Bill Johnson News
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs postponed purchases of cardiac monitors, radiological equipment and pain-medication pumps for patients last year. It didn’t replace old surgical tools, oxygen-delivery systems or deteriorating operating-room stretchers.
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Scott Lee, an ardent fisherman from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has an opinion as to whether Barack Obama should sell the federally chartered Tennessee Valley Authority to private investors: Don’t do it.
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Duke Energy Corp., the largest U.S. utility owner, said first-quarter profit rose as cooler temperatures than a year earlier boosted demand for power.
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HJ Heinz Co. won a judge’s ruling throwing out lawsuits brought by investors seeking to block the $23 billion buyout of the company by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Jorge Paulo Lemann’s 3G Capital.
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Having turned around H.J. Heinz Co., Chief Executive Officer Bill Johnson may reap about $100 million from the company’s buyout.
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H.J. Heinz Co. Chief Executive Officer Bill Johnson could receive more than $200 million should he exit after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Jorge Paulo Lemann’s 3G Capital Inc. buy the ketchup maker.
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Bill Johnson, the man who was chief executive officer of Duke Energy Corp. for hours after its $17.8 billion takeover of Progress Energy Inc., said he was fired after Duke had “buyer’s remorse” about the deal.
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President Barack Obama is considering the sale of all or part of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the largest publicly owned U.S. power company, in a deal that may raise as much as $35 billion as the administration seeks to reduce the national debt.
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Jorge Paulo Lemann’s 3G Capital said Bernardo Hees will become chief executive officer of HJ Heinz Co., the ketchup maker being bought by the billionaire investors.
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U.S. lawmakers await the results of a Department of Veterans Affairs probe into why an agency employee processed more than 1,500 awards just under a monetary threshold that would require public disclosure of the contracts.
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