30 MAY 1992, page 22

Team Spirit

IT WOULD be fun, I think, to work for Holmwoods, the insurance broker and mar- ket leader in the insurance of schools, whose managers have raised £33 million to buy it out of......

... Yorksh I Re ' S Pigeon

GOOD management is scarce enough in banks, but size does not have to go with it. Witness the Yorkshire, which but for infla- tion would still be called the Yorkshire Penny Bank.......

Underwater Swimmers

GO BUST on a bank holiday and no one will notice — it is a time-honoured rule of commerce, followed to this day by directors who surprise their shareholders by calling a meeting......

City And Suburban

Come on my committee, Sir Adrian I'm going non-exec CHRISTOPHER FILD ES M y next career move is to go non- executive. I do not think this has been done before in journalism, or......

Lloyds Tries Its Luck ...

THE GREAT thing about the Monopolies and Mergers Commission is that you never know your luck. The oddest arguments can win. The Commission was persuaded that if the Kuwait......