ITV pleases shareholders as it brings back the dividend for the first time in three years but analysts cut their profit forecasts because of an advertising slowdown... more
The City rumour mill seems stuck on repeat. Today, gossips' favourite Smith & Nephew was once again the focus of vague takeover talk, despite ex-suitor Johnson & Johnson choosing to dig into its pockets for Swiss medical devices maker Synthes instead... more
ITV chief executive Adam Crozier earned almost £1.7 million for just eight months' work as the X Factor broadcaster rode the wave of the advertising recovery last year.... more
One of the more troubling aspects of the row surrounding the London School of Economics' one-time student Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the Libyan leader, is the role in the preparation of his thesis of Monitor Group, the management consultancy... more
ITV shares jump more than 6%, after the X Factor broadcaster reveals profits trebled to £321 million on the strength of last year's dramatic bounce back in advertising... more
ITV chief executive Adam Crozier is not much more cheerful than an I’m A Celebrity contestant in a crate of rats - despite an 11% rise in group revenues... more
Junior ISA — oh, do me a favour. Have you ever seen such tinkering? Shouldn’t Treasury minister Mark Hoban be spending his time working on more serious matters like the Bank Levy rather than tweaking a middle-class tax break which isn’t really a tax break at all... more
Former Football Association chief executive spoke out against the decision to renew the Italian's contract on the eve of this summer's World Cup... more
Ring, ring. Finsbury, Roland Rudd’s PR firm, is on the line with an (increasingly common) request that is somewhere between cheeky and downright rude... more
Ever since Adam Crozier and his chairman Archie Norman arrived at ITV, they have been keen to send out the message that it will take five years to turn it around... more
ITV commercial boss Rupert Howell, the man in charge of generating £1.3 billion a year in advertising, is leaving just one month after new chief executive Adam Crozier joined... more
Media Analysis: How much of a risk is ITV’s new chairman Archie Norman taking by hiring Royal Mail boss Adam Crozier to be his chief executive when neither of them has any experience of broadcasting?... more
City Comment: Published today is this year’s “Banking banana skins” — an annual survey of things likely to trip up unwary bankers. Inevitably political interference gets a big space, the industry thinks of little else... more
Could suitors soon be circling for Home Retail Group? That was the question on traders’ lips today, with both private-equity firms and trade buyers mooted as potential bidders... more
Morrisons and ITV have new chief execs — Dalton Philips and Adam Crozier. The common connection is “Big Al” — Allan Leighton, Philips’s boss at Loblaw and Crozier’s former chief at the Royal Mail... more
Lord Mandelson has let it be known he is "beyond anger" (one imagines his condition with a thrill) about the striking postal workers. Royal Mail's managing director says their attitude "beggars belief". The chief executive, Adam Crozier, says industrial action is an "appalling and unjustified attack on customers". Huff, puff.... more
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