It's not been the best week to chat to fund managers. Share prices have been shooting up and down faster than a vicar's nightshirt. Yet there remains something reassuring about talking to people who look after billions of pounds of your and my money when all about are panicking... more
A last-minute rush to see the Duchess of Cambridge's wedding dress has been sparked after the Palace announced that only 1,000 tickets are left... more
Moss Bros agrees to sell its 15-strong Hugo Boss franchise stores back to the fashion giant for
£16.5 million in order to concentrate on its own brands... more
JJB Sports is bringing Olympic gold medal rower Sir Matthew Pinsent on to its board in the latest shake up of a business that diced with bankruptcy several times last year... more
Stobart Group, famed for its Eddie Stobart green lorries with girls’ names, is clearly delighted to have bought Southend Airport for
£21 million... more
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
Legal Analysis: Private purchases of stakes in beleaguered companies show this is a good to invest. But will Canary Wharf be worse affected by the recession than the City of London?
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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
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
The future of menswear group Moss Bros was thrown into fresh doubt today when Icelandic retail investor Baugur walked away from a £40m takeover bid... more
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