17,604 source-backed business facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 176 of 177.
“over £120m in regeneration funding”
“The Joy of Coffee: The Essential Guide to Buying, Brewing and Enjoying (Chapters Publishing Ltd 1995)”
“For the first full week of the state of emergency the station was off a air”
“over 18 per cent unemployment in its worst wards”
“He joined Marvel comic books at the age of 16, more than 30 years ago.”
“Radio Enga ... was off air for more than 12 months”
“few of the 40,000 jobs attracted to Docklands, for instance, went to local people”
“all 72 of Frank Zappa's original recordings are now being eleased on CD.”
“the staff at Radio Enga collected their pay each fortnight for more than a year”
“11 per cent less in real terms”
“the Papua New Guinea government has approved a comprehensive two year assistance and training package”
“up to half the men are unemployed”
“valued at more than $1 million”
“McDonald’s has a 100 per cent turnover in London”
“The Post Courier, which now has about 30% local ownership, has a national daily rival, the New Guinea News owned by a Papua New Guinean businessman Mr. John Haldy (?).”
“warehouse work at £3.60 an hour”
“Since 1980 there's also been a quality weekly, The Times Of Papua New Guinea.”
“I have more than 13,000 people on my database.”
“I've been the editor now for about eight years and I find it very, very free.”
“I began by holding it every Monday from 6pm to 7.30pm.”
“We buy from you all our flour, rice and sugar”
“I’ve cut it down to once a month.”
“Murray Ritchie, the Scottish political editor of the Herald, charts the start of the breakdown in his diary of last year’s Scottish election, Scotland Reclaimed (Saltire Society, £10.99).”
“close to 60 per cent of British trade is with the rest of the union; that over three million British jobs depend on it;”
“News at Ten dates back to 1967”
“any film not suitable for children could not begin before the 9pm watershed”
“Repositioning ITV’s Early News at 6.30 has dislodged a lot of regional programmes that had gone out at that time”
“In May, the ITC will give its own verdict on whether the ITV companies have met the quality criteria laid down when it permitted them to shift News at Ten”
“the ITC, with commercial realism, has dispensed with local flavour at the board level and allowed the ITV ownership to group into three big chunks: Granada, United and Carlton”
“the 13 ITV regions themselves, the celebrated “map””
“...now Border finds itself the subject of a hostile takeover bid from Scottish Radio Holdings, and the object of sudden interest to several other prowlers in the corporate jungle.”
“Lee Silver, genetics professor at Princeton University and author of Remaking Eden, implies that we cannot improve on the free market and that, if we follow the market, then we will have designer babies, because people will want to invest …”
“I can accept that BMW may have inherited these problems when it took over Rover from British Aerospace back in January 1994.”
“But, within Europe, the worst performer – by a margin of about 40 per cent – was Rover.”
“The effect? Jaguar will be tripling sales and is making good profits.”
“The Nissan plant in Sunderland is right at the top of the European league in productivity and quality.”
“Ford’s Bill Hayden (to whom Britain owes an under-recognised debt) saw the Jaguar factory for the first time after Ford’s acquisition, he observed that there was nothing wrong with it that a good bulldozer would not put right. But thanks t…”
“Ford put Jaguar right. With a sustained commitment of management and technical support, as well as money, Ford sorted out the old Jaguar factory at Brown’s Lane, launched the brilliantly successful S-type at Castle Bromwich in Birmingham a…”
“his 129 design consultants”
“The plant employed 300 people”
“Around 10,000 US firms, ranging from global giants like United Airlines to small care agencies, are owned by their employees”
“Around nine million US citizens are employee-owners”
“Eircom, the privatised state telecommunication company has transferred 15 per cent of its stock to employees”
“There are, at the last count, more than 187,000 different charities in this country, with a combined turnover of more than £16 billion, and assets of more than £35 billion.”
“But on 21 February, the day after Professor Pennington delivered his warning, the first paragraph of its second leader read: ... As farm incomes plummet, and young people leave the land, a tragedy is unfolding.”
“workers’ incomes having fallen by 60 per cent in the past five years to their lowest level for 30 years.”
“And they only number 16”
“All of the familiar indicators are rising in Edinburgh: house prices are soaring, new restaurants are opening at the rate of one a week, unemployment is diving and cranes swing over the rooftops as building works gobble up every spare site.”
“On Monday of this week, Dawson International announced that it was selling Pringle of Scotland to the Fang Brothers of Hong Kong for a price somewhere between these figures.”
“Half the workforce will go, with 140 losing their jobs and 60 being transferred to another company.”
“Five years ago, 2,000 Borderers worked for Pringle, the most famous knitwear brand in the world. Now it will be only 200.”
“In Hawick and Galashiels, 184 years of human investment has gone into making Pringle a recognisable name virtually everywhere.”
