Office, the British fashion and sports footwear retailer which includes David Beckham as a fan, has hired advisers on a possible sale of the business... more
On Property: The banks will not be pleased by the result of an election whose result is hanging in the balance - and JPMorgan will be less happy than most... more
Billionaire friends of property tycoon Scot Young who claims to have lost his £400 million fortune could cut off their financial aid after being drawn into his bitter divorce battle... more
Wife of tycoon in £400 million divorce case said her estranged husband should “hear the clang of the prison gates” behind him if he continues to claim he is penniless... more
The latest High-Street victim of the recsssion is Birthdays, the cheaper offshoot of Clinton Cards, which has put it into administration, endangering 2100 jobs
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Profile: Peter Cummings' ambitious strategy made billions by riding the UK property boom, but now he is being blamed as the bank faces huge losses... more
Roman Abramovich may have had to cancel his party at his opulent ski lodge in the Rockies, but that is nothing compared with the hardship endured by the employees of Evraz, the steelmaker he part-owns in Siberia... more
With impressive compositional perfection, East End shopkeepers and their shops and wares are made the subjects of fine photographic art in Tom Hunter's new exhibition, Are You Being Served?... more
Sir Tom Hunter, Scotland's wealthiest entrepreneur, today conceded defeat to Tesco in the year-long, £124 million battle over Dobbies Garden Centres
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Monaco-based multimillionaire Jon Wood is an unlikely champion of the dispossessed - and even allies in the fight against nationalisation seem wary of him
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French bank BNP Paribas said yesterday that its board had not discussed the possibility of a bid for Société Générale, its high-stepping rival recently bought low by a rogue trader who cost it e4.9 billion (£3.6 billion)... more
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