The payout to Glenn Cowie is one of the largest awards made by an employment tribunal.
Mr Cowie, a £300,000 a year senior manager, was sacked and replaced with a younger woman after the introduction of a new policy that meant the company was encouraged not to hire people over 45.
Dismissed
He was 58 when he was told he would be dismissed from his role as a divisional president at global engineering company Vesuvius.
It was just 18 months after CEO Patrick Andre called him an "old fossil" in the middle of a meeting with other executives, the tribunal heard.
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