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...Last month, Improbable hired a new chief financial officer, Dan Odell, who previously spent 15 years at Disney. Spending on research and development rose 62 per cent to £17.4m....
...Additional reporting by Mark Odell and Arthur Beesley...
...———— Opinion Janan Ganesh: Chancellor did enough to guarantee his survival Sebastian Payne: Tories will need more to win over millennials Julian Glover: Hammond hemmed in by narrow Tory horizons Tim...
...Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrat leader, said he believed the election would give his pro-European party a chance of a comeback after its near-wipeout in 2015....
...“Technically this a straightforward operation,” said Tim Weller, international sales manager at Eclipse Group, a US-based deep sea salvage specialist....
...Additional reporting by Mark Odell and Pan Yuk...
...Well, it’s friendly and it looks like Verizon is keen to keep Tim Armstrong, the former Google executive who has run AOL for the past six years....
...Tim Weller, Wonga’s finance director, becomes interim chief executive....
...Tim O’Toole, FirstGroup’s chief executive, said the company remained “committed to the rail market but we are dissatisfied not to have secured any of the franchises that have come up for tender in this first...
...I wanted to explain what big data can and cannot do using some simple stories. — Tim Harford 2) MH17 crash: FT photo shows signs of damage from missile strike By Mark Odell in London and Roman Olearchyk...
...Tim Field, of the Energy Networks Association, said the weeks of wet weather had exacerbated the impact of the storm, which included gusts of 108mph....
...Tim O’Toole, chief executive, said the rights issue was necessary to retain the company’s investment grade credit rating, which stands at triple B minus with Fitch and Standard & Poor’s, one level above...
...Tim O’Toole, chief executive, and Chris Surch, who took over as chief financial officer last year, have previously insisted that the group had enough liquidity and headroom on its banking covenants to avoid...
...Tim O’Toole said the loss of the contract and the subsequent shake-up of the rail franchising timetable – which has pushed most of the new tenders past the next general election in 2015 – had “completely...
...Tim O’Toole, chief executive, said the rights issue was necessary to retain the company’s investment grade credit rating, which stands one level above junk at triple B minus with Fitch and Standard & Poor...
...Last month Tim O’Toole, chief executive of FirstGroup, and Martin Griffiths, finance director and chief executive-in-waiting of Stagecoach, briefed Patrick McLoughlin, transport secretary, on a joint industry...
...Tim O’Toole, chief executive, said the uncertainty left the board with no choice but to hold the interim dividend at last year’s 7.62p per share and “consider the appropriate level for the full-year dividend...
...“I spoke to Sir Richard Branson last night, and Tim O’Toole and also Sir Brian Souter, and said that what we found was deeply regrettable and I certainly apologised,” he said....
...Tim O’Toole, FirstGroup’s chief executive, has said the company’s business plan envisages two wins in the coming round of rail franchising, which will involve more than half the UK’s 19 franchises over the...
...“We aren’t pursuing the coach market in a big way in the UK,” Tim O’Toole, FirstGroup’s chief executive, told the FT....
...“While there is significant work to do we are satisfied with the progress of the actions we have taken, though we remain mindful of the uncertain economic backdrop,” said Tim O’Toole, chief executive, in...
...It must be galling for Tim O’Toole, chief executive of FirstGroup, that two of the three defining episodes of his two-year tenure have seen this committed rail man struggling with problems in the bus business...
...Tim O’Toole, FirstGroup’s chief executive, told MPs Virgin’s assumptions were wrong. “I think the problem is simply that they don’t understand our model because they haven’t seen it.”...
...Mr McLoughlin also had to break the news that he was cancelling the award of the West Coast contract to a shocked Tim O’Toole, chief executive of FirstGroup, who earlier in the day had signed off on a stock...
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