Pioneer of UK employee share schemes dies

Kristian Brunt-Seymour
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Brian Cookson, who introduced one of the country's first employee share schemes, has died aged 83.

Cookson played a key role in setting up the scheme with British Aerospace and worked for 25 years at the company and its predecessor British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). The Daily Telegraph repor...

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