Posts tagged: Brunswick

The retail tycoon, the City spinners and the mandate...

Thursday, 3 March 2022, 7:34 pm

Word reaches little old Betaville that Mike Ashley's Frasers Group is in advanced talks to hire Brunswick, the so-called "Goldman Sachs" of "corporate communications", otherwise known as spin.

Now, that is surprise as maverick Mike is not usually a fan of stuffy corporate Square Mile types and hasn't had a "proper" City public relations firm on retainer for quite a while...

Read more...

Top City banker emerges as The Independent Group fundraiser, Guido Fawkes reports

Wednesday, 6 March 2019, 11:13 am

Hat tip to political blog Guido Fawkes for landing the story about Russell Chambers emerging as a key funder to The Independent Group, the new centrist political party foreshadowed on Betaville. Below is a link to the piece on Guido Fawkes:

https://order-order.com/2019/03/05/tony-blairs-favourite-banker-fundraising-tig/..

Read more...

People moves that aren't press released - return of the Sach - part 2

Wednesday, 7 June 2017, 3:48 pm

It was only a month ago that little old Betaville had the pleasure of welcoming the UK’s most famous debt collector back into corporate life.

You might remember I wrote about how Derek Sach, the controversial former head of Royal Bank of Scotland’s discredited and disbanded “business support” unit - the GRG - had resurfaced as an advisor to the Europe's largest private equity group CVC Capital Partners, former owner of Formula One. ..

Read more...