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Profile:Dame Mary Perkins, Specsavers

Dame Mary Perkins, founder of Specsavers

Founder of £1bn chain of opticians explains how she once took the Queen Mary 2 to visit the company's stores

Can a chauffeur company ever be green?

Several companies are aiming to capitalise on demand for environmentally friendly alternatives to gas-guzzlers

How the slump has affected business travel

Some companies are banning travel while the former focus on green business travel seems to have been forgotten

James Caan

How to minimise risk

James Caan's five part series on doing business in a tough climate

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Aircraft queuing for take-off at Londons Heathrow airport

Air France cancels half of all flights

Pilots from the French national carrier have called a four-day strike, forcing the airline to axe services

Double miles on Jet Airways' Delhi/Mumbai flights

Indian carrier also signs reciprocal earn and burn deal with United Airlines

Northwest to end Heathrow-Seattle flights

Airline, which has just merged with rival Delta, announces end of non-stop services just five months after launch

EasyJet and Virgin team up for Gatwick bid

The airlines are teaming up to support a bid for the airport as the site is put under the hammer with a £2.5 billion tag

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Duncan Tait, UK managing director of Unisys

Profile: Duncan Tait of Unisys

The technology boss stays in pubs rather than chain hotels and claims to have the world's smallest toilet bag

Peter Littlewood of Bulldog

Profile: Peter Littlewood of Bulldog

Being responsible for renaming Marathons as Snickers, he once needed a bodyguard on his travels. The men's grooming world is a safer place

Profile: Carl-Olav Scheible, PayPal

The payments company's UK MD has bumped into many celebs on his business trips but always leaves them alone

Profile: Martin Dove, Merchants

"I’ll always watch half a film and can never remember what I’ve seen," says the boss of the call centre consultancy

The Green Rush. Is going green still good for profits? This week: Jason Gissing of Ocado

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Why hotel rates in Europe may at last come down

Rates in Europe's business hotels have seemed to rise inexorably in recent years. That may be about to change

Review: The Ellington, Leeds

Leeds' financial district gets a new five-star hideaway that's more New Orleans than Yorkshire

KLM to launch thrice daily Liverpool-Schiphol flights

Launch marks a return to the route after a gap of 75 years

Bmi to end Manchester-Chicago services

Other long-haul routes from the city will also disappear next year

British Airways to reduce Gatwick services, cut Kolkata and Dhaka routes

Airline will reduce overall capacity on its network by 1% next summer

Afford business class? Hire a private jet

A new service claims to provide cut-price CEO-style travel. Stephen Bleach takes off

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Funky light fittings at the Ellington in Leeds

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The latest review: Ellington, Leeds plus 11 more reviews