THE LONDON REPORT June 7, 2009 CORPORATE data due out this week could help to steer the market, particularly with regards to retailer and consumer stocks, while investors in Independent News & Media will be hoping for an update on the future of the ailing publisher at its annual meeting on Wednesday. Today’s 17-week trading statement from JD Sports Fashion is [...]
THE LONDON REPORT June 7, 2009 CORPORATE data due out this week could help to steer the market, particularly with regards to retailer and consumer stocks, while investors in Independent News & Media will be hoping for an update on the future of the ailing publisher at its annual meeting on Wednesday. Today’s 17-week trading statement from JD Sports Fashion is [...]
SIR VICTOR BLANK May 17, 2009 SIR VICTOR BLANKCHAIR, LLOYDS BANKING GROUP EDUCATED at Stockport Grammar School and Oxford, Blank began his career with Clifford-Turner (now Clifford Chance), where he became an expert in takeover law and was made partner in 1969, at the age of 26. Blank joined Charterhouse in 1981 as head of corporate finance, rising to serve as [...]
SIR VICTOR BLANK May 17, 2009 SIR VICTOR BLANKCHAIR, LLOYDS BANKING GROUP EDUCATED at Stockport Grammar School and Oxford, Blank began his career with Clifford-Turner (now Clifford Chance), where he became an expert in takeover law and was made partner in 1969, at the age of 26. Blank joined Charterhouse in 1981 as head of corporate finance, rising to serve as [...]
Green: ‘I am worth £1bn pay’ October 21, 2005 Philip Green defended his stunning £1.2bn dividend payment from Arcadia Group telling City A.M: “Venture capitalists would take much more.” In a day dominated by retail news, Green earned the biggest headlines. Arcadia — which owns Top Shop, Dorothy Perkins, Wallis, Etam and Miss Selfridge — reported a 6.8 per cent rise in sales to [...]
GUS gloomy over retail sales October 13, 2005 Retail conglomerate GUS, which owns Argos and Homebase, yesterday predicted the retail sectors it serves would remain in negative like-for-like sales territory until at least September 2006. “We are planning on the assumption that like-for-like sales will remain in decline for the market as a whole for the next 12 months,” said finance director David [...]