Pandit: jobs must be top priority for year ahead January 29, 2012 ON THE closing day of the World Economic Forum in Davos yesterday, chief executive Vikram Pandit told delegates that “jobs should be our number one priority” for this year. “Ultimately it is about growth. Nothing creates jobs better than growth,” said Pandit. He was one of five co-chairs for the event this year after being [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING March 19, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES SKY PULLED NEWS STORY ON F1 SHARES The chief executive of British Sky Broadcasting ordered a news story to be removed from the Sky News website after an executive producer complained that it had upset Formula 1 racing teams. Jeremy Darroch intervened after the article, which described a controversial agreement involving F1 chief [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING March 19, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES SKY PULLED NEWS STORY ON F1 SHARES The chief executive of British Sky Broadcasting ordered a news story to be removed from the Sky News website after an executive producer complained that it had upset Formula 1 racing teams. Jeremy Darroch intervened after the article, which described a controversial agreement involving F1 chief [...]
Law firm hires accountant to take it to stock market January 15, 2012 LITIGATION specialist Irwin Mitchell is believed to have hired ex-PwC vice chairman Glyn Barker as its new chairman, ensuring it has plenty of corporate firepower as it seeks to become the first UK law firm to seek a stock market listing. Irwin Mitchell is the biggest UK law firm so far to announce its intention [...]
Law firm hires accountant to take it to stock market January 15, 2012 LITIGATION specialist Irwin Mitchell is believed to have hired ex-PwC vice chairman Glyn Barker as its new chairman, ensuring it has plenty of corporate firepower as it seeks to become the first UK law firm to seek a stock market listing. Irwin Mitchell is the biggest UK law firm so far to announce its intention [...]
Economy is being knocked off course March 11, 2012 IT is not looking too good for George Osborne. The Budget is next week and the economy remains mired in stagnation. It is hard to know for sure what is happening, but all the indications are that growth so far this quarter has been weak. Industrial production actually fell in January, despite a rise in [...]
PwC hires 351 paid interns June 26, 2011 PricewaterhouseCoopers, the professional services firm, opens its doors this week to 351 paid interns nationwide, the largest group ever to join the firm’s summer business programme for students. There has been an 88 per cent increase in applications for summer work experience programmes and over 25 per cent of this year’s full time graduate intake [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING January 2, 2012 The Daily Telegraph PWC GETS A RECORD NUMBER OF APPLICANTS FOR GRADUATE SCHEME PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is on track to receive a record 30,000 applications for its graduate entry scheme in the latest indicator of the strains in the British labour market. The firm’s graduate scheme – which has 1,200 places – has been inundated with [...]
GUNS N’ ROSES TO LEAD SPANISH ROCK LAUNCH February 16, 2012 EIGHT MONTHS after Music Festivals floated on Aim, founder Vince Power has announced the company’s first expansion funded by the IPO – a hard rock festival in Spain, to be headlined by Guns N’ Roses and Marilyn Manson. Costa de Fuego, named after the firepower of its 40 heavy metal acts, will take place over [...]
DARK HORSE HSBC TAKES RETAIL SITE IN LATE BID January 26, 2012 HSBC is committed to the City of London – for its latest retail opening, at least. The Capitalist hears the bank has gazumped a well-known restaurateur to emerge as the new tenant at 1 Bishopsgate, after offering a far higher, undisclosed, sum to turn the disused property into a “premier suite” retail bank in time [...]