Sometimes, a good business is built on one good idea. Perhaps it was skill, or perhaps it was luck, but the niche a company carves itself can propel it so far, but only for so long. Take Amazon. It’s good at selling books, we all know that. But what about expansion? Of late, profits...
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Is Four Play what the market wants? That’s broadband, fixed and mobile telephony, and TV? When Virgin Mobile and NTL first announced their plans to merge, analysts were cynical. It was a case of personal versus family. The choice of TV subscription, broadband supplier and fixed line telephony was a family decision. Mobile phones...
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Not everyone was convinced. Rumours had been circulating for some time of a boardroom rift, between BP’s chief executive Lord Browne, (who is 18 months from his 60th birthday) and its chairman Peter Sutherland. But yesterday, Lord Browne protested loudly and vehemently, if perhaps a little too much saying, ‘..reading the speculation about my...
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