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<blockquote data-quote="!Retired!" data-source="post: 694419" data-attributes="member: 24309"><p>That article was posted 9/11/2009. So, the numbers are from 2008. But, I'll play along......</p><p>(In parentheses is info I found)</p><p> <strong>1.</strong> <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Organizations/Companies/Food+and+beverage,+Agriculture,+Chemical/Starbucks+Corp" target="_blank">Starbucks</a>, which has laid off workers, closed stores and switched from whole to 2% milk to save pennies a gallon, bumped its spending to $511,079 last year on the personal and home security of CEO <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/People/Business,+Science+and+Technology+Figures/Howard+Schultz" target="_blank">Howard Schultz</a>.</p><p><strong>2.</strong> Walt Disney spent $645,368 for CEO <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Robert+Iger" target="_blank">Robert Iger</a>..(Disney stores filed for Chapter 11)</p><p><strong>3.</strong> <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Organizations/Companies/Energy,+Oil,+Gas/Occidental+Petroleum" target="_blank">Occidental Petroleum</a> spent $575,407 for Ray Irani...(stock dropped from 80.50 to 43.90 in '08)</p><p><strong>4.</strong> <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/McKesson" target="_blank">McKesson</a> spent $401,706 for John Hammergren....(stock dropped from 58.57 to 35.26 in '08)</p><p></p><p>Seems like a trend among CEO's...........what the article doesn't say is, did he/they spend MORE or LESS than the year before? I'm sure that most, if not all, of that money was allocated in the budget from the year before.</p><p></p><p>Are they justified in spending that much for security? Look further down in that same article...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="!Retired!, post: 694419, member: 24309"] That article was posted 9/11/2009. So, the numbers are from 2008. But, I'll play along...... (In parentheses is info I found) [B]1.[/B] [URL="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Organizations/Companies/Food+and+beverage,+Agriculture,+Chemical/Starbucks+Corp"]Starbucks[/URL], which has laid off workers, closed stores and switched from whole to 2% milk to save pennies a gallon, bumped its spending to $511,079 last year on the personal and home security of CEO [URL="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/People/Business,+Science+and+Technology+Figures/Howard+Schultz"]Howard Schultz[/URL]. [B]2.[/B] Walt Disney spent $645,368 for CEO [URL="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Robert+Iger"]Robert Iger[/URL]..(Disney stores filed for Chapter 11) [B]3.[/B] [URL="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Organizations/Companies/Energy,+Oil,+Gas/Occidental+Petroleum"]Occidental Petroleum[/URL] spent $575,407 for Ray Irani...(stock dropped from 80.50 to 43.90 in '08) [B]4.[/B] [URL="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/McKesson"]McKesson[/URL] spent $401,706 for John Hammergren....(stock dropped from 58.57 to 35.26 in '08) Seems like a trend among CEO's...........what the article doesn't say is, did he/they spend MORE or LESS than the year before? I'm sure that most, if not all, of that money was allocated in the budget from the year before. Are they justified in spending that much for security? Look further down in that same article... [/QUOTE]
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