Recently added articles from The Evening Standard (London, England):
GM to axe 10,000 jobs in Europe
Nov 05, 2009; ... GENERAL Motors has said that it expects to axe about 10,000 jobsacross Europe as part of its restructuring of Vauxhall and Opel. The news follows the announcement that the car giant has decidednot to ...
Can 'smart grid' stop energy bills from soaring? ; ENERGY ANALYSIS
Nov 05, 2009; ... WHEN Ofgem issued its inflammatory research recently to arguedomestic energy bills might rise by more than 60% in the next sevenyears, a fuse blew at the Department of Energy and Climate Change. "Not true" was the gist of the comments from the civil servantdeputed to rubbish the ...
Auditors face the biggest crackdown since Enron
Nov 05, 2009; ... THE Big Four accountancy firms have been told to back off fromserious conflicts of interest in pursuing lucrative advisory work attheir audit clients. Less than a decade since the post-Enron clampdown on auditorscosying up to their clients in return for fat fees, the ...
Unilever rules out bid
Nov 05, 2009; ... CONSUMER goods giant Unilever today ruled itself out as apotential white knight for Cadbury, as the UK chocolate makerbattles to fight off an unwanted Pounds 10 billion-plus takeover bidfrom Kraft of the US. Support for a bid from Unilever had been growing in recent daysas the ...
Date for East Coast nationalisation ; NEWS IN BRIEF
Nov 05, 2009 ... For more business news standard.co.uk/ business THE financialnightmare on the East Coast Main Line out of King's Cross is set toend at midnight next Friday the 13th, when Britain's most lucrativerail network ...