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Investment

Salvatore Ferragamo and Prada caused great excitement when they announced their intention to float on the Milan stock market in 2008

Features

Reasons to be smug at WH Smith

Reasons to be smug at WH Smith

The fortunes of two of our most familiar retailers could not be more different, says Judi Bevan. While Woolworths has gone into administration, WH Smith marches ever forward

Tesco’s price squeeze: a genius PR move or a huge mistake?

Tesco’s price squeeze: a genius PR move or a huge mistake?

At a party, I bump into one of the country’s best-known supermarket bosses.

Investor

Mind Your Own Beeswax

Veronica, daughter of The Spectator’s Dot Wordsworth, provides a monthly guide to
the jargon of the financial world

Rock the world

Rock the world

You don’t have to be a millionaire to invest in rock and pop memorabilia, says Ivan Macquisten, and it may even prove a safe bet in difficult markets

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City Life

Corruption is the hot election issue, but the biggest fish are yet to be fried

Eric Ellis

Lessons for life from the Crash of ’73

David Young, who later served in Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet and as chairman of Cable & Wireless, recalls his struggle for survival as an up-and-coming entrepreneur

David Young

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