UK: OPENING MINDS ON CLOSURES.
01 Sep 1994
UK: OPENING MINDS ON CLOSURES. - The reasons for closing a company down may not always be as bleak or as simple as the cold facts suggest. Tom Lester sees another side.
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JobsUK: SWAN'S DYING DAYS. - Back in 1988, Swan made a trading profit of £2 million on sales of £59 million, derived from a range of electrical products and cooking pots and pans. BSR (now Astec) had earlier bought it as a way of escaping from its old record
UK: OPENING MINDS ON CLOSURES. - The reasons for closing a company down may not always be as bleak or as simple as the cold facts suggest. Tom Lester sees another side.
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UK: ICI'S HILLHOUSE BLUES. - No one could say that chlorine is an exciting market to be in. Overall growth is around half a percentage point annually, and most of that is in the Far East. You don't transport chlorine over long distances, so a 50-year-old
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UK: MAJESTIC RETURN FOR '80S STAR. - John Apthorp was always one of the '80s more able entrepreneurs. Indeed, at the start of that decade his company, Bejam, the frozen food retailer, figured second in Management Today's annual profitability league (and,
UK: LEASES - IN SEARCH OF THE GOLDEN LEASE. - Tenants demanding reform of the commercial lease are locked in battle with property companies intent on protecting their investments.
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