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A taxing disclosure at Fortune Brands …

IRS W-2 and cash imageIt’s a rare day when corporate America cites the Internal Revenue Service as a bastion of restraint and sober perspective — especially when it comes to personal income.

Yet there on page 35 of the proxy filed by consumer-products conglomerate Fortune Brands…

Boeing’s million-plus consultant…

Last August, Boeing (BA) announced a management reshuffling that included the departure of Scott Carson, who had been running the company’s Commercial Airplanes unit. The release, which was dated Aug. 31 — when few people were likely paying attention, given how…

Sonic execs drive up auto perks …

It’s been a rocky couple of years for the car industry, which still employs hundreds of thousands of Americans, and now the public owns hefty chunks of General Motors and Chrysler. So we wouldn’t be surprised if more than a…

Leucadia Exec Gets Big Pay to Stay…

pile of cashThe Change in Control terms for executives at Leucadia National Corp. (LUK) were already generous, but for Vice President Justin R. Wheeler, they just got a lot better.

Late last Friday afternoon, Leucadia filed this 8-K and an attached letter agreement to set…

The paper shuffle at Hess Corp…

pile of paperOne of the challenges of reading annual reports is sifting through the massive dump of exhibits and figuring out what has been filed previously and what hasn’t. And despite what you’re probably thinking, that work isn’t always as glamorous as it…

A gold star for Carnival’s CEO…

We’ve certainly picked on cruise line Carnival Corp. (CCL) and its Chairman and CEO, Micky Arison over the years for some unusual perks like Miami Heat tickets and corporate jet usage (see here and here among others). But as we were reading…

The mystery in Forestar’s annual report…

detectiveA lot of us like a good mystery, but most of us probably prefer the ones in a book to those in an SEC filing.

When we looked at the 10-K that Forestar Group Inc. (FOR) filed yesterday, we noticed an interesting example…

Freshly-baked employment agreements at Dominos…

pizzaIn addition to the exciting news reported yesterday about Dominos Pizza, Inc.’s (DPZ) impressive profits, the company also released information about deals with two top executives.

On March 8th, J. Patrick Doyle will replace David Brandon as President and CEO. And as Doyle’s…

Exxon Mobil directors say fill er up…

Gas prices may be much lower than they were during the summer of 2008, when they were approaching $5 a gallon in many parts of the country. But we couldn’t help but think about gas prices as we dipped into…

Digging into Xerox’s 10-K…

photocopierToday’s the deadline for the many companies that are on a calendar year to get their 10Ks in to the SEC, and the folks here at footnoted couldn’t be happier. We won’t bore you with how we spent our respective…