Alice said “The group has a systemic and intense business approach set to music by Zillah Byng-Thorne, a woman with a strong personality. All avenues are explored, from e-commerce to advertising, including events, content syndication and the traditional activity of selling magazines."
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Claire Enders was quoted in the Financial Times on "Adam Crozier to take over as BT chair as it awaits Altice move"
18 August 2021Claire said Crozier would bring a great deal of experience to the BT boardroom. “He is an excellent strategist through challenges and change and a deft hand with regulators, government stakeholders and pension fund trustees."
Claire Enders was quoted in The Guardian on "Can Adam Crozier help connect BT to a bright future?"
18 August 2021Claire believes that Crozier and Jansen are cut from a similar cloth and should make a strong team.
“I think their management and personality styles are actually very similar and are along the same lines. They are very smooth, calm, process-driven. With only three years’ age difference I think they will get on very well. Adam has dealt with a panoply of stakeholders similar to BT – Ofcom, government, pension fund trustees – he has a lot of familiarity with complexity and is seasoned in terms of crises.”
China's anti-monopoly drive: Reining in the champions
18 August 2021After China updated its Anti-Monopoly Law to cover platform companies, the Government is bringing to heel privately owned ‘national champions’, including via antitrust measures in their home market—the key source of their astronomical cash flow—and through interference in their expansion outside China
China lacks any tradition of anti-monopoly activity, given its gradual shift to the market from state-owned enterprises, it offers an example of theory in practice for antitrust reformers targeting platforms in the West
The global implications are huge: up to $2 trillion of Wall Street shares are exposed as China tightens controls on foreign IPOs. Regulators could also use enhanced antitrust powers to disrupt global dealmaking for economic leverage
Market revenue growth bounced back to 4% in Q2, the first positive growth for the sector since 2019 .
Most of the improvement was however temporary sports channel bounceback, with underlying growth still negative.
Prospects are nonetheless healthy, with price increases now regular, backbook pressure annualising out, and ultrafast boosts growing.
James said "The traditional analogue landline signal is carried over copper - that's what it is. And so if you go to fibre, you have to do something else and [voice over internet protocol (VOIP)] is the obvious thing."
He added that customers should not notice a drop in quality compared with the PSTN system, "They should be at least as good, possibly better."
Douglas McCabe was quoted in the Financial Times on "Local newsrooms still holding the front page for recovery"
16 August 2021Douglas said booming ecommerce during the pandemic had spurred digital advertising, while revenue from print newspapers “has fallen dramatically over 10 years, so there’s not so much left to fall off”. “Investors are starting to think maybe there is something there . . . and you could not say that two years ago."
Joseph Evans was quoted in The Times on "Young pretenders line up to challenge the Big Six"
16 August 2021Joseph said the chasing pack had attracted new users during the pandemic, but he did not foresee Facebook “losing significant market share” any time soon. “Other businesses will have an element that is better than Facebook: TikTok has a killer young audience and Twitter’s ads are cheaper, but Facebook is an irresistible force and an immovable object has yet to appear in its path.”