13 Nov 2007
The incoming president of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, Europe’s largest industry body, has raged against all those who have ever criticised his profession as 'bureaucratic busy-bodies, red tape robots or tick box Tonys'. So that’s presumably just about all of us, then…
12 Nov 2007
He might never give interviews, but Rupert Murdoch is apparently the most high-profile public company figure in the UK, according to a new survey. Now all he needs to do is buy a football club and we’ll never hear the end of him.
08 Nov 2007
The mining sector may not be the most glamorous in the world, by most people’s standards, but investment bankers presumably have a very different view. After a string of big deals in the sector, market leader BHP Billiton said on Thursday that it wants to buy rival Rio Tinto. This would be the second...
07 Nov 2007
MT has always championed flexible working – if done right, it can lead to a happier, better-motivated and more productive workforce. But the government’s plans to extend this right, announced yesterday in the Queen’s Speech, will have expensive implications for British businesses – so however noble...
05 Nov 2007
Hands up who’s heard of PetroChina? Well if you haven’t come across the name before, you should hear it a lot more now. The Chinese state-owned oil giant was valued at more than $1 trillion after its first day of trading on the Shanghai stock exchange, making it the world’s largest company by market...
30 Oct 2007
If you think business has been tough for you in the last few months, spare a thought for those in the cigarette business. The combined effect of the English smoking ban plus the miserable summer weather put a big dent in Imperial Tobacco’s UK sales, the cigarette maker admitted today.
23 Oct 2007
Here at MT, we’ve seen some weird and wonderful products in our time. But a face mask made of bird poo?
31 Jul 2007
As if the idea of working from home wasn't already attractive enough, along comes news that may make you reluctant to ever set foot in an office again: 71% of office workers apparently believe their dirty workspace is making them ill.
08 Jan 2007
| by John Morrish
'Bang - and the dirt is gone!' Cillit Bang's aggressive ad campaign may lack finesse, but it now has its own cult following...