Hints and tips:
...Still, a report by Geoffrey Owen (former FT editor) for the Policy Exchange says the UK has built niche strengths and competitive advantage in designing compound semiconductors for specialist applications...
...The protagonist of Black Sun , Owen Matthews’s enthralling debut novel (Bantam Press, £16.99), is also skilled at following strangers....
...Virago was the brainchild of Carmen Callil, who recruited Owen to work on her list. The name was chosen because it originally means a manlike or heroic woman. Anthony Burgess disagreed....
...your shareholders / From Nick Burchett, London, UK Box-ticking will continue while clarity is lacking / From Richard Tudway, Burgess Hill, W Sussex, UK...
...matthew.vincent@ft.com Imperial: kate.burgess@ft.com...
...Ursula Owen, one of the first editors to join Callil at Virago, wrote in her recent memoir of “Carmen’s need to marginalise my contribution, the insistence on using the word ‘I’, not ‘we’”....
...Mostyn-Owen invited Sherlock for tea and tried to charm him into not standing against “my Boris”....
...kate.burgess@ft.com...
...matthew.vincent@ft.com Phoenix: kate.burgess@ft.com...
...Owen Jones, an analyst at Citigroup, added Deutsche Börse would not want to find itself in a bidding war....
...Additional reporting by Kate Burgess www.ft.com/tradingroom...
...The following year, the defection to the Soviet Union of the double agents Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean was the talk of the town....
...Even so, the shares – at just under 12 times earnings forecasts for 2013 – are by no means as expensive as one of HR Owen’s cars. Kate Burgess...
...Joe Doyle, chief executive of HR Owen, explains: “Internationally domiciled buyers have taken the place of buyers from the financial sector who have declined since 2008.”...
...they should reject an offer of 130p per share as it posted better than expected first-half results to June, writes Kate Burgess....
...HR Owen, the luxury car dealership, jumped 26.4 per cent after rejecting a hostile £32.5m takeover offer from a Filipino investment group for “materially undervaluing” the company....
...The economic downturn seems not to have affected HR Owen’s customer base of classic car enthusiasts....
...Mr Owen said the results “are unsatisfactory, but [the board] remains confident that the portfolio’s continuing focus on domestic consumption remains the best strategy”....
...There has also been talk of a buy-out by the management team led by Duncan Owen. JPMorgan Cazenove is advising Invista. Shares in Invista closed up 10½p at 61p....
...Owen goal Mark Owen-Lloyd, Eon’s emissions trading boss, says on his LinkedIn profile that he is open to “job inquiries”. Does that mean job offers? He could probably do with some....
...Bill Owens, Governor of Colorado (R): This guy is a phenomenal politician....
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