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- AFRICA: AFRICAN COMPANIES SET TO SIGN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COVENANTS AT WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ANNUAL MEETING 2003.(Brief Article)
- More than 50 companies doing business in Africa are set to pledge to practise good corporate governance and promote clean business practices at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2003 in Davos, Switzerland. The pledge comes in the form of four More than 50 companies doing...
- Research articles 2003-01-26
- The Peasants Are Revolting
- From the executive summary: ‘Apparently, shareholders are staging something of a palace coup at annual meetings over the years. During annual meetings, scores of investor groups submit their resolutions calling for corporate boards to redeem or hold a shareholder vote on anti-takeover devices. Many also introduce resolutions recommending the elimination...
- White papers 2002-09-10
- Jerry Yang Wages Email Defense Against Icahn
- Yahoo filed its internal communications about Carl Icahn’s proxy war plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The takeaway: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has been writing a lot of emails. To senior vice presidents at Yahoo, Yang delivered a few talking points following Icahn’s first volley and...
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
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- Brooke announces comprehensive economic and corporate governance platform for RJR Board slate; Ronald Fulford, head of Imperial Tobacco, would run RJR Tobacco; Dale Hanson, former head of Calpers, is tenth RJR board nominee
- MIAMI--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 21, 1996--Brooke Group Ltd. (NYSE: BGL) today announced that the slate of directors it has proposed to replace the RJR Nabisco (NYSE: RN) Board at the 1996 Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be committed to a comprehensive economic and corporate governance platform that will benefit all RJR Nabisco...
- Research articles 1996-02-21
- Relational Sues Sovereign on Removal of Directors; Demands Sovereign Honor Promised Shareholder Right; Sovereign's Assertions of Inadvertent Errors and Prior Failure to Disclose Defies Credulity
- SAN DIEGO -- Relational Investors LLC, the largest shareholder of Sovereign Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE: SOV), asked a Federal court to resolve promptly Sovereign's incredulous disavowal of numerous public statements promising shareholders the right to remove the Company's directors without cause by a majority vote. Relational will seek expedited court action...
- Research articles 2005-12-27
- PROXY Governance Joins Glass Lewis in Recommending That Bancorp Rhode Island Shareholders Vote for All the Board's Director Nominees at Upcoming Annual Meeting
- BancorpRI Urges Shareholders To Vote the WHITE Proxy Card Today PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Bancorp Rhode Island, Inc. (NASDAQ: BARI) today announced that PROXY Governance, Inc., a leading independent proxy advisory firm, recommends that BancorpRI shareholders vote FOR all the company's director nominees at BancorpRI's May 21, 2008, Annual Meeting...
- Research articles 2008-05-08
- Goldman faces battle at shareholders' meeting.
- Byline: William Wright and Margareta Pagano The Goldman Sachs board is this week expected to come under fire at its annual meeting over corporate governance and could face its first shareholder defeat since going public in 1999.Evelyn Davis, a veteran corporate governance activist, has...
- Research articles 2003-03-30
- Glass Lewis Recommends That Bancorp Rhode Island Shareholders Vote FOR All the Board's Director Nominees at Upcoming Annual Meeting
- PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Bancorp Rhode Island, Inc. (NASDAQ: BARI) today announced that Glass Lewis & Co., a leading independent proxy advisory firm, has recommended that BancorpRI shareholders vote FOR all the company's director nominees at BancorpRI's May 21, 2008, Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Glass Lewis is recognized as one of...
- Research articles 2008-05-07
- Indus Names Kenneth Lawrence to Board of Directors; Announces Date of 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
- ATLANTA -- Indus International Inc. (NASDAQ: IINT), a leading provider of Service Delivery Management SDMTM solutions, today announced the election of Kenneth G. Lawrence to the Indus Board of Directors, effective immediately. Following the 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, assuming he is reelected, Lawrence also is expected to serve on...
