Mitchells & Butlers, the perpetually-in-turmoil pubs group, offers a sluggish trading update that may encourage billionaire currency trader Joe Lewis to push ahead with his low-ball takeover bid... more
What is Joe Lewis up to? That was the question on everyone's lips in London this morning after the billionaire currency investor launched a bid for the pubs giant Mitchells & Butlers from his luxury yacht parked outside St Katharine Docks... more
The boardroom merry-go-round at pubs and restaurants group Mitchells & Butlers takes another spin as the company appoints its sixth chairman in little more than three years... more
The management chaos at Mitchells & Butlers continues as chief executive Adam Fowle suddenly quits following a rumoured spat with 23% shareholder Joe Lewis... more
Further turmoil appears to await pub group Mitchells & Butlers, with John Lovering confirming that he plans to quit as chairman after less than a year... more
There is no stopping Richard Alderman. While the world mocks the light settlement with BAE over bribery allegations, the Serious Fraud Office director is unabashed... more
City Comment: When Mervyn King, appeared before the Lords in November, he focused his remarks on what he said were the two biggest issues of the financial crisis: "Too big to fail" banks and reform of the world monetary system... more
Ah the joy and pain of email. Dominic Morris, former bag-carrier to ex-broadcasting minister Lord Carter, has sent exciting emails out to announce he has become the new director of public policy at Lloyds Banking Group... more
The boardroom row at Mitchells & Butlers took another twist, as the pubs group said it would ask four candidates proposed as independent directors to be interviewed by its headhunters and nominations committee... more
The row between Mitchells & Butlers and elements of its own board of directors became even fiercer, when the pub group took an unusual act of revenge: it sacked the rebels with immediate effect... more
The crisis at pubs group Mitchells & Butlers erupted into open warfare today when the company complained to the City takeover panel about the behaviour of its own shareholders... more
Shares in Tottenham Hotspur were used as collateral for a loan by the football club’s chairman Daniel Levy and Bahamas-based billionaire Joe Lewis, according to the loan book of collapsed Icelandic bank Kaupthing ... more
Tottenham Hotspur tycoon Joe Lewis and horseracing magnates John Magnier and JP McManus could soon find themselves able to call the shots at pubs group Mitchells & Butlers... more
Tottenham Hotspur tycoon Joe Lewis and horseracing magnates John Magnier and JP McManus could soon find themselves able to call the shots at pubs group Mitchells & Butlers ... more
Joe Lewis, the man who lost the best part of a billion dollars on buying shares in Bear Stearns as it was about to collapse, owns most of Tottenham Hotspur... more
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