21.   Group chairman Serge Marx was absent from group headquarters, and no confirmation could be obtained of the decision.

22.   Group chairman Serge Trigano said recently he wanted to sell six to eight villages over three years, while retaining management of them.

23.   Group chairman Sir Christopher Tugendhat said he did not expect rapid growth of property loans this year.

24.   Group chairman Sir Ralph Robins said that the improvement in results followed restructuring.

25.   Group chairman Solomon Lew said the company had given long and careful consideration to its options for disposal of the buy-back shares.

26.   Group chairman Pierre Suard has been charged with various offenses and is barred by justice authorities from carrying out his duties as chairman.

27.   He said the agreement was made at a meeting late Wednesday between Hyundai group chairman Chung Mong-Koo and John McDonnell, chairman of the US company.

28.   Hyundai group chairman Chung Se-Yung is in Hanoi to finalize details on joint ventures in steel pipe, ship repairs and car assembly.

29.   HSBC group chairman Sir William Purves declined to say whether the increase in provisions at Midland bank was to cover exposure to Eurotunnel plc.

30.   But group chairman Manfred Bischoff insisted in talking to correspondents that the return to profitability was only a hope, and not a certainty.