Could this possibly be why G4S announced alongside its £85m pre-tax profits yesterday that its wholly owned Government Solutions division is subject to an “ongoing sale process”?
Form an orderly queue.
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Diary was interested to note an online report that Keith Hellawell, the chairman of Sports Direct, is scribbling away on his first crime novel.
After all, the “Dark Knight”, as the ex-policeman has been styled by the media thanks to his sombre suits and black Porsche 911 coupe, is not short of inspiration.
Before turning his talents to cut-price sportswear, Hellawell worked on the Yorkshire Ripper investigation in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a detective with West Yorkshire Police, before rising to become New Labour’s “Drugs Czar”.
Sadly, Mr Hellawell is proving resistant to Diary’s questioning – and the aide at Sport’s Direct’s corporate PR company is refusing to chase a response, because “that’s not my job”. Cop out.
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As co-chief of the US private equity firm TowerBrook Capital Partners, Ramez Sousou knows all about making an exit.
Fittingly, therefore, he has bowed out of the industry charity he founded, Impetus-The Private Equity Foundation, with the parting gift of a “sizeable donation”.
Mr Sousou, who is “inspired” by TowerBrook’s former owner, the billionaire philanthropist George Soros, is the giver who keeps on giving.
He has stepped down as an Impetus-PEF trustee to focus on his TowerBrook Foundation, the children’s charity that is funded by the multi-billion-dollar firm’s profits.
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Could we finally see an end to the unfair dismissal shoot-out between Aim entrepreneur Kate Bleasdale and her former employee, Debbie Forster?
According to the latest legal filings, District Judge Smart has given Forster, who claims she was “ousted” from a company called Stayput Solutions, permission to present bankruptcy petitions against Bleasdale and her husband, John Cariss, for £3.1m, ahead of a hearing on September 23.
Let’s hope it’s the last one.
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Tired of trading equities? Bored of bonds? Try champagne instead!
Woolf Sung, a London-listed fine wine dealer founded by the former Rothschilds associate Sebastian Woolf, put some fizz into the Footsie yesterday by predicting 10pc growth in the "relatively affordable" vintage champagne market over the next 12 months.
For once, bubbles are a good sign.
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harriet.dennys@telegraph.co.uk
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