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Jeff 11/02/01 * Petrol companies face a row with the Government over their refusal to pass on to motorists tax cuts on environmentally friendly fuel - see Oil Industry 11/02/01 * Profile on Michael Leahy, the union chief facing the Corus axeman - see Leahy, Michael 11/02/01 * Schools and their children are increasingly targeted by corporate Britain as companies take over a variety of functions, including hiring teachers - see Education 11/02/01 * British generator International Power is planning to cash in on the Californian energy crisis by building power stations there and reaping rewards from high prices 11/02/01 N 1 1>3 * EDS, the world's biggest computer services company, is understood to be considering a bid of more than £3bn for Sema, the troubled Anglo-French software firm 11/02/01 N 1 1>7 * The battle to turn Britain into Europe's top place to do ebusiness has taken a dramatic turn as Oftel looks at ordering BT to widen rivals' access to its network 11/02/01 N 1 1>2 * Cut workers' hours, not jobs, unions urge steelmakers, Corus 11/02/01 N 2 2>6 * Home cleaning services are so popular that Unilever has decided to muscle in with Myhome which has proved a success 11/02/01 N 2 2>6 Photograph * How dotcoms drowned in a tide of hype and hope 11/02/01 N 6>7 1>8 Photographs * A look at how the culture clash between Whitehall and the software providers has led to a string of expensive failures - see Information Technology 18/02/01 * Profile on Karan Bilimoria, managing director of Cobra Beer - see Bilimoria, Karan 18/02/01 * Shipbuilder Cammell Laird and new cruise line Luxus have applied for aid from the French government to seal a $500 contract for new ships 18/02/01 N 1 1>7 Photograph * Allied Domecq's Russian vodka coup is under threat 18/02/01 N 2 7 * The Welsh Assembly's chief legal officer believes Corus' plans to cut 2,500 jobs could be challenged under European Law 18/02/01 N 2 2>6 Photograph * A look at how the culture clash between Whitehall and the software providers has led to a string of expensive failures 18/02/01 N 5 1>8 Photographs * Deaths of construction workers are 'spiralling out of control' as building companies slash staffing numbers in a bid to meet tight margins - see Deaths 25/02/01 * Dissident shareholders of De Beers are seeking to thwart Anglo American's £12bn takeover of the diamond cartel by building up a blocking stake 25/02/01 N 1 1>2 * Why the firms that were meant to bring e-commerce to your doorstep failed to deliver 25/02/01 N 5 1>8 Photographs * Profile on Nicky Oppenheimer, De Beers' new chief - see Oppenheimer, Nicky 04/03/01 * Shareholders at ITN are split over proposals to float the television news provider on the stock market this year - see Media 04/03/01 * They wax lyrical about third-generation mobile technology - but where is this must-have service? - see Telecommunications 04/03/01 * The productivity gap between Britain and the US has widened dramatically since New Labour came to power, despite numerous Government efforts to close it 04/03/01 N 1 5>7 * They wax lyrical about third-generation mobile technology - OBSERVER INDEX: JAN-DEC 2001 35 but where is this must-have service? 04/03/01 N 11 1>6 Cartoon * Police are to be called in to the collapsed Ravenhead glassware company following the discovery of financial irregularities 04/03/01 N 2 7 * RJB Mining will this week unveil its strategy to become a major national property player 04/03/01 N 2 2>6 Photograph * Vodafone eyes BT's Cegetel stake 04/03/01 N 2 2>6 * UK icons bite the dust as consumers shop in a world without frontiers - see Consumerism 11/03/01 * Yahoo is now valued at a tenth of the $100bn it was worth at the height of the dotcom boom 11/03/01 N 11 1>6 Photographs * Rival bid means the Gloucho Club is unlikely to go to property developer Benjamin Fry 11/03/01 N 2 2>6 Photographs * Angry institutions will tell Vallance and Bonfield they must quit BT to secure rescue rights cash 18/03/01 N 1 1>7 * Ondigital net plan is in disarray 18/03/01 N 1 5>8 * Steelmaker Corus has secretly thrown out union proposals to save thousands of jobs and keep open threatened UK plants 18/03/01 N 1 `>5 Photograph * Virgin boss Richard Branson has hired a