Dave Lewis — speaking at today’s CBI conference — may be a slick marketing man but apparently he’s going to get a bit hairier this month.
Spy understands that the Tesco chief executive is getting into “Movember” in a big way — although apparently he’s undecided about whether to opt for a moustache or go the whole hog and bush up with a full-on beard.
It immediately got Spy thinking — will he go for the Salvador Dali-esque tweaked effort? Or will he choose the Australian fast-bowler-with-a-handlebar look à la Mitchell Johnson or, for those of a certain vintage, Merv Hughes?
Turning a blind eye to Mila — honest!
Most articles on emerald and ruby miner Gemfields are accompanied by a picture of its glamorous brand ambassador, Hollywood actress Mila Kunis.
But Jonathan Williams at RFC Ambrian claimed “we’re way past that phase here”, adding that the natural resources broker would instead concentrate on the serious stuff. “Thus, below we have included a totally random picture of someone wearing a watch,” said Williams, above a shot of Kunis.
Spy would like to state for the record that this column is above that sort of thing. But to remind you what she looks like, here’s a picture.
Osborne’s not so hot about the workers
Most weeks can’t go by without George Osborne being snapped in a high-vis jacket, looking at machines. So why hasn’t he been seen glad-handing the workers recently?
One City mole says the Chancellor and Business Secretary Sajid Javid have refused all meetings with businesses in recent weeks. Osborne’s Treasury also hasn’t bothered replacing a staffer who recently finished a secondment from the London Mayor’s office to deal with business liaisons, our deepthroat reports. Spy wonders whether the highly stage-managed Chancellor is worried he might come face to face with some of the low-paid workers who will lose out from his tax credit crusade?
* The bulletin board inquiry began by LGO Energy’s evangelical shareholders into which online user, hiding under an alias, was the real Dave Tennison, the England rugby team kit man who urged players to pile into the David Lenigas-founded oil minnow’s stock even as it tumbled. One LGO follower joked: “Did the team think LGO stood for Lancaster Gas & Oil and become confused?”
