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...Jo Bird, a campaigner who is organising a conference to agree a different way of reforming the Co-op, said the restructuring would replace “one unaccountable cabal with another”....
...Jo Bird, a leading campaigner for reform, said: “It looks like the Co-op group is changing to look like any other plc.”...
...Jo Bird, a leading campaigner for reform of the co-operative movement, describes the management team that presided over the group and bank until sweeping changes last year as “worse than inefficient; over-ambitious...
...“We need someone we can trust,” said Jo Bird, who has rallied opposition to Lord Myners and Mr Sutherland....
...But his move to back down and raise extra capital will kill two birds with one stone: it addresses regulators’ concern over Barclays’ leverage ratio, as well investors’ worries that the bank had fallen behind...
...But the days when private equity firms would make 30 per cent internal rates of return, that’s for the birds.”...
...As the peace pact between the UK government and banks was finally unveiled on Wednesday, one of the biggest surprises was that the codename Merlin referred to the bird of prey rather than the wizard, as...
...Merlins are a treat sighting for an avid bird-watcher like John Varley....
...LDC’s £2.3bn portfolio of more than 80 companies includes Cranswick Pet & Aquatics, the UK’s biggest wild bird food and tropical fish supplier; Orion Media, the Midlands radio broadcaster; and ModelZone,...
...“This means no margin call and reduces potential bad debts from clients,” said Bird....
...Ferrari” – a swimming pool which, at the push of a button, turns into a dance floor, a dining table that becomes a roulette wheel, moving projection wallpaper that has trees that blow in the breeze and birds...
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