Tadpole's leap-frog to the top: last year Tadpole Technology won a couple of industry awards, landed some very big contracts and added another superlative product to its powerful range of workstations and PCs. Yet its share price went south

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Tadpole Technology based in Cambridge introduced the first portable workstation and has recently developed the world's fastest notebook PC. It targets the corporate market and is concentrating on high growth sectors, the workstation market and portable PCs. It has invested some 7.6 million pounds sterling on R&D and it has gained major contracts, including the supply of its latest SPARCbook model to the US Air Force. However the company had to cut its profit forecast for the year to September 1995 and a delay in the launch of the P1000 caused turnover to fall.

Computers, Electronic Computer Manufacturing, Computer industry, Finance, Tadpole Technology PLC

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A very civil aviator

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British Airways (BA) has been very successful in improving its reputation among its customers, according to chief executive Robert Ayling. He has taken on this position at a time when the company is performing very well, and this makes it harder for him to justify making any wide-reaching changes. However, he has put to the BA board four objectives for building on the company's present success, and aims for BA to become the best managed company in the UK by the end of the 1990s.

Scheduled Airlines, Scheduled Air Transportation, Air Transportation, Scheduled, And Air Courier Services, Management, Officials and employees, Airlines, Interview, British Airways PLC, Ayling, Robert

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Have we killed the share option?

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Many UK business leaders believe that the government's decision to change the tax status of executive share options will have a negative impact, causing problems for lower-paid staff and for small businesses by abolishing the favourable terms which made the share option popular. Some observers even believe that the executive share option may gradually die out altogether. Others welcome the government's move, seeing the executive share option as elitist.

Taxation, Employee stock options

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