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• The Week In Review: Frigid performance as Iceland struggles to keep

  - 2004-07-17

  IF ONLY mum would go back to Iceland. The frozen food chain, owned by Big Food Group BFG, has been suffering as customers desert its frumpy stores. While the management has been focused on turning some of its best sites into bright new convenience stores selling fresh fruit, veg and...

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• Johnson accepts undertakings on Lloyds TSB/Abbey National.

  - 2002-02-18

  M2 PRESSWIRE-18 February 2002-UK Government: Johnson accepts undertakings on Lloyds TSB/Abbey National C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:18022002 Competition Minister Melanie Johnson has accepted undertakings from Lloyds TSB Group plc in relation to Abbey National plc. The...

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• Evening Standard, London, Joanne Hart Column.

  - 2002-01-04

  By Joanne Hart, Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 4--WHY ABBEY COULD BE HAPPY WITH A BARCLAYS BID: There has been much talk this week about Abbey National bidding for Alliance & Leicester. A&L's restructuring programme has not gone smoothly and...

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• Financial Mail, London, Taking Stock Column.

  - 2001-10-13

  By Simon Watkins, Financial Mail on Sunday, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 13--The next 10 days should see stock market history in the making as the Takeover Panel rules on advertising group WPP's bid for Tempus. Two weeks ago,...

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• Ellwood Agonistes; Banking in Britain; Lloyds TSB's bid for Abbey National is blocked.(Finance and Economics)(Brief Article)

  - 2001-07-14

  PETER ELLWOOD, chief executive of Lloyds TSB, keeps a well-thumbed copy of Clausewitz's "On War" in his office. It helps him, he says, to think about strategies for future conquests. So far, though, Mr Ellwood's own warlike attempts have fallen flat. This week, Patricia Hewitt, the...

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• Patricia Hewitt accepts CC conclusions on Lloyds/Abbey merger.

  - 2001-07-10

  M2 PRESSWIRE-10 July 2001-UK Government: Patricia Hewitt accepts CC conclusions on Lloyds/Abbey merger C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10072001 Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, has decided not to permit the proposed acquisition by Lloyds TSB Group plc ...

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• Competition Commission to set out issues on Lloyds-Abbey deal today

  - 2001-04-11

  THE COMPETITION Commission is expected to post an "issues letter" today regarding Lloyds TSB's proposed takeover of Abbey National. The move follows the public hearing hosted by Denise Kingsmill, the chair of the commission's enquiry, last month. It is thought that the letter will detail the nature...

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