Ford elects its first female member of founding family to its board of directors

Ford elects first female member of founding family to its board of directors: Investors hope Harvard-educated heiress, 33, can help turn around struggling automaker amid profits plunge Alexandra Ford English, 33, has been elected to Ford’s 14-person board of directors She is the great-great granddaughter of founder Henry Ford and the daughter of current Ford … Read more

Ford elects its first female member of founding family to its board of directors

Ford elects first female member of founding family to its board of directors: Investors hope Harvard-educated heiress, 33, can help turn around struggling automaker amid profits plunge Alexandra Ford English, 33, has been elected to Ford’s 14-person board of directors She is the great-great granddaughter of founder Henry Ford and the daughter of current Ford … Read more

Biden’s ambassador to the UN says white supremacy is ‘weaved’ into America’s ‘founding documents’

President Joe Biden’s ambassador to the United Nations (UN) has said that white supremacy is ‘weaved’ into America’s ‘founding documents’ because of the ‘original sin on slavery’. Speaking on Wednesday, US ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield pledged to prioritize efforts to combat racism both home and abroad. For the US to play an effective … Read more

Reggae star Bunny Wailer dies at 73: Founding member of the Wailers passes away

Reggae star Bunny Wailer dies at 73: Founding member of the Wailers passes away after he suffered second stroke last year The founding member of the Wailers died on Tuesday in his native Jamaica  He formed The Wailers in 1963 with late superstars Bob Marley and Peter Tosh The three-time Grammy winner died at the … Read more

The brave entrepreneurs founding new firms from the ashes of Covid

British businesses have faced some of their darkest days this year, as Covid-19 lockdown restrictions have battered the economy. In a poll conducted before the November lockdown, one in seven enterprises told the Office for National Statistics they had little or no confidence of surviving the next few months. Meanwhile, 1.69 million people were unemployed … Read more

Clarks shoes criticised for £13m payout to founding family before more than 1,000 job losses

Clarks shoes criticised for £13m payout to founding family before more than 1,000 job losses Family shareholders were paid £13.4m of dividends over two years  This was as the company racked up losses of £114.2m and made job losses Unions representing Clarks’ shop workers lashed out at the payments  By Tom Witherow For The Daily … Read more

Four Seasons founding member Tommy DeVito dies at 92 from coronavirus

Four Seasons founding member Tommy DeVito, known for the songs Walk Like A Man and Big Girls Don’t Cry, dies at 92 from the coronavirus DeVito has passed away at the age of 92 from complications of the coronavirus  The singer died in Las Vegas on Monday evening with family and friends nearby He was … Read more

Lockdown lifesavers from a silver superwoman: FEMAIL’S founding editor, 87, shares her blueprint

She’s the feminist pioneer and author who famously told women that life was ‘too short to stuff a mushroom’. Now Shirley Conran, who launched the Daily Mail’s Femail section in 1968, is applying that same no-nonsense approach to life in lockdown. Like some 3.8 million other over 65s, Shirley lives alone, and has now endured … Read more