Sam Laidlaw

£1m pay rise on the way for boss of British Gas as 16 million of their customers face huge bill rises

Daily Mail on Sunday (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008

The boss of British Gas's parent firm could see his pay soar by £1million this year as millions face huge bill rises. Sam Laidlaw, chief executive of Centrica, is expected to get a seven-figure increase in his pay, bonus and shares package.

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Millionaire energy company boss Sam Laidlaw says he's not sorry for profits in face of widespread fuel poverty

Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008

Millionaire Centrica boss Sam Laidlaw has said he has no need to apologise for his firm's bumper profits.

Squandered

UK Libertarian Party (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008

Times Business today: Britain has squandered its natural resources wealth in the North Sea and is paying for its failure to plan for the future, according to Sam Laidlaw, the chief executive of Centrica, the owner of British Gas. Centrica unveiled half-year profits of nearly £1 billion yesterday, only hours after announcing record price rises. Mr Laidlaw said that other countries, such as Norway, had...

The men who run British Gas: Sam Laidlaw

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008

Sam Laidlaw is steeped in the energy industry.

Centrica & British Gas profits

Mark Wadsworth (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008

At the end of this cacaphony of wailing on the BBC website, the small voice of reason: Sam Laidlaw, Centrica's chief executive, justified the price rise, saying: "This is a business that has got a million shareholders - a lot of pension funds and people have got their savings invested in British Gas shares and we have to look after them". I am, of course, assuming that he's telling the truth about...