All articles by Editorial - Joey Gardiner – Page 15
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NewsMcCarthy brothers take on father
Brothers Spencer and Clinton McCarthy aim to challenge the dominance of McCarthy & Stone, the company that belongs to their father John, in the retirement housing market
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Industry beats FTSE average after start of war on Iraq
Construction and building materials shares remain strong – in contrast to all-share index's roller-coaster ride.
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Bovis to axe 40 staff after review of market prospects
Contractor reveals redundancy plans in the same week that QS EC Harris decides to close Glasgow office.
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New bosses for Kier and Alfred McAlpine
Contractors' chief executives both scale back roles by becoming chairmen of the companies.
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Tension mounts
After a year in which housebuilders were thrust into the spotlight amid rapidly rising house prices and profits, the looming prospect of war has cast an ever larger shadow over the sector. So what is it doing to protect itself?
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NewsPidgley Jr breaks silence on his father, the Berkeley bid, his ex-wife and his mother
Tony Pidgley explains why he bid for his father's company and how, in the end, family comes before business.
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NewsMajors close final salary pensions to new entrants
Balfour, Carillion, Sir Robert McAlpine, Bovis, Mowlem, Travis Perkins and Rok close schemes to reduce deficits.
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NewsBovis Homes continues expansion drive into 2003
Housebuilder expects to increase turnover £65m this year, despite predicting house price inflation of only 4%.
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NewsWSP pins hopes for 2003 on World Trade Centre
Support services firm looks to New York and Thames Gateway for recovery after 96% profit fall in 2002.
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Higgs review set to trigger wholesale board changes
Large number of construction firms will be in breach of upcoming corporate governance guidelines.
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FeaturesTaming the fat cats
To avoid Enron and WorldCom-style catastrophes, the Higgs report has set out rules intended to keep the portly pusses on company boards in line. But, in an industry used to mucking in and doubling up, will it ever succeed?
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NewsHiggs review set to trigger wholesale board changes
Large number of construction firms will be in breach of upcoming corporate governance guidelines.
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FeaturesHow bad can it be?
Six days after Tony Pidgley Jr made a bold £1bn bid for his father's Berkeley Group, his personal and professional reputations took a battering. We report on how it went so wrong
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NewsAmey gets last-minute loan to save £29m PFI sale
Circular to shareholders on final day of deadline gives green light to deal to sell eight PFI contracts to Laing.
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NewsPidgley Jr unrepentant after bid for Berkeley collapses
Son of Berkeley chief says he has warchest of £1bn to scoop up another big housebuilder and take it private.
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FeaturesMike Jeffries
How did a man with the reputation of being one the industry's shrewdest (and largest) operators let Atkins get into such a mess? And how will he clear it up?
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NewsTwo venture capitalists linked to Atkins sale talks
Cinven and 3i named as possible buyers; Atkins boss Jeffries admits there have been 'very preliminary' talks.
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EP cuts new deal to get Allerton Bywater moving
Agency to reduce role of Gleeson–Miller in Yorkshire's millennium village in hope of beginning site work this year.
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City predicts bid for Galliford Try this summer
Break-up valuation report suggests firm is worth 40p a share, 31p of which is accounted for by housebuilding.
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NewsBrown seizes control of PFI ahead of general election
Chancellor to take personal charge of delivery of new schools and hospitals as pressure grows to show results.