Starbucks 'Vote No' Investors

Starbucks’ Shareholder Showdown: Investors Issue ‘Vote No’ Campaign Against Director Duo

23 February 2026


By Jack Grogan-Fenn

Starbucks shareholders have called on their fellow investors to vote against the re-election of two company directors at its 25 March AGM due …

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Elon Musk Silhouetted in front of the Tesla logo

Taking Tesla to Task: Shareholders Rally Against Musk’s Pay Package

3 October 2025


By Jack Grogan-Fenn

Shareholders at US electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla have sent a letter urging fellow investors to vote against CEO Elon Musk’s proposed U$1 trillion …

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Institute of Directors Headquarters

Director code of conduct proposed by IoD


June 23, 2022

Measures to maintain high standards of professionalism and ethics

A code of conduct for UK directors has been proposed by the Institute of Directors (IoD), as part of a recent …

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Kobe Steel

The chief executive and other senior executives have stepped down from Japanese company Kobe Steel following the publication of the report outlining the findings of an investigation into the data falsification that the company admitted to in October last year.…

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The former directors of Carillion who appeared before the joint Work and Pensions and Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committees inquiry into the company’s collapse last month were labelled as “delusional” by its co-chairs Frank Field MP and Rachel Reeves …

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The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is holding a consultation on a revised corporate governance code and changes to its listing rules.

The stock exchange said the review of the Hong Kong code was driven by a desire to raise the …

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US CEO

The qualified pool of chief executive (CEO) talent to run the largest publicly traded companies in the US is incredibly small, according to the directors who sit on the boards of these companies according to recent research by Stanford Graduate …

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The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has required listed companies to have at least one woman director within three years which it said would lead to a doubling of the number of female directors in the country.

The …

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FRC climate "major review"

The UK needs to implement corporate governance reform as part of plans to boost the economy as it leaves the EU according to the Institute for Public Policy Research’s (IPPR) Commission on Economic Justice that is rethinking economic policy for …

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Twenty-five years of corporate governance reforms in the UK have tended to create a compliance culture on company boards with non-executive directors more focused on risk mitigation and monitoring than supporting management to boost their businesses according to a report …

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