KV Pharmaceutical paid Chief Executive Marc Hermelin a total of $5.3 million last year, according to a proxy statement filed with the SEC. That included a salary of $1.28 million, incentive pay of $2.55 million and retirement accrual of $877,000.…

Wachovia’s latest news – which includes a dividend cut and a $393 million first-quarter loss — adds to the pain for former A.G. Edwards shareholders. When the venerable St. Louis brokerage announced last May 30 that it was selling out to the North…

Panera Bread Co. didn’t pay bonuses to its top executives last year because the company missed its earnings targets. The company also missed most goals in a three-year long-term incentive plan, which paid out at just 27 percent of its…

Top Brown Shoe executives didn’t get a bonus last year because the company didn’t meet its earnings-per-share target, the company reports in a proxy statement filed today with the SEC. Chief Executive Ronald Fromm still got total compensation of nearly $3.5 million,…

Maxine Clark, founder and “chief executive bear” at Build-A-Bear Workshop, got no bonus last year as the company’s performance slumped. She did get a salary of $600,000 and a stock grant worth $878,400, according to a proxy statement filed with…

TransferOrbit, one of St. Louis’ newer public companies, is engaging in the all-too-common penny-stock-market practice of paying websites to hype its shares.

StockMarketNewsAlert.com, for instance, profiled the company last week and issued a “trade alert” saying that “recent news flow…

Paul A. “Tony” Novelly, chairman of Apex Oil, has cashed out most of his holdings in Bear Stearns for $1.3 million, according to an SEC filing this week.  St. Albans Global Management, a company headed by Novelly, sold 125,000 shares at $10.67…

George Paz, chief executive of Express Scripts, got the maximum payout under his bonus plan last year as part of a $7.96 million pay package, the company discloses in a proxy statement filed with the SEC.

Paz got a salary of…

Arch Coal paid Chief Executive Stephen Leer $3.07 milion in total compensation last year, according to a proxy statement filed with the SEC. That includes $800,000 in salary, $1.27 million in incentive pay and $198,008 in pension value. It also includes $224,775…

Neil Smit, chief executive of Charter Communications, told a St. Louis RCGA audience this morning that raising $1 billion last week in the “very difficult debt market” was an important accomplishment for Charter. He said Charter now has 85 percent of…