A message from Jim Kristie, editor and associate publisher of Directors & Boards: Annual meetings can be a frustrating and often futile exercise — in meeting statutory requirements, yes, but not much else as a worthy vehicle for demonstrating corporate leadership and enhancing shareholder relations. Thus, the cover story for the first Directors & Boards […]
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Annual Meeting Conduct
James McRitchie, 07/20/2010 ,
In the past we have reported on various outrages that have sometimes occurred at annual meetings, like when Whole Foods Markets denied an opportunity for a shareowner proponent to to present their resolution before the vote was taken in 2006. Months later, they issued the following response (Hole Foods Digs Out, 7/2006): After researching common […]
Shareholder Forum on eAGMs
James McRitchie, 06/24/2010 ,
Gary Lutin’s Shareholder Forum is putting together an impressive panel of luminaries to help consider proposed standards for judging the fairness of communications associated with voting at shareholder meetings, assuring a shareholder’s right to: (a) present questions and views to a company’s managers and to other shareholders, (b) observe the presentation of other shareholders’ questions […]