> Chief of Compass, U.K. Catering Giant, Killed in Plane Crash

The chief executive of the world’s biggest catering company, which is also one of Britain’s biggest businesses, died on Sunday in a plane crash near Sydney, the Australian police said.

Richard Cousins, the chief executive of Compass Group, was among the six people killed when a seaplane went down off Jerusalem Bay, just north of Sydney, according to a statement from the New South Wales police. Police representatives confirmed that those who died were Mr. Cousins, his two sons, his fiancée and her daughter, and the pilot of the plane. The cause of the crash was being investigated.

Mr. Cousins, 58, led Compass Group — which employs more than 550,000 people worldwide, providing food for organizations ranging from Costco and Qualcomm to the University of Houston and the stadium that houses the Utah Jazz basketball team — for more than 11 years.

"When Mr. Cousins took the helm of the company, it was mired in a corruption scandal, accused of bribing a United Nations official to garner contracts to supply peacekeepers"

"Compass says it holds 10 percent of the global food services market, operating across 50 countries. "