• A brutal boardroom battle erupted last year for management control of the luxury hotel chain.
• Boardroom pay has raced ahead, offering an inflationary example to workers being lectured about the need for restraint.
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She feels strongly that British boardrooms desperately need diversity.
»Shareholders felt mistakes had been made at boardroom level.
boardroom battle/dispute/row »The chairman stepped down after a bitter boardroom battle.
boardroom coup/shake-up »The departure of the chief executive and finance director in a boardroom coup has given rise to takeover speculation.
»boardroom pay/salaries
Workers were told of the closure in the company's boardroom.
The massive boardroom pay awards were criticized by the workers.
The directors were working overtime in the boardroom.
Board rooms usually have the latest techological equipment, such as Bloomberg terminals or other state-of-the-art quotation systems. The boardrooms at larger firms often also have large-screen TVs and other multimedia sources of business news. Some firms do not use these rooms at all, but allow clients to meet with brokers in their individual offices.
• *Directors' meeting place
• *Trustees' gathering place
• Conference table site
• Corporate meeting place
• Meeting place
• One place to take care of business
• A room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company)
зал засідань ради директорів; адміністрація; рада директорів; керівництво компанії; правління