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It looks good, but there is no meat
This will see us operate a lean, more competitive, business, focused on the existing profitable stores in a smaller UK portfolio, combined with a state-of-the-art online platform
We looked at pulling out of the UK completely, franchising [in UK] and staying the way we were.More quotes »
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Green charity's damage control
Green charities rewrite grant descriptions in wake of budget One of the big American charitable funders of environmental campaigns in Canada and the U.S., the Oak Foundation, has rewritten the publicly stated purpose of several grants to Canadian environ from Financial Post Read more »
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Sir Alan Parker live interview coming up
Back in October 2010, Sir Alan Parker, the director of Pink Floyd's The Wall, the 1982 film starring Bob Geldof and based on the group's classic album, made a very rare special appearance [click thumbnail, right] at The Space event, held at the Komedia i from Pink Floyd - The Official Site Read more »
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Brunswick Group Restructures, Opens a Brazilian Office
Brunswick Group has restructured its leadership in order to make chairman Alan Parker more available for external and client-facing work. Susan Gilchrist (left) has been promoted to a new position, group chief executive, based in New York. Rob Pinker has from PRNewser Read more »
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UK:Neil Harrington resigns from Mothercare
Mothercare plc announces that Neil Harrington has resigned as an Executive Director and Finance Director of the Company to take a role with a private equity organisation. Neil joined Mothercare in January 2006 and has contributed to Mothercare's developm from Fibre2Fashion.com Read more »
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Mothercare wields axe after UK woes hit profits
The chairman of Mothercare has unveiled a major restructuring to turn around the retailer's troubled UK business involving a further 111 store closures and more than 800 job losses. Alan Parker, the former chief executive of Costa Coffee's owner Whitbrea from The Independent Read more »
