonald from Advanced Cell Technology’s 2011 proxy statement. Erkki Ruoslahti, M.D., Ph.D. has served as a director since November 2005. [...]
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May 27, 2011 in Small Print
By Paul Hodgson – Senior Research Associate Less work, same pay On May 12, 2011, the Board of Directors of MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Mr. Thomas C. Keys to the position of President, following Mr. Roger D. Linquist’s announcement that he is relinquishing his role as President of the Company to allow him [...]
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May 20, 2011 in Small Print
Insider Experience Preferred Events Team Leader Mark Magee found this May 11 website release from Comcast. Meredith Attwell Baker will join Comcast as Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, NBC Universal. Ms. Baker currently serves as a member of the Federal Communications Commission. Her current term at the Commission expires at the end of June [...]
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May 13, 2011 in Small Print
Man Overboarded Events analyst Dovid Muyderman found this in an 8-K from LSI on May 10. On May 9, 2011, Richard Hill, a member of our Board of Directors, advised us that by the time of LSI’s annual meeting of stockholders in 2012, he will not be considered “over-boarded” by the current policies of the [...]
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April 29, 2011 in Small Print
More Build-A-Bear cuteness OK, so there’s the usual job titles: Maxine Clark Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Bear Darlene Elder Chief Human Resources Bear Eric Fencl Chief Bearrister, General Counsel, and International Franchising Dave Finnegan Chief Information and Logistics Bear John Haugh President, Chief Marketing and Merchandising Bear Tina Klocke Chief Operations and Financial Bear, [...]
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April 22, 2011 in Small Print
Legal Beef part II Part I was here, in a January Small Print blog post called “It looks like beef, it smells like beef, it tastes like beef, but is it…”, which also featured a post on simillar chicken mcnugget rumours. Just for those who like their history…. Mark Magee, Events Team Leader, found this [...]
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April 15, 2011 in Small Print
Driving Mr. Handler This felicitous little piece was found by Compensation Analyst Darren MacDonald in Jefferies Group’s 2011 proxy statement. Includes $132,916 related to a driver we provide to Mr. Handler to facilitate his transportation to and from meetings, between our offices and for his personal use. Don’t you love the words they use? “Facilitate [...]
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April 8, 2011 in Small Print
Cleaning up another spill…. Events Team Leader Mark Magee found this beauty, an April 5 website release, and came up – as usual – with the wonderful headline. Of course, Mark also sent me the Transocean proxy filing so I could blog on the executive’s safety bonuses already this week. Obviously the apology offered by [...]
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April 1, 2011 in Small Print
Harley-Davidson awards bonus to Cowardly Lion Compensation Data Analyst Ashley Kotzur, who found this in Harley-Davidson’s 2011 proxy statement, comments: “Forget financial results. Harley’s awarding execs for courage! And it’s an extra payment they can receive, outside their normal short-term incentive.” A participant who was a Senior Leader other than the CEO was able to [...]
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March 25, 2011 in Small Print
Better than $300 As regular readers of Small Print will now, a certain Dr. Philip Gerdine, a director at Applied Materials, received a $300 undisclosed gift for 34 years of service. We mused that this was a little cheesy at the time. So now Corning comes forward and shows everyone how to do it. A [...]
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March 11, 2011 in Small Print
They obviously want to be taken more seriously… Events Team Leader Mark Magee spotted this in a February 23 additional proxy filing from a company called PHREADZ, INC. Shareholders holding a majority of the voting power of the company took action by written consent on February 15, 2011 for the purpose of approving an amendment [...]
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February 25, 2011 in Small Print
A Small Print Valentine Barrie White, he da man! What a great set of criteria, as Mark Magee, Events Analyst Team Manager, says. Also, he adds, Virginia’s state slogan has been “Virginia is for lovers” for many years… I guess this proves it. This is from a February 8th press release on Amazon’s website. [...]
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February 4, 2011 in Small Print
The "Company Name that Sounds like a Bond Film" Award The “Company Name that Sounds like a Bond Film” Award this week goes to the January 5th website release for Calgon Carbon found by Events Team Leader Mark Magee. No, don’t worry, you haven’t missed a new Bond film called “Calgon Carbon”, just read on. [...]
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January 28, 2011 in Small Print
It looks like chicken, it smells like chicken, it tastes like chicken, but is it…? Thanks to Events Team Leader Mark Magee for this gem from McDonald’s website, posted on January 13th. Response to Chicken McNugget Rumors We welcome the conversation about our food. What's really important is that people have the truth & facts. [...]
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January 21, 2011 in Small Print
Winner in our Website Press Release Title of the Week Competition Goes to GE for a January 5th press release spotted by Events Team Leader Mark Magee: Harnessing Coke Oven Gas for Growth Now the obvious comment on that is, I didn’t realize coke gave you gas. Hold on, something’s coming in over the wires… [...]
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January 14, 2011 in Small Print
Soylent Squeeze Now I know that I’m English and believe that most of the world’s ills would be solved with a nice cup of tea, proper tea, that is, with milk, so some of the things that you US-chappies come out with might seem a bit stranger to me than to… well… you US-chappies, but [...]
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December 17, 2010 in Small Print
I mean, Small Print already printed only the best silly filings, but since it was the end of the year, we (we being myself and Events Team Leader Mark Magee) thought we’d go through all the Small Prints so far and pick out what we thought were the 10 best… of the best. So here [...]
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December 10, 2010 in Small Print
The definition of irony… Says Events Analyst Marge Schwietering. She’s got a point. From a November 12 Ambac Financial Group 8-K: On November 5, 2010, the Compensation Committee of Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (the “Company”) awarded Kevin Doyle, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, a special bonus of $100,000 in recognition of his efforts to [...]
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October 29, 2010 in Small Print
It’s a big one this week because, well, because I had proper work to do last week and didn’t have time to get to this. So these first three are from last week. Just in time for Halloween First from Marge Schwietering, a nice little find from a Family Dollar website press release on October [...]