Unemployment is lower than US and Spain, IMD director tells CIPD conference
The UK has escaped relatively lightly in terms of unemployment in the recession, even though it recorded a bigger fall in GDP than most major countries, delegates at the CIPD annual conference heard. Up to 50 million jobs have been lost globally since 2007 in “the mother of all crises” for the global economy, said Suzanne Rosselet-McCauley, deputy director of the World Competitiveness Centre at the IMD business school.
 
 

I will now be taking some time out with my family to consider my future options, but you can be sure my heart will always be a deep Cadbury purple    

Cadbury chief executive Todd Stitzer, announcing his resignation after the Kraft takeover