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The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry have announced that they are to host the inaugural national mediation summit, which will have guest speakers from the UK government, BT and CIPD. This exclusive summit will be discussing the biggest shake up of dispute resolution for the past 20 years, and has been organised by the [...]  A recent deal has been concluded that means the London stock exchange will be purchasing the rest of the FTSE index from the publishing group Pearson. This will mean the LSE will own 100% of the international index and the deal is worth nearly half a billion pounds. This is the largest acquisition by the LSE [...] DiscountVouchers.co.uk is a money-saving website and it has recently teamed up with NimbleCommerce to break into the group deals market that is currently very popular with consumers. The company is hoping that it will be able to take on businesses that have set up in the UK but are based in the US and offer [...] Just about everyone has goals, just about everyone has dreams, and just about everyone has problems is a concept that it is hard to disagree with. It is also the premise of a new advert from The Telegraph that is part of their Inspiring Futures series. The new advert features Pete Cohen as he discusses [...] Independent research published today by Onva, a leading customer experience consultancy, proves that British businesses have failed to adjust to the needs of the ‘Recommendation Generation’ and are wasting billions on out of date techniques. With organisations such as the CBI complaining that the government does not listen to its needs, [...] According to the latest figures, 6300 cable customers have returned to Virgin Media during the three month period that ended on September 30th. This will partly go towards making up the losses they suffered over the summer when 36,000 students disconnected their services for the holidays. The financial results that were released on Thursday show that [...] NBNK Investments is a new venture that has confirmed that is has just made a bid to purchase over 630 branches of Lloyds TSB. The BBC has said that NBNK have not revealed the value of their bid but it is expected that it will be for around one and a half billion pounds. The European [...] Aer Lingus and Ryanair have had some ‘issues’ in the recent past, and things appear to be escalating on both sides of the dispute. Currently Ryanair owns about 30% of Aer Lingus’s shares, and efforts to buy more of it have been rebuffed. Now there is talk that Ryanair may offload the shares it has, [...] Philip Clarke, the chief executive of Tesco has announced that the company will be pulling out of Japan by selling off its stores. Clarke said the reason for the withdrawal was because Tesco’s would not be able to expand enough to properly succeed in the country. He commented, “We just won’t be able to make [...] Global stock markets have again plummeted as the fears continued to grow that it was only a matter of time before the global economy slid back into recession. The FTSE 100 Index ended a week of falling prices which ultimately £147.9b, or 9.8%, wiped off its value. This is the FTSE’s worst performance since that day [...] |
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