?Trennen Sie sich von der Bank ..."

"Ich glaube nicht, dass Krumnow noch einmal eine Tui-Hauptversammlung leitet", sagt Buhlmann. "Das ist nach dieser Veranstaltung nicht denkbar."

Ämterhäufung und Interessenkonflikte in der Kritik von VIP

VIP quoted in the AGM-speech ...

VIP, an association of institutional shareholders, said
"very badly managed"

"not working in the interests of all shareholders". . .

VIP zu Analyse und Folgerungen der "Finanz-Krise"

ARD online 24. April 2008

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TUI - the new norvegian shareholder Fredriksen is stirring up the group

Shareholders unhappy about dividend distribution -

VIP refused the discharge of the management - Aufsichtsrat was widely criticized

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Late regret: the german actor Manfred Krug considers his advertising-campaign for Deutsche Telekom to be his major professional mistake.

AGM Unicredito Genoa July 29th 2005

The board is strongly attacked
The management announces a change of strategy

Porsche and Lower Saxony, the two largest shareholders in Volkswagen, could be forced to launch a takeover offer for the carmaker under German law, according to corporate governance experts, shareholders and lawyers.

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HR-Online - 18.5.2005
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FAZ.NET repeats the comment of VIP regarding the conflict of interest of one of the members of the Board of Independent Directors - so called "Aufsichtsrat"
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ARD - Die Boerse
Another incomplete citation ...
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Der Tagesspiegel -
In the cited sentence of Hans-Martin Buhlmann one significant word has been forgotten: "nicht" - instead of "Deutsche Bank not always does a good job, but in regarding PR it really does a bad job" there is written: "DB does a good job, but ..."link

heute.de - 18.5.2005
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"Die Zeit" - 20/2005
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"We are all grasshoppers..." - after the AGM of Allianz the Stern magazine quotes a part of the speech Hans-Martin Buhlmann in its article on "capitalism pur" inspired by the comments of Müntefering (member of the Bundestag and president of the Spd) on how hedge funds destroy the German financial structures. download PDF

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The article describes the activities of proxy agents.
At the momentnon english translation available. Sorry!

VIP-Services: Two Internet sites launched this week by Bonn-based proxy agent VIP expand the online web of corporate governance resources.

The campaign by German business to rein back laws that give employees boardroom representation intensified yesterday a investors and trade unions responded to the shareholder revolt at Lufthansa.