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Jasper Conran on Victoria Beckham, Elton John and his baby

23.09.09
As Jasper Conran joins the family business he speaks out on body shape, his own eating disorders, Victoria Beckham and why Elton would make a great dad... more

O’Reilly family deserves credit for supporting Independent

09.09.09
To write about the problems now besetting the company that owns The Independent is rather like intruding on personal grief because of its significance to the O’Reilly family, most notably its patriarch, Sir Anthony John Francis O’Reilly... more

Winners and losers in law's Magic Circle

13.07.09
Lawyers at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer must be ringing up their Clifford Chance counterparts to gloat. Equity partners at the triple-barrelled legal firm pocketed almost twice as much as those at its Magic Circle rival last year... more

Linklaters beats rival law firms in bankruptcy bonanza

03.07.09
Linklaters today emerged as the highest-grossing UK legal firm as it raked in fees from advising on three of the biggest corporate collapses of last year ... more

Linklaters beats rival law firms in bankruptcy bonanza

03.07.09
Linklaters emerged as the highest-grossing UK legal firm as it raked in fees from advising on three of the biggest corporate collapses of last year... more

Essentials: Martini glasses

15.05.09
We pick the best martini-style glasses for classic cocktails...... more

Portmeirion buys Spode for bargain £3.2 million

24.04.09
Royal Worcester and Spode, two of the biggest names in the fine china industry, have been sold for a knockdown price of just £3.2 million ... more

Tony O'Reilly steps down as peace breaks out at Independent

13.03.09
One of Britain and Ireland's great newspaper barons has given up the game as Sir Tony O'Reilly stood down for the sake of peace at the warring Independent News & Media (INM)... more

London can lead us out of crisis

23.01.09
IT'S official. The economy is in recession: figures for the last quarter of 2008 show that there have been two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth... more

Two potters victim of Wedgwood crash

21.01.09
Consumer: The British fine pottery industry is disappearing rapidly as two historic pottery firms today joined Wedgwood and called in administrators... more

We don’t make plans, so no wonder it’s all going to pot

19.01.09
When Waterford Wedgwood went down, Robert Peston said, rightly, on the radio that the collapse of the pottery firm was a tragedy as it deprived Britain of a part of the manufacturing base it will need when the recession is over... more

Waterford Wedgwood to cut 367 jobs in Britain

12.01.09
Consumer: Administrators for Waterford Wedgwood, the collapsed maker of classic china and crystal, said they would cut 367 jobs from a plant in Britain... more

Who's in and who's out

12.01.09
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Banks blamed as more jobs go

12.01.09
A leading British businessman has warned that the bank lending famine risks "irreparable damage" to the economy... more

Let’s keep problems in perspective

09.01.09
The Bank of England may have been forced by the economic crisis to cut interest rates to the lowest level in its history, but actually it has been rather a good week for the economy... more

M&S to axe 300 HQ staff and close 25 Simply Food stores

07.01.09
Marks & Spencer is to axe about 300 jobs at its London headquarters... more

Vodka hangover for Waterford Wedgewood

06.01.09
The demise of Waterford Wedgwood is a sorry tale. There is red ink everywhere, the Stoke pottery operation is pointing fingers at the Irish glassmaking side, while there's much brouhaha about moving the whole manufacturing process to Indonesia... more

Waterford Wedgwood collapses under debts

05.01.09
Consumer: Waterford Wedgwood, owner of some of the finest names ever to grace the world’s dining tables, gave up the fight for survival and called in the administrators... more

Troubled Wedgwood wins little more time

22.12.08
Crystal and porcelain maker Waterford Wedgwood faces an uncertain future after its lenders agreed to defer a financial evaluation for the third time this month... more

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