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The Yorkshire-based firm, Lowell, has signed a deal that will make it the second largest credit management business in Europe. The company has entered the €730mn (US$850mn) deal in order to acquire the “carve-out” business from Intrum, a credit management service. The “carve-out” consists of Lindorff’s business in Demark, Estonia, Finland, and Swe...
The UK-based telecoms company, Orange, have launched their own bank in France. Announced on 2 November, the mobile-based retail bank offers customers current and savings accounts, bank cards, overdraft lending, and a free insurance package. "With Orange Bank, this is an important new chapter in our history: Orange is now also a bank. A 100 percent mobile-based bank that is ded...
The largest airline in Finland, Finnair, has started weighing passengers before they board flights at Helsinki Airport. This is not to mandatory and not to penalise passengers, but volunteers can be weighed in order to calculate the total weight of each flight, which will save on operating costs. Finnair are trying to check if the current estimations of weight they use to compute t...
Roger Burnley has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of Asda and will assume the role from January 1st 2018. Burnley will replace Sean Clarke, whose departure after only 18 months in the role was announced this week - but what makes Burnley the ideal man to step in to his shoes? Roger Burnley has been readied for the CEO position at Asda ever since he r...
Andrew Davies has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of Carillion and will take up the role next April. Davies is to replace Richard Howson, who left the embattled construction company in July - but what makes Davies the perfect person for the job? Andrew Davies will leave his role as Chief Executive of privately-owned construction firm Wates Group...
Virgin Money is close to appointing Irene Dorner as its new chairman and non-executive director. Dorner looks set to replace current incumbent Glen Moreno, who is to retire in 2018 - but what makes her the perfect person to fulfil the role? Irene Dorner is widely regarded as one of the most powerful women in banking. The Brit has held a number of positions around...
BP has announced that its chairman, Carl-Henric Svanberg, is to retire from the position in May 2018. Svanberg assumed the role at the beginning of 2010, shortly before the Gulf of Mexico disaster that saw 11 people die when a BP oil well exploded on the Deepwater Horizon rig. The £47bn fallout from that, plus a major downturn in the oil market, presented huge challenges for Sv...
Carrefour has appointed Fnac Darty's Matthieu Malige as its new Chief Financial Officer. Malige, who starts immediately, replaces Pierre Jean Sivignon, who asked to be relieved from the role after being faced with 'personal difficulties'. The appointment marks Malige's return to the company after he left in 2011 to become CFO of Fnac and then Fnac Dart...
David Binks, President, FedEx Express Europe & CEO of TNT discusses with other Regional FedEx Presidents why small businesses should stop thinking local. Billionaire Bill Gates once said that to win big, sometimes you need to take big risks. This may sound something of a cliché in a world where over 70% of CEOs are getting more concerned about economic, social and poli...
John Flint has been appointed as HSBC's new Group Chief Executive Officer and will take up the role next February. He replaces Stuart Gulliver, who will step down and retire from Europe's biggest bank - but what makes Flint the perfect individual to fill Gulliver's shoes? Not many industry leaders will have been more qualified than John Flint to take over as HS...
Capita has appointed former Amec Foster Wheeler boss Jonathan Lewis as its new Chief Executive Officer. The British outsourcing company, which earned revenues of over £2bn in the first half of 2017, has chosen Lewis to replace Andy Parker, who stepped down in March. Lewis spent a year at Amec Foster Wheeler prior to its acquisition by John Wood Group, having previous...
Ronnie Leten has been chosen by Ericsson as its new Chairman, with the Swedish telco announcing the selection in a statement on Monday. Leten is set to succeed the outgoing Leif Johansson, but what makes him the perfect person for the role? Ronnie Leten may take a while to get used to new surroundings after spending the bulk of his career at Atlas Copco. Leten vacate...
Cees van Gent has been appointed as JF Hillebrand's new Chief Executive Officer, effective from the beginning of October. Van Gent replaces the outgoing Christophe Bernard at the German logistics giant, but what makes him the right man for the role? Cees van Gent has the track record to succeed as JF Hillebrand's new CEO. Born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, t...
Simon Breakwell has been named as the permanent Chief Executive Officer of the AA. Breakwell had been fulfilling the role on a temporary basis since Bob MacKenzie's sacking for gross misconduct at the beginning of August. The Expedia co-founder has now been awarded the job full-time and will oversee the sharpening of the British motoring association's focus on its ...
Rebecca Campbell has been appointed as Disney International's new President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Ms. Campbell replaces Diego Lerner in the role, with Lerner set to take on a managerial position in his native Buenos Aires. But what makes Campbell his ideal replacement? Rebecca Campbell has been rewarded for her loyalty to Disney with this senior job fo...
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