Friday, June 26, 2009

Now | SEC says Gannett just filed a Form 11-K

I've never worked with one of these. The Securities and Exchange Commission defines such filings this way: "Form 11-K is for annual reports of employee stock purchase, savings and similar plans." Is that the 401(k) retirement savings plan?

In any case, I can't download it because the SE's records suggest it's a paper document, which I find hard to believe. But it's true; the following just popped up on the company's Investor Relations page: "This document was generated as part of a paper submission. Please reference the Document Control Number 09011853 for access to the original document."

Someone in the D.C. area needs to get their mitts on this; I can't.

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13 comments:

  1. If you look at the history of Gannett filings, you'll see that the company has filed an 11-K, in paper form, at the end of June every year in recent years. It's not some mystery filing. It might provide some interesting info if you compared this year's filing to previous years. I would guess employee stock purchases have gone down because there are fewer employees.

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  2. Contrary to the direction provided by legendary ex-business reporter Jim Hopkins, one doesn't have to be in the D.C. area to get paper filings related to Gannett. You can get them here on the SEC site:

    http://www.sec.gov/answers/publicdocs.htm

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  3. No skin off my nose if you want to trust Corporate with a big chunk of the retirement plan. It's your 401(k) -- not mine.

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  4. Jim, how do either of the two responses before yours indicate that either poster wants "to trust Corporate with a big chunk of the retirement plan"? One poster says there might be good info to be gleaned from comparing this year to previous years; the other gigs your poor business reporting skills in telling your readers that only someone in D.C. can get the paper documents, then provides a link on how anyone can get them.

    Sensitive today?

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  5. Sorry about that; I'm sleep-deprived -- again.

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  6. Sheesh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Maybe you would get some sleep if you didn't party all night.

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  7. Jim is incredibly thin-skinned. Quick to lash out at others though.

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  8. The lashes will continue until the comments become more sicko-Fanta-ick!

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  9. Plus! Writing FAQs on surviving layoffs at 2 a.m. ain't partying; that's work. I've been here nearly four weeks, and have visited one club -- during the day, to cover an event.

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  10. I did the same as you – tried to download and couldn't. Find it very odd.

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  11. 12:26 PM -- Try it downloading it. That's what Jim was saying, it's not on there.

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  12. The paper filings are eventually scanned and put online in a pdf and text format. Since it was just filed, it hasn't been scanned yet.

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  13. See if this will help - the 2008 form.
    http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/vprr/08/9999999997-08-030434

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