CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS October 23, 2011 Little Chef The roadside chain has appointed Graham Sims as its new chairman. Sims is currently chief executive of Qunatilis, a non-executive board member at the UK Border Agency, and chairman of Kensington Consultancy Group. Earlier in his career, he spent seven years at BP, rising from operations manager for Portugal to UK retail managing [...]
France better on day but all credit to New Zealand October 23, 2011 YOU can’t contemplate how big an achievement it is to win a World Cup with your fourth choice fly-half. Not only have New Zealand been the best team for the last four years and at this tournament, they have also had to overcome so many setbacks. They deserve all the credit that they get. It [...]
Aviva cuts 950 Europe jobs as profits wane October 20, 2011 AVIVA will cut nearly 1,000 jobs from its European operations and bring Ireland within its UK business to revive the group’s profitability. Aviva said it would reduce its headcount in Ireland by about 770 – close to half its 1,770 staff – as well as 180 from its European regional operations over the next two [...]
PWC HOSTS AWARDS TO MARK BEST PRACTICES October 13, 2011 AS anyone who’s attended a City awards ceremony will know, it’s often hard to keep the attention of a room full of businessmen and women who are used to being online 24/7. But ITN news anchor Mary Nightingale had no such trouble on Wednesday night when she hosted the 9th annual PwC Building Public Trust [...]
Ireland handed Estonia draw October 13, 2011 FOOTBALL: The Republic of Ireland will take on Estonia in the Euro 2012 play-offs. Estonia are at home for the first leg on 11/12 November. The return leg will take place at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on 15 November.
Colfax stalls Charter offer for one week October 10, 2011 ENGINEERING group Charter International had to delay giving shareholders the full details of the offer from US buyer Colfax for another week, it said yesterday. Charter’s board was due to publish the full scheme of arrangement for the takeover yesterday but it asked the Takeover Panel to grant it another week’s grace as it finalises [...]
Keane injury adds further complications for Ireland October 10, 2011 REPUBLIC of Ireland striker Robbie Keane has been ruled out of tonight’s pivotal Euro 2012 qualifier against Armenia at the Aviva Stadium. Giovanni Trapattoni’s side need just a point to guarantee a play-off spot, but victory coupled with Andorra securing an unlikely win over Russia would see Ireland qualify outright for their first major tournament [...]
Greek progress lends a hand to FTSE despite retail worries October 5, 2011 RALLIES by hard-pressed banks, insurers and commodity stocks led a bounce back by Britain’s top shares yesterday as support for debt-laden Greece revived investor appetite for riskier assets. Financial issues were boosted after the International Monetary Fund said it “definitely participate” in a second bailout package for Greece if the Washington-based lender was happy about [...]
Aviva: Charter bid shows UK M&A skewed October 2, 2011 THE “disappointing” outcome of the takeover battle for Charter International shows that UK M&A deals are still too skewed in favour of short term investors, the £269bn fund manager Aviva Investors has said. Aviva’s UK equities fund manager Graham Elliott-Shircore said Charter’s shareholder base changed as short-term investors bought in during the bid period, leaving [...]
WORLD CUP RUGBY STAR REVEALS AN UNEXPECTED WEAKNESS September 29, 2011 THERE HAS only been one occasion when Jason Leonard, the most-capped England rugby player of all time, has been intimidated on the pitch. That moment came when Leonard met Norman Hadley, a six foot nine Canadian rugby union player with a scar down his cheek that “didn’t come from rugby”. For reasons best known to [...]