Company blocking biz media from shareholder meeting

Becky Yerak of the Chicago Tribune reports that insurance broker Aon Corp. is preventing journalists from attending its shareholder meeting to decide whether to move its headquarters to London.

Yerak writes, “Aon historically allows the media into its annual shareholder meetings in the spring.

“But a spokesman said special shareholder meetings are another matter; media wasn’t allowed, for example, into a special shareholder meeting held to vote on a merger with consulting firm Hewitt.

“Late Friday afternoon Aon was weighing whether to allow reporters to cover the meeting.

“‘While our usual process is not to have meetings such as special shareholder meetings open to the media, in this instance we are revisiting that process. Hope to have more on Monday,’ an Aon spokesman said in an email.

“As shareholder meetings go, this one has the potential to be livelier than most.”

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