Nov 15 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
The Times
- Terry Smith, the star stockpicker behind the Fundsmith investment business, took home a smaller pay package this year but still earned at least 31 million pounds ($38.73 million).
- Glencore has set out plans to break itself up after striking a deal to buy the majority of Teck Resources' coal business for $7 billion.
The Guardian
- The UK's business and trade secretary has signed a deal to increase trade with Florida, the British government's latest pact with a single American state as it awaits a broader, post-Brexit US free trade agreement.
- Water industry regulator Ofwat has been accused of making a "meaningless gesture" after it reduced the amount that Thames Water has been asked to hand back to customers over poor performance by more than a quarter.
The Telegraph
- Thai retailer Central Group has seized control of Selfridges after a key shareholder in the luxury department store was hit by a cash crunch.
- Staff working from home has delayed HS2 by as much as a year, Nick Smallwood, the head of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), told MPs.
Sky News
- Pfizer will cut 500 jobs at its Sandwich, Kent site in the U.K. as part of its $3.5 billion cost-cutting plan, the drugmaker said.
- UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will be among the keynote speakers at the CBI's annual conference in London next week, just seven months after declaring that there was "no point" engaging with it.
($1 = 0.8004 pounds) (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)