Ford elects its first female member of founding family to its board of directors

Ford elects first female member of founding family to its board of directors: Investors hope Harvard-educated heiress, 33, can help turn around struggling automaker amid profits plunge Alexandra Ford English, 33, has been elected to Ford’s 14-person board of directors She is the great-great granddaughter of founder Henry Ford and the daughter of current Ford … Read more

European Super League: Everton’s directors savage the ‘self-proclaimed Super Six’

Everton have issued a withering response to the plans for a European Super League that have plunged football across the continent into chaos. Issuing a statement on Tuesday morning, the Merseyside club said: ‘Everton is saddened and disappointed to see proposals of a breakaway league pushed forward by six clubs.  ‘Six clubs acting entirely in … Read more

Sylvester Stallone teases his long-awaited director’s cut of Rocky IV is ‘coming soon’

Sylvester Stallone teases his long-awaited director’s cut of Rocky IV is ‘coming soon’ though he doesn’t have a release date yet By Brian Gallagher For Dailymail.com Published: 02:51 GMT, 11 February 2021 | Updated: 02:51 GMT, 11 February 2021 Months after Sylvester Stallone first revealed he’s working on a director’s cut of his 1985 classic … Read more

Pubs and restaurants are NOT Covid hotspots, contact tracing directors say

Pubs, restaurants and cafes have never been coronavirus hotspots, local public health directors claimed today. Despite hospitality venues facing hugely damaging restrictions, there has never been a ‘terribly big risk’ of someone catching the disease in them, they said. Greg Fell, director of public health in Sheffield, and Dr Richard Harling, his counterpart in Staffordshire, … Read more

Mel Gibson, 64, reveals he was told to STOP EATING by the directors of his new film

‘I’m reasonably porky’: Mel Gibson, 64, reveals he was told to STOP EATING by the directors of his new film Fatman to stop him playing an ‘obese’ Santa By Chloe-lee Longhetti For Daily Mail Australia Published: 00:45 GMT, 23 December 2020 | Updated: 00:47 GMT, 23 December 2020 Australian actor Mel Gibson might be known … Read more

Directors of Grenfell Tower supplier cash in shares worth £123 million

Tycoons whose firm fitted Grenfell Tower with flammable cladding and ‘stretched the truth’ about tower’s fire safety cash in £123 MILLION shares Directors at Kingspan sold three million shares ahead of the Grenfell hearing  The company is accused of selling hazardous building products to contractors Chairman and founder Eugene Murtagh sold shares worth some £76 … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Independent directors don’t fix a frail boardroom

As we know from Carillion, Arcadia-Top Shop owner Taveta and other recent corporate imbroglios, a line-up of seemingly robust independent directors does not stop businesses going wrong. Powerful executives at Carillion published misleading financial reports before it headed into insolvency. Sir Philip Green, who decorated his board with respected business and legal figures, still sold … Read more

EastEnders’ Danny Dyer and Kellie Bright arrive for filming after director’s sacking

EastEnders stars Danny Dyer and Kellie Bright were seen arriving on set on Monday, after one of the soap’s directors was sacked for turning up to work ahead of a positive COVID-19 diagnosis.  The pair, who play husband and wife Mick and Linda Carter, headed to filming in Elstree after it was reported that first assistant … Read more

Amigo forced to ask for FCA’s approval to pay shareholders and directors

Amigo forced to ask for City watchdog’s approval to pay out cash to shareholders and directors Amigo has entered a Asset Voluntary Requirement (VReq) with the FCA The  FCA uses VReq when they suspect ‘serious misconduct’ and ‘and harm needs to be prevented immediately’ By Camilla Canocchi for Thisismoney.co.uk Published: 10:39 BST, 19 October 2020 | … Read more