By Amy Wilson, City ReporterPublished: 6:00AM BST 29 Jul 2010
Trilantic, formerly the private equity arm of Lehman Brothers, agreed to sell MW Brands, which owns John West and French canned fish brands Petit Navire and Mareblu, to Thai Union Frozen Products.
MW Brands was lay up for sale by Trilantic earlier this year, with expectations it [...]
Opposition, QRC back gas commissioner appointmentThe Queensland Resources Council (QRC) says the state’s leading gas commissioner will help balance domestic gas needs with export opportunities.
The QRC has welcomed the State Government appointing Kay Gardiner to the repaired role.
QRC chief executive officer Michael Roche says Ms Gardiner’s job is an economic one and there are other [...]
Horoscope beats economists in over-enlargement forecastingJK Galbraith, a giant of 20th century economics, said the purpose of household forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. This week’s enlargement numbers bear out his maxim.
This week, the horoscope was at smallest as good a guide as the economic modelling of the pundits.
Markets were expecting a go [...]
By Louisa PeacockPublished: 5:45AM BST 28 Jul 2010
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Some 93.3pc and 93.9pc of shareholders particularly voted to re-elect Sir John and Mr Buchanan, despite repugnance from an investor group which last week demanded a major boardroom shake-up.
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTTP), which owns a 0.42pc imperil in the mobile phone giant, had called on shareholders [...]
By Louisa Peacock, Jobs EditorPublished: 6:07PM BST 28 Jul 2010
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A third part of graduates are considering further study this year to escape the dismal jobs market. Photo: GETTY
Some 35pc of the class of 2010 are taking into account studying some sort of postgraduate qualification this year, such as a Master’s stage, a poll of 1,000 [...]
Shell may team up through Woodside rival Chevron
SHELL is likely to join Chevron's colossus Wheatstone liquefied natural gas project in competition with Woodside Petroleum's Pluto concoct.
The chances of Shell linking with Chevron have increased with the offshore inquiry success of the two companies in Western Australia.
Shell yesterday reported it was looking at commercial terms [...]
Revised data shows Chinese were bigger spenders
CHINA'S consumers have been expenditure more than previously believed, according to the latest revisions to the rural's economic data.
But that newfound spending isn’t sufficiency to alter the balance of power in an economy that is muffle primarily driven by investment.
China’s statistical authorities have from one side of to the [...]
The cautious Barclay brothers stunned the market yesterday by selling their 10.4 by cent stake in holiday Inn owner InterContinental Hotels for Ј330million.
The surprise auction quashed any lingering hopes the billionaire investors had of forming a consortium to enjoin for the world’s largest hotels group.
Sir Frederick and Sir David, who concede London’s Ritz hotel and [...]
By Louise Armitstead, Chief Business CorrespondentPublished: 5:30AM BST 28 Jul 2010
The investment group, which has listings on Euronext and the London Stock Exchange, afore~ it had “been notified on an alleged breach of French insider commercial regulations” in its B&G Gestion arm which advises the UK-based asset charge division.
The hedge fund, which was founded by [...]
Thousand of Britons be off abroad on holiday this month. While most will have a matter-free trip, others will succumb to illness or have an misfortune.
And illness abroad doesn’t just mean a touch of sangria-induced abide problems. You, like celebrity Cheryl Cole – who is now on the further after contracting malaria on holiday in [...]
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