17,604 source-backed business facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 175 of 177.
“ten years after the supply crisis of 1991”
“an hour”
“four-inch heels”
“old at 40”
“three hair dyes available”
“Five years ago”
“Ten years ago”
“The society was set up in the early 1980s by a group of good-natured purists...”
“buying up companies in the UK and on the Continent at the rate of one a month”
“The establishment of the first Co-operative Retail Society in 1844 has been described as one of the 20 greatest business decisions ever made.”
“We will cash personal cheques and delay presentation for up to a month.”
“splendid 540-berth marina development”
“10,000 square feet”
“The Institute of Employment Rights estimates that about 250,000 employees are tested regularly at work”
“Workplaces in the US have become giant public conveniences awash with urine samples: 400 of the Fortune 500 companies take the piss from their staff”
“about half the workforce is routinely tested.”
“Until last week, that is, when something snapped in John Megson, a distinguished banker who took early retirement five years ago and became chief executive of the Hartlepool Enterprise Agency.”
“The writer’s Localisation: a global manifesto is published by Earthscan (£10.99)”
“George Walden’s The New Elite: making a career in the masses is published by Allen Lane (£18.99)”
“for 15 years, worked for one of the 1970s path-breakers, the Institute for Economic Affairs”
“It would take someone almost a year, working full-time, to complete the paperwork to set up a one-man sewing business in Peru (and the legal costs would be 31 times the monthly minimum wage).”
“And it would take five years of bureaucratic wrangling, including 77 administrative steps in 31 government offices, to get legal authorisation to build a house in Egypt.”
“a 12- to 14-hour day is not uncommon”
“a million young women”
“picks up that £6m annual taxi bill.”
“more than a million sales on Sundays during the Seventies and on the 1 May labour holiday.”
“A survey by the World Bank shows that 85 per cent of businesses in Johannesburg want to stay there.”
“In 1989, it had 30 branches with sales of £28.5m.”
“When Waterstone sold out to his old employer WH Smith in 1993, his chain had grown into the UK’s largest specialised book retailer with a turnover of £100m – and, by 1997, it held 11 per cent of the total book market.”
“for a book to be deemed a “Waterstone’s Original”, the publisher now had to pay at least £1,000.”
“Waterstone’s would always buy in at least 1,000 copies.”
“just over 19 million ounces”
“12.5 per cent shareholding in Papua’s Grasberg mine, plus a further 40 per cent share in its expansion”
“85 million ounces”
“32 million tonnes”
“16,000 tonnes of ore a day”
“between 200,000 and 300,000 tonnes of ore a day”
“200-tonne trucks”
“2.6 million-hectare area”
“Ned was on his second trip to pick up a cargo of ready-made clothes for a British retailer.”
“It’s not the dead body that bothers me. That whole cargo had to be condemned. That was half a million pounds’ worth.”
“The Wildest Dream: the biography of George Mallory by Peter and Leni Gillman has just been published by Headline, £18.99”
“If everything goes according to glitzy plan, by the autumn of 2002, the ladies of Edinburgh will have their own Harvey Nicks (96,000 square feet of it, 40 per cent bigger than the one in Leeds).”
“Harvey Nichols announced that it was thinking of setting out its stall on St Andrew Square, next door to William Chambers’s 1771 neoclassical masterpiece that is now Royal Bank of Scotland’s headquarters.”
“‘the most important outside London in the UK shopping super league’ with an annual retail spend of £2.5bn a year”
“its hotels are the busiest in Britain”
“and it is ranked number two in the UK behind London as a location for corporations to invest or recruit”
“Unemployment is at a 20-year low”
“Not since a brief period in the late 1940s has Glasgow enjoyed the kind of economic renaissance it is currently experiencing”
“96,000 square feet of it, 40 per cent bigger than the one in Leeds”
“Professor Jay Conger is currently working on his tenth book on the subject of leadership”
“I am happy to pay £200 a ticket.”
“At last year’s tournament, Pete Sampras earned £455,000 for playing 21 sets of tennis – that’s £21,000 a set.”
“£14.99”
“New Social Democracy (Blackwell, £12.99)”
“In just three weeks, more than 300 City workers have been caught without any ticket whatsoever at Cannon Street and Victoria stations.”
“Celia Brayfield’s Heartswap is published by Little, Brown (£16.99)”
“Glasgow has been dealt another hammer blow on the jobs front, with confirmation of 4,600 redundancies at the heart of the city’s economy.”
