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Sir Ralph Halpern, flamboyant chief of the Burton Group who constructed it right into a “multi-niche” retail empire – obituary

It was expected that Halpern would be roasted at the meeting. But, flanked by his family, he faced the music, unapologetic and unperturbed, admitting the affair but dismissing it as “an innocent little nothing”, and found that the shareholders cared not one jot about his morals, only about their dividends. The executive options scheme was […]

Man Utd sleepwalking right into a nightmare in life after Sir Alex Ferguson

NOBODY saw it coming when Sir Alex Ferguson racked up 1,500 games and called it a day. He had just won his 13th Premier League title and while, as Wayne Rooney has this week pointed out he left an ageing squad behind him, Manchester United were still the team of the ages. 8 Sir Alex […]