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Article

6 Jul 2005

Author:
Jonathan Moules, Financial Times

Business leaders add their voices on trade

More than 100 captains of British industry have joined the call for greater trade, aid and debt relief to Africa with their own petition to the G8 leaders meeting in Scotland on Wednesday...Advertisements printed in the Financial Times and other newspapers urged businesspeople to join the roll call of well-known executives by sending an e-mail with their name. Niall Fitzgerald, chairman of media group Reuters, and Sir Richard Branson, his equivalent at Virgin, were among those named in the press advertisements. [also refers to WPP]

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