Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc shareholders delivered a rebuke to the company over the pay for Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy and other top executives, with an unusually close vote in the symbolic measure to ratify compensation packages for the company’s leaders. Vote totals disclosed in a filing show 56% of shareholders supported the company’s executive pay for 2021, which included $350 ...

Bloomberg Big retailers rushed to build up inventories last year amid soaring consumer demand and transportation bottlenecks — going so far in some cases as to rent their own cargo ships. Now, they’re trying to figure out how to sell all their stuff. Inventories rose $44.8 billion for companies on S&P consumer indexes with a market value of at least ...

  Bloomberg Ted Baker Plc gained on a report that Authentic Brands Group Inc is in talks with the UK fashion chain over a takeover bid worth about 300 million pounds ($379 million). Authentic Brands has indicated it’s willing to pay more than 150 pence per share for Ted Baker, Sky News reported, citing a person familiar with the situation. ...