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Former CBI chief Dame Carolyn Fairbairn lands HSBC job just a week after joining BAE By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:02 GMT, 16 February 2021 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 16 February 2021 In demand: Dame Carolyn Fairbairn is being lines up to join the board of HSBC Dame Carolyn Fairbairn is set to … Read more
Former CBI chief Dame Carolyn Fairbairn joins board of defence giant BAE By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 11 February 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 11 February 2021 The CBI’s former boss has joined the board of BAE. Dame Carolyn Fairbairn, who was director general of the business lobby group for … Read more
Reform Britain’s outdated business rates system now to help High Street survive the pandemic, Sunak told By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 18 January 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 18 January 2021 Britain’s outdated business rates system must be ripped apart and rebuilt to ensure the High Street can survive and … Read more
Looking ahead: Lord Bilimoria makes no bones about the awfulness of the year firms have endured Lord Bilimoria, the new president of the UK’s biggest business group, makes no bones about the awfulness of the year firms have endured. ‘How can I not sound despairing?’ he asks, rhetorically. ‘If you can imagine what we have been … Read more
CBI lobbies for cuts in Covid social distancing to help manufacturers The CBI has floated with Government the possibility of using Test to Release This would allow employees to work more closely together By Alex Lawson For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:16 GMT, 26 December 2020 | Updated: 22:58 GMT, 26 December 2020 Britain’s … Read more
Businesses facing ‘bleak midwinter’ and must be handed more support, boss of Confederation of British Industry Dame Carolyn Fairbairn warns By Ruth Sunderland And Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 1 November 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 1 November 2020 Businesses are facing a ‘bleak midwinter’ and must be handed more support, … Read more
Tough at the top: Outgoing CBI boss Carolyn Fairbairn Carolyn Fairbairn, the first female director general of the CBI, is stepping down after one of the most turbulent periods in the business organisation’s 55-year history. In her time at the top she has dealt with three prime ministers, a seismic rupture with the European Union, … Read more
The new president of Britain’s most powerful business lobby group has slammed Rishi Sunak’s plans to pay down the nation’s Covid debts – and called instead for tax cuts for companies. In a significant intervention, Lord Bilimoria today sets the Confederation of British Industry on a collision course with the Government over the Chancellor’s plans … Read more
The CBI boss leading calls for UK workers to return to the office has revealed she is only going back herself for two days a week from September. Dame Carolyn Fairbairn told BBC Radio 4 today that she doesn’t expect staff at CBI bases across the UK ‘to come into the office until at least … Read more
Boris Johnson must do more to get office workers back at their desks, a senior business leader says today. Carolyn Fairbairn warns commercial centres risk being permanent ‘ghost towns’. Writing in the Mail, the director-general of the CBI says getting staff back into offices and workplaces is as important as the return of pupils to … Read more