There is urgent whispering in the aisles of Marks & Spencer: Sir Stuart Rose, the smooth, pin-up boss (for lady shoppers of a certain age) is no more
Read full article...Yes, Archie Norman watches X Factor. And football and films, all on ITV. When he gets the chance.
Harry Brown producer Kris Thykier made his money in PR and is using it to carve a path in the movie industry
AT a careers evening at my former college last week, I was struck by the sombre mood. When I last went to such an evening the students were brimming with enthusiasm. Possibly too much. I recall in the bar afterwards being approached by a woman undergraduate who expressed a desire to be a journalist.
With a thump, the latest issue of Tatler arrives. This unashamed paean to elitism and luxury carries an interview with Diana Jenkins, a 36-year-old ex-Bosnian refugee married to Roger Jenkins, the former £40 million-a-year Barclays star banker
At the end of August, Todd Stitzer's tennis serve became faster than usual. “I had some good evening sessions on the tennis court,” he says, laughing. That was soon after Irene Rosenfeld of Kraft had met Roger Carr, Stitzer's chairman at Cadbury, to deliver the news that she would like to buy their company.
IT'S not only Mervyn King's words - "there is a more buoyant picture looking ahead" - that provide optimism today
Marc Bolland grabbed a bag of meat pasties. They're four for £2. Then the Morrisons chief executive showed me some fresh pasta. It's 69p. “Look at that. I can take you to the fish counter and you can choose two lovely pieces of salmon fillet. Add some cream and you will have a meal for two of fresh pasta with salmon in a cream sauce for below £2 per person. You have to agree, that's not bad.”
This week in New York, Michael Bloomberg won a third term as mayor. Here, the man who most Londoners would want to challenge Boris Johnson has put his foot in it
The High Street is about to undergo radical change… all thanks to a feisty woman in Brussels
Are we any further down the road to recovery in the banking industry? Ask me that question in a year's time, when we've finally come to realise the shape of this recession, and I will give you the answer.
Are we any further down the road to recovery in the banking industry? Ask me that question in a year’s time, when we’ve finally come to realise the shape of this recession and I will give you the answer
Does the European Commission watch Strictly Come Dancing? Because if they did, they might appreciate the two steps forward, one step back nature of what is actually being imposed on the UK this week d
We were sitting in Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's (I know, I know, it's part of the job and I wasn't paying) and the chat turned to office sex.
In Parliament, in the City, the high-ups are reeling. They moan to anyone who will listen how hard done by they feel, how misunderstood they are
Never one to go quietly, the former Lupus Capital chief wants to clear out the bosses and reinstate himself
IT is next June and George Osborne is at the Mansion House, having delivered his first Emergency Budget. He's shocked the country, having delivered a raft of spending cuts that no amount of probing during the general election campaign came close to uncovering and his last party conference speech in opposition didn't even begin to hint at.
A friend of mine who is something of an internet guru once pitched for a job to revamp a well-known company's website. Later, the managing director sought me out. "Your pal was superb." Then he frowned. "But we can't hire him"
AS he enters the Pearly Gates, it’s tempting to think of Bruce Wasserstein, the Wall Street banker, who died yesterday, sizing them up for an asset play
Guy Hands’ £3.2bn for EMI still seems an incredible amount – can his new CEO make it all work?
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