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Median CEO pay rises to $9.7 million in 2012

...with $9.6 million ? although only 3 percent of the companies analyzed were run by women. Irene Rosenfeld of Mondelez...4 percent last year. The median profit increase at the companies in the Equilar study was 6.1 percent, and the median...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-05-22/median-ceo-pay-rises-97-mi
JPMorgan's Dimon survives shareholder referendum

...have served as a request to the bank to strip Dimon of his role as chairman of the board and have someone from outside the company do the job. Since corporate CEOs answer to their boards of directors, headed by the chairman, the thinking goes that...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-05-21/jpmorgans-dimon-survives-s
Apple's Cook faces Senate questions on taxes

...that its Irish subsidiaries help the company avoid billions in U.S. taxes...Irish subsidiaries don't reduce the company's U.S. taxes at all. Rather, the company avoids paying the 35 percent federal...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-05-21/apples-cook-faces-senate-q
Former T-Mobile employees sentenced for taking money intended to pay for college

...release and sentenced Shantae Evans to 33 months followed by three years on supervised release.Gorham will have to repay the company $55,080 and Evans the same amount plus an additional $118,387.Gorham and Evans plead guilty to conspiracy to...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-05-22/former-t-mobile-employ
MAU celebrates 40th anniversary with renovations

...statement."Hatcher estimates the company will have spent about $1 million...William G. Hatcher Sr., founded the company in 1973 in the former Georgia Railroad...the foundation for MAU today."The company primarily serves the manufacturing...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/local-business/2013-05-22/mau-celebra
Microsoft reveals new Xbox console

...Microsoft thinks it has the one.The company unveiled the Xbox One, an entertainment...interactive entertainment business, said the company has spent the past four years working...At an hourlong unveiling at the company's Redmond, Wash., headquarters...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-05-21/microsoft-reveals-new-xbox
Southern Co. expects to face environmental challenges

...Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro where the company is adding two nuclear reactors...of every investor in the room. The company has told regulators there that...information requests.Plant Ratcliffe is the company's experiment in what it calls...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-05-21/southern-co-expects-enviro
Hiring underway for Aiken Sam's Club

...remain open seven days a week until the store is complete, said Gerald Raymond, who will manage the Aiken location.The company is seeking employees for part-time, full-time and management positions, Raymond said.Construction on the estimated...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/your-business/2013-05-20/hiring-under
Russian business magnates footing most of bill for 2014 Sochi Games

...its Sochi projects were all designed to be profitable. The company is building an Olympic village and a seaport and has...Sochi games and moved near an UGMK facility to benefit the company's workers, Bokarev responded with gusto to the suggestion...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/olympics/2013-05-20/russian-business-magnate
Wine Time: Trivento Reserve Malbec 2011, Argentina

...company to gain a foothold in Argentina, and produce great wines from the distinctive climate and soil of Mendoza.The company owns more than 3,100 acres in eight vineyards equipped with drip irrigation that allows grapes to grow in the arid...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/applause/2013-05-21/wine-time-trivento-re