{"id":461,"date":"2006-11-28T09:33:19","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T15:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=461"},"modified":"2006-12-01T11:07:24","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T17:07:24","slug":"ceos-and-shareholder-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/ceos-and-shareholder-value\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO&#8217;s and Shareholder Value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick story from the Pioneer Press &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/mld\/twincities\/business\/16111188.htm?source=rss&#038;channel=twincities_business\" target=\"_blank\">Early exit cuts Stroucken pay package<\/a>. The departing CEO of H.B. Fuller located north of St. Paul is taking a compensation package with him worth $18.5 million. The article simply states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The news release noted Stroucken is receiving <strong>$4 million less<\/strong> than he would have had if he had stayed through the March 31, 2007, the end of his contract.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is something you don&#8217;t see too often in today&#8217;s world &#8211; a CEO who could have made much more had he completed his contract that ends in 6 months. Obviously, he is leaving with a lucrative compensation package, but here is why:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The value of the options and stock are largely due to what Al did while he was here,&#8221; said Steven Brazones, director of investor relations for H.B. Fuller. &#8220;His compensation is tied to how the company performs.&#8221;Stroucken, 59, joined Fuller in 1998 and led the company through a series of acquisitions. The company&#8217;s improving financial performance showed up in <strong>the stock price, which is up more than 80 percent since early 2005<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>80%!<\/em> Think of the shareholder value that has been created during his tenure as CEO. I bring this up because we have worked with this company in the past and it is an impressive organization.<\/p>\n<p>This CEO helped grow the company and received a sizable reward for it. With all of the Enron heartburn that still exists, it is refreshing to read a story about a CEO who brought great value to his company and didn&#8217;t milk it for every last cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick story from the Pioneer Press &#8211; Early exit cuts Stroucken pay package. The departing CEO of H.B. Fuller located north of St. Paul is taking a compensation package with him worth $18.5 million. The article simply states: The news release noted Stroucken is receiving $4 million less than he would have had if he had stayed through the March 31, 2007, the end of his contract. There is something you don&#8217;t see too often in today&#8217;s world &#8211; a CEO who could have made much more had he completed his contract that ends in 6 months. Obviously, he is leaving with a lucrative compensation package, but here is&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/ceos-and-shareholder-value\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,11,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-7r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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