1.   Three of its board directors have also taken on additional responsibilities and have duly been retitled group executive directors.

2.   Group director responsible for Engineering Contracting, Engineering Design and Fire Protection.

3.   Group director responsible for the Gas Turbine and Engineering Services Divisions.

4.   Group director responsible for Drilling and Production Services.

5.   Group director responsible for Business Development.

6.   Harry Lister, group managing director, paid tribute to the support received from both the Welsh Office and the Welsh Development Agency.

7.   The group finance director, Richard Dickinson, is retiring at the annual meeting in April, to be replaced by his deputy, William Hoskins.

8.   Beth Climo, group director for financial industry affairs with the American Bankers Association, disputes the notion that creditors offer credit indiscriminately.

9.   Before that, he worked at Scali, McCabe, Sloves in New York as an executive vice president and group creative director.

10.   Bours had been group creative director at DDB Worldwide Communications Group, New York, part of Omnicom.