Hints and tips:
...Mr Laidlaw said Celotex was aware the product’s safety certification in fact covered far more limited circumtstances....
...On the plus side, hiving off the US division will simplify the UK-listed group, undoing once and for all the sprawling $3.6bn acquisition of Laidlaw in 2007....
...Mr Laidlaw and Mr Constable will join immediately....
...Robert Smith QC, barrister for News UK, told the Old Bailey that the group would not “seek to be a beneficiary in respect of any order . . . ” and “did not feel willing to engage in an exercise addressing...
...Dame Clara Furse, one-time boss of the stock exchange, media magnate Lord Hollick and Centrica’s Sam Laidlaw are among clients targeted in a £520m crackdown by the tax authorities....
...“From an investor perspective, there is real concern that bonuses and incentives have become detached from performance, that they have become almost part of fixed pay,” said Robert Macnab, Verum’s spokesman...
...Mr Laidlaw asked the army officer. He replied he would not....
...Under cross-examination from Jonathan Laidlaw QC, counsel for Ms Brooks, Mr Sweet said he “rarely” visited the News of the World’s office, going in only every six weeks, almost exclusively spending his time...
...Robert Vos of ABN Amro said: “The management team does not have the inclination to get itself rushed into acquisitions and I doubt a new CFO will change this.”...
...Robert Swannell, chairman of Marks and Spencer, and his wife Patricia, were mingling, both dressed in M&S....
...Ambrian said Robert Ashley, chairman of commodities fund manager Galena Asset Management, would step in as interim chief....
...BP chief executive Tony Hayward was not making the same mistake twice by being seen out on Bob, his Farr 52 yacht, which is co-owned with Centrica boss Sam Laidlaw and banker Robert Gray, at the Cork Week...
...However, FirstGroup has been seeking to reduce its debt since it took over Laidlaw International, the US owner of the Greyhound bus brand, for $3.6bn (£2.4bn) in 2007....
...single operator of US school buses and changing significantly the focus of the company, which had been examining expansion into continental Europe before settling on Laidlaw....
...Robert Minsaas of Eclipse said the continental gas price would act as an “anchor” for the British price....
...Robert Wright looks at the takeover by FirstGroup of Laidlaw, the company that runs the iconic US bus operator...
...Laidlaw is the leading operator and FirstGroup number two....
...The $35.25 per share deal values Laidlaw’s shares at $2.9bn, with the rest of the purchase price going to repaying Laidlaw’s debt. FirstGroup’s shares rose 34½p to 595½p, a 12-month high....
...Property rich (£500m) and undergeared,” Merrill Lynch said, noting that the company had rebuffed a 325p-a-share offer from Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts a year ago. Kesa firmed 0.1 per cent to 360¼p....
...In the mid-caps, National Express rose 1.6 per cent to £10.98 amid speculation it might try to trump the £1.9bn acquisition of Laidlaw International by rival FirstGrou.p Aberdeen-based FirstGroup gained...
...Its shares were among the few strong performers in a weak FTSE 100 after ABN Amro reiterated its “buy” recommendation and said incoming chief executive Sam Laidlaw, might be tempted to sell its boiler maintenance...
...Some analysts believe Mr Laidlaw might put its British Gas Services business up for sale....
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