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Board Set to Ditch Britain's Marks & Spencer Chief's Bonus.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2001

By James Robinson, Sunday Business, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 22--Non-executive directors at Marks & Spencer are set to tell the company's chairman and chief executive, Luc Vandevelde, to give up his controversial UKpound 810,000 bonus as they struggle to stave off rebellion within the company.

The move is a significant climbdown by M&S, which even at the end of last week was maintaining that no decision had been made on the bonus.

Some non-executives -- such as the relative newcomer to the M&S board, Kevin Lomax, chairman of software group Misys -- are understood to be furious that Vandevelde has not volunteered to waive the cash payment, given the company's dire performance. They will now insist he does, though...

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