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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

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

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 - UK

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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 - AU

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

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

The Guardian - UK

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.

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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).

Fortune

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

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

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

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

The Guardian - UK

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.

Bangkok Post

UK and Europe are falling behind US and China in biotech, says AstraZeneca boss

Pascal Soriot says decline in startups across Europe differs markedly from ‘explosion’ of firms and clinical trials in China

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AstraZeneca overtakes Pfizer as crunch week for UK pharma looms

Driven by a revamped drug portfolio, AstraZeneca is expected to report revenues of $10.7bn in its latest quarterly results

Daily Mirror

UK's richest fatcats get gigantic 40percent pay rise - SIX times the average salary

The Mirror analysed figures for all 60 FTSE 100 companies that have published annual reports this year. We looked at total packages for 120 bosses - of those, 54 earned more than last year and 49 made less

Evening Standard

UK avoids recession, but growth is nowhere to be found

As any A-level economics teacher will tell you, the key to explaining the concept of falling inflation is that while prices are still rising, they are doing so at a slower rate.

The Guardian - UK

Take AstraZeneca’s warning seriously. The UK is missing out in life sciences

Big pharma has choices about where to make new investments and, increasingly it seems, it is not choosing Britain

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The Independent UK

Covid vaccine concerns were overblown, says AstraZeneca boss as he is knighted

Sir Pascal Soriot was speaking after he was knighted by the King at Windsor Castle on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Actors Damian Lewis and William Roache set to receive royal honours

Lewis, star of the award-winning shows Homeland and Band Of Brothers and who started a fundraiser to feed NHS staff healthy meals, will be made a CBE

Asharq Al-Awsat

AstraZeneca’s CEO on Covid: ‘We Just Have to Adjust to it’

AstraZeneca’s Chief Executive Officer, Sir Pascal Soriot, told Asharq Al-Awsat in an interview that Covid-19 is not over “and we just have to adjust to it like we live with the flu.” “Most people who get it basically get sick for a few days and do not need to be…

The Guardian - UK

AstraZeneca looks fighting fit despite the ills of the UK science sector

Brexit fallout plus funding fears mean an uncertain prognosis, but the firm will report good news this week

Wales Online

AstraZeneca boss uncertain if yearly Covid-19 boosters for healthy are good use of resources

The chief executive officer believes most of the vaccinated population now has a "foundation immunity against severe disease"

The Independent UK

AstraZeneca boss unsure if annual Covid-19 boosters are good use of resources

Chief executive officer Pascal Soriot said he believes most of the vaccinated population has a ‘foundation immunity against severe disease’.

The Independent UK

FTSE 100 chief executive average pay jumps by 39% to £3.4m

“To see CEO pay rocketing to more than 100 times the average salary is sickening,” say union bosses

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