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Leader: The music industry's stupidest idea... tax the net
Leader Now music media prices have dropped with the help of the internet, those musical fat cats are whinging the food has been snatched from their mouths. Greed and stupidity are two very unattractive traits. [14 Jul 2006]
Techies' morale falls in face of low wages and offshoring
News Today's policy on profits for shareholders and fat cats, via saving money, has impacted the home market and helped build the overseas outsourcing market at the UK's expense. Morale is plummeting among IT... [19 Jul 2005]
Boardroom Despatches: IBM's second wind
Comment The first six months, post-acquisition, then saw the weeding out of various fat cats. Much of the progress that came from the 1990s recovery at IBM under Lou Gerstner could have been for nothing if the... [24 Sep 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.05.04
Round-Up The image of the city being filled with holiday makers, gamblers or even rat-pack 'cats' is now far from the truth. Talk of fat sunbathers and thin clients living in perfect harmony. The Round-Up has... [28 May 2004]
Gent turns to drugs
News Gent therefore got hammered in the then-fashionable outcry about fat cats, although he had his defenders who pointed out how far he had taken the company. The GSK board has been through two years of... [27 May 2004]
High tech fat cats slammed as 'money for old rope'
News High tech fat cats have come in for fresh criticism as they have once again been lambasted for receiving high wages which are apparently unrelated to the performance of their companies. Over the past... [21 Nov 2003]
mmO2 boss makes £1m as firm loses £10bn
News A company spokesman is reported to have said: "We are all slim kittens, not fat cats.mmO2 reported earnings before financial charges of £859m, up from £433m last year and the operating loss dropped to... [17 Jun 2003]
What should we do with the fat cats?
Comment So it's no great surprise that the government feels it should have a position on the subject of 'fat cat' pay. High levels of executive pay have always been an issue in the world of high-tech. For one thing, how many of... [03 Jun 2003]
UK fat cats under fire
News Too many UK executives are receiving remuneration packages that bear little relationship to their performance, a fact that is discrediting capitalism. That's the conclusion of corporate governance watchdog, Pirc. [05 Aug 2002]
Trade Unions take on Vodafone fat cats
News The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has supported calls to vote against Vodafone's headline-grabbing executive bonus programme at the company's AGM later this month. Vodafone's chief executive Sir Chris Gent stands to pocket up to £4m by... [22 Jul 2002]
Telewest fat cats face shareholder revolt
News Telewest paid four executives £690,000 in bonuses last year despite the collapse of the company's share price. During 2001 shares in the troubled cable company fell by around 40 per cent, while pre-tax losses rose by 63 per cent. [10 May 2002]
Vodafone caps execs' pay
News Vodafone is planning to 'restructure' the pay packets of its senior executives in a bid to appease angry shareholders. It has scrapped a pay and bonus scheme which could have seen chief exec Sir Christopher Gent receive share options... [18 Mar 2002]
Gates loses $6bn but remains world's wealthiest Gap-clad plutocrat
News Americans account for 243 places on the billionaire list but accounted for around 70 per cent of those exiting the top tier of fat cats. The world's billionaires got slightly poorer last year as the... [01 Mar 2002]
FTSE fat cats get too many share options
News Investors think FTSE fat cats should go on a diet as concern about directors' share option packages continues to rise. Some investors feel that option packages are being awarded erroneously and according... [30 Nov 2001]
Baltimore rations cream for fat cats
News But today's changes will be seen against a wider background of so-called executive 'fat cats' who are seen to be rewarded by their companies irrespective of failure. Struggling security vendor Baltimore... [30 Oct 2001]
