Shareholders And Radishes 2010
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30% of investors never read their prospectus.
Source Investment Company Institute.
80% think reading a prospectus is like eating their vegetables.
Source ICI – 80% of investors read some, very little or do not read the prospectus.
92% of Vegetables find that insulting.
Recent survey of legumes and leafy greens.
Radishes don’t mind.
Source: International Radish Council.
Shareholder Communications
are not as tasty as vegetables.
Have you ever tasted a proxy?
They taste more like carbon
spread on dead trees.
According to Pat McGrew, Kodak’s Director of Industry Marketing who apparently tests that sort of thing.
Because that’s what they are.
Yuck!
If you were a Forest you would be afraid of Shareholder Communications.
Not that kind of Forest!
This kind of Forest!
98.5% of trees object to being turned into pulp.
Research margin of error plus or minus 1.5%
Run Forest. Run!
It’s time to think about the
environment, the
bottom line and your
shareholders.And perhaps, occasionally, radishes.
‘Cause there’s a revolution coming. . .
Revenge of the Trees?No!
A Revolution . . .In how companies
communicate
with Shareholders.
Shareholder communications
used to be a monologue.
A very BORING monologue…
It should be a
conversation.
A highly regulated conversation.
No, our lawyers didn’t make us say that.
There’s a lot to talk about.Say on Pay. Sustainability. Corporate Performance. Majority Voting. Proxy Access. Your brand. P8 Group. Investor Relations. Governance. Election of Officers. Voting Records. Fund Expenses. Reputation Risk. What’s with that hair style?
People are talking.Even people at public companies.
Best Buy, CGI, Chevron, Cisco, Dell, EMC Corp, FedEx, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Oracle, Microsoft, NASDAQ QMX, Novartis, Pitney Bowes, Proctor & Gamble, Putnam Funds, Rio Tinto, Royal Dutch Shell, Sun, Time Warner, UPS all have senior executives on Twitter.
Companies are using websites, social media, e-presentment, virtual meetings, mobile data, XBRL and sustainable print to improve their shareholder communications.
It’s Revolutionary!And highly effective.
Learn to revolutionize your shareholder communications by making them more Effective, Efficient and Sustainable.
Join us!Shareholder Communications SymposiumOnline
BroadridgeBNY Mellon
Corporate InsightCarbon Disclosure Project
Compliance WeekDoubleSpeak
DST OutputEthos Business Law
Exelon CorpFidelity Investments
Firehouse CommunicationsIllinois Tool Works
Institute for Corporate ProductivityIntel Corp
Insight ForumsMcDonald’s
Merrill CorpNational Investor Relations Institute
NewRiverVintage Filings
Startup ArmyStrategic Corporate Advocates
Sustainable Endowments InstituteThe Plain Language Group
Wells Fargo Funds
And more people are joining the conversation every day!
www.SCS-Central.com
No Radishes were harmed in the
making of this presentation.
Copyright Insight Forums LLC 2009. www.InsightForums.comPlease share this presentation with attribution to Insight Forums and the Shareholder Communications Symposium.
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