Cridland to be CBI chief November 14, 2010 JOHN Cridland is expected to be named the new director-general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) today, according to Sky News. The CBI confirmed it would be announcing its new director general this lunchtime but refused to say who had taken the top job. However, Cridland is the current deputy director general and has [...]
Cridland to be CBI chief November 14, 2010 JOHN Cridland is expected to be named the new director-general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) today, according to Sky News. The CBI confirmed it would be announcing its new director general this lunchtime but refused to say who had taken the top job. However, Cridland is the current deputy director general and has [...]
Retail sales bounce back in June July 21, 2011 Retail sales bounced back only modestly in June from May’s steep slump, fuelling concerns over the recovery and highlighting the uphill struggle for the government as it aims erase a record budget deficit. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said sales volumes rose 0.7 per cent last month, recovering only half the previous month’s drop. [...]
PUBS WAR CAN WAIT AS JOE LEWIS EXPECTS NEW GREAT-GRANDCHILD September 14, 2011 ALL EYES remain on financier Joe Lewis, whose surprise appearance in London on his superyacht Aviva ten days ago has been satisfactorily explained by this week’s hostile move to take control of pub chain Mitchells & Butlers. Case closed. Or is it? As ever with the enigmatic Bahamas-based billionaire, the truth is rather more surprising [...]
The rising star tasked with proving the Labour party isn’t anti-business October 30, 2011 WHEN I first met Chuka Umunna, shortly after his election in 2010, it was already clear he was one of Labour’s rising stars. But few thought the MP for Streatham would ascend through the ranks quite so quickly. At the time, he told me he would use his first term to learn the ropes as [...]
ENTREPRENEURS NEWS | IN BRIEF May 30, 2011 ORDERS GROW AT FASTEST RATE IN 16 YEARS Last quarter the UK’s small and medium-sized manufacturers saw the volume of orders at home and abroad grow at the fastest rate in 16 years, leading to another solid rise in output, said the CBI this week. But the business group warned that smaller firms are being [...]
ENTREPRENEURS NEWS | IN BRIEF May 30, 2011 ORDERS GROW AT FASTEST RATE IN 16 YEARS Last quarter the UK’s small and medium-sized manufacturers saw the volume of orders at home and abroad grow at the fastest rate in 16 years, leading to another solid rise in output, said the CBI this week. But the business group warned that smaller firms are being [...]
…but the high street sees sales rebound May 3, 2011 RETAIL sales sprang back last month after exceptionally gloomy results in March, the Confederation for British Industry (CBI) said yesterday. A positive balance of 21 per cent of retailers reported a rise in sales in the first two weeks of April. In March a negative balance, reflecting falling sales, was recorded for the first time [...]
…but the high street sees sales rebound May 3, 2011 RETAIL sales sprang back last month after exceptionally gloomy results in March, the Confederation for British Industry (CBI) said yesterday. A positive balance of 21 per cent of retailers reported a rise in sales in the first two weeks of April. In March a negative balance, reflecting falling sales, was recorded for the first time [...]
MPs raise concerns over new panel’s independence June 7, 2011 CONCERNS have been raised over the independence of the new body being set up to spot potential crises in the British economy by an influential committee of MPs. The Treasury select committee said it was “not so clear” whether Alistair Clark, a former Bank of England employee, would be sufficiently independent to sit on the [...]