Hooray. The Labour Party's problems have been solved. Ex-ITV boss Charles Allen is to conduct a management and commercial review into the party's structures... more
Ocado made a pre-tax profit of £179,000 in the 24 weeks to May 15. Compared with a loss of £6.7 million for the same period last year, that was a creditable performance... more
New BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten showed a populist touch when, during his grilling by MPs, he lambasted high pay for the corporation's top executives - music to the ears of the politicians... more
Interesting, that ITV chairman Archie Norman should plump for Tesco corporate and legal affairs director Lucy Neville-Rolfe as he finally finds a non-executive director who is not a man... more
Private-equity firm Terra Firma has approves a resolution which allows for the injection of up to £500 million into debt-laden record label EMI ... more
The revolving door that is the senior management of EMI gets a further spin as executive chairman Charles Allen and Lord Birt, the chairman of its parent company, step down... more
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke warns budding music stars to abandon dreams of signing with a major label, claiming the mainstream recording industry is dying... more
EMI executive chairman Charles Allen is finalising a “range of options” to present to the record label’s private-equity owner Terra Firma as it works on a £360 million rescue plan... more
Debt-laden record label EMI suffers a major blow as talks over a lucrative deal with arch-rival Universal, which could have raised a crucial £200 million, collapsed... more
Media Analysis: An anxious music industry is watching to see whether debt-laden EMI is about to pass out into the hands of its US bankers Citigroup... more
EMI is plunged into more turmoil as its private equity owner Terra Firma parts ways with Elio Leoni-Sceti as chief executive to replace him with Charles Allen... 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
Bernie Madoff, Allen Stanford and the other credit-crunch rogues have given wealth management a bad name but the industry itself is hardly on its knees. The Scorpio Partnership's newly released annual survey of the global wealth business found that assets under management slumped by an average of 15.7% in 2008 while profits at private banks crashed by 32.9% ... more
Tony Ball may not be happy to see this article. The former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB is quietly campaigning to be the next boss of ITV. His fans - and there are a good number in the City - say he looks like the man to beat in the race to succeed Michael Grade... more
Just how brilliant is the car “scrappage” scheme in the Budget? It’s designed to stimulate the car industry but only £1000 of the £2000 paid to the owner of an old banger trading it in against a brand-new model, comes from the taxpayer; the rest is provided by the car industry... more
The rebirth of ITV is gaining all the hallmarks of one of those tired television programmes that have seen better days but come back for a new season, usually with a new element attached... more
A drop in the price of raw materials has meant mining companies have suffered their biggest monthly fall in 11 years during September and the third- biggest monthly fall on record... more
Charles Allen, former chief executive of ITV, has joined the board of Virgin Media, the cable company which unsuccessfully attempted to take over the broadcaster two years ago... more
Chief executive Sly Bailey's job is on the line as profit woes savage Trinity Mirror. Her damage limitation has won City plaudits but another shock could spell the end... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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