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...Saturday UK: 10th birthday of Prince George, eldest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales and second in line to the British throne following his father Prince William....
...It also holds one of the biggest bets against UK defence contractor Babcock International, which on Friday said it may be forced to cut the expected value of contracts and future income, and whose share...
...The week begins on a sombre note in the US, as George Floyd, whose killing by a Minneapolis policeman sparked worldwide protests, is laid to rest in Houston....
...A top-10 shareholder told the Financial Times it was time that Babcock brought in someone from the outside to lead the group....
...Mr Feisal spent most of his career as Associate Managing Editor at the Sunday Times, but also sits on boards including at St Georges Hospital and the Council of the Inns of Court....
...“Even in cases where you don’t win, [a protest vote] can still be an interesting temperature gauge,” says George Dallas, policy director at the International Corporate Governance Network....
...Former colleagues and clients of Mr Vereker, who has worked at Schroders, Babcock and Brown, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, Nomura and UBS during his career, described him as an analytical, pragmatic professional...
...Mike Turner is set to step down as chairman from the board of Babcock International, the FT reported. It comes after a shaky time for Britain’s second-largest defence contractor....
...George Gallup’s first poll was conducted on behalf of his mother-in-law — Ola Babcock Miller — a long-shot candidate for Iowa secretary of state. She won and the Gallup poll was born....
...For example, the £8.9bn Income Fund holds 5 per cent of fashion retailer Next and 9 per cent of defence outsourcer Babcock....
...“The bureau will respond to whomever is put in that position,” said Ernest Babcock, a former deputy assistant director of the FBI....
...It is good too for Babcock International, which services the subs. But subs are not the main driver of either company’s earnings....
...The cross-party group of MPs, whose committee scrutinises Whitehall spending, highlighted the flying training contract between MoD and Ascent, a 25-year joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Babcock...
...A second element of George Osborne’s sell-off involves raising his target for the sale of bank loans and shares by £13bn to nearly £40bn by 2021....
...Babcock says it can make £500m of savings in the contract over 10 years....
...Doug Parr, Greenpeace’s chief UK scientist, accused George Osborne of taking “a wrecking ball” to the clean energy sector....
...To test this idea, Linda Babcock and George Loewenstein, behavioural economists at Carnegie Mellon University, once asked experimental subjects to ponder the facts of a real tort case from Texas....
...The move — due to be introduced on April 1 — is expected to contribute to a further £13bn of savings by government departments targeted by George Osborne, the chancellor, in Wednesday’s Budget....
...Mr Fallon’s personal commitment to the 2 per cent target could make life difficult for George Osborne, the chancellor, who is facing a diminishing number of departments from which he can make cuts....
...Nicola Shaw, Chief Executive Officer, HS1 Richard Fursland, CEO, BritishAmerican Business Samir Brikho, Chief Executive, AMEC Ian Reeves CBE, Senior Partner, Synaps Partners Mike Turner CBE, Chairman, Babcock...
...Serco Group , which disposed of its UK occupational health unit to its management team this month, gained 3.3 per cent to 546.4p while Babcock International , the defence contractor, rose 2.9 per cent to...
...“Basically, they are creating their own customer,” said George Borovas, head of nuclear projects at Pillsbury, an international law firm....
...The spending pledge comes amid fears of fresh defence cuts after George Osborne’s Autumn Statement last week demanded a further 2 per cent saving from the defence department in 2014-15....
...George and Danny will be rattling tins on your way out. They’re wearing orange tabards. Give generously. Sorrell: Why should we invest? You aren’t. PM: Austerity was what business wanted....
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