ADVISERS May 20, 2009 LEADING the heavyweight team of advisers on the issue is property expert Alex Midgen of Rothschild, Shaftesbury’s main financial adviser. Rothschild has been advising the group for the past year, it said yesterday. Joint bookrunners are the well known pairing, JP Morgan Cazenove and Merrill Lynch. JP Morgan, which is corporate broker to 37 of [...]
Experian cuts successful as profits rocket May 20, 2009 EXPERIAN, the credit information group, yesterday cheered markets by unveiling a bumper 11 per cent jump in net profit to $486m (£313m), aided by an $80m cost cut drive. The Dublin-based firm upped its cost cutting targets by another $20m to $150m as it announced its results for the year to the end of March, [...]
Experian cuts successful as profits rocket May 20, 2009 EXPERIAN, the credit information group, yesterday cheered markets by unveiling a bumper 11 per cent jump in net profit to $486m (£313m), aided by an $80m cost cut drive. The Dublin-based firm upped its cost cutting targets by another $20m to $150m as it announced its results for the year to the end of March, [...]
Air France and Delta to merge May 20, 2009 AIR FRANCE-KLM, Europe’s biggest airline, yesterday announced it had finalised a deal with US airline Delta to operate as one airline over the Atlantic, boosting its share of the world’s busiest route to 25 per cent. The news came as the French carrier reported full-year losses of &1119;578m (£507m) yesterday, down from a profit of [...]
Air France and Delta to merge May 20, 2009 AIR FRANCE-KLM, Europe’s biggest airline, yesterday announced it had finalised a deal with US airline Delta to operate as one airline over the Atlantic, boosting its share of the world’s busiest route to 25 per cent. The news came as the French carrier reported full-year losses of &1119;578m (£507m) yesterday, down from a profit of [...]
Future remains upbeat despite falling earnings May 20, 2009 HOBBY magazine publisher Future said yesterday that underlying profit was flat for the first half and that it was still on track to meet its full-year expectations, but pre-tax profit fell. The group’s earnings were flat at £4.6m, but were taken lower by exceptional items of £2.4m relating to a provision against slower payment times [...]
Future remains upbeat despite falling earnings May 20, 2009 HOBBY magazine publisher Future said yesterday that underlying profit was flat for the first half and that it was still on track to meet its full-year expectations, but pre-tax profit fell. The group’s earnings were flat at £4.6m, but were taken lower by exceptional items of £2.4m relating to a provision against slower payment times [...]
ROOM WITH A VIEW May 20, 2009 DICK Fuld, the disgraced former chief executive of collapsed Wall Street bank Lehman Brothers, has discreetly put his home on the market for $32m (£20m). The 16-room, 6,200 square foot Park Avenue apartment that Fuld bought for $21m in 2007 includes four rooms for servants and five fireplaces. Fuld transferred his Florida mansion into his [...]
ROOM WITH A VIEW May 20, 2009 DICK Fuld, the disgraced former chief executive of collapsed Wall Street bank Lehman Brothers, has discreetly put his home on the market for $32m (£20m). The 16-room, 6,200 square foot Park Avenue apartment that Fuld bought for $21m in 2007 includes four rooms for servants and five fireplaces. Fuld transferred his Florida mansion into his [...]
CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS May 20, 2009 SVG CapitalThe private equity firm has appointed Lynn Fordham as its new chief executive officer and Tony Dalwood as chief executive of SVG Advisers, its advisory arm. Fordham joined the SVG Capital board as finance director in July last year, having previously held positions with Barratt Developments, BAA, Boots, Man Group and Chubb. Dalwood joined [...]