Sainsbury’s CEO Mike Coupe to retire after six years January 22, 2020 Mike Coupe is set to retire as chief executive of Sainsbury’s after six years at the helm, the company revealed today. The CEO will leave the role in May before retail and operations director Simon Roberts takes charge in June. Mike Coupe said leaving had been a “very difficult decision for me personally”. Read more: [...]
The leadership race has reignited the party’s capitalist spirit June 17, 2019 The man most likely to be the next Prime Minister will this morning sit down with 25 leading City figures in a bid to mend relations with the business community. Boris Johnson reportedly said “f**k business” when confronted with industry groups’ concerns over Brexit last year. The remarks have hung around his neck ever since [...]
Why joining a board is good for you – and your employer September 12, 2019 Many people believe non-executive roles are something you do at the end of your career – we disagree! The huge variety of board roles out there – from local charities, to NHS trusts, to dynamic start-ups – require all types of skills and experience. Getting into the boardroom early on brings benefits to you, your [...]
FTSE 100 risers and fallers: Index dips amid fears over global growth March 8, 2019 The FTSE 100 index slipped 0.7 per cent today driven by a plunge in gambling company GVC's shares and poor Chinese export data that has sparked fears over global growth. GVC led the day’s fallers with its share price 13.82 per cent down after dropping as low as 18 per cent earlier in the day after its chief [...]
Trevor Steven: My manager and players of the year from a vintage Premier League season May 13, 2019 Manchester City are champions again but they will never win a tougher Premier League title than this year’s. They and Liverpool have played at such a high level for the duration of the top-flight campaign that I can’t imagine we’ll see anything like it again for a long while. That is reflected in my choices [...]
The Conservative party’s love affair with the City is back on October 8, 2019 Have the Tories fallen back in love with business? In place of lectures from Theresa May about executive pay, this year’s Conservative party conference featured the new Prime Minister exulting on stage about the wonders of “dynamic free-market capitalism”. And on the conference fringe, finger-wagging panels about corporate governance reform were conspicuous by their absence. [...]
NFL London Games: UK director Alistair Kirkwood on cross-Atlantic growth, the Tottenham Stadium and a future franchise October 2, 2019 When it was announced that the NFL would host a game in London for the first time, the decision was met with intrigue and scepticism. Was the risk worth the potential rewards? Were the English public really interested enough in American football? Would jet-lagged players struggle to perform at Wembley? Twelve years on from that [...]
Sheffield United preview: Blades bringing overlapping centre-backs to the Premier League August 8, 2019 Overlapping centre-backs. To those well versed in the basics of football tactics it sounds incongruous, like something experimentally toyed with on Football Manager, or conjured up by an over-ambitious Sunday league side. But this season it is a legitimate approach which will be seen in Premier League grounds all across the country. That’s because Sheffield [...]
Like the myth that the Earth is flat, the socialist conspiracy theory never dies March 6, 2019 The idea that the Earth is flat is a rapidly growing trend on social media. The Flat Earth Society’s Twitter feed has the best part of 100,000 followers. The fact that the planet is a sphere has been known since at least the time of the ancient Greeks. The astronomer Eratosthenes demonstrated it with a simple [...]
Guardiola and Klopp rivalry ready to combust as Manchester City head to Liverpool after a week of fanning the flames November 7, 2019 Given the unrelenting quality displayed last season by both Manchester City and Liverpool in the Premier League run-in, it seemed likely that head-to-head fixtures between the two would be equally significant in determining the destination of the title again this term. Liverpool lost just once last campaign – at City on 3 January – as [...]