17,604 source-backed business facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 174 of 177.
“Gordon Ramsay Holdings filed accounts showing that the TV chef and Chris Hutcheson, his father-in-law and business partner, were forced to inject £5m to keep the business running.”
“The 2006 Women in Media symposium was held in Fiji”
“energy consumption can be cut in half in existing homes and industry”
“pre-tax profits tumbled 87 per cent from £3.05m in 2007 to £383,325.”
“three prominent leaders in the Pacific media talk about the conference objectives, discussions and resulting plans of action.”
“and by 90 per cent in new ones, using technologies already on the market.”
“Ramsay has rampantly expanded his business, almost doubling the number of restaurants to 10 during for the 12 months to 31 August.”
“Many studies show that industrialised countries could cut their energy use to a third of current levels, without any cost to rising standards of living.”
“with a 51 per cent stake in Tante Marie in Surrey.”
“will be published by Penguin in February (£6.99)”
“Prices start at £79 but for a shirt that ticks all the boxes and is made to fit you perfectly whether you have long arms, a short neck or any other oddities, it’s well worth it.”
“the shrewd Feeney, who made his then £1bn fortune from duty free shops in Far Eastern airports, was actually backing the “ballot box” wing of the Republican movement”
“CARPHONE Warehouse said yesterday it will offer contracts from Vodafone from next week in its 820 stores”
“without their help, Cornwall will be cut off for six months.”
“CARPHONE Warehouse said yesterday it will offer contracts from Vodafone from next week in its 820 stores, three years after Vodafone pulled its mobile phone products from the retailer”
“British Rail was split into around a hundred parts.”
“like-for-like sales were up 5.2 per cent at Greene King’s managed pubs in the first eight weeks of the new financial year”
“run out between 2003 and 2012.”
“with its own-brand beer volumes up 12.1 per cent”
“20- year terms”
“its full-year retail like-for-like sales rose 1.7 per cent to £942.3m”
“20 years.”
“it snapped up 11 pubs from heavily indebted pub group Punch Taverns”
“The Advertising Standards Authority advised copywriters to avoid religious references after an ad for Diesel jeans – which showed nuns in blue denim under their habits – provoked the highest number of complaints this year.”
“Speed is crucial for the deal because the German carrier can walk away if it does not get a green light by 31 July — much earlier than the formal deadline the Commission set earlier this week when it extended its review of the acquisition.”
“each paying up to £800 plus VAT”
“Commission spokesman Jonathan Todd said: “It is possible. But it is on the condition that Lufthansa comes up with satisfactory remedies within the next few days, otherwise the deadline is 6 November.””
“Nearly 300 delegates convened for the 9am start.”
“It said earlier this week it was concerned about a lack of competition on routes from Vienna to Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Cologne, Zurich, Geneva and Brussels if the deal went through.”
“six million and counting”
“Diageo’s announcement of a series of restructuring initiatives across its operations – which are to drive annual cost savings of £40m by 2012 – led Goldman Sachs to update its estimates and rate the stock a “buy”.”
“around a quarter of the companies”
“Execution Securities believes that Pearson is the most defensive stock in the European media sector and has it as a “top pick”. It expects earning upgrades during the rest of the year, and also said the company may lift full year guidance …”
“past 12 months”
“three years after Vodafone pulled its mobile phone products from the retailer”
“5.20pm”
“Vodafone switched to an exclusive deal with Carphone rival Phones4U in 2006”
“The period 2000-2002”
“Vodafone customers were able to upgrade phones and purchase pay-as-you-go handsets at Carphone Warehouse, but not to sign Vodafone contracts”
“more than 50 other public initiatives and charities”
“Vodafone also said yesterday it was extending its partnership with Phones4U to a multi-year agreement covering both mobile phone and mobile broadband connections”
“producing, in 1955, the first issue of a magazine”
“The company said it now would have a total of 1,650 Vodafone, Carphone Warehouse and Phones4U stores offering Vodafone contracts”
“We had only £60 when we started”
“its UK contract churn of customers leaving is now over 20 per cent”
“By the end of three months, we had 10,000 members”
“Emma Hawkins-Haile has set up a new financial executive search firm covering senior asset management, board, risk management and trading positions.”
“by the end of six months, we had about 500,000”
“Prior to this, she set up the risk practice at New Millennium Group and held positions as a director in investment banking at CTPartners and a markets consultant at Heidrick and Struggles.”
“Happy Rain employs five people to make waistcoats on low-tech sewing machines.”
