The public will not bail out the financial services sector for a second time if another global crisis blows up four or five years from now, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned business leaders yesterday. Addressing a ...
Britain’s school-leavers are “not fit for work” despite record levels of public spending on education, Sir Stuart Rose, executive chairman of Marks & Spencer, said yesterday. Speaking at the CBI conference in London, the head of Britain’s biggest ...
The head of the CBI has attacked the role that hedge funds with short-term interests will play in the hostile takeover bid for Cadbury by Kraft, the US chocolate giant. Richard Lambert, Director-General of the CBI, has waded into the controversy over ...
Pay freezes will be imposed across half of British industry next year, it was suggested yesterday.The latest employment trends survey from the CBI, the business leaders’ organisation, and Harvey Nash, the recruitment company, shows that half of ...
Consumer groups attacked Britain’s second-largest energy company yesterday after it unveiled a 36 per cent surge in profits on the back of higher household bills. Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE), which supplies gas and electricity to nine million UK ...
Selling scrap metal for cash could go the way of the rag and bone man if a proposal from the utilities and transport industries is adopted as the latest tactic against scrap metal thieves. Lobbyists from the energy and transport sectors want the ...
Strikes at Royal Mail have given a short-term boost to Rentokil Initial’s struggling parcels business, but the cost of handling the sudden spike in demand was high, the services group said yesterday. Rentokil’s City Link parcels business was at the ...
Britain’s busiest long-distance rail route was effectively nationalised on Thursday when the Government confirmed it would take control of the troubled East Coast franchise, which National Express has run for the past two years. National Express now ...
Demanding environmental legislation, issued by Brussels, is providing waste companies such as Shanks with a new marketplace. In Germany, less than 1 per cent of mixed waste goes into landfill; in the Netherlands and Benelux countries that figure is ...
Your newspapers and magazines are recycled, your light bulbs are low energy and your weekly bottle collection is embarrassingly better than your neighbour’s. But there is still one environmental chore that makes even the most die-hard eco warrior wince. ...
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