Sweden-focused miner Beowulf has appointed Fred Boman as production director. Boman, currently working as a production consultant for Beowulf is a mining veteran, holding an MSc in mining and mineral processing from the Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm, Sweden.
Infrastructure services concern May Gurney has announced the appointment of Baroness Margaret Ford as its chairman.
While much of the media is currently focused on the implications arising from Twitter users publishing the names of those who took out super injunctions, Stephen Goodyear, boss of pub group Young & Co’s, is certainly a fan of the microblogging site and its potential to boost business.
Small company financier Tony Drury, founder of investment group St. Helen’s Capital, has fallen out of love with the Conservative Party and published an electronic book to explain his disillusionment.
Many in the City and far beyond will mourn the untimely death of Andrew Dalton, former Mayor of Kensington and one of the most successful fund managers of his generation.
Bill Dobbie, chief executive officer of internet dating group Cupid, the operator of both mainstream dating sites and a popular site for casual sexual encounters entitled BeNaughty.com, notes that the company is gaining increasing traction in India. ‘We recently acquired IndianDating.com - a website aimed at the Indian North American community
Oliver Vaughan, chairman of Central Asia gold and silver play CAMAR, brings an unusually wide range of business experience to the challenge of raising funds for this hitherto PLUS-quoted concern.
Steve Whittern, finance director of funeral services group Dignity, remarks that today there is a trend of people (prior to their death) ‘often wishing to personalise their funerals to a detailed extent’, adding that for many a ‘green’ funeral is becoming an increasingly popular option.
South African entrepreneur and AIM player Frank Lewis has some urgent advice for financial professionals bringing foreign companies to London’s junior stockmarket
One resources entrepreneur who does not think the mining boom is over is Australian engineer Kevin Foo, former boss of Central Asia and Russia-focused Celtic Resources, who is working to treble the market value of AIM-quoted Victoria Oil & Gas to £400 million in three years on the back of impressive gas prospects in Cameroon, West Africa.
Social media is all around us and is growing fast. With the landscape changing fast, Ben Jaglom reports on how it may impact investors.
A number of market veterans were invited to the annual PLUS awards held at the impressive BAFTA building on Piccadilly.
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Clothing retailer French Connection (FCCN) expects profits to be below expectations after warning of 'disappointing' trading.
Asbestos consulting specialist Silverdell (SID) has been awarded new work valued at a total of £3.65 million, and reckons there is more in the pipeline.
Share market operator PLUS Markets Group (PMK) is to conduct a formal sale process to identify potential partners or backers.
Gold hopeful Nyota Minerals (NYO) has raised £9.66 million at 6p to pursue its Tulu Kapi and Northern Block projects in Ethiopia.
Shares in specialist recruitment outfit Network Group (NGH) have soared 38 per cent this morning on a news of an agreed cash bid led by private equity giant Lloyds Development Capital.
FTSE Small Cap constituent and pub group Enterprise Inns (ETI) has sold 15 pubs to its competitors Fuller's in a deal worth £22.9 million.
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