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You couldn’t be more European than Astrazeneca. Pascal Soriot, the chief executive, is French, Leif Johansson, the chairman, is Swedish, Marc Dunoyer, the finance director, is also French while its management team and top scientists include people from Spain, Italy, Holland and Britain, to name just a few countries. Its corporate HQ and global research … Read more
MAGGIE PAGANO: Brexit negotiator David Frost believes deal with European Union marks beginning of a moment of ‘national renewal’ for UK By Maggie Pagano For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 27 December 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 27 December 2020 When David Frost was appointed Brexit sherpa and National Security Adviser last July, there … Read more
MAGGIE PAGANO: Pharma industry doing so well because ministers and commerce have been collaborating at an exceptional level for some decades By Maggie Pagano For The Daily Mail Published: 22:20 GMT, 21 December 2020 | Updated: 22:25 GMT, 21 December 2020 Describing any British industry as world-class these days is sure to get you a … Read more
Describing any British industry as world-class these days is sure to get you a poke in the eye from critics who are contemptuous of so-called Anglo-Saxon ‘exceptionalism’. Yet I am going to risk a black eye and say there are a couple of exceptions, one of them being the UK’s thriving pharmaceuticals and life sciences … Read more
The hawks at the Bank of England predict economic output will shrink by 11 per cent this year, the worst annual collapse in growth for 300 years, beating the fall during the First World War. The Old Lady also warns another one million jobs will be lost, taking unemployment to around 2.6m over the next … Read more
The mood from across the Atlantic ahead of today’s US election is on a knife-edge, like one of those high-wire scenes from Tennessee Williams’s Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. In Washington, businesses and shops are boarding up their doors because of fears that an inconclusive victory for either President Trump or his rival, Joe … Read more
MAGGIE PAGANO: If Royal Mail is to compete with rival services, it should be allowed flexibility by government and unions to adapt as market changes By Maggie Pagano For The Daily Mail Published: 22:18 GMT, 26 October 2020 | Updated: 22:20 GMT, 26 October 2020 When Herbert Henry Asquith was Britain’s Prime Minister, in the … Read more
MAGGIE PAGANO: The world of chip processing is moving so rapidly that promises from Nvidia over Arm’s future are meaningless unless legally binding By Maggie Pagano For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 20 September 2020 | Updated: 21:57 BST, 20 September 2020 Hermann Hauser was crystal clear when I spoke to him in New … Read more
Apple, which is the world’s most valuable company after breaking through the $2trillion mark, is also worth more than the value of all companies listed on the FTSE 100 index. That means the iPhone maker, which in sterling terms has a market cap of £1.5trillion, is worth 20 times more than Unilever and Astrazeneca, the … Read more
MAGGIE PAGANO: Supermarkets have proved remarkably resilient during coronavirus lockdown and hopefully will adjust again to the new normal By Maggie Pagano For The Daily Mail Published: 22:15 BST, 20 August 2020 | Updated: 22:15 BST, 20 August 2020 One of the many unexpected superstars of lockdown were supermarkets and their staff. From the first … Read more