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E-mail ban pledge


Chocolate maker Nestlé Rowntree has reassured suppliers it will respond to e-mails on a Friday - despite a ban on staff using internal e-mails on that day. The division of the giant Nestlé group is using its “no-e-mail-Fridays” to see if productivity can be improved by forcing employees into face-to-face communication.
OFT fine for Napp


Napp Pharmaceuticals has been fined £3.21 million by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for abusing a dominant market position. The company was found to have supplied sustained release morphine to patients at excessively high prices, while at the same time supplying the drug to hospitals at discount levels.
Return to tenders


The Ministry of Defence is inviting tenders for 10,000 army trucks worth a total of £2 billion. The move follows the MoD’s decision that a private finance initiative scheme would not meet the army’s requirements and represent best value for money for the taxpayer.
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