Olympic Media Buzz LONDON 2012 PARTNERS March 4, 2012 IN ASSOCIATION with Repskan.com, the media monitoring and analytics platform, City A.M. is measuring the relative Olympic media buzz around the partners for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, week by week. The leaderboard, right, reflects their ranking over the past week, in this case from Wednesday 22 February to Wednesday 29 February. This [...]
At a glance: American corporate results April 26, 2012 Colgate-Palmolive trumps expectations COLGATE-PALMOLIVE posted a higher quarterly profit yesterday that met analysts’ expectations as it increased advertising and cut costs to mitigate the impact of foreign currency fluctuations. The toothpaste maker also stood by its forecast for the year and said it remains comfortable with analysts’ expectations. Colgate earned $593m, or $1.23 per share, [...]
MBA research quirks can better your career July 18, 2012 WHY SHOULD an MBA student care how John Maynard Keynes picked his stocks? Or how hospitals can be redesigned to prevent infection? Or how farmers’ markets could attract new customers? To many, the research interests of business school professors will seem abstract, narrow, even irrelevant. And MBA students may not be all that bothered whether [...]
WALL STREET WEEK AHEAD February 5, 2012 EUROPE will again be at the centre of investors’ focus this week as the US earnings season passes the halfway mark and there is little on the economic calendar to give the market direction. Economic data expected this week includes weekly initial jobless claims, the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index and international trade [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING February 5, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES RATING AGENCIES RAISE DOUBTS ON SCOTLAND SECURING TRIPLE A STATUS XtryAn independent Scotland would not be able to count on receiving triple A status, credit rating agencies have told the Financial Times, potentially leading to higher borrowing costs for it if a referencum on independence was successful. The three leading credit rating agencies [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING January 5, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES NEW CLASHES BREW OVER TOBIN TAX Britain and France are set for another European clash as Paris attempts to frame a new Eurozone financial transaction tax in a way that is likely to have a significant impact on the City of London. President Nicolas Sarkozy of France wants to include the so-called Tobin [...]
Coca-Cola considers Shanghai listing June 1, 2011 Coca-Cola Co, the world’s largest soft-drink company, said it may explore a possible listing in Shanghai, joining other global firms in testing the waters for a China listing, along with its increasing presence there. Coke has said it will commit $2bn (£1bn) in investment into China and last October opened three new plants in Inner [...]
We’re the 100 per cent because we all pay tax January 9, 2012 DEBATES about tax can be pretty taxing – as two recent examples of both sides of the debate embellishing the facts to create outrage out of nothing clearly show. In a recent report, Action Aid found that 98 per cent of FTSE 100 companies had subsidiaries that operated within a tax haven. There are problems [...]
Pepsi shakes up drinks unit in bid to boost its business September 14, 2011 PEPSI announced a shake-up of its beverages unit yesterday, appointing a new head to try to turn around the business, which has lagged behind Coca-Cola in North America. Pepsi named Albert Carey, a 30-year PepsiCo veteran who most recently ran its Frito-Lay North America unit, to be chief executive of PepsiCo Americas Beverages, effective immediately. [...]
How to pass the torch to your hero July 26, 2011 EVER since the theft of fire from Zeus by Prometheus (well, that’s what the legend says), a torch has been kept alight throughout the Olympics. And in the run up to the coming Olympics, beginning on 19 May 2012, it will be carried across the country in relay by those nominated as community heroes. The [...]