Audley’s Treger looks to float mining venture January 26, 2014 AUDLEY Capital, the natural resources investment firm co-founded by industry veteran Julian Treger, is joining forces with a former Anglo American executive to float a new mining venture later this year. Activist investor Treger and John MacKenzie, who ran FTSE 100-listed Anglo American’s copper division until last year, are looking to buy mining companies worth [...]
Bottom Line: BSkyB’s forecast still uncertain January 26, 2014 WHILE headlines surrounding BSkyB’s second quarter results on Thursday will certainly centre around an expected drop in profits – which analysts say could be as much as 10 per cent – the escalating cost of sports rights and the uncertainty of hanging on to the most precious of those rights continues to cast a shadow [...]
RP Martin trader shot at station January 26, 2014 A trader with brokerage firm RP Martin was shot outside of an Essex railway station on Friday in what police believe was a “deliberately targeted” assault. Robin Clark was taken to a nearby hospital with serious injuries after being shot in the leg by a masked gunman as he went to catch an early train [...]
Big data next challenge for execs January 26, 2014 Boardrooms and senior executives are increasingly overwhelmed with data that they have no idea how to analyse, according to a report from KPMG. Some 85 per cent of finance and information chiefs from large multi-national firms with annual revenues of over £600m said that they do not know how to analyse the data they collect. [...]
E-cigarettes ban for under-18s January 26, 2014 Under-18s are to be banned from buying electronic cigarettes under new plans by the government that will also make it illegal for adults to buy cigarettes for children. The law, which will be introduced next week as an amendment to the Children and Families Bill, is aimed at clamping down on teenage smoking. It also [...]
The law firm leaders joining the global dots January 26, 2014 Baker & McKenzie’s jet-setting duo tell Elizabeth Fournier how they stay ahead FOR A law firm that is less than 70 years old, Baker & McKenzie has an impressive global footprint. From humble beginnings at the hands of co-founders Russell Baker and John McKenzie in Chicago in 1949, the firm now employs more than 4,000 [...]
Financal crisis art is totally derivative January 26, 2014 HISTORICALLY, some of the world’s finest artworks have been inspired by events at the time; Picasso’s Guernica, Hogarth’s Rake’s Progress, Banksy’s Jubilee-themed sweatshop boy on the wall of Poundland. So financial crisis-inspired artist Larry McGinity is in very good company. McGinity has created 14 paintings for his exhibition: The Financial Crisis Show: Art As A [...]
Karren Brady adds even more to her packed diary January 26, 2014 BEING named on the New Year Honours list has evidently done zip to ease Karren Brady CBE’s hefty workload. The Apprentice star has been booked to announce the winners at the 2014 FSB WorldPay UK Business Awards in May. “Given the fact that Karren has been confirmed in the New Year’s Honours list and will [...]
Three things you didn’t know about… January 26, 2014 Sage Pay chief executive Simon Black 1 He loves football. He and his over-40s league masters team (“a euphemism for people who shouldn’t still be playing”) won the north west league and cup last year. He once tried to get away with going to see Man Utd in the Champion’s League final on his wedding [...]
Managers’ pay hike set to beat inflation in 2014 January 26, 2014 MANAGERS and professionals are projected to see only a tiny increase in real pay this year, even if inflation stays close to the Bank of England’s two per cent target. New figures released by Incomes Data Services today suggest that managerial salaries will rise by 2.3 per cent through 2014, meaning a tiny rise in [...]