banker who was at the centre of the disastrous Baring collapse to advise his multimillion pound business empire 18/03/01 N 1 1>4 Photograph * Defence contractor BAE says it will close down shipyards if Ministers don't promise to give it the orders it wants 18/03/01 N 3 1>5 Photographs * Insurer Prudential will work hard to sell its £15bn acquisition of American General 18/03/01 N 6 1>8 Photograph * Profit potential is making global giants take notice of the 4 billion poor people they have long ignored 18/03/01 N 8 1>8 Photographs * Cherie Booth, the barrister wife of the Prime Minister, has thrown a lifeline to last-ditch attempts by unions to save 6,000 jobs threatened by steelmaker Corus - see Booth, Cherie 25/03/01 * Embattled British Telecom's £10bn rescue plan 25/03/01 N 1 1>3 * Investors in Royal & SunAlliance may be asked to bail out a subsidiary of the insurer which has been hit with a £700m bill for guaranteed annuity rates 25/03/01 N 2 2>6 * Plans by Canary Wharf to develop up to 8m sq ft of offices in east London could spell new financial disaster for the once bankrupt firm 25/03/01 N 2 2>4 Photograph * Terry Benson, chief executive of recruitment firm Michael Page, is in line for a £11m windfall when the company floats next week 25/03/01 N 2 7 * UK Defence group BAE Systems has had exploratory talks with US aerospace company Honeywell about buying parts of its avionics business 25/03/01 N 2 2>6 * 10 years in the life of British Telecom 25/03/01 N 4 1>8 Graph * Big drugs firms are to be targeted by animal rights campaigners protesting against Huntingdon Life Sciences, the drug testing company - see Animals 01/04/01 * Cash-strapped BT wants to team up with Vodafone in a move which would see the two companies build their next-generation mobile networks together 01/04/01 N 1 5>8 * Hopes of a £3.5bn cash injection for Compass Group from the sale of 250 hotels are set to be dashed 01/04/01 N 2 4>7 * How union hopes for a retraining lifeline were raised, then dashed, by the steelmaker Corus 01/04/01 N 4 1>5
* Internet mogul Cliff Standford has great hopes for his investment group's all-girl pop band Girls@Play 01/04/01 N 6 1>8 Photograph * The European Investment Bank may offer long-term loans to beleaguered telecom companies struggling to cover the crippling costs of third-generation mobile phone networks - see European Union 08/04/01 * The European Investment Bank, the EU's lending arm, may offer long-term loans to beleaguered telecom companies struggling to cover the crippling costs of mobile phone networks - see European Union 08/04/01 * British Telecom is close to selling $2bn of real estate to land Securities in a bid to reduce its £30bn debt 08/04/01 N 1 1>3 * Leisure entrepreneur Robert Breare is struggling to meet a 12day deadline to find the cash to buy Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries 08/04/01 N 2 5>7 * BP Amoco's pension fund is selling a 10-acre Mayfair estate for up to £330m - see Property 15/04/01 * Venture capital firm Alchemy has emerged as a bidder for shipbuilder Cammell Laird, which went into receivership 15/04/01 N 1 1>4 * Debt-laden BT is preparing for a crunch meeting with the Government over how it will finance its next generation of mobile services and the expansion of broadband networks 15/04/01 N 2 2>4 * Another of Britain's great shipbuilding names, Cammell Laird, faces closure again despite a healthy order book 15/04/01 N 5 1>5 Photographs * BP Amoco faces a tough AGM 15/04/01 N 5 1>4 * Former high-flier Baltimore Technologies is plotting a comeback 15/04/01 N 6 1>8 Photographs, graph * David Earnshaw has more reason than most to smile at the climbdown by the world's most powerful pharmaceutical companies - see International Affairs: Africa 22/04/01 * Serious technical problems are forcing the UK mobile phone networks to delay, for up to a year, the commercial launch of the crucial next generation wireless internet service - see Telecommunications 22/04/01 * The Pretoria Court Case: Why the pharmas gave way, and why South Africa's joy may be short lived - see International Affairs: Africa 22/04/01 * A break-up of HMV Media, the record shops-to-bookstore chain whose flagship stores are in London's Oxford Street, will be quashed when the