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...Byron Grote, Tesco’s interim chair who led the recruitment process, said Murphy was “the unanimous choice of the board” and “will bring a record of strong and effective boardroom leadership and a deep understanding...
...Byron Grote, the supermarket’s senior independent director, will become interim chair....
...At the end of a white road, near the village of Selcë e Poshtëme, an elderly woman with two chickens under her arms pointed us to a track....
...But it would have been obvious to Byron’s contemporaries that his words dripped with sarcasm. Byron supported the Luddites. They had indeed been sacrificed on the altar of productivity improvements....
...Elegy for a Dead World is a fantasy adventure that takes players into landscapes inspired by poems by Shelley, Keats and Byron, then gives them writing prompts....
...Later visitors — who included Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Shelleys, Alexandre Dumas and Victor Hugo — would revel in the frisson engendered by coming face to face with the glacier’s terrible power...
...Doubles from €416 per night; roccofortehotels.com 7 — One & Only Portonovi, Montenegro When Lord Byron described the Montenegrin coast as “the most beautiful encounter between the land and the sea”, it...
...L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated ‘Female Byron’, by Lucasta Miller, Jonathan Cape, RRP£25, 416 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe...
...L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated ‘Female Byron’, by Lucasta Miller, Jonathan Cape, RRP£25/Knopf, RRP$30 Letitia Landon or LEL as she styled herself,...
...Anglo said Byron Grote, a former BP executive, would replace Mr Hampton as its senior independent director at the start of next year, while Anne Stevens would take over as chair of the remuneration committee...
...The city’s medieval mausoleums are jaw-dropping, tiled like jewels, including the Gur-e-Amir....
...Well-known ones such as Byron or Ruskin get no more space than figures such as bumptious Victorian autodidact George Borrow or art critic and writer Vernon Lee....
...Byron Grote, deputy chairman, said Mr Andersen had “a wealth of relevant experience gained during an extensive international career in the consumer goods, energy, and shipping industries”....
...Sitting next to me was Simon Byron, 36, my Botswanan guide....
...As the stock returned to its 2014 low, non-executive Byron Grote took advantage of the weakness on Monday, as traders appeared to start believing what the company had said....
...Another reason to doubt the rights issue speculation was that Byron Grote, a Tesco non-executive director, last week spent more than $127,000 on American depositary receipts....
...Meanwhile Byron Grote, a non-executive who joined the Tesco board six months ago, made his first share purchase on Wednesday....
...It is a case of “New Faces of 2015” on the Tesco board, including BP’s Byron Grote, appointed last week. Change can be good, and necessary, especially when you are in trouble....
...The splendidly named Byron Grote is the latest recruit to Tesco’s non-execs....
...His debut, The Syme Papers (2004), followed an eccentric academic’s attempts to rescue a 19th-century scientist from obscurity; Imposture (2007) focused on Byron’s physician John Polidori, who can seduce...
...StanChart also announced the appointment as a non-executive director of Byron Grote, who quit as finance director of BP last year....
...Pieces from writers including Zadie Smith, Adam Gopnik and David Adjaye take readers from the Maidan-e-Pompa in Kabul to the Place des Vosges in Paris....
...Total pay for Brian Gilvary, BP’s chief financial officer, rose from £1.37m to £2.18m while that of Byron Grote, who stepped down as executive director during the year, increased from $2.2m to $5.3m....
...Fellow directors Iain Conn, head of BP’s refining and marketing operations, and former finance director Byron Grote, also secured performance bonuses....
...BP also announced that Byron Grote, its long-standing chief financial officer who helped steer the group through the gulf crisis last year, would retire from his position in January....
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