Paris show’s bumpy ride June 14, 2009 AEROPLANE makers expect to be displaying heavily cut order lists at the Paris air show this week as the recession bites further into the travel industry. With airlines set to lose up to $9bn (£5.5bn) this year, aircraft and engine makers expect many orders to be cancelled or deferred. The recent Air France Airbus crash [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING June 14, 2009 THE SUNDAYSThe Sunday Telegraph RBS INVESTORS SAY PAY CHIEF EXEC MORERoyal Bank of Scotland chairman Sir Philip Hampton has had to overhaul the planned incentive package for chief executive Stephen Hester after institutional investors raised concerns that it was not generous enough. INEOS DEBT SPARKS WORRIES OVER ITS FUTUREAuditors to Ineos, Britain’s biggest private company, [...]
Merrill Lynch ads go bullish June 14, 2009 Bank of America is spending $10m (£6m) promoting Merrill Lynch’s name and symbol of the bull. The massive print and online ad campaign for Bank of America’s Merrill Lynch division will start in the US this week and head across the globe in July. A print and TV campaign featuring Merrill’s “thundering herd” of financial [...]
TomTom in share drive June 14, 2009 Satellite navigation maker TomTom is set to raise €430m (£367m) with a new share offer to reduce the company’s net debt to €700. The group is to raise €359 through a rights issue where all four founders of the firm take up their rights and contribute €169m. A further €71m is set to be raised [...]
Winkworth floats on AIM June 14, 2009 London-based estate agency Winkworth is set to float on the junior Aim market to fund growth. Independent franchisees pay 8 per cent of their turnover for brand and marketing services.
Citi supports IFC trade plan June 14, 2009 CITIGROUP will today unveil a $1.25bn (£760m) funding partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) as it pledges to support attempts to unfreeze world trade flows. The tie up is part of the $50bn initiative announced by the IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank, in April. It is understood that $750m of [...]
London retailers get a capital boost while rest of UK drops June 14, 2009 DESPITE recovery in the UK retail sector slowing in May, London continued to outperform the rest of the country, according to fresh data out today from the British Retail Consortium (BRC). Like-for-like sales for May were 1.6 per cent higher in London than a year earlier, compared with a 0.8 per cent fall across the [...]
RICH TASTES June 14, 2009 GU, the upmarket chocolate dessert maker, is set to become even richer after receiving several approaches for the business. Founder James Averdieck founded the group in 2003 with just £100,000. The business is now valued at £50m. Private equity groups including Darwin are said to be interested, as well as trade giant Unilever.
Umbers raises Evolution stake June 14, 2009 Andrew Umbers, chief executive of investment bank Evolution Securities, has raised his stake in the London institution’s parent company Evolution Group almost fourfold. The former Credit Suisse heavyweight is thought to have exercised call rights on shares in the first part of an incentive package worth more than £2m, having met all performance conditions for [...]
Wood Mackenzie deal draws near June 14, 2009 Private equity firm Charterhouse is expected to announce today or tomorrow that it has bought energy consultancy Wood MacKenzie from rival Candover Investments for around £550m, in the biggest UK leverage buy-out this year. A sale of Wood Mackenzie would provide a welcome cash infusion for Candover, and could spur other private equity firms to [...]
