The Boardroom Blog

Pressure remains on companies to improve female representation on boards

Thursday, October 13, 2011 | Posted by: Ben Langford
Categories: Governance, Non-executive director | Tags: Board, FTSE 350, women, boardroom, gender, women in business, diversity, female, review, quotas, Lord Davies, directors, representation, Ben Langford, Davies report

Fresh changes to the UK Corporate Governance Code by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) this week seek to “strengthen the principle of boardroom diversity” – and companies are being urged to respond rapidly.

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Pressured retailers must review business model strategy

Wednesday, August 11, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Research | Tags: innovation, report, survey, business models, retail, boardroom, Strategy

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Insights from our latest sector survey, Pressure unabated: UK retailers contemplate business model change, should fuel boardroom discussions in the competitive UK retail sector, which has experienced a profound shift from the emergence of the internet as both a shop window and a retail outlet.

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