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• Tesco to concentrate on short-term investor return? Leopards don't

  - 2006-04-26

  By agreeing to the sale and lease-back of up to pounds 5bn worth of freehold property, Tesco seems finally to be bowing to pressure from shareholders for a more immediate return on their money. That, in any case, was the way the company chose to present yesterday's news. There's to...

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• The Week Ahead: City ready to toast Whitbread's good fortune

  - 2004-06-14

  ALAN PARKER formally takes over as chief executive of Whitbread at tomorrow's annual meeting and the trading update to be issued by the group to coincide with the start of his reign will show that the former head of the leisure giant's hotels division inherits a company in robust health....

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• LIVING REVIEW FOOD & DRINK: My Round - Reasons to be beerful

  - 2003-07-13

  A refreshing, palate-cleansing beer, designed to be served straight from the fridge in the dead of winter - and especially around Christmastime. Does that make sense to you? No one will revoke your drinking license if it doesn't. But recently, on a baking- hot day, I found precisely that beverage...

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• MacLaurin is hot tip

  - 1997-11-30

  Lord MacLaurin, the former boss of Tesco, is tipped by analysts to become the next chairman of Whitbread, the highly successful brewing to branded restaurant group, writes Nick Gilbert. Mr MacLaurin, who joined the Whitbread board two weeks ago, is an energetic 60-year old, seven years younger than...

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