The no-action letter to Whole Foods Market (Whole Foods), sanctioning exclusion of my proxy access proposal is based on a reinterpretation of Rule 14a-8(i)(9) without going through the rulemaking process. Letting Whole Foods substitute a sham proxy access proposal could negatively impact dozens of proposals submitted this year on proxy access and other topics. The […]
Whole Foods Markets ($WFM) is one of the stocks in my portfolio. Their annual meeting is coming up on 3/15/2013. ProxyDemocracy.org had collected the votes of five funds when I checked on 3/3/2012, more were added later. I voted with management 69% of the time. View Proxy Statement. (Note to IR departments everywhere, including WFM, can’t we make all proxies indexed […]