Category: KO
Fizz or Fizzle? Shareholders Demand Accountability for Coke’s Sustainability Spending
Washington, D.C. – At Wednesday’s Coca-Cola annual meeting, shareholders will be able to amend the company’s bylaws in order to create a Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee to oversee Coke’s sustainability commitments. Item 4, put forward by the National Center ...
Who’s Putting the Woke in Coke? Shareholders Want to Know
Washington, D.C. -- At today’s annual Coca-Cola shareholder meeting, a representative of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) will present a proposal requesting the creation of a board-level Improper Influence Committee to consider whether the ...
Scott Shepard: Coca-Cola Has Done Opponents of DEI and ESG a Huge Favor
"The Coca-Cola corporation has adopted a plan to revert back to racial discrimination against non-whites after discriminating in favor of non-whites for at least the last half decade," National Center General Counsel Scott Shepard reveals in a commentary published at RealClearMarkets. Of ...
Wall Street Journal Front Page Features National Center Activism
The shareholder activism of the National Center's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) was featured yesterday on the front page of The Wall Street Journal print edition. In a page-one feature entitled "‘Anti-Woke’ Shareholders Are Going After Corporate Boards," Sarah Nassauer and ...
I’ll Take a Soda, a Show and Even the Check – But Please, Hold the DEI
Conservative Shareholders Challenge Discriminatory Practices at Coca-Cola, Pepsi, MGM and Citigroup Meetings Washington, D.C. – Giving voice to growing concerns regarding corporate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policies, shareholders with the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project ...
Corporations in the Crosshairs: Shareholder Proposals Target DEI, Human Rights Hypocrisy, Unrealistic Emissions Commitments and More
Citigroup, IBM, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, MGM, Capital One, Kraft Heinz and Berkshire Hathaway Should Return to Neutrality on Social and Political Issues Washington, D.C. – In one of their busiest weeks of the season, shareholder activists with the National Center for ...
Sarah Rehberg: Wall Street Is In Bed With Crazy Climate Activists
Climate Collusion With Consequences? In a commentary published by The Daily Caller, Free Enterprise Project Deputy Director Sarah Rehberg notes that "the ESG lobby has apparently done such a good job bragging about its partnerships that federal lawmakers are investigating whether ...
The 2023 Shareholder Meeting Season in Review
Like last year, the 2023 shareholder meeting season was a mixed bag of hope and frustration. On one hand, rampant wokeness and corruption continue to define shareholder meetings. But promisingly, there is more pushback to corporate wokeness than ever before, ...
Introducing the 2023 Corporate Incest Chart
"Why is James Quincey, the CEO of Coca-Cola, also on Pfizer’s Board of Directors?" asked Free Enterprise Project Associate Ethan Peck in a recent Human Events commentary. "Seems awfully convenient that the guy who seeks to profit most from sugary ...
Scott Shepard: States Can Stop the Outsourcing of Race Discrimination by Corporations
Last week The Federalist published an important story detailing how various companies are “laundering” or “out-sourcing” their efforts to discriminate against so-called “non-diverse” employees on the basis of race, sex and orientation to non-profits, charities and public benefit corporations. It reported that [i]n response to ...
