A jury in Los Angeles awarded $5.16 million to a former financial manager for Nestle who claimed the company denied him promotions that went to junior employees. The manager was in his mid-40s. He complained to the human resources department and a senior executive but never got a satisfactory response about whether his age was involved in his failure to advance. The jury may have been influenced by a memo in which a former Nestle executive urged the company to hire and promote young people to management. In addition to the jury’s monetary verdict, the judge presiding over the case ordered Nestle to tell its employees that it repudiated the memo.