International Business News - CEO http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif General Motors Chief Executive Fritz Henderson was due in Germany on Monday to start talks aimed at soothing workers' tempers over the carmaker's plan to reorganize European arm Opel on its own. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/223736-general-general-motors-co-chief-executive-fritz.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091109/gm-ceo-starts-opel-charm-tour-at-ruesselsheim-hq.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091109/gm-ceo-starts-opel-charm-tour-at-ruesselsheim-hq.htm Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:16:01 EST High unemployment has had "some impact" on the breakfast business at McDonald's Corp as fewer people pick up food on the way to work, Chief Executive Jim Skinner said on Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/223100-a-man-visitsmcdonalds-restaurant-in-arlington-virginia.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091027/mcdonalds-ceo-job-losses-have-breakfast-impact.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091027/mcdonalds-ceo-job-losses-have-breakfast-impact.htm Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:40:03 EDT Lazard Ltd's board has no plans to pick a new chief executive for the investment bank at its meeting next week, the board said on Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/222686-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091020/lazard-has-no-plans-to-pick-new-ceo-next-week.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091020/lazard-has-no-plans-to-pick-new-ceo-next-week.htm Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:00:02 EDT A few thousand employees at Royal Dutch Shell Plc have been asked to reapply for their jobs as part of restructuring plans, Chief Executive Peter Voser said on Tuesday, declining to say how many jobs might go. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/222292-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091013/shell-asks-staff-reapply-jobs-ceo.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091013/shell-asks-staff-reapply-jobs-ceo.htm Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:23:20 EDT Chrysler Group LLC still plans to shutter eight North American plants according to its initial schedule, Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne said on Thursday, as he dismissed recent reports that a Detroit-area plant would get a reprieve. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/221583-chrysler-fiat-chief-executive-sergio-marchionne-listens.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091001/chrysler-ceo-no-reprieve-ons-plant-closings.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091001/chrysler-ceo-no-reprieve-ons-plant-closings.htm Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:40:01 EDT The U.S. car market should see a modest recovery in 2010, with sales possibly reaching between 11.5 million and 12 million vehicles, General Motors Co Chief Executive Fritz Henderson said on Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090924/gm-ceo-sees-modests-auto-sale-recovery.htm Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:29:00 EDT Debt-laded Continental AG, a German auto supplier controlled by Schaeffler, wants to keep its portfolio structure in the current from, new chief executive Elmar Degenhart was quoted on Saturday as saying. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090919/continental-wants-keep-tyre-ops-contitech-ceo.htm Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:57:16 EDT The exit of a popular CEO at World Wrestling Entertainment Inc (WWE.N) comes at a time when the sports entertainer has seen shares rise more than 60 percent since last November, helped by a loyal fan base and aggressive cost cutting. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090917/buy-or-sell-will-wwe-be-hurt-ceo-exit.htm Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:00:33 EDT Engineering and construction company Foster Wheeler is learning how to grow more through mergers and acquisitions, but must shed its careful approach first, its chief executive said on Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090917/foster-wheeler-ceo-says-aims-do-morea.htm Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:58:15 EDT Avon Products Inc President Elizabeth Smith is leaving the company to pursue her ambition of being a chief executive, the world's leading direct seller of cosmetics said on Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/220654-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090917/avon-president-smith-leaves-pursue-ceo-goal.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090917/avon-president-smith-leaves-pursue-ceo-goal.htm Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:52:16 EDT AT&T Inc expects sales to business customers to stay flat for a while, although growth may return in the second half of 2010, Chief Executive Randall Stephenson said on Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/220644-randall-stephenson-atceo.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090917/atceo-sees-business-market-flat-awhile.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090917/atceo-sees-business-market-flat-awhile.htm Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:47:27 EDT World Wrestling Entertainment Inc said Chief Executive Linda McMahon resigned to run for the U.S. Senate and named Chairman Vince McMahon to the post. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090916/wwe-says-ceo-resigns-names-chairman-as-ceo.htm Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:37:36 EDT Starbucks Corp Chief Executive Howard Schultz obtained a roughly $14 million paper profit by exercising nearly 1 million stock options on Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/220442-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090915/starbucks-ceo-has-14-mln-paper-profit-on-options.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090915/starbucks-ceo-has-14-mln-paper-profit-on-options.htm Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:26:17 EDT James McDonald, chief executive officer of investment management firm Rockefeller & Co, committed suicide on Sunday in Massachusetts, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090915/rockefeller-co-ceo-committed-suicide-wsj.htm Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:03:38 EDT Residential and small commercial solar energy integrator Real Goods Solar said its Chief Executive Tom McCalmont would step down. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090912/real-goods-solar-ceo-step-down.htm Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:17:23 EDT Alkermes Inc said its Chief Executive Officer David Broecker has resigned, effective immediately, and will be replaced by prior CEO Richard Pops. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090911/alkermes-ceo-resigns-names-prior-ceo-as-replacement.htm Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:46:51 EDT Wal-Mart Stores Inc is expecting a "late Christmas" as consumers continue to carefully manage spending, CEO Mike Duke said at an investor conference on Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/220156-a-customer-leaveswal-mart-store-in-rogers.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090910/wal-mart-ceo-sees-late-christmas.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090910/wal-mart-ceo-sees-late-christmas.htm Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:32:02 EDT Smithfield Foods Inc, known as the largest hog and pork producer in the world, is transforming itself into a packaged-foods company that is less reliant on hogs and lower-margin fresh pork products, its chief executive said on Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090910/smith-field-becomingpackaged-foods-company-ceo.htm Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:14:29 EDT A climate bill in the U.S. Senate would cost leading U.S. refinery Valero Energy Corp between $6 billion and $7 billion per year in its current form, the company's CEO said on Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090909/us-climate-bill-would-cost-valero7-bln-yr-ceo.htm Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:37:51 EDT UBS has put some of its worst problems behind it but still needs to work hard to rebuild its badly damaged reputation, the Swiss bank's chief executive told employees in an internal memo on Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/219923-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090908/ubs-must-work-hard-rebuild-reputation-ceo.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090908/ubs-must-work-hard-rebuild-reputation-ceo.htm Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:43:31 EDT