Archive for the 'Company Business' Category

Northern rock just loves the lime light

Lets face it, with all the trouble Northern rock has been through: From the failure of its shares and company, to the slight decrease, back up and, yes, right down  and then rescued (at the expense of increasing the UK’s liability) by the government.
If you have (no idea how you could of) missed all of [...]

British Gas needs more?

571 million pounds was the reported PROFTIS of British Gas today and yet they can justify their 15% recent increase in prices? Somehow British Gas think that a giant boom in their profits by 40% is simply not enough, they’re actually considering increasing their prices again.
British Gas have been under the scrutiny of the [...]

Google + Yahoo = ?

The business equation to end all business equations. Rumours are being heard and the government’s lending its ear towards them. After Google announced its joint venture with Yahoo to ‘aid’ their search algorithm for two weeks, it seems that people have already started wondering if Google might just try and merge with Yahoo.
If Yahoo and [...]

China loves to compete

We have all noticed China’s quick growth and even quicker pollution output, but now they’re taking to the skies in a bid to battle the Boeing and Airbus. China has tried to penetrate this market before and it now has a renewed fire to burn. The new aircraft built will hold 90 passengers a flight and [...]

BAA, debt, shares and the competition commission

In March, BAA raised £265m from the sale of 33 properties owned in a joint venture with Morley Fund Management. A sale of one of its valuable airports assets would, “kill two birds with one stone”, according to Simon Denham, managing director at Capital Spreads. The firm owns Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Southampton and [...]

Npowers aggressive tactics

Npower may have been caught using aggressive tactics, but the problem looks wider than thought. The gas and electricity watch say that Npower gets the highest amount of complaints than any other company on their watch. Npower said that they are comply with OFGEM and is also launching its own investigation into these claims.
Granted, they’re [...]


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