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...want a dialogue with his drug company--he mentions the famine-relief group Oxfam--and those, like many animal-rights activists, that don't. "Don't try to convert the unconvertible," he counsels. Talk to the "decent people" who respect different points of view. From the other side, Charles Secrett, executive director of Friends of the Earth UK, concedes that some activists believe talking to corporations is a sellout and only violent revolution will change the world...
...Many of tomorrow's issues, particularly in the fields of environmentalism and international human rights, get an airing in Europe before they do in the U.S. Amadi observes that most European companies have a broader view of who their stakeholders are; American ones often concentrate solely on their stockholders. Secrett fingers Monsanto, once a world leader in biotechnology, as a classic example of a company that thought it could adopt American tactics and "resist and fight" those Europeans who opposed genetically modified crops. (It lost...
...Since the Nomad's fees are paid for by the company wanting to be listed, it might seem AIM is built on a giant conflict of interest, but Nomads counter that traditional auditors and accountants are company-paid, too. In practice, says Philip Secrett, a partner at Grant Thornton Corporate Finance, one of the largest Nomads, only a "small minority" progress onto AIM; most are turned away for being too immature or unsound. And there is AIM's track record: around 3% of AIM-listed companies fail annually, a figure roughly comparable with the main market...
Wrote Sergeant Secrett, for 25 years personal servant of the late Field Marshal Earl Haig: "He had that little peculiarity about him-he hated parting with actual coin of the realm...
...TWENTY-FIVE YEARS WITH EARL HAIG-Sergeant T. Secrett-Duffield...