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Reports: Alan Sugar to get gov't enterprise post
Blog Sir Alan Sugar is to be given a role in government as 'enterprise czar', according to reports. The Amstrad tycoon will also be given a peerage, making him Lord Alan Sugar, the reports say. Details are sketchy at present, but the role appears to be...
[June 5, 2009, 12:16]
Reports: Alan Sugar to get gov't enterprise post
Blog Comment Alan Sugar’s appointment as ‘Enterprise Tsar’ is welcome news for entrepreneurs and SMEs in these difficult times, in the hope that his new role will ensure the government keeps the small business agenda at the forefront of economic policy.
[June 8, 2009, 8:45]
Alan Sugar and the secrets of the universe
Leader Alan Sugar, then as now Amstrad's ferociously populist head and the man responsible for more cheap CB radios, wonky audio centres and clanky video recorders than anyone outside the Far East, was as far removed from Seymour Cray as Colonel Sanders...
[May 8, 2007, 16:20]
New Labour sweet on Alan Sugar
News Sugar, who registered his approval of Labour shortly before the general election, was today accompanied by chancellor Gordon Brown as he made a speech to scholars at his old school in Hackney, east London.
[October 22, 1997, 15:04]
Mystery over Psion/Amstrad merger collapse
News Amstrad chief Alan Sugar was reported in The Times on Saturday that Psion had got "cold feet" over the deal. With Alan Sugar still at the helm, it would be a brave soul who bet against the Essex stunner reinventing itself in yet another profitable...
[July 29, 1996, 13:13]
Amstrad prepares next-gen e-m@iler
News Amstrad fell some way short of chairman Sir Alan Sugar's target of selling one million units by the middle of 2002. Back in September 2003, Sir Alan Sugar announced that a "new variant of the e-m@iler with additional revenue-earning functionality...
[January 5, 2004, 14:49]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This wireless telephone system has little left but a small gaggle of consumers and an out-of-date technology: so why, by all accounts, is Alan Sugar sniffing around the still-warm corpse? And Alan Sugar must realise that once the smoke clears from...
[November 7, 1998, 6:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News This wireless telephone system has little left but a small gaggle of consumers and an out-of-date technology: so why, by all accounts, is Alan Sugar sniffing around the still-warm corpse? And Alan Sugar must realise that once the smoke clears from...
[November 7, 1998, 6:39]
Return of Sugar may mean buying for Viglen
News Alan Sugar's legendary deal-making expertise is being called on to steady the Viglen ship. The London-based direct seller said yesterday that Sugar is assuming the post of executive chairman and a source close to the company suggests that will mean...
[February 12, 1998, 10:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog My old boss Alan Sugar is at it again. You can however send and receive emails with pictures attached or MMS messages, so there is some fun to be had even if your pals haven't shelled out for Sugar's latest sweetie.
[September 17, 2004, 17:30]
Amstrad still losing money on the e-m@iler
News This means that Amstrad never came close to achieving company chairman Alan Sugar's target of seeing "1 million e-m@ilers installed in British homes" by 2002. With the increasing e-m@iler base, we are now attracting more big brand advertisers such...
[September 25, 2003, 13:25]
Amstrad slashes price of e-m@iler
News Amstrad chairman Sir Alan Sugar declared that Amstrad would sell one million e-m@ilers by the middle of 2002, and some commentators predicted that Sugar was set to repeat the success of his Amstrad personal computers in the 1980s.
[January 2, 2003, 14:34]
Sugar not sweet on Viglen sale
News Although many pundits have suggested that Amstrad chief Alan Sugar is more interested in the performance of his Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the spokesman insisted that Sugar has no plans to switch his focus from PCs to FCs.
[April 21, 1997, 16:14]
Five years ago: Sugar not sweet on Viglen sale
News Although many pundits have suggested that Amstrad chief Alan Sugar is more interested in the performance of his Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the spokesman insisted that Sugar has no plans to switch his focus from PCs to FCs.
[April 22, 2002, 7:01]
BSkyB to buy Amstrad for £125m
News Amstrad chairman Sir Alan Sugar won't be fired, but will run the business for his new boss, BSkyB chief James Murdoch. Sugar still owns 27.9 percent of the company he founded in 1968, and will get £35m if the deal goes through.
[July 31, 2007, 13:15]
University computer cluster boosts Cern research
News The project at Queen Mary is backed by Sir Alan Sugar, the chairman of Viglen. Sir Alan, the technology entrepreneur who founded Amstrad, unveiled the cluster at the college's Mile End campus on Friday.
[May 8, 2007, 16:59]
Amstrad brings email to the masses
News Sir Alan Sugar, Amstrad's irrepressible director, said: "In true Amstrad tradition, the e-m@iler brings email to the mass market for the first time in an easy-to-use format at a very affordable price.
[March 29, 2000, 10:00]
Viglen sees Field Of Dreams as shares fail to soar
News Amstrad supremo Alan Sugar, who will sit on the Viglen board, told the board today that he is "not seeking to reduce his shareholding in the foreseeable future" because of the low valuation of the shares, according to a statement issued by...
[August 4, 1997, 17:08]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog We're dealing with Amstrad here, the surly offspring of Alan Sugar: which option do you think it'll take? Buy our phone or bog off -- you can almost hear the words tumble from Sir Alan's lips. TV interview.
[October 15, 2004, 19:15]
Fund Raising
Talkback Alan Sugar and Bill Gates are two of that band. I am appalled that those who have become rich on the back of Bletcley have failed/refused to fund Bletchley's needs. The signatories to the Times letter seem to have been backward in coming forward...
[September 9, 2008, 8:14]
