| Tip Bit |
06.03.2010 |
943 |
see article |
| Google is buying online advertising business DoubleClick for US$3.1bn to increase its presence in display advertising on the web. |
15.04.2007 |
796 |
see article |
| The British Retail Consortium forecast consumers would spend £5bn in the shops over Easter, up from the average £4.2bn for the holiday. |
16.04.2006 |
745 |
see article |
| Lloyd's of London is promoting efforts to attract wealthy investors again, with members' agency CBS planning to establish a £1bn collective fund. |
27.02.2005 |
688 |
see article |
| CVC Capital Partners is considering a float for IG Group less than two years after buying it for £143m. |
30.01.2005 |
684 |
see article |
| Firms eye chance to build £1bn care group |
20.06.2004 |
654 |
see article |
| IBM and Hewlett-Packard are linking up with EDS to bid for a £4bn MoD contract to unify the various computer systems used by the armed forces. |
09.05.2004 |
648 |
see article |
| City traders appear increasingly interested in investing in `viaticals', buying the rights to life insurance policies of people who are terminally ill. |
30.03.2003 |
591 |
see article |
| Sporting Index in £55m sale |
08.12.2002 |
576 |
see article |
| The government is planning a series of `quick fix' measures for the UK's transport infrastructure, including a £2bn road-building programme. |
08.12.2002 |
576 |
see article |
| The government is due this week to announce it is taking over the £35bn decommissioning costs of old nuclear reactors, paving the way for a privatisation of BNFL. |
25.11.2001 |
522 |
see article |
| Private equity firms circle Unigate rump |
28.10.2001 |
518 |
see article |
| The proposed communications regulator Ofcom may need extra funding beyond the £119m a year received by the existing regulators it will replace. |
13.10.2001 |
516 |
see article |
| Business features |
17.06.2001 |
499 |
see article |
| The Markets |
03.09.2000 |
459 |
see article |
| Ranks to sell Tom Cobleigh |
03.09.2000 |
459 |
see article |
| The train operating companies are planning to take away the long-distance ticketing facilities at up to 1,600 small stations. |
06.08.2000 |
455 |
see article |
| Pearson chairman Sir Dennis Stevenson became a life peer in the Queen's Birthday Honours, with Bank of England Governor Eddie George also elevated to Privy Counsellor. Diageo's Tony Greener, awarded a knighthood, revealed he is to retire next year. Other |
12.06.1999 |
396 |
see article |
| The Markets |
16.05.1999 |
392 |
see article |
| The City Column |
17.04.1999 |
388 |
see article |
| Outlook |
10.04.1999 |
387 |
see article |
| G7 chiefs have backed plans by Bundesbank bigwig Hans Tietmayer for a so-called Financial Stability Forum, a talk shop dedicated to the avoidance of world financial meltdown. |
21.02.1999 |
380 |
see article |
| Profiles |
21.02.1999 |
380 |
see article |
| Trade and Industry Secretary Stephen Byers is planning a White Paper this summer to outline ways of giving consumers a better deal on shop prices, following the Sunday Times campaign against high UK prices compared with the US and Europe. |
07.02.1999 |
378 |
see article |
| Tote chairman Peter Jones has admitted that it would have to be privatised if it succeeds in buying Coral from Ladbroke. The Tote, backed by Electra and Candover, is a frontrunner to buy Coral for up to £340m and if successful, the Tote may be privatised |
05.12.1998 |
370 |
see article |
| Tempus |
19.09.1998 |
359 |
see article |
| Tip Bits |
09.11.1997 |
315 |
see article |
| Nomura bets on Wm Hill |
21.09.1997 |
308 |
see article |
| We hate Nottingham Forest |
16.02.1997 |
277 |
see article |
| Tip Bits |
26.01.1997 |
274 |
see article |
| The Office of Fair Trading is to take the Association of Policy Market Makers, a syndicate of 8 traders in second-hand endowment policies, to court over a 3% limit on commissions to financial advisors. |
30.06.1996 |
244 |
see article |
| The government is this week expected to announce the sale of Freightliner to its MCB management team, backed by Electra and 3i. |
19.05.1996 |
238 |
see article |
| New problem in sale of Reed Books |
03.03.1996 |
227 |
see article |
| Mercury Asset Management has been active in the market buying both Granada and Forte shares. As reputedly the largest underwriter of the Granada offer, MAM is likely to accept the offer and hopes that the Granada price will not fall to the 600p level at w |
13.01.1996 |
220 |
see article |
| AIB takes John Govett |
18.11.1995 |
213 |
see article |
| The Investment Column |
08.07.1995 |
194 |
see article |
| Simon Robertson, vice-chairman of Kleinwort Benson, will succeed Lord Rockley as chairman when the Dresdner Bank bid is revealed. Hans Georg Hofmann from Dresdner will join the board as vicechairman. |
25.06.1995 |
192 |
see article |