“Dis-Moi-Tout has six employees who produce flared trousers for women.”
“two workshops have survived”
“Over the past few years, 700 branded coffee shops have opened in the UK, a figure that is expected to rise to 1,866 by the end of 2001.”
“Costa Coffee, the UK’s largest chain, expects to have 240 shops by the new year, bringing in around £50m.”
“Starbucks wants 300 shops by 2003, and has full-time staff searching out new sites.”
“Coffee Republic has 64, Aroma has 37, Cafe Nero has 38 . . . and counting.”
“That’ll be £1.40, please.”
“Staff at Costa Coffee begin on £4 an hour, and 75 per cent of them are part-time. Starbucks pays new staff £4.25 an hour, while Coffee Republic’s London-based baristas are paid £4.50 an hour, with a generous 25p increase after “tests” are …”
“According to the market strategists Alegra, 2.9 million cups of espresso-based branded coffee are served in the UK each week, using between 160 million and 200 million premium disposable cups in 1999.”
“Eco-warrior Tony saved 10p.”
“Staff at Costa Coffee begin on £4 an hour, and 75 per cent of them are part-time.”
“Starbucks pays new staff £4.25 an hour, while Coffee Republic’s London-based baristas are paid £4.50 an hour, with a generous 25p increase after “tests” are passed.”
“According to the market strategists Alegra, 2.9 million cups of espresso-based branded coffee are served in the UK each week”
“using between 160 million and 200 million premium disposable cups in 1999.”
“It also offers money off a drink if you bring your own receptacle.”
“150,000 copies were sold in the US alone”
“amassed a $15m fortune”
“On the back of a deep consumer suspicion of GM foods, and post BSE, organic farming in Britain has grown eightfold in three years, and is about to hit £1bn a year.”
“At this rate, a fifth of all the food we buy will be organic by 2005.”
“Britain makes up around a quarter of global arms exports.”
“Just over three years ago, David Gorman was the manufacturing manager of a large paper company, earning £50,000 a year.”
“Business operates at internet speed. US business is running out of patience with the pace of government decisions.”
“Philip Kerr’s novel The Shot is published by Orion (£6.99)”
“The house was called La Guerida when Joe Kennedy bought it for $100,000 back in the early 1930s.”
“Fines – which may be up to 10 per cent of group turnover for up to three years – are paid by the shareholders, not by the executives who concocted the anti-competition schemes.”
“Given that the probability of being sued is less than 100 per cent, and that the probability that the complainant will prevail is also less than 100 per cent, it pays for a potential conspirator or monopolist to chance paying such damages …”
“In the US, damages are trebled, so that a violator of the law might indeed lose a great deal if he is found to have illegally injured a competitor.”
“Just as this will free burglars and muggers to pursue their trade after a day’s rest and three square meals at the government’s expense, so would this regime leave executives jailed for price fixing free to meet all their social and dinner…”
“61 partners in City law firms now scrape by on salaries of £1m or more.”
“Twelve years ago, he pocketed a £1m fee from Hong Kong businessmen – reputedly the first seven-figure brief for a British barrister in legal history.”
“The Durham Cobbler (est 1854)”
“Martin’s business (which has halved since then)”
“a fee of £35 per hour per head would be the going rate for a surveillance job of that kind in Cuba.”
“Mike Nahmad is described as the head of Genpower, the only private venture in Cuba wholly owned by foreign interests”
“needed to find 3,750 bright cookies to fill this year’s vacancies”
“around one in three of the recruiters visiting Oxbridge this autumn will be either a bank or a consultancy”
“one in four becomes a consultant, banker or accountant in the City”
“almost two-thirds of ex-Oxbridge lawyers choose to work for just ten law firms – all in the City”
“around one in three PPE graduates headed straight for the City last year”
“Yet, in reality, there was no price competition in the industry and, without coal, we would be dependent on gas from overseas within 20 years.”
“Since 1981, according to a study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the country’s 20 largest cities have lost more than 200,000 jobs, while the rest of Britain gained 1.7 million.”
“the hardback edition appeared in October 1998.”
“About 150 miles away, HarperCollins’s west London office was also being raided and searched, but no arrests were made.”
“The paperback, due to appear two months later, was put on the back-burner.”
“The Irish War, published in paperback by HarperCollins (£7.99), is on the bestseller lists in Ireland”
“perhaps as old as 50”
“two-roomed wooden house”
“five minutes”
“Ten questions for your man”
“twice or four times a year”
