With plans to open new stores and international expansion on the cards, the compact legal team at Debenhams certainly has enough to keep it occupied for the time being. Mary Murphy reports Tomorrow, 16 January, will see the release of key figures that will gauge just how many shoppers Debenhams has persuaded to part with […]
Fiona Callister finds out how Bevan Ashford chief executive Nick Jarrett-Kerr is reacting to a reduction in work for English firms due to changes prompted by Welsh devolution At his base in the centre of Bristol, Bevan Ashford’s chief executive Nick Jarrett-Kerr is feeling the effects of Welsh devolution. His firm is currently in the […]
The five-lawyer team at Next have had their hands full with the level of success enjoyed by the retail company. Fiona Callister asks whether a predicted downturn in consumer spending will pile on the pressure
Over the past year, ice cream has been the bane of Unilever’s life. The Anglo-Dutch consumer products group is being investigated by the Competition Commission over its alleged monopoly of the UK’s £600m impulse buy ice cream market. In July last year, the Competition Commission opened a debate on Unilever’s UK subsidiary Birds Eye Wall’s […]
Sainsbury’s has built its reputation on being a wholesome family-run company. But this year will be the first that a family member is not head of the company, following chairman Lord Sainsbury of Turville’s handover to non-executive chairman Sir George Bull. Sainsbury’s year so far has been characterised by change. Hundreds of its staff face […]
Jack Straw is a man with teeth. But he’s more likely to bare them than reveal them in a grin, Fiona Callister discovers. Somewhere along the way, Jack Straw must have missed out on a New Labour training session. For this is a Government that likes to show off its collective dental work: Blair can […]