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Burberry are very angry about a planned package for its newly-appointed CEO. They rejected a at the company's annual general to provide Christopher Bailey with a multi-million-dollar pay . The vote was 52.7 per cent against the . Executives wanted to hand Mr Bailey a $12.3 million "golden ", an annual salary of up to $17 million and shares worth up to $33 million by 2018. The have been called "golden handcuffs" to stop him from joining a company. He will also receive add-ons for pensions and performance .

Burberry chairman Sir John Peace defended the package and was "" with shareholders. He said: "I want to understand why they felt so ." He said the packages for Bailey and his were to keep "world-class " at the company. Under the CEO's , the company's increased to over $3.4 billion, and shares increased to $12 billion. Peace said many companies would pay Mr Bailey a lot . He added that Bailey was "worth every ". Bailey joined Burberry in 2001 as Design Director and became Creative Director in 2004.

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