Compass, the world's largest catering group, announced today it had agreed to pay to up to £40m to settle two lawsuits brought against it for allegedly bribing a UN official to win contracts worth ...

NEW YORK – The world's largest food services company is facing a new lawsuit alleging that its involvement with bid-rigging of U.N. procurement contracts resulted in up to $856 million in damages to a ...

Simply sign up to the Retail & Consumer industry myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Compass has agreed to a final settlement of about £40m of claims brought by two competitors related to ...

UNITED NATIONS – On April 27, 2005, a U.N. procurement officer named Alexander Yakovlev was working unusually late. At 11:23 p.m. he fired off an e-mail to a food service executive named Andy Seiwert, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Compass first started to bid for contracts at the United Nations in 2000 it had little experience of the ...

WASHINGTON A House of Representatives committee plans to open hearings on Wednesday into allegations that foodservice giant Compass Group PLC and other government contractors violated government ...