The Observer index, January-December 2001 ... - Microform

* 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
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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