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The Guardian view on record payouts for CEOs: the way they live now

Editorial: The latest High Pay Centre report confirms the persistent and damaging culture of entitlement at the top of business

The Guardian - UK · Aug 12, 2024

Typical FTSE 100 CEO pay hits record high of £4.2 million—but U.S. peers still earn 3 times as much

AstraZeneca’s Pascal Soriot and Rolls Royce’s Tufan Erginbilgic were among the highest-paid FTSE 100 CEOs, but what they make still trails behind the average pay of S&P 500 CEOs.

Fortune · Aug 12, 2024

FTSE 100 chief executive pay reaches highest level on record

Bosses of UK’s biggest companies are now paid 120 times more than average full-time worker in some instances

The Guardian - UK · Aug 11, 2024

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1 Biopharma Stock Setting the New Standard in Cancer Care Drugs

The annual conference of the American Society of Clinical Oncology is always the biggest event-making cancer conference. And this year, the attention-grabber was AstraZeneca, as its lung and breast cancer drugs significantly slowed the spread of disease in two trials, potentially establishing the medicines as the new standard of care…

Barchart · Jun 7, 2024

Will AstraZeneca be the UK’s first £200bn company?

The former pharma laggard is in a race with Shell to be the first FTSE 100 stock to be valued at £200bn

The Guardian - UK · May 21, 2024

AstraZeneca aims to nearly double revenues to $80bn by 2030

UK’s biggest drugmaker says it plans to launch 20 major new medicines before the end of the decade

The Guardian - UK · May 21, 2024

'New era of growth': AstraZeneca sets out bold plans for $80bn revenues by 2030

The growth will be fuelled by 20 new drugs that are set to launch this decade

Evening Standard · May 21, 2024

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Tyson Fury and Mo Salah outearn Europe’s highest paid CEOs—but top U.S. execs trail only Cristiano Ronaldo's $260 million haul

Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares had a compensation package worth $39.4 million in 2023, lower than any of the world's top 50 sports stars.

Fortune · May 17, 2024

AstraZeneca's £18.7m boss Soriot bounces back as pharma giant reveals 18% sales growth

Soriot came under fire this month for his £18.7 million pay packet

Evening Standard · Apr 25, 2024

The danger in saying yes to Pascal Soriot’s pay rise at AstraZeneca

Despite rebellion, approval of £18.7m package opens door to likelihood of US-style executive pay elsewhere

The Guardian - UK · Apr 11, 2024

AstraZeneca CEO’s £18.7m pay approved despite shareholder rebellion

Third of voters reject Pascal Soriot’s deal but some say it is deserved as he had been ‘massively underpaid’

The Guardian - UK · Apr 11, 2024

FTSE 100 Live 11 April: Shares edge lower before ECB rates ca, Lok'nStore bought out by Shurgard for £378m

A new pay deal for AstraZeneca boss Pascal Soriot and the fallout from yesterday’s US inflation shock are among areas of focus for London traders.

Evening Standard · Apr 11, 2024

When £17m isn’t enough: FTSE firms plead to pay bosses millions more

Confronted by the huge salaries on offer in the US, London boardrooms are lobbying to be allowed to make their own bosses even wealthier

The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2024

GlaxoSmithKline boss’s pay package jumps 50% to £12.7m

Emma Walmsley’s deal, with a high share bonus payout, makes her one of top-paid CEOs in FTSE 100

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2024

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The Guardian - UK · Feb 27, 2024

A quiet conspiracy is afoot to give FTSE 100 executives a pay rise

As the London market’s woes are blamed on remuneration, a new US benchmark is emerging

The Guardian - AU · Feb 21, 2024

Afternoon Update: Woolworths shares plunge; NZ MP dies after charity run; and AstraZeneca boss’s $33m paycheque

Supermarket giant’s CEO resigns unexpectedly amid increasing political pressure over record profits during cost-of-living crisis

The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2024

AstraZeneca boss’s £17m pay package under fire

Corporate governance thinktank questions whether Pascal Soriot’s remuneration – 1,000 times the minimum wage – is justifiable

The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2024

Weight-loss drugs need to become cheaper, says AstraZeneca boss

Loss of muscle mass also flagged, as UK drugmaker works with China’s Eccogene on obesity and type 2 diabetes pill

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Fortune · Nov 15, 2023

The corporate world is falling short in the fight against climate change

Only 20% of the top 1,000 companies have targets to reduce their emissions, a sign not enough leaders are taking climate change seriously.

Fortune · Aug 22, 2023

The top 100 bosses in the U.K. scored a pay hike of over $600k last year—the highest in six years

Among the highest paid CEOs were pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca’s chief Pascal Soriot, with £15.3 million ($19.6 million), and defense company BAE Systems CEO Charles Woodburn, who earned £10.7 million ($13.7 million).

The Guardian - UK · Aug 22, 2023

Top UK CEOs handed 16% pay rise as millions of workers squeezed – as it happened

Data from the High Pay Centre thinktank showed FTSE 100 bosses collected an average £500,000 pay rise last year, taking their median pay to £3.9m

The Guardian - UK · Aug 22, 2023

FTSE 100 bosses ‘given average pay rise of £500,000 in 2022’

CEOs received average increase of 16% while pay of many working for them failed to keep up with inflation

The Guardian - UK · Jul 18, 2023

Pascal Soriot of AstraZeneca: ‘The climate crisis is a health crisis’

The man who led the drive to create a not-for-profit Covid vaccine is now focusing on the deaths caused by global heating and pollution

The Guardian - UK · Jun 28, 2023

AstraZeneca pledges to plant and maintain 200m trees globally by 2030

Drugmaker’s $4oom offsetting scheme aims to combat climate change and biodiversity loss caused by deforestation

Bangkok Post · May 19, 2023

AstraZeneca China boss pledges to ‘love the Communist Party’

BEIJING: The global drugmaker AstraZeneca will seek to be a patriotic company in China that “loves the Communist Party”, its China president said on Friday.

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