CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS August 4, 2011 Kentz Corporation The holding company of the Kentz engineering and construction group has appointed Christian Brown as group chief operating officer. Brown, who had a 17-year career with Kellogg Brown and Root before joining Foster Wheeler in 2009, will initially be based in the London office before transferring to Houston in June 2012. Paul Lewis, [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS August 4, 2011 Kentz Corporation The holding company of the Kentz engineering and construction group has appointed Christian Brown as group chief operating officer. Brown, who had a 17-year career with Kellogg Brown and Root before joining Foster Wheeler in 2009, will initially be based in the London office before transferring to Houston in June 2012. Paul Lewis, [...]
CITY VIEWS: WOULD YOU WELCOME HIGHER TAXES TO FUND ELDERLY CARE? July 4, 2011 JOHN WILD | WILLIS “No. When the new government came in I thought they should change the way tax money is used in the public sector. I thought that under Labour there was too much bureaucracy. They could take enough in tax to pay for these things if they changed the way it was distributed.” [...]
Chairman leaves Mitchells & Butlers July 14, 2011 MITCHELLS & BUTLERS has lost its third chairman in 18 months after the company announced yesterday that Simon Burke will stand down just five months into the role. Burke’s resignation is yet another round of musical chairs at the pub group following months of warfare between the company and some of its biggest shareholders, which [...]
Chairman leaves Mitchells & Butlers July 14, 2011 MITCHELLS & BUTLERS has lost its third chairman in 18 months after the company announced yesterday that Simon Burke will stand down just five months into the role. Burke’s resignation is yet another round of musical chairs at the pub group following months of warfare between the company and some of its biggest shareholders, which [...]
Snow excuse for low retail sales January 9, 2011 Retailers mostly overcame the December blizzards to post respectable sales figures, business advisory group BDO said yesterday. Despite the coldest December for 100 years, sales dropped by just half a per cent. And some stores, such as John Lewis, reported healthy sales growth. Fears of products being snowed into factories failed to materialise, as non [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS EDITED BY JULIET SAMUEL February 14, 2011 Mazars The law firm has appointed a national head of tax in the UK: Tim Davies (pictured). He has been at the firm for four years, advising on a range of clients. He will now head up a practice of more than 200 professionals in tax. Previously, he worked at advisory firms PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & [...]
Murdoch tabloid in fresh blow July 4, 2011 A PRIVATE detective working for News of the World hacked into murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s mobile phone while police were searching for her in March 2002, a lawyer for her family said yesterday. Mark Lewis, solicitor at Taylor Hampton, said police had told the parents of Milly Dowler that Glenn Mulcaire illegally accessed and deleted [...]
Online sales boost for House of Fraser January 9, 2011 UK department store House of Fraser saw same store sales jump 8.5 per cent in the five weeks to 8 January, reinforcing the success of multi-brand retailers over the Christmas period. It follows similar results last week from the John Lewis Partnership, which saw sales up 8.9 per cent compared to last year. But House [...]
Retail sales rise in early week trade ahead of big freeze December 19, 2010 JOHN Lewis and Waitrose enjoyed near-record sales last week, despite the disruption of the snow. Waitrose admitted that sales were down on Saturday by 11 per cent, but a surge in spending earlier in the week more than made up for the effects of the weather. “From Monday onwards customers took the weather forecast seriously [...]