| Waterstone's founder poised to buy back book chain |
05.09.2010 |
969 |
see article |
| Briefs |
04.07.2010 |
960 |
see article |
| Tip Bit |
13.03.2010 |
944 |
see article |
| Briefs |
12.12.2009 |
932 |
see article |
| Comment |
12.12.2009 |
932 |
see article |
| Briefs |
24.10.2009 |
925 |
see article |
| MasterCard reported Q1 profits down 18%, although this was better than analysts' expectations. |
02.05.2009 |
900 |
see article |
| Chrysler and the Obama administration maintain that the car company would restart operations within two months after going into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, although some creditors are still opposing the proposed rescue deal. |
02.05.2009 |
900 |
see article |
| Advent International has joined the bidding for Esporta which is still believed to be losing new members. |
09.03.2008 |
841 |
see article |
|
02.02.2008 |
836 |
see article |
| Christopher Sporborg, outgoing chairman of Countrywide, has criticised the level of gearing required by many private equity deals in the wake of Apollo's £1.05bn agreed takeover. |
14.04.2007 |
796 |
see article |
| Leather goods and stationery retailer Smythson is planning to expand from nine to 30 stores over the next four years. |
10.09.2006 |
766 |
see article |
| Business features |
23.07.2006 |
759 |
see article |
| The Ernst & Young Item Club suggests that rising energy costs will hit high street spending. |
23.07.2006 |
759 |
see article |
| Tip Bits |
07.05.2006 |
748 |
see article |
| Citigroup has been appointed by Guy Hands to sell ES Pipelines for more than £250m. |
30.04.2006 |
747 |
see article |
| Among those believed to have turned down the Trinity Mirror chair before Sir Ian Gibson, were Sir John Parker, Sir David Arculus and Sir Julian Horn-Smith. |
29.04.2006 |
747 |
see article |
| A survey by the Sunday Telegraph claims that the top four supermarket chains are seeking panning permissions to develop land equivalent to 194 football pitches from some 117 applications. |
23.04.2006 |
746 |
see article |
| New York Stock Exchange CEO John Thain has admitted in a SEC filing that he is involved in merger talks with rival exchanges. |
16.04.2006 |
745 |
see article |
| Scott Pack, head buyer at HMV's Waterstone's chain, has quit following a possible row in the wake of the delayed bid for Ottakar's. |
18.02.2006 |
737 |
see article |
| Waterstone set to launch £250m bookstores offer |
05.02.2006 |
735 |
see article |
| Gordon Brown's critics are likely to reject his claim that high oil prices are the cause of lower growth forecasts. Brown has also been lobbying international finance ministers in Washington to try to save the Africa debt relief deal at the World Bank mee |
24.09.2005 |
718 |
see article |
| Business Comment |
18.09.2005 |
717 |
see article |
| Business features |
18.09.2005 |
717 |
see article |
| Writers try to block HMV takeover of Ottakar's |
04.09.2005 |
715 |
see article |
| Ottakar's bid blow for HMV |
27.08.2005 |
714 |
see article |
| Patience Wheatcroft |
27.08.2005 |
714 |
see article |
| Business features |
21.08.2005 |
713 |
see article |
| King warns of Sainsbury struggle |
16.10.2004 |
671 |
see article |
| Profiles |
03.10.2004 |
669 |
see article |
| Business features |
23.02.2003 |
586 |
see article |
| Waterstone ruled out of HMV deal |
14.04.2002 |
542 |
see article |
| The Football Association and the government have finally reached agreement on a £700m plan to rebuild Wembley Stadium, with a formal announcement expected from Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell on 17 December. A number of banks, including Barclays, have agre |
09.12.2001 |
524 |
see article |
| Commentary |
08.12.2001 |
524 |
see article |
| City fund managers including Schroders, Gartmore, F&C Management and Phillips & Drew could face legal action themselves from disgruntled pension funds in the wake of the Unilever victory over Merrill Lynch. |
08.12.2001 |
524 |
see article |
| Complaints from William Hill and Labrokes have prompted the OFT to stage an investigation into racing industry attempts to triple charges for televising meetings to £180m a year. |
21.10.2001 |
517 |
see article |
| Computing Devices Canada, a subsidiary of US defence group General Dynamics, looks set to pip French-owned Thales in winning the long-delayed £1.7bn Bowman project to supply a digital battlefield radio system to UK forces. Thales, which is mounting an 11t |
15.07.2001 |
503 |
see article |
| Belgo boss set to bid for Waterstone's |
17.06.2001 |
499 |
see article |
| Alchemy Partners may help take Ottakars private as a way of buying Waterstone's from HMV Media and merging the two bookshop chains. |
20.05.2001 |
495 |
see article |
| Kevin and Ian Maxwell are to fight DTI moves to have them banned as company directors. |
25.03.2001 |
487 |
see article |
| Notebook |
27.01.2001 |
479 |
see article |
| Waterstone in £200m buy-back bid |
07.01.2001 |
476 |
see article |
| BP Amoco CEO Sir John Browne is among those forecasting that a harsh winter could lead to oil shortages in the US as well as power cuts. |
26.11.2000 |
471 |
see article |
| Sir Richard Branson is involved in a row over a light-hearted joke which was critical of Virgin Trains, a comment which could have as much impact as Gerald Ratner's famous `crap' joke about his jewellery. |
23.07.2000 |
453 |
see article |
| Labour Party millionaire fundraiser Lord Levy, a close friend of Tony Blair, has strongly denied allegations of tax avoidance after confirming he paid only £5,000 to the Inland Revenue in 1998-99. |
25.06.2000 |
449 |
see article |
| The Markets |
19.03.2000 |
435 |
see article |
| The New York Stock Exchange has reported its first quarterly loss for nearly a decade as a result of fewer flotations and the cost of implementing new technology. |
18.03.2000 |
435 |
see article |
| City Comment |
02.10.1999 |
412 |
see article |
| Rupert Murdoch's News International wants to be part of the Digital One consortium which will run a digital radio broadcast system that should provide eight commercial channels. NI also plans to invest in 20% of another member of the consortium, Talk Radi |
14.06.1998 |
345 |
see article |
| US confectionery company Mars is this week planning its first-move into the chocolate-box market dominated by Cadbury Schweppes and Nestlé, with the launch of Celebrations. |
14.09.1997 |
307 |
see article |
