Richard Northedge

Recent Articles by Richard Northedge

June 14, 2010

Big Changes Await Tesco's New Chief

Sir Terry Leahy spent his career building Tesco into Britain's biggest grocer. However, it may be the task of his successor, Philip Clarke, to break up the company. ...

May 24, 2010

BA Alliance with American Set for Go-Ahead

After a 14-year wait, British Airways (BAIRY) will receive approval to link with its rival American Airlines (AMR) as early as next month, providing a rare piece of ...

April 26, 2010

Who Pays the Bill for the Volcano Mess?

Frustrated air passengers turned to their insurance companies. Insurers pointed them to the airlines. The carriers want compensation from the state. Governments are ...

April 19, 2010

Eclecticism Marks Royal Albert Hall Head

Sunday morning, Chris Cotton served coffee and pastries to a live accompaniment of Mozart and Liszt. At noon, it was a jazz brunch. In the evening, the Royal ...

March 15, 2010

The Town that Took On Tesco, and Won

Sheringham's footnote to military history is that the first bomb dropped from a zeppelin landed on the North Norfolk town in 1915. However, the seaside town could ...

February 17, 2010

Ex-Cadbury Chairman Sours on Takeovers

The ousted chairman of Cadbury, once a champion of takeovers, has started questioning the foundations on which he built his career. A week after Kraft (KFT) won ...

February 1, 2010

AIM's Woes Could Slow Small Firm Growth

Economic recovery will need much faster growth than the 0.1 per cent quarterly expansion reported last week. To get real growth going again requires investment by ...

September 28, 2009

Cadbury Battles to Fend Off Kraft

Cadbury is proposing to shrink the size of its chocolate bars to disguise price rises it will be forced to make next year because of high cocoa costs. The move will ...

August 3, 2009

What Abu Dhabi Sees in Virgin Galactic

Until last week Richard Branson's proposed flight into space had looked like a flight of fancy—another personal adventure by the man who has set records for journeys ...