Tom Bill
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CommentRob Smith: DL wasn't forced into marriage with Aecom
Senior partner at Davis Langdon on getting into bed with an American giant
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Are the shackles to come off at Crest Nicholson?
Stephen Stone was not giving much away this morning when asked about the reported £350m-plus bid for Crest Nicholson by pizza and pub entrepreneur Hugh Osmond.
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Housebuilder bonuses: have bosses lost the plot?
This week saw housebuilder Bovis Homes give 95,000 shares to chief executive David Ritchie in place of a cash bonus. The £282m turnover housebuilder said a cash bonus would be “inappropriate” given the state of the market.
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White Young Green: investors brace yourself
Under Stock Market rules, White Young Green has got until the end of this week to announce its results. Gulp.
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Pessimism postponed
Bellway boss John Watson is naturally a glass half-empty kind of guy and was in “muted recovery” mode at the housebuilder’s full-year results this week.
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How bad must things be at Jarvis?
When former Jarvis finance director John O’Kane left the rail specialist last month to join engineering service firm Redhall, it reunited him with the firm’s chairman David Jackson. They had both previously worked together at rail engineer Peterhouse in the same roles.
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Who'll do "a Parsons Brinckerhoff" next?
Contractors are still pondering the implications of Balfour Beatty's canny swoop on American infrastructure firm Parsons Brinckerhoff last month.
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The blame game
Here we go again. This week has seen a fresh round of HBOS-bashing after Lloyds revealed a £13.4bn hit due to bad loans – 80% of which came from HBOS.
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A question of honour
Chris Cole, chief executive of WSP, was careful not to be drawn on the thorny subject of bad debt in the Middle East, as he announced the engineer’s half-year results this week
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Drawing a line in the sand
Architect Aukett Fitzroy Robinson was forced to make another uncomfortable disclosure to the City this week.
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Steve Morgan: fresh air not hot air
Someone that spoke to Steve Morgan shortly after he returned to Redrow via a boardroom coup in March said he was pretty upset by what he found.
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How to get rid of a chief exec. Part I.
It would take three or four months to find a new chief exec for a company like Wolseley.
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Pidgley hands over keys to kingdom if not the crown
Around eighty bankers, analysts and lawyers squashed into a meeting room at UBS this morning to hear Tony Pidgley's swansong as managing director of Berkeley.
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Telford buys contractor... and breathing space
When AIM-listed housebuilder Telford announced yesterday it had paid £6.3m for fit-out contractor Clifford Contracting, the news must have caused a few people to do a double-take at their computer screens.
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Is Mrs Pidgley missing her horses?
Earlier this week the wife of Berkeley boss Tony Pidgley sold 250,000 shares in the company. It leaves her with just over half a million but at £9.60 a pop she netted £2.4m from the deal.
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Budget 2009: Draw your own conclusions, if you can
"I can't quite decide whether it was smoke or mirrors," said KBC Peel Hunt analyst Robin Hardy in summing up yesterday's Budget.
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Taylor Wimpey: How long before it does the 'rights' thing?
When Taylor Wimpey announced that it had all but dotted the i's and crossed the t's on its £1.6bn refinancing deal yesterday, there was a palpable sense of "thank God for that" around the City.
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The Wrekin Ruby. The Italian valuers know "niente".
So, what’s the truth behind the Wrekin ruby?