Hints and tips:
...Lutz Schüler has waited a long time to execute his grand plan of combining a cable company with a mobile phone network to challenge one of Europe’s most powerful incumbent telecoms groups....
...Mike Fries, chief executive of Liberty Global, was named as chair of the combined business for a two-year term last year....
...Job moves Virgin Media chief executive Lutz Schüler has been appointed as head of the company formed by the £31bn merger of the British telecoms company and O2. More here....
...Liberty Global chief executive Mike Fries has hinted at a deal in recent earnings calls while Lutz Schüler, who took over as chief executive of Virgin Media last year, told the Financial Times he had not...
...Mr Schüler is a key lieutenant of US “cable cowboy” John Malone and Mike Fries, who control Liberty....
...“Tom, Lutz and I have prepared for this moment for some time now, so Lutz will hit the ground running from day one.”...
...Mike Fries, Liberty’s chief executive, said in September that the current deal cost Virgin £200m a year — “a big number for BT”....
...Liberty Global has promoted Lutz Schüler to run Virgin Media after Tom Mockridge stood down from the role as chief executive. Read the story here....
...Tom Mockridge, the boss of the UK’s Virgin Media, will be replaced by the company’s chief operating officer, Lutz Schüler in June....
...“Currency risk is a major issue for expats,” said Mike Morrison, pension analyst with AJ Bell, the pension provider....
...Sinclair is the one wielding the boom-mike while declaiming verses....
...“Many photographers found themselves working within a political framework, providing visual evidence of inequality and social ills,” says the exhibition’s curator, Mike Seabourne....
...Bob Lutz, General Motors’ vice-chairman, said in a pre-show briefing that GM’s focus was on “product excellence beginning with bold, beautiful design”....
...Mike Lynch, the influential founder of Autonomy, puts them at the top of the social networking pile....
...Felton took Howe back to visit his LA roots early this summer, when he met both his idol Lewis and world record-holder Mike Powell, also inevitably of the US....
...However, Mike Bruynesteyn, analyst at Prudential Equity, says: “Pricing is likely to get aggressive even as the segment grows.”...
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