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Smoker in Florida awarded $300m damages against Philip Morris

Saturday, 21 November 2009

In one of the largest individual tobacco verdicts ever in the US, a former smoker in Florida has been awarded a total of $300m (£182m) by a state court against Philip Morris USA, a subsidiary of Altria Group.

Executives' pay is finally slowing, study reveals

Saturday, 21 November 2009

Bosses' salaries are set to remain static throughout 2010 as executives lead the way on pay restraint for the first time, a study by the pay consultancy Watson Wyatt has found.

Gartmore sets hare running on flotation boom with £1bn listing

Saturday, 21 November 2009

Fund manager's listing to give executives a windfall

Another 1,900 jobs to be cut at Threshers

Saturday, 21 November 2009

The Administrators of Threshers' owner First Quench announced another swath of store closures and more than 1,900 job losses yesterday. KPMG said 381 stores would close with the loss of 1,908 jobs, while a further 34 staff would go at the off-licence group's head office.

UKFI's Kingman heads to Rothschild

Saturday, 21 November 2009

John Kingman, the former Treasury civil servant and outgoing chief executive of UKFI, the body charged with managing the taxpayer's stakes in Lloyds Banking Group and the Royal Bank of Scotland, is expected to take a senior role at Rothschild, the independent investment bank.

Business Diary: 21/11/2009

Saturday, 21 November 2009

M&S found wanting at retail awards timeA notable omission from planet retail's annual backslapping bash, otherwise known as the Retail Week awards. Poor old M&S has not garnered a single nomination.

UK car production reverses more slowly

Saturday, 21 November 2009

The fall in UK car production slowed in October, to its slowest rate of year-on-year decline so far in 2009, stoking the optimism that has crept into the industry since the launch of the cash-for-bangers scheme.

BarCap takes over Crescent from Morgan

Saturday, 21 November 2009

Morgan Stanley has handed its Crescent real-estate subsidiary to Barclays Capital , drawing a line under a $6.5bn (£3.9bn) property deal that soured soon after it was struck in the summer of 2007.

Fuller, Smith & Turner buoyant amid downturn

Saturday, 21 November 2009

The pubs and brewing group Fuller, Smith & Turner cheered an 18 per cent rise in first-half profits but warned that the rest of its financial year would be "significantly tougher".

The jobless recovery is on the way, says OECD

Friday, 20 November 2009

But public borrowing reached £11.42bn last month Figure was highest for the October since records began

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