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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Prologue: The man who had everything
Introduction: A spectacular past, an even more spectacular future
A note on shares
SECTION 1, 1906–1989: From humble beginnings
Chapter One: Secrets and lies
Chapter Two: The flying Irishman
Chapter Three: The starting point
Chapter Four: The worst turns out for the best
Chapter Five: The modern face of Heinz
Chapter Six: Becoming Independent
Chapter Seven: Crisis management and damage limitation
Chapter Eight: Like father, like son
Chapter Nine: A lasting legacy: the Ireland Funds
Chapter Ten: The Heinz model of management
Chapter Eleven: The search for liquid gold
Chapter Twelve: Making the news
Chapter Thirteen: Loss and change
SECTION 2, 1987–1999: Legend and branding
Chapter One: Empire-building: the rise of Independent Newspapers
Chapter Two: Love, again
Chapter Three: ‘Buy, borrow and buy’
Chapter Four: Absolute power at Heinz
Chapter Five: Playing the long game
Chapter Six: Into Africa
Chapter Seven: An intimation of mortality
Chapter Eight: Slings and arrows
Chapter Nine: Taking full control
Chapter Ten: Stepping down and moving on
Chapter Eleven: ‘For services to Northern Ireland’
SECTION 3, 2001–2006: A man for a new century
Chapter One: Best foot forward
Chapter Two: Dialling up the numbers for Eircom
Chapter Three: Win some, lose some
Chapter Four: Extracting the maximum from Eircom
Chapter Five: Favouring old media
Chapter Six: Falling out of fashion
Chapter Seven: The case for The Independent
Chapter Eight: All the government’s fault?
Chapter Nine: Ringing more changes at Eircom
Chapter Ten: The sound of breaking glass: the truth about Waterford Wedgwood
Chapter Eleven: A question of trust
SECTION 4, 2006–2009: A threat to all he’d built
Chapter One: Exits and new strategies
Chapter Two: The politics of big business, the business of politics
Chapter Three: Corporate provocation
Chapter Four: Watershed
Chapter Five: Collapse
SECTION 5, 2009–2015: ‘If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same …’
Chapter One: The battle lines are drawn
Chapter Two: A new order emerges
Chapter Three: A shot to nothing
Chapter Four: A very public humiliation
Chapter Five: Insults heaped on injuries
Epilogue: the life of a maximalist
Images
Select bibliography
Acknowledgements
Copyright
About the Author
About Gill & Macmillan
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