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Footsie edging upwards as results arrive thick and fast

10.11.09
Leading shares posted their fifth consecutive day of gains in another thin trading session as City investors tackled a clutch of results from blue-chip companies ... more

Footsie edges upwards as results arrive thick and fast

10.11.09
Leading shares continued to make headway in another day of thin trading as City investors tackled a clutch of trading updates ... more

Rentokil Initial misses boost from post strike

06.11.09
Rentokil Initial chief executive Alan Brown today pledged to return its City Link delivery arm to profit in the last three months of this year but admitted the division has seen little pick-up in business from the postal strike ... more

Auditors face the biggest crackdown since Enron

05.11.09
The Big Four accountancy firms have been told to back off from serious conflicts of interest in pursuing lucrative advisory work at their audit clients ... more

Citigroup backs the big builders despite a warning on house prices

14.09.09
Citigroup has rushed to raise its price targets for most of the big builders despite the Ernst & Young ITEM Club warning that house prices could take a further five years before they return to their 2007 peak. ... more

Burberry back in Footsie with Rentokil and Segro

07.09.09
A couple of familiar names are set this week to make a welcome return to the list of blue chip companies that make-up the Footsie 100 Index ... more

Burberry back in Footsie with Rentokil and Segro

07.09.09
A couple of familiar names are set this week to make a welcome return to the list of blue chip companies that make-up the Footsie 100 Index ... more

Lloyds sells Insight for £235m in latest shake-up

12.08.09
Lloyds Banking Group today struck a deal to sell off its Insight Investment Management arm to Bank of New York Mellon for £235 million as part of a major shake-up of its asset management operations. ... more

Rats! KPMG grabs account from PwC

11.08.09
It's war. KPMG has just nabbed Rentokil’s lucrative contract for internal auditing from arch rival PricewaterhouseCoopers — by offering a 30% discount to the PwC price... more

Rentokil saves £1m in a swap of its auditors

31.07.09
Rentokil Initial sent tremors through the accounting world today as it changed auditors in a move which will save it more than £1 million a year ... more

Barclays closes final salary scheme for 18,000 staff

03.06.09
Barclays today closed its final salary pension scheme to all members telling its 18,000 active participants that from December they will move into a less expensive and less rewarding money purchase scheme ... more

City tycoon: Brian Myerson reveals his secret love life

11.05.09
Exclusive: Controversial businessman who went to court to try to reduce his ex-wife’s £11m settlement, reveals he had a secret family whom he housed just yards from his home. Is he repentant? Not at all... ... more

Rentokil stuns City with good numbers

01.05.09
Rentokil Initial delivered better-than-expected profits and announced a shake-up of its pest control business in the UK... more

Sainsbury's fears as Hampton looks to quit to focus on RBS

06.04.09
Sainsbury's chairman Sir Philip Hampton has told the supermarkets chain he has to quit in order to devote more time to cleaning up Royal Bank of Scotland... more

More gloom at Rentokil as dividend is ditched

20.02.09
Services: Long-suffering investors in Rentokil, the Royal rat-catcher, suffered another blow as it axed its final dividend and warned that profits are set to carry on falling for another three to six months... more

Watchdog’s blitz on delayed profit alerts

05.01.09
Regulation: Top companies are being probed by the Financial Services Authority and may face fines or prosecution for failing to disclose profits warnings quickly enough. ... more

Rentokil's turnaround hampered by turmoil

07.11.08
There's little sign of relief at rat-catcher Rentokil, where profits have tumbled 72%... more

Payout on way for woman whose 200 shoes are now useless

15.10.08
A businesswoman who says her vast collection of shoes was made useless after she was hurt in a fall at Stansted Airport has won the right to a substantial damages payout... more

Potter print firm closes book on pensions

02.09.08
Savings: Harry Potter book printer St Ives announced that it has closed its final salary pension scheme to existing employees and is pumping in an extra £20 million to fund it... more

Rentokil's new team takes axe to dividend

22.08.08
Hundreds more jobs are likely to go and shareholders will see a massive cut in their income as the new management team at Rentokil Initial takes the axe to costs and the dividend... more

Punch frothing up with CVC in the frame to bid

04.08.08
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'Disaster' fear as Rentokil sounds new profit alert

25.07.08
Rentokil Initial is in the throes of a "disaster scenario", according to its new chief executive as it issued its fourth profit warning in eight months ... more

Rentokil dividend faces cut after fiasco at parcels arm

02.05.08
Shareholders bracing themselves after crash at City Link revealed to have cost £25 million... more

Parcel of losses woe at City Link

21.04.08
City Link plunges to a £16.9 million loss in the first quarter of this year ... more

Sorry, Sir, there's a moral here for banks

25.03.08
Sir Peter Burt, one of Britain's most respected bankers in the period when he ran Bank of Scotland until it merged with Halifax seven years ago, has come out with an interesting take on moral hazard... more

Sorry, Sir, there's a moral here for banks

25.03.08
How can the banks that did avoid the pitfalls reap the benefits of their good judgment if all the others are saved from the consequences of their mistakes?... more

Old ICI team in at Rentokil as coup ousts chief

20.03.08
Rentokil chief executive ousted after a night of the long knives... more

Rentokil chief's job on line after horror alert

28.02.08
The future of Doug Flynn's near-three year tenure at Rentokil Initial is in doubt today after a horror profit warning from its City Link parcels delivery business sent shares in the rat-catching-to-toilet-cleaning conglomerate plunging to a 15-year low. ... more

Gormley: Am I a megalomaniac?

11.05.07
Why has Antony Gormley invaded London with a model army of sculptures based on his own body? As he prepares for a major exhibition, even he is beginning to question his motives.... more

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