Who’s switching jobs September 20, 2012 Cording Group John Partridge has been appointed executive chairman of the real estate investment firm. He is the founder and former executive chairman of Cordea Savills. Partridge also previously served as chief executive of the property fund management businesses at Morgan Grenfell and Henderson. Altium The investment bank has appointed Aksana Pekun as managing director [...]
Talks fail to break deadlock in dispute over Euro rugby future September 18, 2012 EUROPEAN rugby’s future remains in the balance after talks in Dublin yesterday failed to avert the threat of a breakaway from English and French top-flight clubs. Stakeholders in European Rugby Cup [ERC], organisers of the Heineken Cup and Amlin Challenge Cup, agreed to reconvene in Rome next month to continue dialogue. It comes after Premiership [...]
Hermes shareholder activists jump ship to join RWC Partners September 18, 2012 HERMES Fund Managers, one of the largest asset managers in the UK, has sold its $800m (£492.5m) activist shareholder division Hermes Focus Asset Management to London-based boutique fund manager RWC Partners. The three team division, owned by Hermes’ parent company the BT Pension Scheme, will transfer to RWC next month. The funds use shareholder activism [...]
BT opens wallet to sign Beeb’s Jake Humphrey September 18, 2012 A FTER a breakthrough 2012 that saw him shine as one of the lead anchors of the BBC’s Olympic coverage, the Beeb’s Formula 1 frontman Jake Humphrey has been snapped up by BT to present its Premier League offering from next season. Humphrey’s signing is the latest big money move from BT, after it shelled [...]
BT hires new chief executive of struggling global services arm September 17, 2012 BT’S troubled global services division has appointed a fourth chief executive in as many years after current head Jeff Kelly, who returned the department to a degree of stability, chose to leave. Kelly will be replaced by BT veteran Luis Alvarez at the start of next month, the company said yesterday. Alvarez has been with [...]
Heineken Cup successor will dazzle, say BT September 13, 2012 THE HEINEKEN Cup will be superseded by a “dazzling new European tournament” in two years’ time, says BT Vision chairman Marc Watson. English and French clubs’ breakaway plans gathered pace this week when BT Vision struck a £152m deal with Premiership Rugby that they say gives them the rights to show European games involving English [...]
BT adds rugby to its TV offering September 12, 2012 BT has secured a £152m deal for the rights to show Premiership rugby union matches on its TV service, in the latest aggressive move from the company after its shock grab of Premier League football rights. The four-year contract, which allows BT to show 69 live games a year from the start of the 2013-14 [...]
New Everything Everywhere 4G service unveiled September 11, 2012 EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE, the parent company of the Orange and T-Mobile phone networks, yesterday announced the launch of a third network for its 4G mobile broadband service and a rebranding of the firm. Both the new service and the parent company will now be known as “EE”, a move that follows a branding review held over [...]
Top flight clubs look to buy before 11pm transfer deadline August 30, 2012 PREMIER League transfer activity yesterday began to build to it’s traditional dramatic transfer window climax ahead of today’s 11pm deadline, with every club desperate to continue to strengthen to the last. A wave of momentum has built over the last 48 hours in the pursuit of myriad transfers that have both already been completed and [...]
What the other papers say this morning August 29, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES Google Plus adds new features Google is expanding its social networking service further into the corporate world to take on the likes of Microsoft’s Yammer and Salesforce.com’s Chatter. The search company launched Google Plus in June last year but did not originally allow business customers of its Google Apps products, such as Gmail [...]