Hints and tips:
...In April, Willie Walsh, director-general of the International Air Transport Association, the trade group of airlines, said in a media briefing: “Hong Kong as an international hub airport has slipped; it...
...Befitting its ostensibly humdrum, unoperatic subject matter, Walsh’s libretto is defiantly prosaic....
...The group has owned the airport since 2006, when it was bought for an estimated £750m from Dermot Desmond, the Irish financier, who paid just £23.5m for London City in 1995....
...GIP bought the airport for an estimated £750m in 2006 from Dermot Desmond, the Irish financier, who paid just £23.5m for it in 1995 from Mowlem, the UK construction group....
...Mr Walsh has previously threatened to leave other UK airports over high charges....
...Yet, when asked on an earnings call a year ago what proportion of sales were retail, to people outside its network of distributors, Desmond Walsh, Herbalife president, said “we don’t have visibility to that...
...Herbalife President Desmond Walsh said: So, we don’t have an exact percentage, David, because we don’t have visibility to that level of detail....
...One of his likely duties would be to help recruit a long-term successor to Mr Walsh, who will mark his 10th anniversary in the job in September....
...It was in the hands of Desmond FitzGerald (father of Garret FitzGerald, Taoiseach from 1982-87), an urbane, well-connected Imagist poet with an English drawl, and Erskine Childers, an Anglo-Irish public...
...The guest list heavies included media man Richard Desmond, Lloyds TSB chairman Sir Victor Blank, and BSkyB’s numbers man Jeremy Darroch, who seems to be on headhunters’ lists....
...Desmond Lynam, sports broadcaster. Lucian McGrath, executive director, Mines Advisory Group, for services to mine clearance. Karen Millen, co-founder, Karen Millen, the fashion company....
...The group, which is backed by Michael Smurfit and Dermot Desmond, is expected to be valued at about £100m if current talks to acquire a larger rival are successful....
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