If you’ve ever launched a business, you know what it means to start from nothing. We launched Moxy Vote with exactly zero users, and the first twenty people who signed up, bless their hearts, were employees, friends, and family. And then they started reporting bugs.
A few short hours ago, we got our 100,000th user. Six digits, baby.
Yay!
Now, we work on our second comma.
Proxy season is just around the corner, and to get your palates whetted for the ballots to come, we’re serving up a little appetizer. On special: the Apple ballot, featuring four corporate governance shareholder resolutions. Read more
Walgreens held their annual shareholder meeting last week in Chicago. We covered Walgreens in last week’s Corporate Governance Update. We pointed out that over the past three years Walgreens has faced shareholder resolutions that are hot topics in the corporate governance world. For instance:
A few weeks ago, one of our users pointed out a company to us that is doing a commendable job. We were impressed with what we learned about Subaru of Indiana Automotive (SIA) from this Bloomberg Businessweek article.
With the holiday season over, many of us may have already begun daydreaming about what tropical location we want to book flights to with hopes of escaping the winter blues upon us. Well our recent Environmental Update addresses a hot topic and I don’t mean tropical hot! Read more
Earlier this week, MarketWatch featured a press release from The Association of BellTel Retirees, which represents over 230,000 Verizon retirees. Over the past 12 years, the group has played an active role in using their shareholder power and proxy votes to influence Verizon’s corporate governance policies. However, MarketWatch reports that the group’s present concern centers on Verizon’s failure to disclose to shareholders $20 million in additional compensation paid to former CEO, Ivan Seidenberg, in 2009 and 2010. Read more
With the New Year upon us, we here at Moxy Vote can’t help but reminisce on how much we have all accomplished together this past year. For instance, it was just a few months ago when we introduced a new way for you all to communicate with companies – Letters to Management. We were shocked at how quickly everyone jumped on board. I mean check out how many signatures we got on the following letters:
As the year comes to an end, we’re looking back at some of the email newsletters we’ve sent out this year. We have covered topics such
as recycling at Starbucks, board diversity at Urban Outfitters, animal testing at Procter and Gamble, BPA in cans at Coca-Cola and Campbell’s, CAK at Pilgrim’s Pride and McDonald’s, cotton sourcing at Toys “ R” Us and Aéropostale and more.
Take a look at the past year of Moxy Vote updates and catch up on what you may have missed. Like what you see? Sign up for our 2012 newsletters to make sure you don’t miss a beat.
Thanks for all your support this past year, and we’re looking forward to 2012!
Cotton couture and slave labor – words that many of us may never think of together, but they’re the topic of our latest Social Issues Update.
You know that t-shirt you bought for your brother or the one you received from grandma? You may have thought it was the perfect gift, but take a deeper look into where that shirt originated. One hint – it didn’t just come from the mall. Read more
Our latest email newsletter addressed the issue of sustainable toys, including how companies, such as Matel and Hasboro, are making sure that their products aren’t destroying the rainforest. In addition to improving packaging and paper sourcing techniques, some companies have made sustainability the entire focus of their toy lines, manufacturing their products from renewable sources and recycled materials. Need a green gift? Check out the list in our newsletter as well as Green America’s recommendations for eco-friendly toy companies. Read more
Here, we muse about proxy voting, corporate governance, our startup experience, and whatever else strikes our fancy.
