Category: Press Releases
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 ...
IBM’s AI Model: Garbage In, Garbage Out
Washington, D.C. – At next week’s IBM annual meeting, shareholders will vote on a proposal from the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) tackling potential bias within the company’s artificial intelligence models. Proposal 7 (“AI Bias ...
Boeing Refuses to Listen to Passengers With Disabilities
Washington, D.C. - At this week's Boeing annual meeting, a disability activist with the National Center for Public Policy Research will call out Boeing executives for refusing to establish a Disability Access Committee to improve safety and accessibility for passengers ...
Former Indiana Attorney General Adds Legal Firepower to Free Enterprise Project
Washington, D.C. -- Former Indiana Attorney General Curtis T. Hill, Jr., has been named Senior Advisor for the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project (FEP), adding significant legal muscle to FEP's powerhouse team of right-of-center shareholder activists ...
Shareholders to Confront Starbucks on Covering Transition—but Not Detransition
Washington, D.C. – Starbucks shareholders will have the opportunity this week to weigh in on the company’s lack of health care coverage for gender detransition services, prompted by a proposal from the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise ...
Peeling Back the Apple: Shareholder Activists Seek to Expose Company’s China Entanglements
Washington, D.C. – Ahead of next week’s Apple, Inc. annual shareholder meeting, the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) is urging Apple investors to support its shareholder proposal requesting a “China Entanglement Audit.” At Tuesday’s meeting, ...
FEP Comes Full Circle: Shareholder Activism Pioneer Takes the Helm at Free Enterprise Project
Washington, D.C. – Steven Milloy, a pioneer of conservative shareholder activism and an early architect of the movement to hold corporations accountable to shareholders, has been named Executive Director of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project ...
Costco’s Board in the Hot Seat Over Green Claims and Poor Performance
Washington, D.C. -- Shareholder activists with the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) are urging Costco shareholders to make their voices heard by voting their proxy ballots before Costco's annual shareholder meeting on January 15. FEP ...
Free Enterprise Project Rings in the New Year With Five Corporate Settlements
Washington, D.C. -- Shareholder activists with the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) have successfully negotiated shareholder proposal withdrawals with Prudential, Eli Lilly, Exxon, Capital One and AT&T. "As set forth on our website, 'the National ...
Cisco’s DEI Under Scrutiny — Shareholders Insist on Measurable Returns
Washington, D.C. – Shareholder activists with the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) are demanding to know whether Cisco’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs provide positive financial value to shareholders or whether they needlessly increase ...
