It's Black Letter Law Events Analyst Dovid Muyderman found this beauty in a November 18th 8-K from Santarus. You have to hand it to those lawyers, every now and then they just say it like it is instead of binding it up in a big pile of legalese. On November 15, 2011, Santarus, Inc. (“Santarus”) [...]
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November 25, 2011 in Small Print
By Paul Hodgson – CCO and Senior Research Associate New winner in our "CEO Quotation of the Week" Competition Events Team Leader Mark Magee tracked this beauty down in a November 15th article in the Wall Street Journal. J.C. Penney Co.'s new chief executive, Ronald Johnson, said Monday that he is out to "re-imagine" the [...]
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November 11, 2011 in Small Print
By Paul Hodgson – CCO and Senior Research Associate Bank of America issues new bicycle that only pedals backwards Remember Regretflix? Well, Events Team Leader Mark Magee spotted this November 1st website release in a possible new competition – Back Peddling Release of the Week! This one’s a clear winner. In response to customer feedback [...]
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October 28, 2011 in Small Print
By Paul Hodgson – CCO and Senior Research Associate Business as usual…. Events Team Leader Mark Magee included this shocker from an October 24th 8-K. Following its Annual Meeting of Stockholders today, News Corporation announced that all Directors were elected, the advisory vote was in favor of executive compensation, and the other management proposals were [...]
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October 21, 2011 in Small Print
By Paul Hodgson – CCO and Senior Research Associate Winner of this Week's Louis "I'm shocked, shocked, to find that gambling is going on here" Renault Award Events Team Leader Mark Magee found this gem in an October 14th Reuters report. Ads for General Mills fruit snacks mislead customers into thinking products like its Fruit [...]
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October 14, 2011 in Small Print
By Paul Hodgson – CCO and Senior Research Associate The Future of Futures Events Analyst Dovid Muyderman spotted this in an October 10th website release Investment Technology Group, Inc. (NYSE: ITG), a leading agency research broker and financial technology firm, today announced the release of a suite of algorithms for futures. The ITG futures algorithms [...]
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October 7, 2011 in Small Print
By Paul Hodgson – CCO and Senior Research Officer This week's winner in the CEO Quotation of the Week Competition Events Team Leader Mark Magee found this, well, to be frank, couching a rip off in a statement of the obvious, from Bank of America. Bank of America's CEO defended his bank's new $5 fee [...]
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September 30, 2011 in Small Print
By Paul Hodgson – CCO and Senior Research Associate Vague Contract Term of the Week This week’s winner in the Vague Contract Term of the Week Competition was found by Events Analyst Dovid Muyderman in a September 27th 8-K from Ceradyne. Ceradyne, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRDN) announced that it has received a new three-year ID/IQ (Indefinite [...]
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September 23, 2011 in Small Print
By Paul Hodgson – CCO and Senior Research Associate Yeah, you make false statements, I know, but… oh, come here and give Uncle Sam a hug Thanks to Events Analyst Dovid Muyderman for both finding this September 20th 8-K from MTS Systems, and for that great headline. On September 19, 2011, MTS Systems Corporation (the [...]
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September 16, 2011 in Small Print
By Paul Hodgson – CCO and Senior Research Associate Under the "Executive Experience Preferred" File Events Analyst [and feature film director] Dovid Muyderman found this piece of doggerel in an August 22nd website release from McGraw-Hill. The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) today announced that Douglas Peterson (53), currently chief operating officer of Citibank N.A., Citigroup's [...]
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September 9, 2011 in Small Print
By Paul Hodgson – CCO and Senior Research Associate And this week's winner in our ever-popular "Vague Sentence of the Week" Competition Compensation Analyst Ashley Kotzur found this beauty in a June 30th 8-K from Vista Gold Corp. Provide definition and sampling of the Batman deposit in areas that could potentially impact the BFS final [...]
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August 19, 2011 in Small Print
By Paul Hodgson CCO and Senior Research Associate TASER and death Compensation Analyst Ashley Kotzur spotted this press release from TASER International on July 19th. It’s more somber than your average Small Print entry, but, in essence, it fits right in. Jury Award for Plaintiff in Turner v. TASER International Company Intends to Appeal Based [...]
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August 12, 2011 in Small Print
By Paul Hodgson – CCO and Senior Research Associate The Clear Winner in our "Vague Sentence of the Week" Competition Events Analyst Dovid Muyderman found this week’s competition winner in an August 9th 8-K from Hecla Mining Co. On August 8, 2011, the Company issued a news release announcing the Board of Directors’ final approval [...]
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August 5, 2011 in Small Print
By Paul Hodgson – CCO and Senior Research Associate Signs of the times Events Team Leader Mark Magee felt these two reports were definite signs of the times. In this report we learn that Apple has more cash than the federal government. So Apple is more likely to buy back its own shares than the [...]
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July 29, 2011 in Small Print
By Paul Hodgson – CCO and Senior Research Associate CEO Aircraft Seats – business is booming Events Analyst Dovid Muyderman found this revelation in a June 28 website release from Goodrich showing that clearly the executive seating business is doing very well, frankly. But listen. Is that all they make? They don’t bother with economy seating? [...]
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July 22, 2011 in Small Print
By Paul Hodgson – Chief Communications Officer Given the banner few weeks the company is having, we thought we’d dedicate this entire issue of Small Print to News Corp. First off from Events Team Leader Mark Magee, a July 13th 8-K with the understatement of the year: News Corporation ("News Corp") announces that it no [...]
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July 15, 2011 in Small Print
By Paul Hodgson – Chief Communications Officer Someone get Dan Brown on the phone fast! The compensation data team found this one in Applied Micro Circuits 2011 proxy statement. I’ve just put the CEO’s row in here, but they were all the same. The totals for 2011 are all $2,011 more than they should be. [...]
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July 8, 2011 in Small Print
By Paul Hodgson – Chief Communications Officer Walmart needs women… to build their stores The fact that this June 22 website release comes so close to Walmart winning the biggest class action sexual discrimination suit in history can be nothing but mere coincidence. Women Will Build Walmart Stores Unprecedented in the Brazilian retail market, today [...]
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July 1, 2011 in Small Print
By Paul Hodgson, Chief Communications Officer Some slick finger-pointing Events Team Leader Mark Magee spotted this June 22nd Transocean website release of transcendent guile and innocence. “Who, me?” And I cannot take credit, though I wish I could, for that headline. That was Mark too. Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) (SIX: RIGN) today announced the release [...]
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June 17, 2011 in Small Print
By Paul Hodgson – Chief Communications Officer Superhero's identity revealed…? This must be an accident, I thought all superheroes wanted their identities kept secret, but here’s Aon actually giving the man’s name and biographical details! Aon Hewitt appoints Peter Redhead as business leader for North West LONDON – 13 June 2011 – Aon Hewitt, the [...]