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Nestlé breastmilk bugaboo surfaces over ex-Unicef boss board bid (update)

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:41:05 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Update 14 April Vevey, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Ann Veneman, the former executive director of Unicef, the UN Children’s Fund, was elected Thursday 14 April to the board of Nestlé, one of 14 directors and four women on the board of directors. Her bid for the board seat has provoked outcries from nutrition campaign groups, Reuters [...]

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Banking bonuses (Chappatte cartoon)

Ellen Wallace — Sun, 02 May 2010 08:07:24 +0000

GenevaLunch.com ©2010 Chappatte, distributed by Globe Cartoon. More cartoons on Chappatte’s web site. Geneva-based Patrick Chappatte works for the International Herald Tribune, for Geneva newspaper Le Temps, and for NZZ am Sonntag. All cartoons reproduced with permission.

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Greenpeace monkeyshines colour Nestlé annual meeting

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:43:07 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Nestlé annual general meeting held at the Palais Beaulieu in Lausanne promised to be a relatively dull business session, compared to the UBS one the previous day. But that was before Greenpeace protesters dressed as orangutangs crowded the area outside the meeting and two of them were spotted by an [...]

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UBS shareholders refuse to lift ex-directors’ 2007 responsibility (update)

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:57:27 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Update 20:15 Basel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Close to 5,000 shareholders at the UBS annual general meeting Wednesday 14 April approved a number of measures, including a “discharge” for 2008 and 2009, for the bank’s directors and senior executives. But they balked at approving a discharge for 2007, which would free former managers and directors of [...]

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UBS shareholders approve pay deals – just

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:23:41 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Basel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - UBS shareholders have sent a strong measure to the bank’s directors and executives: they approved a remuneration package in a non-binding vote, the first time the issue has been put to a vote. But 40 percent of shareholders present said “no” and 5 percent abstained, for an approval rating of only [...]

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UBS general meeting: angry shareholders speak up

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:11:17 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Chairman apologizes for role in helping some US clients evade taxes, says bankers’ pay will eventually come down Basel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - “Are we to blame ourselves, because we believed the board and accepted their proposals?” asked a Mr Gerber, from a group of shareholders that calls itself the Association of Persons Injured by [...]

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UBS’s woes hit home, with 2500 Swiss jobs to go

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:39:13 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Updated 22:00 with links on reactions Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – UBS shareholders meet today, 15 April, to approve the new governing board of the bank at the annual general meeting (AGM). Before the doors opened the bank had made a pre-announcement that first quarter 2009 losses amount to nearly CHF2 billion and that it will [...]

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