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...The FTSE 100 listed companies with the highest proportion of female board representatives included drinks group Diageo, online car marketplace Auto Trader and water company Severn Trent....
...And thanks to the dedicated work of cockle fisherman Colin Davies, who started making sieves and riddles (the traditional tools for harvesting shellfish) in 2018, the craft has been brought back from extinction...
...One Health David Capper CEO, Westfield Health John Sutcliffe CEO, Henry Boot PLC John Warner Senior Partner, BHP Accountants Fred Story Chairman Story Contracting Ltd and Story Homes Ltd Marc Davies...
...Soft-drinks maker Britvic, food-ingredient maker Tate & Lyle, power operator SSE, children’s goods retailer Mothercare and water groups Severn Trent and United Utilities also report this week....
...“Management remains confident it can deliver the promised solid cash flow despite the significantly higher cash costs coming from the Trent 1000 engine issues....
...A drop in bond yields helped push utilities sharply higher, with Severn Trent, United Utilities and Pennon all in demand....
...The person I rely on for wellbeing is my acupuncturist Giles Davies. His treatment combines the Five Element and traditional Chinese medicine approaches....
...It found that only two companies in the index — Severn Trent and Kingfisher — achieved a 50:50 split of male and female senior executives, while 13 failed to employ any senior female executives at all....
...In 2011, a government-commissioned report from Lord Davies set the target that FTSE 100 boards should be at least one-quarter female by the end of 2015....
...Lord Davies highlighted the need to “address the loss of talented senior women from the executive pipeline”....
...Liv Garfield takes over at water company Severn Trent this spring, but Ms Ahrendts is scheduled to leave Burberry for Apple halfway through the year....
...Under his leadership the UK’s biggest airport made the shortlist to expand, with the independent Davies commission considering two options for a third runway....
...Ms Ahrendts is due to join Apple, but the number will be bolstered when Liv Garfield joins Severn Trent from BT in the spring....
...However, there are signs that deals for large regulated businesses might be becoming more difficult after the collapse this month of an attempted £5.3bn buyout of Severn Trent in the UK....
...A rumoured price of £23 per Severn Trent share would be a 35 per cent premium to regulatory asset value, said JPMorgan Cazenove....
...Middleport Pottery was built beside the Trent and Mersey Canal in 1888....
...Chris Davies, chief executive, said contractors were seeing a “marked reduction” in projects and local authorities were reducing their spending....
...Weaker than expected first-half results sent Severn Trent lower by 1.7 per cent to £14.97....
...But factory manager Rich Davies estimates the cost to the business to be up to £200,000....
...GWR claims that recent investment in audience research and in people has produced audience gains at its larger local stations such as Nottingham’s Trent FM....
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