CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS April 11, 2012 HIG Europe The private equity firm has announced that Carl Harring has joined its London office as a managing director. He arrives from HgCapital, where he led a number of small and medium-sized European leveraged buyouts. He previously spent nine years at Apax Partners. Optos The medical retinal imaging firm has announced that Louisa Burdett [...]
Warm weather aided UK retail sales in March April 10, 2012 RETAIL sales continued to recover in March, after the warm weather encouraged consumers to hit the high street for seasonal merchandise, according to industry figures published today. The latest monthly survey from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) showed that total retail sales rose 3.6 per cent in March from the same month last year, and [...]
The man with the Big Four in his sights April 9, 2012 THERE is much that separates BDO, Britain’s number six accountancy firm, from the so-called Big Four. One of the lesser known differences is that Simon Michaels, the managing partner of BDO, didn’t go to university, instead taking a training place at the accountant immediately after his A-Levels in 1987. It certainly hasn’t held him back. [...]
CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS April 9, 2012 Oriel Securities The UK corporate and institutional stockbroker and advisory firm has announced the appointment of David Knox as head of equities. Knox joins in June from JP Morgan Cazenove, where he served as head of equity research and a member of the executive committee. GW Pharmaceuticals The AIM-listed pharmaceutical company has announced that David [...]
Bad numeracy is a black mark for British prospects April 9, 2012 LAST month saw the launch of a small charity with a big ambition – to improve the state of numeracy in the UK. National Numeracy aims to draw attention to a problem known about for decades but which, despite periodic hand-wringing, we’ve not yet fixed. Nearly 17m people in England – almost half the working-age [...]
CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS April 4, 2012 Universal Music The music company has promoted Laurence Hulin to vice president, emerging markets, effective immediately. Hulin will report to Olivier Robert-Murphy, global head of new business in the Universal Music Group. Hulin joined Universal Music in 2005, and for the past two years has served as vice president, business development. He has more than [...]
Canary Wharf will be open for business during the Olympics April 1, 2012 CANARY Wharf Group yesterday stressed that it would be open for business during the Olympics, following reports the government is pushing for financial services staff to work from home in order to ease travel congestion while the Games are taking place. More than 300 Boris Bike docking stations will be available, while an extra 170-seater [...]
Non-execs say boards are not utilising them April 1, 2012 ALMOST half of non-executive directors feel their knowledge and experience is not being used to the full, according to a new study. Some 46 per cent of those polled in the Korn/ Ferry Whitehead Mann and KPMG survey felt under-utilised by the boards they sit on. The research, which involved 300 non-execs from FTSE 350 [...]
Wellington master hires No 10 aide for schools plan March 28, 2012 ANTHONY Seldon, a biographer of Tony Blair, a guru in happiness and the master of the private school Wellington College, is moving full steam ahead in his ambition to establish a network of Academy schools. Wellington has already opened one college, Wellington Academy, with the help of a £2m donation from the ex-Goldman Sachs partner [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS March 22, 2012 Allanfield The specialist insurance broker has announced the appointments of Paul Leader and Paul Williams as managing directors of companies in the Allanfield Group. Leader joins in June from global insurance broker HW Wood, where he was director with responsibility for the real estate and commercial teams. Williams joins, with immediate effect, from Gallagher Health [...]