The chief executive of De La Rue, the banknote printer, has come under fire from a leading shareholder after taking a £265,000 bonus last year despite a sharp fall in its share price.
Speaking to Sky News, Richard Bernstein, chief investment officer of the fund manager Crystal Amber, said Clive Vacher's pay was inappropriate for the boss of a company valued by the London stock market at only £161m. De La Rue's annual report showed that Mr Vacher was awarded a total pay package worth £792,000 last year, including the cash bonus.
The company has, however, been the source of perennial discontent from shareholders after seeing its value slide over the last decade.Crystal Amber, which has previously urged De La Rue's board to put the company up for sale, owns a roughly 10% stake. Mr Bernstein said that"management alignment is absent at De La Rue", pointing to the fact that its shares had fallen by more than half during the last year.
Good! They moved their company from Gateshead and I hope they are suffering now. They were kn our region for over 30 plus years. But there greed got the better of them. You weep what you sow.
Absolute criminals
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