Bill Gleeson - Liverpool Daily Post

Business News: Liverpool-based Princes Foods sells tinned pie division to rival Baxters

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT

LIVERPOOL-BASED Princes Foods has sold its Fray Bentos canned meat pie business.

Business Features: Dave Whelan defies gloom to grow health club chain

Liverpool Daily Post — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

AGE has definitely not diminished Dave Whelan’s zest for enterprise.

Business News: Cheviot predicts fund manager numbers to double in Liverpool office

Liverpool Daily Post — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:00:00 GMT

CHEVIOT Asset Management hopes to more than double the number of fund managers at its Liverpool office over the next two years.

Business Opinion: Bill Gleeson: The region needs strong leadership at the helm of the LEP

Liverpool Daily Post — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

BY ALL accounts, there is a considerable amount of behind-the-scenes cloak and dagger politics going on at the city region’s much-awaited Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).

Business News: Bank economist warns Merseyside faces period of protracted recovery

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:00:00 GMT

A LEADING bank economist yesterday predicted that Merseyside’s economy could struggle more than other parts of Britain as the country continues to suffer a protracted period of slow economic growth

Liverpool News: University of Liverpool receives £2.8m to research alternative to petrochemicals in personal care products

Liverpool Daily Post — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:00:00 GMT

THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL is to collaborate with consumer goods and detergents giant Unilever and sugar producer AB Sugar to develop plant-based alternatives to petrochemical ingredients found in a wide range of personal care products.

Liverpool News: TUC director general Brendan Barber tells University of Liverpool audience that capitalism is facing “crisis of legitimacy”

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:27:00 GMT

TUC general secretary Brendan Barber last night set out an alternative economic recovery plan to the government’s spending cuts.

Liverpool News: John Halewood’s widow becomes chairwoman at family drinks firm famous for Lambrini

Liverpool Daily Post — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:00:00 GMT

THE widow of drinks entrepreneur John Halewood is to takeover at the helm of the Huyton company he founded and owned.

Liverpool News: Work starts on new Liverpool city centre hotel

Liverpool Daily Post — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:00:00 GMT

WORK has started on the latest Liverpool city centre hotel scheme.

Liverpool News: Ethel Austin brand bought by Ashloch boss Sue Townsend

Liverpool Daily Post — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:30:00 GMT

A LONDON-BASED businesswoman plans to breathe new life into the famous Ethel Austin name, in a move that safeguards hundreds of jobs in the region.

Liverpool News: City in danger of not keeping pace with knowledge economy

Liverpool Daily Post — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:00:00 GMT

GIVEN the emphasis that has been placed on identifying the sectors that offer the region the best prospects for economic growth in the years ahead, together with all the European money that has been expended on economic development in recent years, its amazing that some people still feel the knowledge economy sector has not yet received sufficient support.

Liverpool News: Matalan files respectable figures despite tough conditions

Liverpool Daily Post — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 03:00:00 GMT

RETAILER Matalan suffered a sharp fall in pre-tax profit last year as sales held steady despite the difficult trading conditions affecting the high street.

Liverpool News: Bill Gleeson: TJ’s problems are out of the blue

Liverpool Daily Post — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:00:00 GMT

IT’S PROVING a very difficult June on the high street.

Liverpool News: Haulage firms should expand overseas

Liverpool Daily Post — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:00:00 GMT

MORE consolidation is predicted for the logistics business.

Liverpool News: Sales grow as Coral Products seeks new recycling markets

Liverpool Daily Post — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:00:00 GMT

HAYDOCK-BASED Coral Products saw sales rise 5% last year to £13.2m, but full-year losses before tax widened 14% to £753,000.

Liverpool News: Record order caps bumper Paris air show for Airbus

Liverpool Daily Post — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:00:00 GMT

AIRBUS yesterday unveiled the biggest order in its history, as Indian airline Indigo confirmed the purchase of 180 single-aisle planes.

Liverpool News: Bill Gleeson: Park Group back in favour after troubled decade

Liverpool Daily Post — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:00:00 GMT

PARK Group appears to have had a bit of a return to favour with the stock market in recent months.

Business Features: Bill Gleeson: Peel’s expansion plan could get stuck in the mud

Liverpool Daily Post — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:00:00 GMT

AS ROWAN Atkinson might tell you, the extent to which the natural environment is protected by law is no laughing matter.

Liverpool News: Peel begins consulation on £500m River Mersey port expansion plan

Liverpool Daily Post — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:00:00 GMT

PEEL Ports today launches a public consultation about its potentially controversial £500m plans to expand its River Mersey dock operations.

Liverpool News: Clarke has basic pay cut as Sir Terry pockets £12m

Liverpool Daily Post — Tue, 31 May 2011 23:09:00 GMT

TESCO, the world’s third-biggest retailer, is simplifying its boardroom pay scheme and cutting the base salary of its Liverpool-born chief executive Phil Clarke as it seeks to end rows with shareholders over how it pays its leaders.