Sphere No.36 (Oct 2014) - page 6

Sphere #36 2014 04
NEWS
Telecoms
3 Ireland completes
acquisition of O 2 in Ireland
3 Ireland has completed the acquisition of O2 in Ireland, taking 3 Ireland’s
market share to 37 per cent and raising subscriber numbers to over two million
active users.
“This is a big day for the Irish telecoms market,” said Robert Finnegan,
CEO of 3 Ireland. “We will now get down to the task of combining the
strengths and talents of the two businesses to create a major force in the Irish
mobile market, which will be good for competition, good for consumers and
good for Ireland.”
Powerful Prizes II: Enterprise
NorthumbrianWater received the
Queen’s Award for Enterprise, one of the
most prestigious business awards in the
United Kingdom. This is the second time
NorthumbrianWater has received the
accolade in the sustainable development
category. A celebratory reception was held
at Buckingham Palace. Heidi Mottram,
Chief Executive Officer of Northumbrian
Water, had an audience with Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II to receive the award.
value looking at sales, profits, assets and
market value.
Fortunetakes a different approach,
ranking firms by revenue, and recently
ranked HWL in 363rd position in its
FortuneGlobal 500 – 2014World’s Largest
Corporations. When ranked within
Chinese companies only, HWL was placed
in 70th position in the FortuneGlobal 500.
Infrastructure
Powerful Prizes I: Utility Star
UK Power Networks won four awards at
the inaugural Utility WeekStars Awards
2014. The company received “Team of the
Year (Operational)”, “Team of the Year
(Customer Facing)”, and the “Customer
Service” award. Morris Temple, a tower
linesman with 52 years of experience, was
joint winner of the “Long Service” award.
Corporate
HutchisonWhampoa:
Global and Rising
HutchisonWhampoa has continuously
been recognised as one of the most
influential companies around the world.
HWL was recently placed 136th in the
2014 ForbesGlobal 2000 ranking. The
Forbesranking is a comprehensive list of
the world’s largest, most powerful public
companies as measured by a composite