Some 72% of the CEOs surveyed said they voted "Remain" in the June 23 Brexit referendum, KPMG said on Monday in an e-mailed statement. "CEOs are reacting to the prevailing uncertainty with contingency planning," KPMG UK chairman Simon Collins said in the statement. Before the referendum, then-Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said a vote to leave would endanger as many as 820,000 jobs. In public, CEOs of UK companies have been more circumspect about their intentions as the conditions of Brexit remain unclear. KPMG interviewed 100 UK CEOs of companies with annual sales of at least £100 million ($130 million) and at least 500 employees.

Source: Bangkok Post September 26, 2016 08:37 UTC