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Appointments: Sobie can keep this fire burning 06/07/2011

Diamond mining group Firestone Diamonds has announced that Paul Sobie is to join its board as non-executive director.

Tags: De Beers, Diamond mining, Paul Sobie

Companies: Firestone Diamonds , Stellar Diamonds

Appointments: Cats anticipate Fait
06/07/2011

Israeli Yosi Fait has been appointed to the board of machine-to-machine communications specialist Telit Communications as finance director.

Tags: Israelis on AIM, Machine to machine communication, Technology

Companies: Telit Communications

Appointments: Unity in Africa 06/07/2011

West Africa-focused GoldStone Resources has announced the appointment of Rod Hanson as non-executive director.

Tags: African miner, ASX listing, Board changes

Companies: Goldstone Resources

People: Falklands war is ‘inconceivable’ 06/07/2011

With Argentinean president Cristina Kirchner denouncing the United Kingdom as a ‘crude colonial power’ after comments by David Cameron that the Falkland Islands should remain British ‘full stop, end of story’, there has been heightened tension over the islands’ future.

Tags: Conflict in the Falklands, Cristina Kirchner, Crude colonial power, David Hudd, Falkland Islands

Companies: Falkland Islands Holdings

People: Snowball’s newest Vietnam venture 06/07/2011

Fund manager Kevin Snowball, the former ABN AMRO luminary who co-launched the PXP Vietnam Fund nine years ago and also steers the same group’s Vietnam Equity Fund, is planning to have another crack at Indo-China as he plans to raise between $50 million (£31 million) and $100 million for a new PXP Vietnam Value fund.

Tags: Indo-China, PXP Vietnam Value fund, Rapid economic growth

Companies: Vietnam Property Fund

People: Alldritt enthuses about wine-loving BMW drivers 06/07/2011

Nigel Alldritt, finance director of Majestic Wine, has a clear image of the company’s customers, and in particular their motoring choices.

Tags: Audi-driving classes, BMW drivers, Good quality wine, Middle class activities

Companies: Majestic Wine

People: The people’s Hoodless  06/07/2011

Geoffrey Hoodless, founder of entrepreneurial small company broking group HB Markets, hopes to provide ‘enterprising individuals and companies’ with easier access to stock markets through his new online share dealing platform, thesharerepublic.com.

Tags: Colourful City events, Hoodless Brennan, Online broker

People: Youthful passion for banking 06/07/2011

Mike Warriner, chief technology officer of AIM-listed technology concern Parseq, enthuses about the potential for ‘geo-fencing’ on smartphones.

People: A new chair for Razzall 06/07/2011

Liberal Democrat peer Lord Razzall, former head of law firm Frere Cholmeley Bischoff, has found a fresh role at the entrepreneurial end of the small company market.

Tags: David Mason, Frank Warren, FSA fine, Lord Razzall, PLUS Markets

People: Giving Pain to the big boys 06/07/2011

‘Sage should only be used in cooking,’ declares Quentin Pain, as he prepares a series of new autumn launches for his Accountz accounting and book-keeping software, with which he hopes to challenge sector leaders such as business software specialist Sage Group.

Tags: Accounting, Motorbike courier, Rock musician, Sage should only be used in cook

Companies: Sage Group

Brokers' view: Collins Stewart 06/07/2011

Dr keen on Caretech

Tags: Care sector, Caretech, EBIDTA

Companies: CareTech , Mecom Group

Brokers' view: Midas 06/07/2011

Prada goes public

Tags: EBIDTA, LMVH, Prada