January 31, 2011 / Uncategorized / Ian Briggs
ANDY Clarke largely impressed the 500-strong audience at Friday's Leeds, York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner. Tall and smart with a booming voice, the Asda chief executive l
January 27, 2011 / Airlines, Greater Manchester, North West, TheBusinessDesk.com News, Uncategorized / Mike Fahy
Michael O'Leary breezed into Manchester Airport like a tour de force (or should that be farce?) yesterday, holding court in the corner of a coffee shop and cracking one-liners like he's pitching for a
January 20, 2011 / Uncategorized / James Graham
SITTING in the audience at the Nations and Regions Media Conference in Salford on Tuesday I was reminded of a famous quote by screenwriter William Goldman. "Nobody knows anything," wrote Goldman in
January 14, 2011 / Uncategorized / Ian Briggs
CONTRARY to the opinion of most of my TheBusinessDesk.com colleagues (who believe I'm a fibber), I used to enjoy a bit of a dance in my younger days. One of the venues to hit for a boogie after
January 10, 2011 / Uncategorized / David Parkin
THE news that the popular and respected Neil McLean, head of law firm DLA Piper in Leeds, is to become chairman of the city region Local Enterprise Partnership has gone down well in many quarters.
January 10, 2011 / Uncategorized / Marc Reeves
THE old saying about “lies, damn lies - and statistics” is often bandied about when numbers are used to tell a story or illustrate an issue. Sure, in the hands of the unscrupulous, a little dat