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AmEx President Gilligan dies after becoming ill on flight

Ed Gilligan, the American Express Co. president viewed as a possible successor to Chief Executive Officer Kenneth I. Chenault, died Friday after becoming ill on an overseas flight to New York. Gilligan was returning from a business trip to Tokyo on a corporate jet, which made an emergency landing after he was stricken, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. “This is deeply painful and frankly unimaginable for

Post Blatter's re-election, Coca-Cola urges FIFA to address issues

Coca-Cola Co urged FIFA to take “concrete actions” to address the issues that have been raised, hours after Sepp Blatter was re-elected the president of the world football governing body mired in a corruption scandal. “FIFA must now seize the opportunity to begin winning back the trust it has lost,” Coca-Cola, one of the major sponsors of FIFA, said in an email on Friday. Blatter was re-elected the president of