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MARSHALL, Mich., Sept. 1, 2004.—A newsletter based here celebrates its 253rd
issue—every month since September 1983.
Sid Cato, in the September 2004 issue of his long-running Newsletter on Annual Reports, analyzed annuals from various publicly held companies—from Coldwater Creek to Curtiss-Wright, including several from non-U.S. corporations: Zurich Financial Services, Lloyds TSB and Bridgestone, among others. Cato is a former corporate officer, as well as a journalist and author of a book on coping with grief. He spends full-time monitoring the world’s annuals, utilizing computer programs he conceived and directed creation of. In his 19th annual Producer Poll—an exclusive survey of corporate annual report producers—salaries were confidentially disclosed as averaging close to $100,000, nearly double those reported in Cato’s 1985 poll. His website, www.sidcato.com, introduced in May 1996, has recorded 97,000 visitors. Cato said his October newsletter will be devoted to “Future of the print annual report,” topic of his 16th annual International Annual Report Conference set for San Antonio Sept. 29-Oct. 1. The topic was suggested by IBM senior vice president Jon Iwata, who will participate in an officer-level panel discussion. |