Among the supermarkets, Asda appears the nicest place to work. Tesco is terribly serious, Morrisons a bit northern and brash, while Sainsbury’s is no fun at all.
The chief executive of the Financial Services Authority John Tiner once said to me he would believe his organisation was getting somewhere in consumer education when a financial issue became a storyline in The Archers or Coronation Street.
February is bank reporting season, and this week and next, banks big and small, household names and some you’ve barely heard of, will tell the world how they did in 2004. By the time they have finished, UK bank profits will be seen to have topped £30bn, the biggest ever.
Michael O’Leary is as far as you could get from the buttoned-up respectability of the City. The chief executive of Ryanair – which this week announced a 25 per cent drop in profits – is not known to let tact and discretion get in the way of a good soundbite.
one roof. The event is being chaired by Anthony Hilton, City editor of the Evening Standard ...
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