Blue Arrow plc : investigation under section 432(2) of the Companies Act 1985 : report
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Blue Arrow plc : investigation under section 432(2) of the Companies Act 1985 : report
HMSO, 1991
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Inspectors' report on Blue Arrow plc
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At head of title: Department of Trade and Industry
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A comprehensive investigative report into the affairs of Blue Arrow plc and the events and characters involved in them, principally between 1987 and 1989. The main area covered is the takeover of the American company Manpower Inc, achieved by a #837 million rights issue, which made Blue Arrow plc, under the chairmanship of Tony Berry, the largest temporary employment services group in the world. This achievement proved to be short lived, Mr Berry was compelled to resign from the company and Blue Arrow has now undergone an almost total demise. The task of the inspectors appointed by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry was to unravel this corporate story and find out what went wrong. Their conclusions are set out in this report.
Table of Contents
- History and consequences of the Manpower takeover - timetable of events and details of the inquiry
- the Canvey transaction
- Blue Arrow challenge
- property transactions in Portugal
- Blue Arrow, Mr Berry and Tottenham Hotspur plc
- transactions involving Blue Arrow, Mr Berry and Mr Michael Ashcroft
- Blue Arrow, Mr Berry and the Levitt Group (Holdings) plc
- the corporate operation and direction of Blue Arrow after the Manpower takeover
- Mr Fromstein, Manpower and Blue Arrow
- the crisis period leading to Mr Berry's removal as Chief Executive of Blue Arrow
- events following Mr Fromstein's return
- overall conclusions.
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