“THERE’S NO secret,” David Nicholls said after Rudi’s Pet had stampeded down the straight five furlongs here yesterday faster than any horse in the course’s history “I just feed them and look after them. Kent, 10 games unbeaten, will be striving to maintain their good run of form.. “It wasn’t worth taking a risk in [...]

Either domestic banks are allowed through merger to get much bigger, he would say, or they would become bit players in a globalising economy, and eventually marginalised by giant international players.Amen to that, Mr Barrett might say. Mr Taylor never got the chance to test his views, but Mr Barrett went so far as to [...]

Reckitt Benckiser will be headquartered in the UK and listed on the London Stock Exchange. He said this would involve focusing on core products in the fabric care, surface care, health and personal care, dishwashing and home care categories to achieve top-line growth. This will mean rationalising what Mr Brecht called “non-strategic, tail-end products” whose [...]

It’s a balance between the two and we’ve got some very good people in place now to make sure that happens.”The pressure to produce good cricketers has inevitably shifted over the past decade towards the clubs, which are now being streamlined into a pyramid structure similar to that used by football in this country. Over [...]

I’d always had an interest in newspapers, but didn’t think I’d be good in a big company: I’ve been the boss for so long. It was a risk; I was 42, and used to chauffeur-driven cars and club memberships. I was going to launch a trade finance company, then I got a call from the [...]