Greene King unveils a £70 million takeover of the company behind 35 of London's best pubs, just weeks after insisting it is unlikely to pursue a bid... more
Change is afoot in the world of PR. A wave of high-ranking staff at various corporate public relations agencies are getting itchy feet and quitting to launch their own firms... more
Southern Cross is paying City firms £500,000 a week for crisis advice, it has emerged - only hours after the company sacked 3000 nurses and other front-line staff to save money... more
So veteran banker Lord Rothschild believes that the boom in commodities could be coming to an end. In his annual address to shareholders of his RIT Capital Partners investment trust, Rothschild said: "After a decade of commodity leadership, a shift to a new regime is a possibility"... more
Is Guy Hands finally admitting he was at fault over his disastrous £4billion purchase of EMI, giving an extended interview to the Financial Times in his Guernsey tax haven? Er, not quite... more
As celebrities join a protest against a London PR firm's links with authoritarian Belarus, Gideon Spanier exposes the publicity firms with an image problem... more
You've got to love Terra Firma boss Guy Hands' legal evidence of brown-nosing from Citigroup bankers as they allegedly persuaded him to overpay for their client, record label EMI... more
Mike Ashley's relationship with the City hits a new low as he refers to a rival company for which he is making an apparently serious takeover bid as 'Cobbler' in an official statement to the stockmarket... more
Royal Bank of Scotland has said a big “thank you” to the British taxpayer with the bailed-out bank’s latest cost-cutting exercise: it has scrapped its deal with British Airways, and has now instructed staff to fly American Airlines... more
Before the start of the Cheltenham Festival today, the racecourse's managing director Edward Gillespie admitted corporate hospitality has taken a hit - it's down around 10%, he says, although some think that may be a little optimistic... more
Gordon Brown at his monthly press conference: “There can be no argument about where we’ve been over the last few years on debt. Debt was reduced from 44% of national income to 37% at the latest count. And that is a fact.” Not according to the Office for National Statistics... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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