“In the past three years, more than 3,000 jobs have been lost out of a working population of only 64,000 in an area where 106,000 people live.”
“The most striking recent example was Viasystems, a US-based electronics company which abruptly decided to close its Selkirk factory with the loss of 1,000 jobs.”
“and even five-star hotel rooms in the most popular resorts, like Phuket, cost only 3,000 baht a night.”
“One consolation is that his movie is doing lousy business – it only took £2.3 million in its first week.”
“has pledged £95,000 to promote and improve Border walks and pathways”
“youth hostel staff were facing pay cuts – of up to 25 per cent”
“In 1999, the SYHA had 35,556 fewer visitors than during the previous year”
“the 72 SYHA properties are stunning”
“With 70 per cent of its visitors usually coming from overseas”
“£17.99”
“Prices have slowly been ratcheted down from 22p a litre a year ago to as low as 15p a litre now.”
“Further, an inheritance of £5,000 more than doubles the chances that a young person will start his or her own company.”
“the 30th annual gathering of the rich and the influential.”
“80 per cent of the world economy”
“But the street massage business began in London as recently as June, with only a couple of people offering the service.”
“the overall score for quality of service by catering staff will be at least 88 per cent”
“we will achieve 80 per cent of the target indicators”
“It made perfect sense 30 years ago.”
“men in full-time employment had increased the time spent with their children from ten minutes a day in 1975 to 54 minutes a day in 1995”
“prompting the Manila business community to warn that they expect results within 100 days, neatly coinciding with publication of the next quarterly opinion polls.”
“He became chairman of a crony-owned gambling company (BW Resources) last year, just as Estrada was trying to deflect a securities’ commission inquiry into its share dealings.”
“Another ex-Marcos crony, Lucio Tan, who owns the ailing Philippine Airlines (PAL), and whose wealth is said to exceed $3 billion”
“Jose Pardo, who was a well-regarded trade secretary, has been appointed finance secretary, prompting the Manila business community to warn that they expect results within 100 days”
“Crow claims a 'need' for 1.1 million new houses by 2016, based on government projections.”
“Recently released statistics show that the Scottish tourist industry is currently unable to fill a staggering 16,000 job vacancies. This represents just under 10 per cent of the total workforce of Scotland’s largest and potentially most dy…”
“This level of unfilled vacancies is all the more startling when seen against a background of the 140,000 jobless total for Scotland in 1999.”
“the entire Scottish sector actually declined in 1999 by 6 per cent, or £159 million.”
“projections show an even sharper decline of 7 per cent on the way for this year.”
“In northern England, where too many new houses have been built and over-supply has pushed down prices, it’s reported that you can buy a home in the pub for £250 in cash (Salford), or buy a house from the council for a pound (Newcastle).”
“The oil and petrochemical companies have absorbed many of the new managerial practices, raised capital on international markets and agreed a series of multi- billion-dollar joint ventures”
“The island is now owned by the Eigg Heritage Trust which is 50 per cent resident, 25 per cent Scottish Wildlife Trust and 25 per cent Highland Regional Council.”
“‘The Isles of the West’, Canongate, £9.99”
“Yields were down, as expected; wheat by 56 per cent.”
“yields have been slightly down (8 per cent for wheat)”
“an intensively reared chicken can profitably be retailed for £2.25/kg while an organic one is often still loss-making at three times the price.”
“public opinion running at four to one against”
“profits last year were around £420 million”
“ITC offered eight companies renewals until 2009”
“annual payments cut from £50.5 million to £20 million; Yorkshire TV, down from £52 million to £35 million; and Carlton, which will pay £72 million instead of £81.5 million. Lower down the ITV food-chain, HTV, which covers Wales and the wes…”
““The New Politics: Catholic social teaching for the 21st century” edited by Paul Vallely is published this month by SCM Press (£14.95)”
“The mill had the most modern Swiss looms, making industrial uniforms for several airlines and Marks and Spencer.”
“Since then, the first mass-market pornography for women has sold over two and a half million copies.”
“Rowan Pelling, the editor of the Erotic Review, a high-brow magazine which is now selling 25,000 copies, thinks...”
“This steamy quote is embedded deep in The Name of an Angel, the 100th novel published by Black Lace Books.”
“It’s five years since Virgin Publishing launched its sexually charged imprint...”
“after 81 years in South Africa”
“Brazil’s petrol giant Petrobras, for example, is battling with local tax authorities at the moment, because it routes 75 per cent of its fuel and lubricant via the Caymans: “intelligent strategy to reduce the financial costs of its transac…”
“Over half of Australia’s top 200 companies are thought to use the offshore centres of Vanuatu and the Cook Islands as part of their tax-minimisation strategies.”
