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A company ‘improved but in turmoil’

18.11.09
When the end came it was brutal...... more

Flat high street sales hit recovery

22.10.09
High street sales failed to grow last month casting fresh doubts over the strength of the economic recovery... more

Come on Irene, get your bid price for Cadbury up to 900p

22.10.09
The credibility of Kraft chief executive Irene Rosenfeld is at risk if the food giant doesn’t win Cadbury ... more

Sir Philip Green's girl Chloe blows her Topshop

17.09.09
Sir Philip Green arrived unexpectedly at his Oxford Street store last night. And he seemed less than impressed by what he found... more

Green’s Topshop has Oriental ambitions

16.07.09
Sir Philip Green has held detailed planning talks to open his Topshop fashion chain in China ... more

Beth Ditto is Sir Philip Green's Evans signing

02.07.09
When it comes to attracting stars to design clothing ranges, Sir Philip Green has a knack. Beth Ditto is his latest signing. ... more

Daisy's founder picks up £81m

01.07.09
A business telecoms company backed by Sir Philip Green when it was launched two years ago is coming to AIM, turning its founder into a multi-millionaire ... more

Who are MPs to call others naive? They haven't a clue

18.05.09
Please sir, in my next life can I be John McFall or, failing that, a member of his Treasury Select Committee? The reason I ask is that it must be great fun to sit in judgment on others, to not have a clue how their industry works or where they're coming from, and then to slag them off... ... more

Kate Moss shows Sir Philip a big night on the town

17.03.09
Kate Moss' outfit was something of a basic error as she repeatedly spilled out of her low-necked top.... more

Green is planning to link Arcadia and Bhs

25.02.09
Retail: RAG trade tycoon Philip Green is to merge his two High Street businesses Bhs and the Arcadia group of companies led by Topshop... more

Scuba-diving 'banker to the stars' who took HBOS in too deep

18.02.09
Profile: Peter Cummings' ambitious strategy made billions by riding the UK property boom, but now he is being blamed as the bank faces huge losses... more

Leadership that proved its worth

13.02.09
Take a moment to raise a glass to Philip Green - not the High Street billionaire retailer but the man who runs United Utilities, the UK's largest listed water company, which owns, operates and maintains utility assets including water, wastewater, electricity and gas.... more

The great High Street fire sale but will there actually be any takers?

05.02.09
With £1bn debts, retail empire Baugur is set to be broken up and, says its founder, end up in the ‘hands of British vultures’. It seems he couldn’t be more wrong...... more

Feeling sick at Citigroup over hedge losses

19.01.09
Citigroup's Corporate Special Opportunities hedge fund is returning only three cents on the dollar to investors — underscoring the depths of the difficulties at the alternative investment unit once headed by the bank’s current chief executive, Vikram Pandit... more

Christmas auction set to top £145,000

15.12.08
The Evening Standard Christmas charity auction was set to raise more than £145,000 as bidding closed... more

Auction raises £71,000 with six days to go

09.12.08
Evening Standard readers have bid more than £71,000 in our charity auction... more

As rates fall, it’s time to take on a little more risk

04.12.08
Some of the MPC's cut will be passed on in cheaper home loans, but more of it will be sliced off the rates for savers... more

Moss Bros heads for red after sales sag

01.12.08
Moss Bros admits sales have collapsed, and it will plunge deeply into the red this year - just days after rag trade billionaire Sir Philip Green turned a £1 million profit trading shares in the company... more

Sir Philip has got the hump with Humphrys

21.11.08
Arcadia boss Sir Philip Green went on Today with John Humphrys and left the Radio 4 man sounding second best... more

Intrigue over O’Reilly’s plans Down Under

13.11.08
Tongues are wagging in Australia about the resignation of Brendan Hopkins from the board of Sir Anthony O’Reilly’s Independent & News Media, just days after he signed a three-year extension to his contract as chief executive of the Independent’s APN News & Media subsidiary Down Under... more

Green grabs slice of Moss Bros and eyes a takeover

12.11.08
Retail: Philip Green strode back into the public arena, snapping up a 28.5% stake in Moss Bros.... more

Forget recession – metal boys are still in party mode

16.10.08
Shocking times for commodities prices, no doubt. But that didn’t stop the metal traders at the LME annual Grosvenor House dinner splashing out on strippers and champers... more

Green confident on Baugur bid

14.10.08
Topshop tycoon Sir Philip Green shrugs off talk of rival bidders threatening his plan to take control of the Icelandic-owned Baugur retail chain... more

I'm a diehard Leftie but my son is going to private school

14.10.08
If England, according to Oscar Wilde, is the native land of the hypocrite, then the contortions achieved by former Left-wing supporters of state education in order to justify sending their kids to private schools have to be some of that land's most curious rituals. When I was a child in London my parents schooled me privately to begin with, and then when the inherited dosh ran out sent me to a state school. It was at that point that my mother began to trumpet her great belief in comprehensives. Even aged 13, I couldn't help seeing hypocrisy in this. ... more

Tycoon dumps Sainsbury stake

08.10.08
J Sainsbury was the focus of intense City gossip after it emerged that Iranian property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz has offloaded his stake in the supermarkets chain... more

Kate Moss and Sir Philip Green enjoy a night out in Ibiza

01.08.08
Kate Moss and Topshop tycoon Sir Philip Green met up in Ibiza yesterday for a dose of rest and relaxation.... more

Chairmen's pay on rocket fuel - and not just at BP

15.04.08
Fat-cat pay, or executive remuneration as they call it in the posher papers, is so last century... more

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