Hints and tips:
...Eric Pilkington Créhen, Côtes-d’Armor, France...
...David Pilkington Amos & Bailey,London SW1, UK...
...Sir Nigel Rudd, who, as chairman, sold UK companies including Pilkington, Invensys and Boots to foreign buyers, agreed that investors were failing to properly value British industrial companies....
...Linda Pilkington, founder of Ormonde Jayne, has just invited City Insider to an online product launch for . . . her new perfume La Route de Soie. Which key do we press for a sniff?...
...Letter in response to this column: Masks don’t stop people touching their faces / From David Pilkington, London, UK...
One of France’s oldest companies faces down critics as questions mount on performance
...When David Bowie circulated a list of 100 books that had changed his life, it caused much comment....
...Tanya Barron Chief Executive, Plan International UK Tamsyn Barton Chief Executive, Bond Rose Caldwell Executive Director, Concern Worldwide UK Nigel Harris Chief Executive, Tearfund Professor David...
...“David comes to us with over 30 years’ experience in investment and commercial banking with organisations such as Barclays Capital, HSBC, Citigroup and Pilkington,” the company said....
...But in 1991, six weeks after her son was born, her husband lost his job at the Pilkington auto glass factory. Her father and father-in-law also lost jobs....
...Earlier this month, David Duffy, CYBG’s chief executive, said the potential impact of Brexit would not be “material”....
...Sir David Higgins, chairman of the HS2 railway project, believes the high-speed line will reverse the trend by reducing travel times between regional cities and London....
...City types will remember Mr Scaroni from his six-year stint as chief executive of glassmaker Pilkington, which concluded in 2002....
...Most production from the former Pilkington factory in St Helens is exported, with four-fifths going to the EU. “We would relocate,” he said....
...NSG, the Japanese company that owns St Helens-based glassmaker Pilkington, this month announced it was closing a production line for glass used in buildings, cutting 140 of 1,350 jobs in the town....
...Since then, it is not only Courtaulds that has passed into foreign hands but also several other proud, seemingly permanent features of the British industrial landscape, including ICI, Pilkington, and Cadbury...
...Companies from Japan, of course not an emerging market but an Asian country nonetheless, have moved into markets ranging from India (Ranbaxy bought by Daiei) to the UK (Pilkington Glass acquired by Nippon...
...The team included David Challen, a senior independent director on Anglo’s board who had a history of defending takeovers, such as Pilkington’s defence against a hostile bid from BTR in the 1980s....
...“No,” says Cranfield’s David Grayson....
...David Wreford, principal at Mercer, says the industry rule of thumb is a month for every year worked, uncapped....
...Nippon Sheet Glass, which last year bought its UK rival Pilkington, jumped 6.9 per cent to Y450 on news former Pilkington executive Stuart Chambers is to be its new president and chief executive....
...Who would have thought of Paolo Scaroni, the former Pilkington boss now running Italy’s Eni oil group, locking horns again with Sir Richard “Dick” Evans, the former head of BAE Systems – and in Kazakhstan...
...Ms Pilkington’s first overseas venture, “a small shop within a shop”, opens in Dubai in November....
...David Cicurel had been appointed a director of the firm in June that year....
...The last big takeover target in the sector was Pilkington , which surrendered its 180-year-old independence 14 months ago....
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