“Onyx, Serco, MORI, Nord Anglia Education plc and many other commercial beneficiaries of privatisation and council contracts are corporate sponsors.”
“plus the millions he channels into the trust he set up in 1996.”
“within weeks of the sale of Rover, the tyre manufacturer at Fort Dunlop in Birmingham announced 600 redundancies.”
“The Nissan plant in Sunderland, where 2,000 direct jobs and thousands of others could be lost if the manufacture of the Micra is shifted to France or Spain in 2003, is the most efficient car producer in Europe.”
“one-third of BMW’s losses were caused by the high pound.”
“Now we have the first evidence, in a study by Ernst & Young accountants, that Britain’s market share of new inward investment projects in Europe has slipped back as France has jumped up the queue.”
“five new bars will soon have opened in the past 18 months alone.”
“not one but two “cheque cashing” businesses have opened up”
“The seven founder members of the RHS who met in Hatchards in 1804 were dedicated to “the improvement of horticulture”.”
“he won half a dozen caps as a flank forward for Scotland.”
“At 60, his immense strength is leaking away.”
“caring about 1,000 acres of Scotland.”
“In the next five years, the number of working farms in Scotland will fall by a further 8 per cent. Of those left, 52 per cent, such as Armstrong’s farm, have no successor in place. In the Scottish Borders, the average age of farmers is 58,…”
“On 1 May, Trott wrote to every Standard Life policyholder urging them to vote against demutualisation and to attend a special general meeting to be held in Edinburgh on 27 June to express their views on the subject.”
“On 6 May, Don Cruickshank, the current chairman of the Stock Exchange who will soon direct the merger with the Frankfurt Exchange, commented:”
“With 4,500 shops located across Britain, and 148,000 staff, it is a sleeping giant that could easily begin to market itself as a genuine alternative – not only to the supermarket chains, but also, with its banking and insurance arms, to th…”
“Another 1,400 Scots are putting on headsets”
“bringing the number of call‑centre jobs to more than 30,000.”
“set up Direct Line’s banking arm in Glasgow with 600 jobs”
“followed by 1,200 jobs at the Standard Life Bank in Edinburgh”
“and now 1,400-and-rising at IF”
“I’ve been in banking for 30 years”
“It now sells an emaciated 76,000 copies a week, down from the legendary quarter of a million sales during the punk era, although its “actual readership” of 455,000 suggests that it is still a potent force.”
“John Casablancas, 47”
“The news that Ananova’s “parent” company, the Press Association, is planning to sell their creation off will put a multimillion-pound price on her head.”
“Lara Croft has been credited with making tens of millions of pounds for her creators, the software house Eidos”
“One huge move was to buy Coach USA, the American bus fleet, for £770m last year. It also acquired £400m in Coach debt, too.”
“Stagecoach blossomed from a Tayside curiosity into a truly international operation, with 95 per cent of its revenues outside of Scotland.”
“I recall Fisher‑Bendix moving its plant – after being bailed out by the British taxpayer – to Spain nearly 30 years ago, exporting “British” jobs.”
“In Longbridge, however, 3,000 redundancies would mean up to 15,000 more among suppliers and distributors.”
“Despite its seven automotive industry teams.”
“With the debt stripped out, the new association will be able to raise £1.6bn for a city-wide renovation programme that will create 3,500 new jobs.”
“It appears that the latter, in his stewardship of the Ford Motor Company, has decreed that there is "overcapacity" for volume car production in Europe. Inevitably, the last major car plant for Ford in the United Kingdom – Dagenham – has be…”
“This devastating news comes hard on the heels of the threat to Longbridge. In both cases, it seems to be a case of "when" rather than "if".”
“I recall Fisher-Bendix moving its plant – after being bailed out by the British taxpayer – to Spain nearly 30 years ago, exporting "British" jobs.”
“Second, the government has a stake in the necessary redevelopment of the plant, and the new adjacent outsourcing business park.”
“Now, according to Mintel, 50 per cent of holidays are self-planned.”
“With the rise in turnstile prices and the substantial upfront costs of season tickets, the middle classes are now coming in numbers.”
“it has emerged that a German yard has managed to undercut the Govan price by a huge margin, perhaps as much as 50 per cent.”
“Louise, now 28, works with him in the PR firm.”
“one million jobs are out there, just waiting for Britain’s 1.1 million job- seekers to pick off the shelf”
“fewer than 500 of the people trained with SRB money in the past five years have found themselves jobs”
