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Alliance Boots is aiming for global growth

20.11.09
Alliance Boots executive chairman Stefano Pessina today outlined plans to expand the Boots brand around the world... more

Norman's conquests

18.11.09
Archie Norman was the youngest-ever partner at management consultants McKinsey before becoming one of the three founders of Woolworths and B&Q retailer Kingfisher in the 1980s... more

Cost-cutting RBS risking a talent drain in move north of the border

04.11.09
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Boots rise sees Hornby bounce back from HBOS

03.11.09
Andy Hornby might have looked out of his depth as a banker, but his strengths as a retailer have seldom been in doubt ... more

Arsenal fan raises his voice in Russia

23.09.09
Cuddly would-be Arsenal owner Alisher Usmanov is strenthening his grip on Russia’s media... ... more

City Spy: Byers’ deal for Rover was a bit hit and myth

14.09.09
Poor Stephen Byers wasn’t left with much of a choice when in 2000, as the Government minister in charge, he was responsible for sealing the fate of MG Rover... more

Comment: Gloves off as the mega-deal returns

07.09.09
There was a buzz in the City this morning, the like of which we’ve not experienced for the best part of two years. That was when Alliance UniChem, led by Stefano Pessina, paid £12 billion for Boots ... more

City Spy: Shining some light on Defence bids

07.09.09
The Gray report on defence procurement talks of £2.5 billion annual cost overruns on various MoD projects. One solution is to democratise the whole government procurement process... more

Wolseley ditches its US chief and brings in Footsie veteran

30.06.09
Beleaguered plumbing supplies group Wolseley has dumped its chief executive, the American Chip Hornsby... more

The fallen HBOS chief who landed on his feet at Boots

10.06.09
Andy Hornby is sitting in a Starbucks. At 42, he's just been made chief executive of one of our biggest, best-known businesses, Alliance Boots. But he's not wreathed in smiles and high-fiving it over the lattes ... more

Hornby a good fit for Boots — if Pessina allows it

08.06.09
When Boots was taken over by Stefano Pessina’s Alliance group, I irritated Richard Baker, the then Boots chief executive, when I said I did not expect him to last six months under the new regime. He disagreed and he was right; he lasted about a year. In the end though, he decided the company was not big enough to have a hands-on executive chairman in Pessina, and still leave a proper job for the chief executive ... more

‘Miracle cream’ helps Boots look good at £1.2bn

18.05.09
An anti-ageing cream hailed by some as a miracle cure for wrinkles helped trigger a recession-busting boost to profits at Boots the Chemists.... more

Awkward facts about Heathrow third runway

07.05.09
As leading business figures puncture the BA/BAA claim that a Third Runway is vital for the British economy by saying that, er, it isn’t, how does the airport operate.. ... more

Help me save Earth, Charles tells 150 business leaders

01.05.09
Prince Charles was due to lecture 150 London business leaders on the huge steps they must take to make their companies greener... more

Pay bonanza of the City's part-time string-pullers

07.04.09
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Worst loss at Ford, but no tow needed

29.01.09
Retail: Alliance Boots stepped up its acquisition spree, taking a controlling stake in high street optician Dollond & Aitchison... 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

Oh no! CBI's big pow-wow clashes with Pre-Budget

20.11.08
A nightmare for the CBI - the organisers of its annual conference have discovered that their event has a terrible diary clash... more

Retail

08.10.08
These are the people who will steer London’s vital retail world through what looks like difficult trading ahead ... more

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08.10.08
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Insurance duo mull tax move out of UK

18.09.08
Tax: Two giants of the insurance industry are considering quitting Britain because of what they see as the UK’s punitive corporate tax regime... more

Buy spree of billions as Boots thinks big

10.06.08
Chemist ready to spend billions on acquisitions to turn it into a European healthcare giant... more

No longer in firing line - but private equity faces stormy time

28.03.08
What a difference six months have made for private equity... more

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