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• WORLD MARKETS: London

  - 2005-04-13

  > Doubts about future growth overshadowed record results from Tesco, while Royal Bank of Scotland extended its dip on concern about a possible pounds 2bn deal in China. Marks & Spencer followed Britain's biggest supermarket group higher, leaping 4 per cent after reassuring investors it would meet...

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• S&N sells pubs

  - 2001-10-27

  SCOTTISH & NEWCASTLE, has agreed to sell 456 leased pubs to Royal Bank of Scotland as part of its strategy of reducing direct property ownership. The UK's biggest brewer said it was selling the pubs for pounds 260m to reduce debt. S&N said it would continue to manage the pubs...

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• jobs for the old boys?

  - 2001-06-24

  THE cigar-chomping Michael Grade summed it up neatly. On a recent sparring bout on Have I Got News For You, the former chief executive of Channel 4 gave his own definition of the role of non-executive directors. Grade, now something of a portfolio careerist and a...

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• Jaw-jaw may be worse than war-war in battle of bankers

  - 1999-12-05

  balancingact BACK in the 1980s when big hostile takeover bids were last in vogue, all the companies involved used to take out full-page newspaper ads attacking each other's management credentials. The landmark Guinness battles for both Bells and the old Distillers Company and Scottish & Newcastle's successful...

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