Big Hitter
REINVENTION of another kind is under way at Barclays de Zoete Wedd, which, needing a new chief executive, has hired Bill Harrison away from Robert Fleming. Under his robust......
. . . It's Rupert's Reinvention
IT IS ten years since Rupert Hambro peeled off from his family bank. With his father and two brothers, he set up J.O. Hambro — named for Jocelyn, his father, and in City......
City And Suburban
Here's a test case for how to help industry try getting out of change's way CHRISTOPHER FILDES T he managing director is the one who knows where the factory is and even goes......
Merchants Venture Back.. .
I AM delighted to bring news of the Society of Merchants Trading to the Continent. A year ago this grand old City institution was on its last legs, a victim of the blight which......
Exchange And Mart
THE HEADHUNTERS had their work cut out to find the Stock Exchange a chief exec- utive. It had fired the last one, and the one before, and I know of two possible candi- dates......
The Mood He's In
HAVING GOT this far, I found myself tun- ing in to Will Hutton's television series, False Economy. In it, he develops the ideas which are said to be such an influence on......