City Moves for 01 November 2013 | Who’s switching jobs October 31, 2013 Legal & General Property The property business has announced the appointment of Imogen Ebbs as a senior asset manager to support its limited price inflation income property fund. She was most recently at Lloyds Banking Group, where she was an associate director in its property solutions division. Baker Tilly The accountancy firm has recruited Winn Faria [...]
The CBI boss on why political risk is now the biggest threat to business October 31, 2013 John Cridland tells Allister Heath and Elizabeth Fournier that investors are beginning to worry about the UK AFTER more than two decades spent inhabiting the CBI’s offices in Centre Point, the shockingly ugly high-rise just off Tottenham Court Road, John Cridland is on the move. When not kept busy preparing his submission to the chancellor [...]
BT sees profits down but strong demand for new BT Sport October 31, 2013 BT has announced this morning that it saw a 13 per cent fall in half year pretax profits to £948m. But the telecoms company's second quarter trading (to 30 September) was ahead of forecasts. (Release) It also saw a two per cent decline in adjusted earnings to £2.7bn in the quarter, but BT Sport, which [...]
BT revamps TV offering with a la carte bolt-ons October 28, 2013 BT IS stepping up its efforts to win television subscribers from rivals by giving customers the ability to build their own TV packages. The telecoms giant, which has been going head to head with Sky after launching its own sports channels in August, said yesterday it would offer new entertainment and kids bolt-ons to its [...]
BT ramps up Sky rivalry with launch of two TV bolt-on packs October 28, 2013 BT has announced the launch of two new channel bolt-ons in addition to its core "Entertainment pack". At £3 a month each, the bolt-on offering HD Extra and Kids Extra are available to all cutstomers with BT Infinity who take the Entertainment pack. A deal was agreed with Sky a fortnight ago – allowing BT [...]
The Sky Sports boss who is set to resume the battle with BT October 28, 2013 The TV sports giant’s managing director Barney Francis tells David Hellier that the secret to success is to keep growing in the face of increasing competition WHEN you’re head of sport at a company like Sky, the satellite broadcaster where covering live elite sport is a major driver of the business, there’s barely time to [...]
London Report: RBS and Lloyds news leads raft of bank updates October 27, 2013 BANKING and financial results will be in the spotlight this week as the Royal Bank of Scotland, Standard Chartered, Lloyds, Standard Life and Barclays all publish figures. RBS third quarter numbers, to be published on Friday, are the first since Ross McEwan took over from Stephen Hester as chief executive. They are expected to show [...]
Unions relent but English clubs still set on rebel cup October 24, 2013 PREMIERSHIP Rugby chief Mark McCafferty has ruled out a compromise deal with Heineken Cup chiefs ERC despite the six unions involved in the row over the future of the European club game accepting his blueprint. Talks in Dublin ended yesterday with all unions agreeing on changes to the number of places available to the English, [...]
Former Arm man east joins BT board October 23, 2013 WARREN East, who stepped down as the boss of chipmaker Arm Holdings in March, was yesterday unveiled as the latest non-executive to join the board of BT. East, who led Arm through 12 years of expansion, will start at the telecoms group in February.
Ex-ARM boss joins BT as non-exec October 23, 2013 Warren East, the former CEO of Cambridge based chip designers ARM Holdings, will BT as a non-executive director. That appointment will take effect from 1 February (release). East led the creation of ARM's Design Consulting and Development Tools business, and when it went public in 1998 he took up the role of vice president of [...]