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Econsultancy blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Dennis Mortensen has worked in the analytics, optimization and online marketing industry since 1996. He is an Associate Web Analytics Instructor at the University of British Columbia, the Author of data driven insights with Yahoo! Web Analytics , and a frequent speaker on the subject of analytics and online marketing. Mortensen joined up IndexTools in 2004 and worked as COO until the company was acquired...
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
MORRISONS boss Marc Bolland, Marks & Spencer's new boss, is expected to broaden the firm's horizons to embrace new products and international markets.
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Bigmouthmedia (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Yahoo! is withdrawing its mobile phone service in January, in order to focus its efforts on improving its mobile web offerings. The Business Insider reports that Yahoo! is discontinuing its service from 12 January 2010. The decision has been attributed to CEO Carol Bartz refocusing Yahoo!'s efforts on its portal business, and follows this week's news that Yahoo! is losing its search engine market...
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Bill Totten's Weblog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
by Dani Rodrik project-syndicate.org (2009) Something happened in late August that I never thought I would see in my lifetime. A leading policymaker in the Anglo-American empire of finance actually came out in support of a Tobin tax - a global tax on financial transactions. The official in question was Adair Turner, the head of the United Kingdom Financial Services Authority, the country's chief financial...
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Just Style (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The timing of Marks and Spencer's announcement that Morrisons CEO Marc Bolland will succeed Sir Stuart Rose at the helm of the company may have raised eyebrows in the City, coming as it does the day before Morrisons unveils its third quarter results. Nevertheless, the news has been roundly welcomed as a positive step for the bastion of middle England. Katy Humphries reports
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Finance Markets (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Barratt Developments is to focus on building houses rather than apartments, in response to lenders’ preferences. The group’s chief executive, Mark Clare, says the company will build what it knows it can sell and in the case of apartments, lenders are making life difficult for mortgage borrowers by asking for deposits of 25%. The oversupply of new-build [...]
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Signature Theatre set out to solve problems in its revival of the inherently difficult "Show Boat," and in the process coughed up some new ones. Sapped of its vivacious epic strength, starved for any trace of the flavors of its evocative locales, the musical now comes across as wan and bloodless --...
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Independent.ie - European RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
ANOTHER heavyweight company said yesterday that it had found a chief executive after a long search. This time it is Marks & Spencer which appointed outsider Marc Bolland of William Morrison Supermarkets to replace Stuart Rose as chief executive.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Marks & Spencer cheered investors by hiring Marc Bolland, the chief executive of Morrisons, to take over from Sir Stuart Rose, delivering the type of heavyweight appointment that the City had been clamouring for.
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
WHEN Sir Stuart Rose paraded his deputies to investors last month, it was billed as the City's own X Factor, but the announcement of his replacement was a very Marks &
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The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
DRAGONS' Den entrepreneur and former Millwall chairman Theo Paphitis has the perfect profile for Scotland's new manager.
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PJH Law - Employment Law Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Are managers managers whether they are managing selling fruit and veg or managing selling clothes and household bits and pieces? M&S appear to think so - they have just hired the boss of supermarket giant Morrison, Marc Bolland, to take charge as Chief Executive. Stuart Rose, Executive Chairman of M&S, takes the view that it’s management skills that [...]
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
• Morrisons chief replaces Rose in high-profile post • Shares climb to 17-month high on back of decision M&S made a splash today with the announcement that the biggest job in British shopkeeping has gone to Marc Bolland, the high-flying Dutchman who brought mass appeal to the northern supermarket chain Morrisons. The appointment of the understated Bolland, who prior to Morrisons spent...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Tough times call for tough men. Marks & Spencer may, in the words of its outgoing chairman Sir Stuart Rose, be through the worst of the recession — but the new chief executive, Marc Bolland, still has his work cut out.
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is making some substantive changes in her exec ranks, since she did a massive restructuring of its staff in late February, according to sources close to the situation. “She is continuing to clean the place up,” said one top exec about the moves. Among the shifts ... Continue reading » Join the conversation about this story »