- Research articles 2005-07-28
- Two Candidates of Farmers & Merchants Bank Shareholder Committee Elected to Bank's Seven-Person Board of Directors at 2005 Annual Meeting
- BEND, Ore. -- The Farmers & Merchants Bank Shareholder Committee announced its two candidates, Frank O'Bryan and Roger Molvar, were elected to the board of directors of Farmers & Merchants Bank of Long Beach (OTCBB:FMBL) yesterday at its adjourned annual meeting. The Farmers & Merchants Bank Shareholder Committee also...
- Research articles 2005-03-31
- Amgen Announces Proposals to Declassify Board to Be Presented at 2007 Annual Meeting and Adopts Majority Vote Bylaw
- THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) announced today that its Board unanimously voted to approve corporate governance initiatives to declassify the Board of Directors and adopt a majority vote standard for the election of Directors in uncontested elections.
- Research articles 2007-02-15
- AFRICAN COMPANIES SET TO SIGN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COVENANTS AT WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ANNUAL MEETING 2003
- More than 50 companies doing business in Africa are set to pledge to practise good corporate governance and promote clean business practices at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2003 in Davos, Switzerland.The pledge comes in the form of four comprMore than 50 companies doing business in Africa are set...
- Research articles 2003-01-26
- Citigroup Shareholders Meeting: Lessons in Corporate Governance
- Rick Konrad submits: Corporate governance has always been an important part of value investing. Obviously, most of us hate waste when precious company resources are squandered to build executive dreams rather than shareholder capital. Misallocation of capital and failure to optimize returns on capital have led me at times...
- External links 2009-04-21
- Corporate Governance Guidelines: Fluor Corporation
- This corporate governance guidelines of Fluor Corporation discusses the selection and composition of the board, board leadership, board composition and performance, meeting procedures, committee matters and role of the board. The Governance Committee is responsible for reviewing with the Board on an annual basis the appropriate skills and characteristics required...
- White papers 2002-11-06
- Corporate Governance Guideline: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- TI's board of directors has a long-standing interest in and commitment to good corporate governance. It first adopted written governance guidelines in 1973. Its policies and practices have evolved over time, adapting to meet the needs of the company and its shareholders. This evolution continued during 2002, as the board...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Corporate Governance Principles : Pepsico
- The article discusses the role of board and management, functions of board, director qualifications, independence of Directors, size of Board and selection process, Board Committees, ethics and conflicts of interest, reporting of concerns to Non-Management Directors or the audit, compensation of Board, succession plan, annual compensation review of senior management,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- LifePoint Hospitals Announces Internet Availability of Proxy Materials for 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
- BRENTWOOD, Tenn. -- LifePoint Hospitals, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPNT) today announced the Internet availability of proxy materials for its 2008 Annual Meeting of Shareholders under the new Notice and Access rule of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The proxy materials for its 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (including...
- Research articles 2008-03-31
- Governance issues may arise at meeting of Tamilnad Mercantile Bank in India.
- By NS Ramnath, The Economic Times, India Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 8--CHENNAI, India -- The management and shareholders of Tamilnad Mercantile Bank TMB can expect a stormy annual general meeting, scheduled to take place in Tuticorin on December 24, with a...
- Research articles 2004-12-08
- OUTLOOK: Stelios driven out by risk averse corporate governance
- THE KEY question about Stelios Haji-Ioannou, known universally as just plain Stelios: has he jumped from easyJet or was he pushed? Stelios says he has long been planning to bail out to concentrate on his real talent as a "serial entrepreneur". Christopher Hirst, chief investment manager at the Co-operative Insurance...
- Research articles 2002-04-19
- Top Independent Proxy Voting Firms Support UNITE HERE's Corporate Governance Reform Proposals at Station Casinos
- LAS VEGAS -- Today, UNITE HERE announced that two top independent proxy voting firms, Institutional Shareholder Services ISS and Glass, Lewis & Co., have both issued recommendations in support of UNITE HERE's three shareholder proposals seeking corporate governance reform at Station Casinos, Inc. (NYSE:STN). These proposals will be voted on...
- Research articles 2005-05-10
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