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

Haymarket has produced record profits 04/11/01 N 2 7>8
Photograph
* Plans by Scottish Power to sell its water subsidiary, Southern
Water, for £1.5bn are thought to be on the verge of collapse
04/11/01 N 2 1>2
* Fur flies over fat cat pay 04/11/01 N 3 1>8 Illustration
* One of the City's best known feuds has been reignited at
Belgo, the mussels-and-chips restaurant chain 04/11/01 N 5 1>8
Photographs
* Plastic surgeons are working around the clock to save six
steelworkers horrifically burnt in the blast at Corus's Port Talbot
plant - see Disasters 11/11/01
* Hopes that the management of Sunday Business, the financial
newspaper owned by the Barclay brothers, might organise a buyout
are fading 11/11/01 N 1 6>8
* The case brought by the US Department of Justice against
auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's, will pit two former chief
executives against their respective chairmen 11/11/01 N 1 3>5
Photograph
* Thomson Corporation, the giant Canadian company that sold
the Times and Sunday Times to Rupert Murdoch in 1981, is
preparing a $10bn bid for the business empire of Michael
Bloomberg 11/11/01 N 1 1>2
* Cable & Wireless is expected to signal that it will return about
£1.5bn of its £4bn cash pile to shareholders via a special
dividend or share buy-back 11/11/01 N 2 1>3
* CBI chief Digby Jones, tells the Treasury what he wants from
this month's pre-Budget Report - see Economy 18/11/01
* Interview with political animal Lord Haskins, retiring head of
Express Dairies and Northern Foods - see Haskins, Lord
18/11/01
* How Marconi blew £3bn 18/11/01 N 1 1>7 Photograph
* Cash-strapped ITV Digital is to declare a counterfeiters'
amnesty on its smart-cards 18/11/01 N 2 1>3
* Inventor James Dyson's eponymous company produced pre-tax
profits of £35m in 2000 18/11/01 N 2 4>5 Photograph
* Gordon Brown wants his pre-Budget Report to mend the
Government's increasingly strained relations with British
business 18/11/01 N 5 5>7
* As Brussels blasts the drug giants, the man who took on Roche
and was jailed for it talks to Nick Mathiason - see Adams,
Stanley 25/11/01
* The BBC has apologised for linking diamond firm Oryx with
the al-Qaeda, but was it manipulated? - see BBC 25/11/01
* British mobile phone operator mm02 is ready to quit Germany
and Holland in a bid to stem losses of hundreds of millions of
pounds 25/11/01 N 1 5>8
* Levi Strauss is planning to sell a wider range of jeans and
jackets at almost half their high-street prices, despite winning
last week's court battle to prevent Tesco from doing just that
25/11/01 N 1 1>2 Photograph
* AWG, the owner of Anglian Water, is expected to signal this
week a return of up to £600m to shareholders as part of an
overhaul of the group 25/11/01 N 2 1>3
* Bookmaker Ladbrokes is offering prices on whether David
Beckham or Harry Potter will dominate the lucrative Christmas
market in PlayStation games 25/11/01 N 2 4>6 Photographs
* Granada's ill-starred investment in ITV Digital will push it into
the red when it reports annual figures this week 25/11/01 N 2
5>7
* Hopes for a Christmas boom are fading as the mobile phone
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market reaches saturation 25/11/01 N 3 1>6 Photographs, graph
* Richard Wachman meets mm02 chief Peter Erskine, who has
one of the toughest jobs in Britain 25/11/01 N 3 1>4 Photograph
* At first sight the latest figures are grim: women have failed to
bag more seats in the boardroom, but they're queuing in the
corridor 25/11/01 N 4 1>6 Photographs, graph
* Golf chain, Clubhaus could find itself in the rough as
shareholder Eddie Shah threatens to sue 25/11/01 N 4 3>7
Photographs
* Erotica may become Britain's first publicly quoted sex
company 02/12/01 N 1 2>3 Photograph
* The Enron horror story worsened this weekend after it
emerged that the US energy company believes its accounts may
have to be revised down even further 02/12/01 N 1 1>7
* Blackstone, the US private equity group, has emerged as the
leading contender to acquire Carling, which is being sold by
Interbrew to appease the UK competition authorities 02/12/01 N
2 1>3
* Employers are closing coveted final salary schemes in
increasing numbers 02/12/01 N 2 8
* Granada would take action if a foreign competitor such as
Bertelsmann of Germany or TFI of France launch a takeover bid
for Carlton Communications 02/12/01 N 2 4>7
* The decline of the energy giant, Enron 02/12/01 N 5 1>6
Photographs
* Manufacturing in crisis: Patricia Hewitt of the Department of
Trade & Industry, hopes rely on Gordon Brown 02/12/01 N 8
1>8 Photographs, graphs
* Esso is being targeted by Friends of the Earth but at least it
knows its enemy, unlike most businesses - see Environment
09/12/01
* Interview with former gas regular Clare Spottiswoode - see
Spottiswoode, Clare 09/12/01
* Sir Richard Branson is backing the plans of The Red Cross to
market its own branded condoms in Africa - see Red Cross, The
09/12/01
* Former gas regulator Clare Spottiswoode resigned as a vicepresident
of Enron's water subsidiary because she had grave
concerns about its financial management 09/12/01 N 1 5>8
* The chairman of Reuters since 1986, Sir Christopher Hogg, is
expected to step down in 2002 09/12/01 N 1 1 Photograph
* Clubhaus bondholders are planning to release the struggling
golf clubs operator from potentially crippling debts in exchange
for a 90 per cent stake in the company 09/12/01 N 2 8
* Investors fear that NTL, Britain's biggest cable TV operator,
could go bust next year unless the way it is run changes radically
09/12/01 N 2 1>3
* Tim Waterstone, founder of the Waterstone's bookshops, is
planning a fresh bid for the business in the new year 09/12/01 N
2 1>4 Photograph
* Hard times in the City: Richard Wachman looks at the death of
the huge Christmas bonus 09/12/01 N 3 1>7 Photographs
* Business travel fell by 40 per cent after 11 September, will it
ever recover? - see Aviation Industry 16/12/01
* Drugs giant AstraZeneca is poised to seek compensation from
Merrill Lynch which oversaw its pension fund in the mid-
Nineties - see Financial Institutions 16/12/01
* The economic downturn has had a dramatic impact on the level
of management buyouts over the last year - see Economy
16/12/01
* Britain's biggest cable operator NTL is expected to be taken