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...Gallahers and Michelin, the tyremaker, have also shut operations in Ballymena, outside Belfast....
...The specific aversion to Cartesians may, the cricket coach John Bracewell has suggested, be rooted in being “unable to work out how the French seem to have a second gear....
...John Gildersleeve When John Gildersleeve joined Tesco in 1965 as a 19-year-old trainee manager, he knew only two things about the food retail business “Cheese is yellow and meat is red,” he was quoted as...
...She has also sat on boards for companies such as Zurich, Man Group, Friends Provident and Gallaher....
...With the resignation in February of the OFT’s longstanding chief executive John Fingleton, one outstanding question was who would lead the new agency....
...The new fines announced on Friday were dominated by a £112m penalty imposed on Imperial, whose brands include John Player Special and Golden Virginia....
...Mr Northridge, 53, is a former chief executive of Gallaher, the cigarette maker that was bought by Japan Tobacco in 2006....
...He trained in his spare time as an accountant while a management trainee at British Steel and then worked in the audit section of Gallaher, the tobacco company, before joining the hotel operators Grand Metropolitan...
...But others linked to the job included Carphone Warehouse chairman John Gildersleeve, with a strong background in consumer companies....
...John Fingleton, Office of Fair Trading chief executive, denied the organisation was anti-business and said it would fight harder against corporate wrongdoing that was in some cases deeply entrenched....
...The six companies agreed to pay £132m to settle the charges with Gallaher, one of two tobacco manufacturers involved in the case, shouldering the lion’s share of the burden after agreeing to pay £93m....
...John Fingleton, OFT chief executive, said: “For markets to work well for consumers, it is a fundamental principle that pricing decisions should be made independently.”...
...“There is no doubt that towards the end of 2006 and early 2007 there was a growing market sentiment that prices were getting to the top of the cycle,” said John Coles, partner at Ernst & Young....
...John Karidis, at Man Securities, noted that Vodafone shares had risen 13 per cent after the last shareholder briefing in October....
...John Laing firmed 0.7 per cent to 395½p, on buying interest from investors-based in South Africa....
...Gilded sleeves shakes hands A busy week for John Gildersleeve, chairman of EMI....
...Gallaher , the cigarette manufacturer, may have agreed to be bought by Japan Tobacco, but some investors continue to hope for a counterbid: the stock trades at £11.46½, just above Japan Tobacco’s offer of...
...BAT rose 1.7 per cent to £13.01, Imperial Tobacco firmed 1.5 per cent to £17.36 and Gallaher gained 0.5 per cent to 883p....
...Christian Cullen, the former All Black back, is injured, as is centre John Murphy....
...Also helped by its defence qualities, cigarette group Gallaher added 0.5 per cent to 855p amid talk that Japan Tobacco, which has refused to rule out a move for either Gallaher or UK peer Imperial Tobacco...
...“This is crunch time on the high street,” said John Butler of HSBC: “The difficulty for the Bank of England is that the data on household borrowing released earlier today remains strong....
...In retail, a company really must know the market to be successful.Runner-up: Gallaher. Also shortlisted: Aviva, Cadbury Schweppes, Kingfisher....
...The market capitalisation of the company, which is chaired by former National Power chief executive John Baker, is £17.2m....
...The tobacco group Gallaher, down 3.7 per cent at 752.5p, was also on the ex-dividend list but other tobacco companies also traded weaker with British American Tobacco off 0.5 per cent at 925.5p and Imperial...
...Gallaher fell 1.3 per cent to 786p, Imperial Tobacco lost 2.2 per cent to £13.98 and British American Tobacco lost 0.9 per cent to 882p....
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