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"Cailin Dendas, who leads the Environmental Health Program at As You Sow…said ADM defines regenerative agriculture as an outcome-based farming approach that protects and improves soil health, but the company does not require regenerative growers to reduce or eliminate pesticide use.” Read More →
"‘If Unilever-McCormick decide to turn their backs (on sustainability), this could create significant risk for shareholders and the new entity,’ said Cailin Dendas, environmental health program senior coordinator at shareholder group As You Sow.” Read More →
"Rachel Lowy, speaking on behalf of As You Sow, formally moved the shareholder proposal requesting that SkyWest commission an independent third party to assess whether the company’s policies and practices align with ‘internationally supported rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining.’” Read More →
“‘‘Shareholders are capitalism’s early warning system,’ says Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow. ‘Investors warned Meta for years that its platform was harming children. Recent jury decisions suggest those warnings were ignored – raising the prospect of significant liabilities.’” Read More →
“After As You Sow sought to file another shareholder resolution, Nike agreed to release metrics on recruitment and promotion rates for diverse employees by 2024.” Read More →
“‘We believe a free market requires communication,’ said Andrew Behar, CEO of the shareholder advocacy group As You Sow, which spearheaded the new site. “If they’re going to take away EDGAR, we’re going to give them POE.’” Read More →
“‘Though As You Sow submitted a handful of “racial equity audit” proposals, asking Coca-Cola, PulteGroup, Pilgrim’s Pride, and Royal Gold to publicly report on their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, most of the group’s resolutions were focused on the environmental prong of ESG.” Read More →
“‘‘Regulation S-K is the foundational disclosure framework that governs risk, governance and financial information. It should be strengthened not diminished,’ said Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow.” Read More →
“Danielle Fugere, president and chief counsel of nonprofit investor advocacy group As You Sow, told Law360 Pulse… 'I find particularly interesting the amount of money companies are willing to spend to ensure that a non-binding proposal does not make the light of day.’” Read More →
“‘[General Mills] are no longer aligning their regenerative agriculture program with pesticide reduction at all, which is obviously concerning, because what the soil science points to is that regenerative without significant pesticide reduction is not regenerating soil health,’ said Cailin Dendas, the senior coordinator of As You Sow’s Environmental Health Program.” Read More →
“‘At a time when federal regulators are weakening oversight and shielding chemical manufacturers from accountability, corporate transparency on pesticide use has never been more important,” said Cailin Dendas, Environmental Health Coordinator at As You Sow.” Read More →
“‘Since proposals are generally non-binding, the only real benefit of these changes appears to be shielding companies from having to consider hard issues that would be easier to sweep under the rug’, explains Danielle Fugere, As You Sow’s president and chief counsel.” Read More →
“‘Insurance companies are raising rates and dropping coverage because of climate-related disasters, but the parties most responsible — the major fossil fuel producers — are not being held accountable,’ said Danielle Fugere, President and Chief Counsel of As You Sow." Read More →
“As You Sow President Danielle Fugere stated: ‘Our proposal simply asks Chubb to evaluate whether recovering costs from responsible parties could help keep insurance affordable for the families and communities that depend on it.’" Read More →
“As You Sow’s proposal addresses a significant policy issue—the affordability and availability of homeowners insurance in the face of climate change—that directly impacts the company’s long-term financial sustainability and carries broad societal implications." Read More →
"‘Companies have to decide: Do you want to have a good relationship with your shareholders, or do you want to pay your corporate attorneys millions?’ said As You Sow CEO Andy Behar.” Read More →
“‘Communications on material issues central to informed investor decision making is the underpinning of our free market system,’ said Andy Behar, the chief executive of the prominent shareholder activist organization As You Sow.” Read More →
“‘In 2016, we created the Clean200 in response to investors who asked, ‘As we shift away from fossil fuels, what should we invest in?’ Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow and report co-author, said in a statement. ‘A decade later, the Clean200 continues to demonstrate that the global economy is increasingly driven by companies delivering solutions that reduce dependence on fossil fuels and resource-intensive systems.’” Read More →
“Ultimately, Behar said, limiting small investors’ options for holding corporations accountable removes incentives for those companies to constructively engage with advocates. ‘Companies generally sit down with us,’ he said, noting that As You Sow had more than 100 such engagements last year alone. ‘It’s all part of a process.’” Read More →
“The SEC ‘was founded in 1934 to provide communication between shareholders — to create trust between companies and their beneficial owners — and now they are no longer going to be helping shareholders,’ said Andy Behar, the CEO of As You Sow, in an interview.” Read More →
“As You Sow has led a chorus of critics after the SEC reversed its long-standing practice of allowing smaller shareholders to file Notices of Exempt Solicitation on the SEC’s EDGAR system, calling the move a ‘significant setback for shareholder democracy and informed capital markets.” Read More →
“Andy Behar, CEO of As You Sow warned that ‘restricting exempt solicitations to the few largest investors harms the core tenets of capitalism – information and trust between corporations and their beneficial owners’.” Read More →
Our CEO, Andrew Behar, was featured in Law.com discussing how proxy advisers’ recommendations often favor management and the role AI may play in proxy voting decisions.
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“As You Sow said the new policy ‘risks chilling legitimate shareholder speech and weakens the fundamentals of a strong market.’” Read More →
“Trump's December 12 executive order on proxy solicitors did not restrict proxy voting by big index funds, once a right-wing priority, and a sign the administration may not wholly side with executives against investors.
To make sense of things, I spoke with Andrew Behar, CEO of activist investor group As You Sow, a frequent resolution filer and company interlocutor.”
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Andy Behar, CEO of As You Sow, stated, “Verizon’s shareholders applaud the California Public Utilities Commission’s decision. We have analyzed data from over 1,600 companies spanning five years and know that greater workforce diversity leads to financial outperformance.” Read More →
“Shareholder advocacy nonprofit As You Sow said Friday that a potential repeal of Rule 14a-8, and potential changes to the shareholder proposal process, ‘entirely ignores the financial benefits and pecuniary outperformance resulting from shareholder proposals.’ " Read More →
“The board is ‘clearly caving to political pressure, which puts shareholder returns at risk. We expect our board to make decisions based on pecuniary measures, not politics, and request that they retract this policy change immediately,’ Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, said in an email.” Read More →
"‘Costco's commitment to tackle deforestation in its avocado supply chain represents meaningful progress on an urgent environmental risk,’ Elizabeth Levy, As You Sow biodiversity programme coordinator stated." Read More →
“The SEC ruled for shareholders in around 40 per cent of shareholder proposal cases. Its disappearance from the fray would remove a vital platform for recalibration and stability,” Danielle Fugere, president of As You Sow, told Sustainable Views." Read More →