Aug 7, 2020 | 2020, 2020 Q2, Annual Meetings, Issues, Virtual Meetings
Topping the list - and the very best VSM we listened to - is STARBUCKS - where we provided some background info and wrote up in detail in our last issue. They put “the shareholder experience” first and foremost, worked hard to make it engaging and informative, and...
Aug 6, 2020 | 2020, 2020 Q2, Annual Meetings, Issues, Virtual Meetings
Topping our 2020 Hall of Shame list is the Transfer Agent that advised all its clients to postpone their Annual Meetings until July at the earliest…simply because they were not able to handle the work involved…and shamelessly implying that this advice was pursuant to...
Aug 6, 2020 | 2020, 2020 Q2, Annual Meetings, Issues, Virtual Meetings
First we should note the key assumption, and one we fervently wish for; that ‘the Covid coast will be sufficiently clear’ by year-end to allow people to plan for the possibility of in-person meetings. If not, all bets are off, and likely, there will be many more VSMs...
Aug 6, 2020 | 2020, 2020 Q2, Annual Meetings, Issues, Virtual Meetings
Yes, a number of “Big Brothers” ARE listening in - some of them to offer constructive criticism and even a few words of praise - but some looking to name and shame - and even, in one extreme case, reported below, to actually threaten executives of companies they...
Jul 12, 2020 | 2020, 2020 Q2, Annual Meetings, Issues, Virtual Meetings
From January through June, 2020, the CT Hagberg LLC Team of Inspectors of Elections will have served at 477 Shareholder Meetings - a pretty hefty sample, we’d say, that included a big number of Fortune 500 companies, lots of well-known large-cap companies and a great...
