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...Companies such as Hanson Trust and BTR, large constituents of the UK market, saw themselves as managing a portfolio of business assets....
...But most believe that more choice would be beneficial, not least in countering worrying declines in public trust in business....
...There was Lord Hanson’s slightly raffish and eponymous “Trust”, and its more buttoned-up rival, BTR, with its ostentatiously Spartan headquarters in London’s Victoria....
...Of course in any 20-year period, many big companies fail or disappear (think BTR, ICI, Woolworth) but predictions of free energy are reminiscent of the broken promise from nuclear power half a century ago...
...“I realised that if we bought [the BTR division], it could be a real turning point . . ....
...RETAIL & CONSUMER Mitchells & Butlers, the pub group considering converting to a low-tax real estate investment trust (REIT), may finally succumb to a merger from rival Punch next year, which would create...
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