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...Stephen Rawlinson, analyst at Applied Value, said the auction process “raised the question of why the company is being bid for in the first place”....
...Stephen Rawlinson, analyst at Applied Value, said the statement from GardaWorld may have “raised doubts in the Allied backers’ minds”....
...“The combination of G4S and Allied Universal creates the global leader in security,” G4S chief executive Ashley Almanza said....
...Stephen Rawlinson, analyst at Applied Value, said the bid was improved in many ways including the pension package, which “appears more generous than the current board has made”....
...Stephen Rawlinson, analyst at Applied Value, said the eight-month figures were “good news” for G4S....
...Ashley Almanza took over as chief executive of the business in 2013....
...Stephan Crétier, the hard-hitting chief executive of GardaWorld, is a formidable foe for Ashley Almanza, the bookish accountant at the helm of G4S....
...When Ashley Almanza became chief executive of G4S four years ago, he discovered it had 900 operating units and 45 different email platforms....
...Stephen Rawlinson, analyst at Applied Value Limited, said the numbers indicated that “the transformation stage is completed and the growth phase of earnings and revenue has begun”....
...Stephen Rawlinson, analyst at broker Applied Market Value, said: “Investors and management at G4S must be getting increasingly frustrated as another event creates uncertainty....
...Stephen Rawlinson, analyst at Whitman Howard, the stockbroker, says he is confident Mr Almanza is pursuing the right strategy....
...Ashley Almanza, chief executive, said it had “maintained momentum” in the first half of this year, and expected further improvements in the coming months....
...But Stephen Rawlinson, analyst at Whitman Howard, said the rewards were in line with heads of other large, successful global services businesses such as Compass and Sodexo....
...Stephen Rawlinson, analyst at Whitman Howard, said the change was unlikely to cause any concern....
...Stephen Rawlinson, analyst at Whitman Howard, said G4S has “delivered numbers in line with expectations if not a tad ahead....
...Stephen Rawlinson, analyst at Whitman Howard, said he remained very positive....
...Stephen Rawlinson, analyst at Whitman Howard, described it as a “long game”....
...Ashley Almanza, who took over as chief executive last June, was paid £1.46m in 2013 – a 23 per cent rise from his predecessor Nick Buckles in 2012 – even though the security group was hit by a series of...
...Ashley Almanza, chief executive, is keen to restore G4S’s relationship with the government after being barred from winning new contracts in the wake of the ministry’s findings....
...The settlement will come as a relief to Ashley Almanza, chief executive of G4S, who took over from Nick Buckles last May....
...Although the share price reaction was muted, Stephen Rawlinson, analyst at Whitman Howard, welcomed the lack of fireworks....
...Nick Buckles, the longstanding chief executive, was forced to resign in the wake of a profits warning earlier this year while Ashley Almanza, his successor, faced a barrage of protests at the company’s annual...
...The quick decision to promote Ashley Almanza to chief executive nevertheless surprised the City, given he had only joined as chief financial officer at the start of April....
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