<div><p>PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND HONORS</p><p>PAPER COMPANIES</p><p>ABITIBIBOWATER</p><p>The company has announced the appointments of Anthony F. Griffiths and Paul Riven to serve on its board of directors.</p><p>ATLAS PAPER< ...
<div id="subtitle">At a glance: Alcatel-Lucent's departing chairman, Serge Tchuruk</div><div><p>NAME: Serge Tchuruk.</p><p>AGE: 70. Born in Marseille, France, to parents of Armenian descent, as Serge Tchurukdichian.</p><p>EDUCATION: Graduate of the elite Ecole Polytechnique in ...
<div><p>Freddie Mac, the ailing US mortgage finance giant seized by the government, on Wednesday named an interim chief executive after the current CEO resigned in early March.</p><p>Freddie Mac's board of directors named John Koskinen, the current non-executive chairman, to succeed CEO David ...
Commercial television network ITV announced on Wednesday that it had swung back into profit during 2009 following a major cost-cutting drive. ITV posted annual net profits of 91 million pounds which contrasted with a loss after tax of 2.56 billion pounds in ...
<div><p> Dell (DELL) says it will organize globally around three major customer segments: large enterprise, public sector, and small- and medium-sized businesses. The PC maker announces that Mike Cannon, president of Global Operations, will retire effective Jan. 31, will be succeeded by ...
<div><p>The dramatic reorganization of Random House initiated a month and a half ago by new C.E.O. Markus Dohle came one step closer to completion this morning, as the publisher of the company's biggest division—the flagship Random House Publishing Group—sent a memo to ...
<div id="subtitle">Tyson interim CEO says company making progress in turning around poultry business</div><div><p>The interim chief executive of Tyson Foods says the world's largest meat producer is making "significant progress" in turning around its faltering chicken business.</p><p>Leland Tollett's ...
<div><p>Chris Hicks has been promoted to senior product manager for Garlock Sealing Technologies of Palmyra, N. Y. He will manage the company's line of non-asbestos, high-pressure sheet gasketing and fabricated products. Hicks has been with Garlock for 12 years and has held ...
<div><p>News Corp. announced on Friday that Owen Van Natta, a former executive at Facebook and Amazon.com, had been named chief executive of social network MySpace.</p><p>Van Natta, 39, who left Facebook last year for Playlist Inc., an online music company, will begin work ...
<div id="subtitle">Yahoo's departing CFO to receive $1.8 million severance payment, medical benefits</div><div><p>Yahoo says it will pay its chief financial officer $1.8 million when he leaves the Internet company this summer.</p><p>Besides the severance payment, Blake Jorgensen also ...
