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Melrose

June 2024

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    More Melroses, fewer Sheins: the real definition of success for London

    Nils Pratley
  • Simon Peckham

    UK ‘robber baron’ company Melrose gives bosses £176m handout

May 2024

  • GKN engineer at work. PR

    Observer business agenda
    Huge payouts in prospect for ‘robber barons’ who won bitter battle for GKN

    Fears for what Melrose might do to the historic engineering firm did not all come to pass, but more anger is now in prospect

April 2023

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    As Dowlais debuts, fears over Melrose’s GKN takeover look unfounded

    Nils Pratley
    In 2018 the deal was treated with much scepticism, but Melrose can hardly be accused of slash-and-burn tactics

September 2021

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    GKN shareholders may now regret not asking for bigger slice of Melrose pie

    Nils Pratley
  • A GKN sign

    GKN workers in Birmingham to strike over factory closure

February 2021

  • GKN logo

    Melrose under fire over plans to close GKN factory in Birmingham

    MPs and unions criticise proposal to move work carried out in Erdington plant to France and Poland

December 2020

  • Glencore and Société Minière du Sud Pacifique’s Koniambo mine in New Caledonia

    Climate crisis: FTSE giants fail to disclose their carbon footprint

    BP, Glencore, Rolls-Royce, Just Eat and B&M among last eight firms yet to provide investors with information

August 2020

  • People on a beach in France

    Travel firms drop £2bn in value after France added to UK Covid quarantine list

    The British Airways owner, IAG, and struggling tourism group Tui among the fallers

July 2020

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    B&Q owner should do decent thing and return its furlough payments

    Nils Pratley
    This should be self-evident to a FTSE 100 firm enjoying a boost to profits from the pandemic

December 2019

  • An employee works near a 737 Max aircraft at Boeing’s 737 Max production facility in Renton, Washington, US

    Boeing's suspension of 737 Max production rattles airline industry

    Ripple effects dent stocks in airlines and aircraft suppliers around the world

April 2019

  • A protest in March 2018 against Melrose’ proposed takeover of GKN outside a GKN factory in Erdington, Birmingham.

    Melrose plan to shut GKN Aerospace factory is 'breach of faith'

    Melrose denies closure of Birmingham factory violates assurances over GKN’s future

March 2019

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    John Lewis: the winning streak may be over, but it's not a crisis

    Nils Pratley
    The retailer has just unveiled its worst profits for a decade but it’s still a solid business

February 2019

  • A worker on a production line.

    Brexit frontline
    What are Brexit contingency plans for aerospace and defence?

    With no deal estimated to mean billions of pounds in extra costs, here’s what firms are doing

September 2018

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Energy price cap could be a muddle that satisfies no one

    Nils Pratley
    Think of the price cap as a command to companies to shed costs – meaning jobs

August 2018

  • A worker on a median salary of £23,474 would have to work 167 years to earn the median annual pay of a FTSE 100 boss.

    Top pay in UK up by 11% as workers’ wages fail to match inflation

    FTSE 100 CEO earnings rise six time faster than the average worker, High Pay Centre says

May 2018

  • Melrose directors (from l to r) David Roper, Simon Peckham Christopher Miller

    Melrose shareholders revolt against directors' £42m bonuses

    Rebellion at new owner of GKN too late to stop bumper £167m payout shared by four directors

April 2018

  • Ed Miliband, former secretary of State for energy and climate change, argued for an energy price freeze.

    Business leader
    The weakness of price caps is clear. Energy markets need bolder action

  • Will Hutton

    GKN will be stripped and sold for parts by ghouls who have no interest in making things

    Will Hutton

March 2018

  • A GKN employee works on a wing of an Airbus A380 aircraft

    Corbyn: interests of City speculators put above jobs in GKN takeover

    Labour leader attacks Tories over engineering firm’s takeover by ‘asset stripper’ Melrose
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