Finance News Archive

09-Sep-2005

• 'Northwest Airlines Names David M. Davis Senior Vice President - Finance and Controller (RedNova)
EAGAN, Minn., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Northwest Airlines today announced that it has named David M. Davis as its new senior vice president - Finance and controller. Davis will be responsible for the airline's accounting, financial planning, analysis and fleet planning functions.
• 'Mitie Says Finance Director McGregor-Smith to Take on COO Role (Bloomberg.com)
U.K. Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Mitie Group Plc, the U.K. cleaner and caterer whose clients include Tesco Plc, said Finance Director Ruby McGregor-Smith will take on the role of chief operating officer once a replacement for her has been found.
• 'San Diego finance, IT execs expect to add staff during fourth quarter (San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News)
Eight percent of chief financial officers in the San Diego area expect to hire finance professionals, and 12 percent of chief information officers expect to hire IT professionals in the fourth quarter of 2005, according to Robert Half International financial hiring indexes and IT hiring index.
• 'APEC Finance Chiefs Call for More Flexible Currencies (Update4) (Bloomberg.com)
Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Asia-Pacific finance chiefs said developing economies in Asia should relax exchange-rate controls when conditions are suitable, having earlier proposed that the economies in question could move as and when they see fit.
• 'Oil prices, terror funds, pact, on EU finance agenda (AFP via Yahoo! News)
EU finance ministers meet in Britain to discuss the impact of rising oil prices, the pace of moves to block terror financing and Portugal's budgetary problems.
• 'Rohm and Haas Company Begins Exchange Offer for 6.0 Percent Notes of Rohm and Haas Denmark Finance A/S Due March 2007 (ChemPoint)
PHILADELPHIA -- August 23, 2005 - Rohm and Haas Company today announced that it has launched an exchange offer outside the United States to existing holders of euro 400 million in Rohm and Haas Denmark Finance 6.0 percent euro notes due March 9, 2007. The company is offering existing holders of the 2007 notes the opportunity to exchange the 2007 notes for Rohm and Haas Company 7-year