Boss of @gibsonguitar Henry Juszkiewicz on #JeffRandallLive: Very passionate about #guitars - true that I liked #Gibson so much I bought it!
Boss of @gibsonguitar Henry Juszkiewicz on #JeffRandallLive: We bounced back from factory fire thanks to excellent team #Gibson
Boss of @gibsonguitar Henry Juszkiewicz on #JeffRandallLive: Outside US, the biggest market for #Gibson #guitars is Japan
Boss of @gibsonguitar Henry Juszkiewicz on #JeffRandallLive: Intention has always been to float company but want to do it properly #Gibson
Share markets seen opening a little lower ahead of UK GDP & US durable goods figures. Financial bookies: FTSE100 -15, DAX -19, CAC40 -12
Merlin, the owners of Legoland and Madame Tussauds, saw a 16.9% increase in group operating profit in 2011 - up to £231.4m
Lloyd's of London has reported a loss of £516m for 2011. That compares to a profit of £2.2bn the previous year.
Overall bookings from UK customers at Thomas Cook fell by 2% in 2011 compared to the previous year
Japanese electronics company #Sharp shares end 15.15% higher after deal with Taiwan's Hon Hai.
At the Digital Money Forum chairing this morning's session on the future of money. Preparing to be inspired and mildly baffled #DMF2012
The UK economy shrank by 0.3% in the final quarter of 2011 - that's worse than the previous estimate
UK GDP figures have been revised down to -0.3% for the final quarter of 2011
Listening to Anette Broløs, who's trying to encourage Denmark to ditch cash. Apparently cost of sustaining cash there is €2bn a yr
Real household disposable incomes fell by 1.2% in 2011 - the biggest drop since 1977
Gill Ringland: in worldwide survey of law aversion (eg do u sympathise with lawbreakers or police?) Athens was 1 of most law averse #DMF2012
Fascinating talk from futurologist Gill Ringland. She thinks it feasible that the world retreats into city states by 2050 #DMF2012
Now hearing from @davidwolman running through all the different groups of people who hate him for writing about "The End of Money" #DMF2012
Congratulations to Barlcays - the most complained about bank in the UK yet again. 281,484 unhappy customers in last 6 months of 2011.
Barclays is the most complained about individual bank (281,484) in 2nd half of 2011 but Lloyds Banking Group amassed 454,134.
Now I'm receiving complaints! Sorry. Barclays (not Barlcays) is the most complained about bank in the UK yet again.
FSA says 2.2 million complaints about UK banks in 2nd half of 2011. Up 21% on 1st 6 months. PPI the reason.
.@davidwolman: Cash will be like pay phone booths. Will just gradually become irrelevant. One day we'll walk by and wonder why it's there
The least complained about "big" bank appears to be Nationwide. 0.7 grumbles per 1000 accounts (vs 3.7 at Barclays).
Get ready for lower calls, texts & mobile internet abroad as the EU strikes a preliminary deal to reform mobile phone roaming fees
Panic buy at record prices. Petrol (140.7 pence) and diesel (146.9 pence) hit new highs at the pump.
EC and Parliament reach preliminary deal to lower mobile phone roaming charges from July onwards
I've found a profile of George Osborne in the Cornish Guardian 16 July 2008 which begins: "Sinking his teeth deep into a Cornish pasty..."
There are lunchtime queues for #fuel at the Tesco petrol station in Osterley, nr Sky's London HQ
Amazon says its UK sales of garden furniture have risen by 2,458% because of the recent good weather
Tonight on #JeffRandallLive, as the Govt comes under fire over tanker driver #strike advice we'll talk to @PwC_UK's crisis management boss
Jubilee milestone you won't want to celebrate: households facing biggest squeeze since '77... We'll discuss with economist Nick Parsons #GDP
Legacy or liability? We ask @londonchamber's boss Colin Stanbridge if the #Olympics can really deliver an #economic boost to the UK
The boss of @LloydsofLondon will discuss the cost of catastrophes as global disasters lead to a half billion pound co loss #JeffRandallLive
#BREAKING Italian tax police have seized assets worth more than €1.1bn belonging to members of the #Gaddafi family.
#BREAKING JetBlue suspends captain whose erratic behaviour caused Vegas-bound flight to be diverted yesterday
Government spokesman: #Libya produces 1.45 million barrels of oil per day