VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Jan 7, 2008 Marketwire via COMTEX -- Ballard Power Systems (TSX:BLD)(NASDAQ:BLDP) today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services ("ISS"), the leading independent proxy advisory firm for institutional VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Jan 7, 2008 Marketwire via COMTEX -- Ballard Power Systems (TSX:BLD)(NASDAQ:BLDP) today...
NEW YORK -- Salomon Brothers Municipal Partners Fund II Inc. (NYSE:MPT) today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services ISS, the nation's leading independent proxy voting advisory firm, is recommending that shareholders vote in favor of a new management agreement with Salomon Brothers Asset Management Inc SBAM, to take effect upon the...
NEW YORK -- Salomon Brothers Inflation Management Fund Inc. (NYSE: IMF) today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services ISS, the nation's leading independent proxy voting advisory firm, is recommending that shareholders vote in favor of a new management agreement with Salomon Brothers Asset Management Inc. SBAM, to take effect upon the...
NEW YORK -- Salomon Brothers Municipal Partners Fund Inc. (NYSE: MNP) today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services ISS, the nation's leading independent proxy voting advisory firm, is recommending that shareholders vote in favor of a new management agreement with Salomon Brothers Asset Management Inc SBAM, to take effect upon the...
NEW YORK -- Salomon Brothers Capital and Income Fund Inc. (NYSE: SCD) today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services ISS, the nation's leading independent proxy voting advisory firm, has issued an analysis and opinion recommending that shareholders vote in favor of a new management agreement with Salomon Brothers Asset Management Inc...
Institutional Shareholder Services, of Rockville, a provider of proxy voting and corporate governance data services, unveiled its Policy Gateway, a new Web site (www.issproxy.com/policy/index.jsp) designed to set a new industry standard for corporate transparency. The site contains details about the firm's public formulation process, the makeup of its policy board,...
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Inter-Tel Delaware, Incorporated (NASDAQ: INTL) today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services ISS, a leading independent proxy voting advisory service, has changed its previous recommendation and is now advising its clients to vote the WHITE proxy card "FOR" Inter-Tel's pending merger with Mitel Networks Corporation. ISS' clients include...
NEW YORK -- Alacra Inc., a leading provider of worldwide business research solutions, announced today the addition of Institutional Shareholder Services ISS to its list of premium content providers. Alacra will make the U.S. and Global ISS Corporate Governance Quotient Database and Profiles available to customers.
NEW YORK -- The Salomon Brothers Fund Inc. (NYSE: SBF) today announced that both Institutional Shareholder Services ISS and Glass, Lewis & Co. Glass Lewis, the nation's leading independent proxy voting advisory firms, are recommending that shareholders vote in favor of a new management agreement with Salomon Brothers Asset Management...
NEW YORK -- Carl C. Icahn today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services ISS has recommended that stockholders of Motorola, Inc. vote their shares FOR the election of Mr. Icahn to the Motorola board of directors on the GOLD proxy card at Motorola's May 7, 2007 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. ISS,...
Lightbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: LTBG), a leading transaction processing company, announced a sharp increase in new Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQTM) data released by Institutional Shareholder Services ISS. Lightbridge's index rating rose from 46.2 in May 2005 to 94.0 as of September 10, 2005, and its industry ranking rose from 69.2 in...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Cotelligent, Inc. (OTC BB: CGZT) announced today that Institutional Shareholder Services recommended that shareholders vote in favor of the company's planned divestiture of its IT Services business.
NEW YORK -- The proposed sale of ShopKo Stores Inc. to the private investment firm of Goldner Hawn Johnson & Morrison Inc. is on shaky ground after Institutional Shareholder Services ISS, a proxy adviser, recommended that shareholders reject th NEW YORK -- The proposed sale of...
FREMONT, Calif. -- Lexar Media, Inc. (Nasdaq:LEXR) today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services ISS has recommended that Lexar stockholders vote "FOR" the proposed merger with Micron Technology, Inc. (NYSE:MU) at Lexar's June 2, 2006 special meeting of stockholders. ISS is a leading independent U.S. proxy advisory firm and its voting...
BLOOMIES' NEW STORE TO MISS HOLIDAYS The opening of Bloomingdale's Home & Furniture Store in the refurbished Medinah Temple just off North Michigan Avenue has been postponed until early February, meaning it will miss the holiday shopping seaso BLOOMIES' NEW STORE TO MISS...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc., NASDAQ: ARTG) today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services ISS has recommended that ATG stockholders vote FOR the Primus Knowledge Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: PKSI) acquisition at the special meeting of ATG shareholders scheduled for October 22, 2004. ISS is widely recognized as the...
Byline: STEVEN R. STRAHLER Carl Icahn is gaining support from Motorola Inc. shareholders, increasing the likelihood the activist investor will land a seat on the company's board next week. Despite CEO Edward Zander's recent lobbying of large in Byline: STEVEN...