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...“UK plc is on sale,” said Richard Bernstein, who runs fund manager Crystal Amber....
...The album is the third by Hen Ogledd, which was formed by Newcastle avant-folkist Richard Dawson and Welsh improvisational harp-player Rhodri Davies....
...Biographies of note in the early part of the year include Richard J Evans’s Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (Little Brown, February) — the first one of the late historian and polymath....
...Chief Executive, Bond Rose Caldwell Executive Director, Concern Worldwide UK Nigel Harris Chief Executive, Tearfund Professor David Hulme President, Development Studies Association Professor Sir Richard...
...Nippon Sheet Glass, the company that bought UK-based glassmaker Pilkington in 2006, suffered a 23 per cent fall in its shares as they became some of the most heavily traded in Tokyo....
...An Idiot Abroad by Karl Pilkington. My daughter bought it for me for Christmas. I thought I’d hate it but I loved it. Which books are on your bedside table?...
...This is now happening, Richard Pilkington, its UK managing director, said....
...ECU has also appointed Jan Pilkington-Miksa, co-founder of advisory group Ferghana Partners, as executive director, corporate development....
...More recently, on December 11, the former president gave a speech at the Aspire sports academy in Doha, an event organised by Mr Sarkozy’s ex-wife Cecilia’s husband, Richard Attias....
...Richard Clarke, architect of the index, built a benchmark based on how actively the stocks of the underlying constituents were traded....
...Sir Alastair Pilkington, the group’s first chairman, already had a plan to put on the table....
...The public reaction to Centrica’s results was enough to rile even the mild-mannered Richard Lambert, director-general of the CBI....
...The same can be said of perfumer Linda Pilkington, creator of Ormonde Jayne, and Sean Dixon and Richard James, co-founders of Richard James, a Savile Row tailoring business whose turnover (something in “...
...Who would have thought of Paolo Scaroni, the former Pilkington boss now running Italy’s Eni oil group, locking horns again with Sir Richard “Dick” Evans, the former head of BAE Systems – and in Kazakhstan...
...“In our view, the share prices [of UK banks] discount a far more severe scenario than we assume in our new estimates and so we see scope for the sector to outperform in the final quarter,” Simon Pilkington...
...Richard Baker, chief executive: Hired in 2003 by Sir Nigel to run Boots The Chemist....
...Sir Nigel has explicitly told Richard Baker, chief executive, that he must not discuss the bid with Mr Pessina, who wants to keep the current management team on board....
...His experience rests largely on the sale of Pilkington, the glassmaker sold to Japan’s Nippon Sheet Glass last year....
...“I had been at Pilkington three-and-a-half-years when the bid came and had not finished the job.”...
...deal would be the largest foreign takeover by a German company for four years and mark the latest in a long line of UK industrial assets being taken over by foreign predators following the purchases of Pilkington...
...And I noted this morning stories on Pilkington being about to receive another offer from Nippon Sheet Glass....
...“I don’t have any intention to interfere with Richard Baker in the day-to-day management of the business.”...
...richard.donkin@ft.com See www.ft.com/donkin for more columns...
...Pilkington says it has received a second takeover approach from Nippon Sheet Glass. This one was at 158p a share - up from 150p previously. To read or make comment online click here...
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