Gareth Davis
Gareth Davis
Gareth Davis is a British businessman, the chairman of Wolseley plc, William Hill and DS Smith...
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Effective cash management has again added to the earnings delivery and our share buyback program will continue while we seek value-creating acquisitions,
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I've virtually packed the game in now, so there's no chance I'll be coming to Bath City.
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This is another strong set of results and I am particularly pleased with the continued improvement in our cigarette volumes.
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In the absence of acquisitions we could spend our annual free cash flow of around 450 million pounds on share buybacks,
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It was always thus, ... Clubs and regions are paying for the players, they're the employer and it's always difficult when you have two employers.
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The simple fact is the vast majority of professional sport clubs have some sort of level of debt.
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Smokers will continue to smoke after an initial dip and we see the overall effect as minimal,
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We've lost seven of our last eight matches. The only team that we have beaten is Western Samoa. It's a good job we didn't play the whole of Samoa.
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We are trying to grow the international side as fast as possible and this side is looking very promising,
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We are delighted that Steve will be staying with the club.
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We relied on runners and ambulance crews passing on information as they dropped patients off. When the last telephone call you receive said eight bombs have gone off, it sounded like Armageddon.
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We've spoken to Steve at length and made it very clear that we would like him to stay. It's an ongoing process, and my expectation is that it will be a few days before we know one way or the other.