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SSE warns on profits, fuel bills set to rise

Further energy price hikes look likely today, July 24, as Scottish & Southern Energy issued a stark warning that its first half profits would be a lot lower than previous years.

Posted on :24/07/2008 09:44:30
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Gary Hoffman

New Northern Rock chief lands mega pay deal

The troubled bank will pay its new chief executive, Gary Hoffman, nearly £2 million over two years to run the nationalised bank

Posted on :23/07/2008 15:04:49
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Vodafone’s surprise £1bn buyback

The mobile phone group has startled everybody with a decision to buy back £1 billion of its shares.

Posted on :23/07/2008 09:38:25
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Asian Growth

Asian growth to be hit by inflation

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) warns today, July 22, that economic growth in Asia will fall to 7.6 percent this year from nine percent in 2007.

Posted on :22/07/2008 09:26:38
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Google UK's top consumer brand

Google has knocked Microsoft off the top spot to take the crown of the UK's most popular brand for the first time, according to the latest Superbrands survey.

Posted on :21/07/2008 10:22:18
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Foreign investors increase Barclays stakes

Existing shareholders snub £4.5 billion capital raising, leaving stock with new Asian and Middle Eastern investors.

Posted on :18/07/2008 08:55:10
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Editor's Blog

Paul Pearce-Couch

Taking the Sugar out of the mix and keeping the best...

Staff retention is a hot potato at the moment. Business is waking up to the fact that it's most important assets are the key people it employs. Senior management is going to extraordinary lengths to keep those people within their respective busineses.

Interviews

Traffic to India: Dr Jaideep Prabhu on Indian business and innovation

Traffic to India: Dr Jaideep Prabhu on Indian business and innovation

On September 1, Dr Jaideep Prabhu (pictured) becomes the first incumbent of the Jawaharlal Nehru Chair of Indian Business and Enterprise at the University of Cambridge: Exec talks to him about innovation and the UK/India business relationship.

SKF's Tom Johnstone is bearing up under pressure

SKF's Tom Johnstone is bearing up under pressure

The president and CEO of SKF, a Swedish industrial group gone global, is a Brit who takes a holistic view of business and believes in opportunities not plans. Exec talks to Tom Johnstone.

Driven to Drink: Duncan Goose talks about One Water, PlayPumps and social entrepreneurship

Driven to Drink: Duncan Goose talks about One Water, PlayPumps and social entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship changes lives, but a social enterprise has disciplines that are a good benchmark for any growing business, believes John O’Hanlon who talked to Duncan Goose, founder of One water.

Monthly Features

Why do business in Tokyo?

Why do business in Tokyo?

Japan has seen huge economic recovery in the past 20 years - so much in fact, that the former “bubble economy” is now the second largest in the world. Exec takes a look at Tokyo, its industry capital