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MARSHALL, Mich., Sept. 15, 2005.—In a combined August/September issue of his long-running (since September 1983) Newsletter on Annual Reports, Editor Sid Cato shared his premonitions concerning the hurricanes that devastated New Orleans
and continue to threaten Savannah, Georgia.
Cato, journalist and ex-corporate officer, said he and his partner in the one-of-a-kind consulting service based here shared "the same foreboding, an identical fear that—well, tragedy of some sort was in the offing." Causing them to postpone their 17th annual International Annual Report Conference set for month's end at Savannah. That was even before Hurricane Katrina wrought "its unique brand of terror on New Orleans and environs, and before yet another of Mother Nature’s unpredictable upsets was visited on cities from Savannah on up the East Coast to New England." Cato offered "restitution in kind"—other of his services to those registered for the postponed conference. Subscribers to Cato's newsletter "primarily are producers, here and abroad," of a company's "key corporate communiqué," as he assesses the annual report, required of every publicly held corporation. |