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Proxy Music
Readers, grab a cocktail and prepare to hear incredible but true tales from Clean Yield’s 2015 proxy season, a compendium of surprises both pleasant and unpleasant, some outright success stories, ironic twists, and at least one instance of bad luck.…
Clean Yield’s 2014 Proxy Season Wrap-Up
Forget Game of Thrones. The real drama this year concerned the fate of Clean Yield’s shareholder proposals and the outcomes of our dialogues with corporations. We’ve been in talks with HBO — for what seems like forever — about a…
Proxy Help Is On The Way!
April is the cruelest month, wrote T.S. Eliot, and he didn’t even have to deal with an influx of corporate proxy ballots, guiltily cluttering his in-box and begging to be voted in time for their respective stockholder meetings.
As we…
Remembering Rian/Dad
Every day since the passing this summer of my father and colleague, Rian Fried, I’m reminded of something else about him that I miss.
First and foremost, Dad was a natural advice-giver (a nice trait to have in our business),…
“Rian Fried: A Capitalist With A Social Conscience”
This article is reprinted with permission from the author. It appeared in the Barton (Vermont) Chronicle on July 10, 2013.
by Joseph Gresser
STANNARD — The new agricultural businesses that have flourished in the Northeast Kingdom over the…