AstraZeneca chief facing shareholder pressure to waive bonus: report
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AstraZeneca, the troubled Anglo-Swedish drugs giant, is being urged by shareholders to waive a one million-pound (1.4 million-euro, 1.9 million-dollar) bonus being lined up for chief executive Tom McKillop following a string of company setbacks, a newspaper reported.
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Nissan Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn told shareholders Wednesday that the Japanese automaker's board members will forego their bonus pay to take responsibility for poor performance.
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Applying public pressure to persuade Dow  Jones & Co.&#39;s  family owners to sell the media company to  Rupert Murdoch may do more harm than good, one institutional  shareholder said on Thursday.
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Shares in AstraZeneca Plc fell as much as 10 percent on Friday after regulators in the United States and Europe raised safety concerns about the Anglo-Swedish drug maker&#39;s anti-cholesterol treatment Crestor.
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Pressure on French advertising group Havas mounted yesterday as it emerged that corporate raider and dissident shareholder Vincent Bollore has asked for seats on the company&#39;s board.
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Eliot Spitzer&#39;s attack on the US insurance industry is expected to intensify pressure for the resignation of the head of Marsh &amp; McLellan, the company at the centre of the allegations.
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NEW YORK -- Investor groups angered by plunging stock prices are vowing to hold executives and corporate board members accountable at annual shareholder meetings this spring, turning up the pressure on U.S. companies already reeling from the credit crunch.
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Under a plan recently passed by Merck &amp; Co. Inc.âs board of directors, members of the firmâs management committee and the companyâs vice president-level managers may be compensated with severance packages
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Cazenove, the Queen&#39;s broker, will tomorrow be under pressure to divulge the state of merger talks at its annual shareholder meeting, with US giants circling the firm.
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Business & money: Â· Angry shareholders fail to block remuneration policy Â· Â£20m cap on individual rewards is removed
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A U.S. law firm has announced a class  action lawsuit against AstraZeneca Plc accusing the  Anglo-Swedish drugmaker of deception in its promotion of ulcer  pill Nexium.
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A boardroom battle is looming at Sovereign Bancorp Inc.  that could cost company chief Jay Sidhu his job and pose a problem for shareholder Banco Santander Central Hispano , The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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A Congressional panel investigating Hewlett-Packard demanded its chief executive explain his exercise of $1.37 million worth of options just before the companyâs scandal became public.
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Will AstraZeneca become the latest casualty in the drug safety debate?
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Shares in drug giant AstraZeneca fall after a US medical panel recommends that regulators reject its new drug Exanta.
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Business & money: Insurer Resolution is under pressure to seek talks on a Â£35bn bid from rival Pearl Group.
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Dec. 19--Pfizer, the world&#39;s biggest drug maker, and the rest of the pharmaceutical sector will come under renewed pressure this week after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned doctors to consider