Hints and tips:
...Heywood invited SoftBank founder and chief executive Masayoshi Son to Downing Street to help facilitate the deal and arranged a meeting with the then chancellor Philip Hammond....
...strongest rebounds of his career in 2002-03 during the dotcom crash and companies such as BAT pull ahead dramatically 2012 Flexes muscles by speaking out against controversial merger between BAE and EADS...
...Philip Green walked away from BHS in the full knowledge its pensioners would likely be impoverished; the owners of Carillion paid themselves large dividends well aware that small suppliers would go bankrupt...
...EADS unless the French and German governments reduced direct shareholdings in the continental group....
...In 2012, defence secretary Philip Hammond threatened to block an €35bn merger with EADS unless the French and German governments reduced direct shareholdings in the continental group....
...Daimler had €13.8bn in net cash at the end of December, €2.3bn more than a year ago, helped by the sale of its stake in EADS....
...Tesco stopped short of issuing another warning, but chief executive Philip Clarke said he would not ratchet up price competition, as some investors and analysts are urging....
...BAE, EADS and Finmeccanica are the three prime contractors on Typhoon, though the programme supports many more smaller suppliers as well....
...EADS, the European aerospace group, Germany’s Siemens, France’s Thales, Philips of the Netherlands and the UK’s GlaxoSmithKline are among hundreds of companies taking part....
...These included Sir John Rose, former chief executive of Rolls-Royce; Sir John Parker, chairman of Anglo American; Sir Nigel Rudd, founder of Williams Holdings, and Sir Philip Hampton, chairman of Royal Bank...
...EADS shares are up about 50 per cent in the year to date....
...France reportedly wanted a larger slice than London was prepared to accept, and the peace-brokering powers of UK defence secretary Philip Hammond proved insufficient to bring the three sides together....
...Philip Hammond, the British defence secretary, became the first member of the UK government to spell out in public that it would not back the €35bn EADS-BAE defence merger unless there was a marked reduction...
...philip.stephens@ft.com...
...The boost to the EADS share price was attributed to relief by big investors who feared the tie-up with the smaller UK company would hit returns....
...At 5.9 per cent, BAE’s yield is more than twice that of EADS....
...Amid a growing mood of unease about the deal on the Tory back benches, Philip Hammond, defence secretary, said the government would only approve the deal if it was in the UK’s national interest....
...Amid a growing mood of unease about the deal on the Tory backbenches, Philip Hammond, defence secretary, said the government would only approve the deal if it was in the UK national interest....
...From Prof Philip Lawrence....
...He is also a longstanding adviser to UK retailer Marks and Spencer, having advised on its defence against Philip Green in 2004....
...Philip Hammond, the defence secretary, this weekend said that any French or German stake needed to be “below the level at which [they] can control or direct the way the company acts”....
...Philip Hammond, defence secretary, has said the government wants to be “reassured . . . about the implications for the future allocation of work to the UK....
...Philip Lawrence, an independent aerospace consultant, points out that as a result of this disparity many BAE suppliers in the UK can see the benefits of the companies teaming up....
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