debt-ridden group agrees new profit targets 22/04/01 N 1 4>6 Photograph * British drugs giant Glaxo-SmithKline is considering fresh talks about a £150bn merger with US rival American Home Products to create the world's biggest pharmaceuticals company 22/04/01 N 1 1>3 * Serious technical problems are forcing the UK mobile phone networks to delay, for up to a year, the commercial launch of the crucial next generation wireless internet service 22/04/01 N 1 1>7 * Senior executives of De Beers are flying to South Africa this weekend in a last-ditch attempt to salvage the diamond giant's £12bn buy-out of the country's Oppenheimer dynasty 22/04/01 N 2 5>7 * Steel workers at plants threatened with redundancy by Corus are to be balloted on strike action 22/04/01 N 2 2>6 * Climbdown will not dent health giants' power, says Paul Farrelly 22/04/01 N 3 4>8 * As venture capitalists vanish, business angels have become a vital cog of entrepreneurial culture, says Faisal Islam, but dying OBSERVER INDEX: JAN-DEC 2001 36 dotcoms need not apply 22/04/01 N 6 1>8 Photographs * Profile on Erkki Liikanen, Europe's IT supremo who wants to dispel notions of hidebound bureaucracy - see Liikanen, Erkki 29/04/01 * A central part of BT's massive restructuring programme - seen by chief executive Sir Peter Bonfield as vital to restoring the company's flagging fortunes 29/04/01 N 1 1>3 * A huge squeeze on the profits of corporate Britain is piling on pressure for further interest rate cuts 29/04/01 N 1 5>8 * Scottish Power is considering a move to bolster its American West Coast operations by swooping on Oregon's Portland General in a deal that could total $3bn 29/04/01 N 1 1>4 * Directors of shipbuilder Cammell Laird are planning to meet Jon Moulton, head of venture capital firm Alchemy Partners, to discuss buying the company out of receivership 29/04/01 N 2 2>6 * The gloom hanging over workers in Scotland's 'Silicon Glen's is set to deepen with a further rash of bad news in the next few weeks 29/04/01 N 2 2>4 * Jamie Doward talks to Sir Christopher Bland who will need his legendary toughness to turn around BT 29/04/01 N 4 1>8 Photograph * Stephen Byers, the DTI boss has shown he can manage a crisis, but he will be sorely tested in the coming weeks 29/04/01 N 5 1>6 Photograph * A fresh attempt to crack down on cartels, rogue traders and anti-competitive companies will be the centrepiece of Labour's election manifesto plans for business 06/05/01 N 1 1>7 * Debt-laden cable TV company NTL is to make more than 3,000 staff redundant this year 06/05/01 N 1 1>3 * Sotheby's, the beleaguered auctioneer is to vacate its historic Bond Street headquarters in a desperate attempt to raise capital 06/05/01 N 1 4>6 Photograph * BT is to increase its efforts to find buyers for its remaining Asian mobile phone divisions and also sell off operations in Canada and New Zealand 06/05/01 N 2 1>3 * Crunch time has come for media giant, NTL 06/05/01 N 4 1>6 Photographs, graph * The events that brought mighty Christie's and Sotheby's to their knees 06/05/01 N 5 1>8 Photographs, graph * Travel firm EBookers has defied internet orthodoxy 06/05/01 N 7 1>6 Photograph, graph * Cable & Wireless will commit itself to an aggressive acquisition strategy to use up its £7bn cash pile 13/05/01 * Las Vegas, the world's gambling capital, is poised to enter the online betting sector for the first time in a move which will send shudders through European internet gaming firms - see Gambling 13/05/01 * Embattled BT chief executive Sir Peter Bonfield could earn £3m this year, according to the small print in his contract agreed just days after new chairman Sir Christopher Bland took the reins 13/05/01 N 1 1>3 Photograph * Labour has wooed business - but the relationship is fragile 13/05/01 N 3 1>8 Photographs * The debt-ridden giant BT, is to cut its losses and focus on the domestic phone market 13/05/01 N 4 1>5 Photograph, graph * Sotheby's in $40m bid to keep staff 20/05/01 N 1 1>3 * British technology company First Mercantile has signed its first major deal, worth £250,000, to provide an IT system to payment systems specialist DataCash 20/05/01 N 2 1>4 * Two of this country's most powerful porn barons are battling to
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