CFO watch ? Charles Lutyens
Charles Lutyens has resigned as chief financial officer of Cluff Gold.
FD watch ? Frank Molter
Frank Molter, currently finance director of Hightex, has been appointed chief operating officer of the company.
FD watch ? Chris Johnstone
Chris Johnstone has been appointed interim finance director of Conister Financial Group.
Wesley Snipes vs. The Taxman
It’s a shame they’re not fighting it out Blade-style. Can you imagine it? Snipes, clad top-to-toe in PVC, delivers a high kick that sends Taxman’s glasses shattering to the floor. Taxman retaliates with a tsunami of paper, plunging a pen in his eye.
Online retailer turns eyewear into fashionwear
High street opticians were cross-eyed with fury when James Murray Wells launched Glasses Direct, selling specs online at a fraction of the price. As the industry moves from function to fashion, Murray Wells is using the web to revolutionise buying habits.
FD watch ? Peter Sydney-Smith
Peter Sydney-Smith is to be appointed finance director of pan-African resources company Mwana Africa.
FD watch ? Andrew Beach
Andrew Beach has been appointed finance director of media intelligence company Thomson Intermedia.
FD watch ? Craig Bell
Craig Bell has resigned as group finance director of Premium Bars & Restaurants.
FD watch ? Paul Leighton Clifford
Paul Leighton Clifford has been appointed group finance director of LiDCO Group, the cardiovascular monitoring company.
Marketing: a one-stop shop?
Set up in response to changing marketing trends, Total Marketing Network offers the full shebang of marketing solutions. “An increasing number of clients were coming to us saying ‘We want to go to one company that can do everything for us,’” says Denise Pritchard who co-founded the company in 2003.
Web Mission: why bother?
Earlier this week, the Shadow minister for Business and Enterprise Mark Prisk flew out to Silicon Valley with a bunch of UK tech entrepreneurs as part of a "web mission". In his final blog from the US of A, Prisk asks, "couldn’t we have done it electronically?"