Bad For Guinness
GUINNESS bemoans the system's unfair- ness. Its bid for Distillers went to the Com- mission (not surprising, with half the Scotch whisky capacity in the two com- panies' hands),......
City And Suburban
Hanson's bid: the referee was fair but the system isn't CHRISTOPHER FILDES T o be proposed for a knighthood by Harold Wilson and for a peerage by Margaret Thatcher is evidence......
Oil Slick
OIL prices and oil contracts collapse, sterl- ing totters, draft Budgets are torn up, Opec glares at its British non-member . . . I asked a banker who specialises in these......
Threatened Monument
THE developers' pick looms over the Hambros' stately City home, which no listing protects. It houses the family mer- chant bank, which the Hambros with the votes want to sell.......
Banker, Tailor . . .
LLOYDS has successfully followed the Midland in selling its tiresome bank in California. What a pity the two of them didn't ask the Russians. A ripe tale coming out of......
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