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By IR Web Report on March 31, 2010
A GROWING number of U.S. companies are holding their annual shareholder meetings exclusively online in spite of shareholder concerns that virtual-only meetings may undermine board accountability and exacerbate plunging retail voting rates.
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By IR Web Report on October 16, 2009
AFTER a long delay, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has finally proposed tweaks to its failed “notice and access” process for delivering shareholder meeting materials on the web. The model, which essentially transfers the decision to receive materials electronically or in print from shareowners to companies, has resulted in a dramatic drop in the [...]
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By IR Web Report on April 8, 2009
A GROWING number of companies are using the web to give their shareholders opportunities to pose questions to directors and executives at their annual meetings. Since many shareholders are unable to attend meetings in person, the move by companies to use the web could help to reengage apathetic retail stockholders in the annual meeting process. [...]
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By IR Web Report on March 25, 2009
INTEL Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) will become the first U.S. company to enable all of its shareholders to attend, ask questions and cast their votes live on the web at its next annual meeting. Although advance Internet voting and annual meeting webcasts have been common for several years, shareholders were not previously able to vote live [...]
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By IR Web Report on February 9, 2009
SEEKING to improve board accountability to shareholders, one of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) leaders has called for the 18-month-old electronic proxy delivery rules to be improved or repealed. Commissioner Luis Aguilar said at the SEC Speaks in 2009 event in Washington on Friday that the so-called e-Proxy rules, which enable companies to [...]
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By IR Web Report on June 9, 2008
DESPITE the risk that they might be reaping short-term gains while laying the foundation for long-term pain, 566 US companies used notice-only e-proxy mailings for their shareholder meetings by the end of April. According to figures compiled by Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc., companies have saved about $132 million through lower print and mailing costs. Unfortunately, [...]
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By IR Web Report on May 7, 2008
I WAS having a conversation the other day with a client about recommendations we had made about her company’s website. She wanted to know if a certain recommendation was really “fundamental” to her company’s site. That’s a really good question and one that every company needs to think about. What are the basic requirements for [...]
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By IR Web Report on March 29, 2008
CORPORATE governance activist Evelyn Y. Davis, well-known for berating CEOs at annual meetings across the US, has complained about the SEC’s new default electronic delivery process for annual meeting materials. On CNBC’s Power Lunch show, the 78-year-old Davis told host Bill Griffeth that the SEC’s process of requiring shareholders to request paper materials from companies [...]
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By IR Web Report on July 11, 2007
AMERCO (NASDAQ:UHAL), better known as the company that owns the orange U-Haul truck rental business, yesterday became the first company to simultaneously launch a stockholder forum and take advantage of the new e-proxy process. The company’s shareholders will be receiving a notice in the mail telling them they can access their proxy materials online at [...]
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By IR Web Report on April 20, 2007
ACCORDING to Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), the corporate governance ratings company, Black & Decker Corporation (NYSE: BDK) respects its shareholders more than 99% of big U.S. companies. But I think they’ve got it wrong. I am going to explain why in a roundabout way, so please bear with me. Below is ISS’s Corporate Governance Quotient [...]
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By IR Web Report on February 12, 2007
THIS is a good year to put more effort into how your company handles its annual shareholder meeting on the Web. Think of it as a dry run for future years when annual reporting to shareholders will mostly be handled online. Most companies currently do an appalling job with their annual meetings on their websites. [...]
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By IR Web Report on March 13, 2004
THE web-based Save Disney campaign humbled an immovable board by turning the company’s annual meeting into a public referendum on the effectiveness of the board and CEO. It did so in the space of three months and was spearheaded by two dissident directors — Roy Disney and Stanley Gold — who relied almost entirely on [...]
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