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It’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…
March 12th, 2010 | Posted in Footnoted | No Comments
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…
March 11th, 2010 | Posted in Footnoted | No Comments
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…
March 10th, 2010 | Posted in Footnoted | No Comments
The 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…
March 9th, 2010 | Posted in Footnoted | No Comments
One 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…
March 8th, 2010 | Posted in Footnoted | No Comments
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…
March 5th, 2010 | Posted in Footnoted | No Comments
A 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…
March 4th, 2010 | Posted in Footnoted | No Comments
In 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…
March 3rd, 2010 | Posted in Footnoted | No Comments
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…
March 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Footnoted | No Comments
Today’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…
March 1st, 2010 | Posted in Footnoted | No Comments