{"id":184829,"date":"2025-09-17T13:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=184829"},"modified":"2025-09-17T15:17:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:17:44","slug":"nestle-chairman-to-step-down-shortly-after-ceos-ouster-over-love-affair-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/184829\/","title":{"rendered":"Nestl\u00e9 chairman to step down shortly after CEO\u2019s ouster over love affair scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Nestl&eacute;&rsquo;s Chairman Paul Bulcke will step down earlier than planned, just weeks after the sudden dismissal of CEO Laurent Freixe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2025\/09\/17\/nestle-chairman-to-step-down-after-recent-shock-dismissal-of-ceo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>To <a href=\"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/179499\/\">remind<\/a>, the organization&rsquo;s CEO, Laurent Freixe, was fired earlier this month for having an undisclosed romantic relationship with a direct subordinate.<\/p>\n<p>The decision of Bulcke&rsquo;s resignation comes after shareholders criticized the chairman&rsquo;s handling of a scandal involving the firm&rsquo;s CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Despite media speculation, Nestl&eacute; has denied that Bulcke sought to defend and shield Freixe during the early stages of the investigation.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nestl&eacute;&rsquo;s Chairman Paul Bulcke will step down earlier than planned, just weeks after the sudden dismissal of CEO Laurent Freixe, Euronews writes. To remind, the organization&rsquo;s CEO, Laurent Freixe, was fired earlier this month for having an undisclosed romantic relationship with a direct subordinate. The decision of Bulcke&rsquo;s resignation comes after shareholders criticized the chairman&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":184716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98,47,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en","category-society","category-social"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184830,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184829\/revisions\/184830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}