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Thus and BT eye C&W's spurned customers

...customers. By focusing just on the largest companies and organisations, chief executive John Pluthero hopes to boost C&W's profitability. According to C&W... Read more

2 March, 2006 by Graeme Wearden

Mass layoffs await at troubled Cable and Wireless

...Tuesday as the telco refocuses on large companies rather than smaller firms. John Pluthero has already warned staff that 485 positions have been earmarked for... Read more

27 February, 2006 by Graeme Wearden

Freeserve attacks AOL over UK customer claims

...is part of French ISP Wanadoo, whose majority shareholder is France Telecom. John Pluthero, chief executive of Freeserve, suggested in a statement that AOL has... Read more

22 January, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Freeserve keeps check on AOL's VAT saving

...European Union - a status available to any other similarly positioned service provider." John Pluthero, Freeserve's chief executive, has already asked the government to change... Read more

21 August, 2001 by Graeme Wearden

Eye2Eye: Freeserve chief John Pluthero talks to ZDNet UK News

...the man who turned the UK Internet access model on its head. John Pluthero, 36-year-old CEO of Freeserve, talks to Richard Barry about... Read more

8 March, 2000 by Richard Barry

Eye2Eye: John Pluthero talks to ZDNet, Part III

In part three, John Pluthero talks about Oftel's role, what he told Tony Blair and... Read more

10 March, 2000 by Richard Barry

Eye2Eye: John Pluthero talks to ZDNet Part II

In part one, John Pluthero talked about the battle for unmetered narrowband access in the UK... Read more

9 March, 2000 by Richard Barry

Energis backs calls for BT break-up

...structural separation is achievable - we should just get on with it," said John Pluthero, chief executive of Energis. Energis was giving its opinion in response... Read more

7 February, 2005 by Graeme Wearden

Freeserve loses two founders

...fee. Mark Danby has already left the firm, leaving only chief exectuive John Pluthero, the outspoken chief executive, as an original founder. Last week Freeserve... Read more

30 April, 2001 by Jane Wakefield

Freeserve to respond exclusively on ZDNet

Following an exclusive Eye2Eye interview with ZDNet last week, Freeserve chief executive John Pluthero has responded to erroneous reports suggesting that the company is about... Read more

7 March, 2000 by Richard Barry

No merit in C&W's mega bonuses

...return for turning the struggling company around. An individual director such as John Pluthero could pocket £22m if he manages to help double the company... Read more

16 May, 2006 by Leader

Unions attack C&W bonus plan

...its workforce over the next four to five years, and UK chairman John Pluthero warned staff the following year would be "hell". Responding to criticism... Read more

15 May, 2006 by David Meyer

BT reaches out to stranded C&W customers

...as part of the restructuring plans announced by C&W UK chairman John Pluthero, which saw the telco's UK workforce cut by half. BT... Read more

9 March, 2006 by Jo Best

No spoonful of sugar for Cable & Wireless staff

...layers of management, we will need fewer people to run the business." John Pluthero, the new head of Cable and Wireless, certainly knows how to... Read more

28 February, 2006 by Leader

C&W announces massive UK staff cull

...The official announcement follows a leaked memo from C&W UK chairman John Pluthero to staff, which warned "this is no longer a place for... Read more

28 February, 2006 by Andy McCue

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