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...“UK plc is on sale,” said Richard Bernstein, who runs fund manager Crystal Amber....
...Linda Pilkington, founder of Ormonde Jayne, has just invited City Insider to an online product launch for . . . her new perfume La Route de Soie. Which key do we press for a sniff?...
...Mr Chambers, an industrialist who has been involved in the sale of several big UK companies including chipmaker ARM Holding and Pilkington Glass, was named as Anglo chairman in June but did not take on the...
...His last three chairmanships, at Pilkington, Rexam and Arm, all resulted in takeovers of the respective company by foreign acquirers. Anglo’s South African assets may make it a harder sell....
...Despite extensive boardroom experience — at Arm, Rexam and Pilkington — Mr Chambers has not worked in either sector....
...Mr Chambers, a former chief executive at Pilkington and NSG Group, will join the board of the UK’s biggest supplier of building materials as a non-executive director in September....
...He was also the chief executive of UK glassmaker Pilkington when it was sold to Nippon Sheet Glass in 2006....
...Stuart Chambers will bring the benefit of his experience at Arm Holdings, Rexam and Pilkington to the Anglo boardroom from September....
...Victories included Thomas Tilling (then the biggest UK takeover) and an ailing Dunlop, although glassmaker Pilkington managed to escape....
...In recent years, he also served as a non-executive director at Smiths Group plc and Tesco, following an executive career at Nippon Sheet Glass (formerly Pilkington), Mars Corporation and Shell....
...If you must, look at Japan Tobacco, which bought Gallaher in 2007, NSG, owner of Pilkington Glass since 2006, and Dentsu, which bought rival ad agency Aegis in 2012....
...Pilkington, the glassmaker that once employed 28,000 workers, now has fewer than 2,000. The coal mines shut long ago....
...City types will remember Mr Scaroni from his six-year stint as chief executive of glassmaker Pilkington, which concluded in 2002....
...“You have to stick whisky in a barrel for three years and twiddle your thumbs,” says Ed Pilkington, a marketing director at Diageo....
...Dividend flow is good – helped by the fact that chairman Jeremy Pilkington owns 52.8 per cent – and the only cloud is a rise in debt from £40.4m to £50.1m....
...recently reintroduced Tanqueray Malacca as a limited edition, available only for bartenders in top bars in North America, the UK and Spain, where gin cocktail culture is the most buoyant,” explains Edward Pilkington...
...ECU has also appointed Jan Pilkington-Miksa, co-founder of advisory group Ferghana Partners, as executive director, corporate development....
...Should the government have halted the deal until it was satisfied that the outcome would be good for UK plc?...
...The old network had its origins in nearby St Helens in 1981, where former RAF pilot Bill Humphrey set up a trust to help workers made redundant by Pilkington, the glassmaker....
...Mr Swannell acted as an adviser to Pilkington, the glassmaker, in its 2006 takeover by Nippon Steel Group....
...Since then, it is not only Courtaulds that has passed into foreign hands but also several other proud, seemingly permanent features of the British industrial landscape, including ICI, Pilkington, and Cadbury...
...The trend peaked on October 31 2005 when Telefónica of Spain announced its £18bn purchase of O2 and Nippon Sheet Glass made a £2bn move for Pilkington – all at the same time as the market was digesting news...
...to engage in a bit of bacon counter nostalgia: However the list of companies that are now controlled by foreign enterprises with all that that implies is long: – the leading UK based glass manufacturer Pilkington...
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