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Article: Mathew Horsman on the unsurprising Lord Hollick
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 7, 1996
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It comes as a surprise that there was any surprise at the way
Lord Hollick, Labour peer and chief executive of the media company
MAI, has put his mark on United News & Media, the publisher of the
struggling Express titles and MAI's putative merger "partner".
From the beginning, the alliance of the two companies was seen
as a defensive move - and one that would benefit Lord Hollick more
than United's Lord Stevens. Indeed, the Independent wrote as early
as February, on the day after the marriage was unveiled, that "Lord
Hollick will emerge the clear winner: he is the younger man and has
the better reputation".
Lord Stevens might also have read of Lord Hollick's joking
reference to the size of ...