Archive for September, 2001
Archive : New sports car for Longbridge
A new luxury sports car is to be built in Birmingham instead of Italy. MG Rover confirmed on Sunday that it will build up to 2,000 MG X80s a year at Longbridge instead of Qvale Modena in Italy. Unions have welcomed the move and say it will give added confidence to the local economy. The [...]
September 30, 2001
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Archive : Lord Simpson: The man who broke Marconi
Lord Simpson’s sacking from the post of chief executive of Marconi follows one of the most catastrophic declines in UK corporate history. Bob Chaundy looks at the career of the man who presided over his company’s spectacular fall from grace. When the GEC shareholders appointed George Simpson to head their company in September 1996, the [...]
September 7, 2001
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