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Baugur’s Monaco Party 2007 (Video) →  November 18, 2009 2

Don’t you just long for the good old times of 2007? Watch here at Daily Motion

For The Love Of Baugur’s Money →  November 16, 2009 1

The love hate relationship between the Independence Party and Jon Asgeir Johannesson’s Baugur gets stranger every day. The right wing politicians of the Independence Party loves to blame everything that is wrong with Iceland on Jon Asgeir and Baugur. If you believe what they say in the media then you’d deduct that they actually hate the [...]

The Banana Republic Of Iceland (Video) →  September 27, 2009 1

The new video from Jon Gerald Sullenberger.

Burning Range Rover →  August 22, 2009 0

Apparantly splashing red paint on the houses of financial sorcerers isn’t enough anymore. Three men were caught on tape in the investigation of  Stefan Hilmarsson’s Range Rover burning this week. Stefan has been Baugur’s CFO and deputy CEO for years, and supposedly getting ready to start working at 365 media, the publishers of Frettabladid and Channel [...]

Bizarre News?: Hamleys picks ex-Baugur chief as chairman after board shake-up →  July 3, 2009 0

Hamleys has appointed Gunnar Sigurdsson, director of failed Icelandic retail investor and former shareholder Baugur, as chairman. Sigurdsson has been hired after a shake-up of the board that resulted in the departure of two directors, as well as around 20 head office staff. From Retail Week It was the Landsbankinn solvency committee that appointed Gunnar. Bizarre world ain’t [...]

→  May 23, 2009 0

Perhaps we should have expected a little more discretion this time round given the waves of publicity that battered his last venture, but it seems the new company is being so discreet it risks disappearing all together. Jon’s new company first appeared on Companies House as Foldtown, based at 41 Chalton Street, London. It then changed [...]

→  May 18, 2009 2

  British fashion mogul Karen Millen has provided many aspiring businesswomen with a suitable look to ascend the heights of corporatism. But questions are now being asked about her role in Byr Savings & Loan in Iceland.  Byr S&L saw the light of day through the merger of Hafnarfjordur’s S&L and the Machinists’ S&L when charter members [...]

→  May 6, 2009 0

Jon Lund, the head of the Danish Internet Advertising Bureau, and I had dinner in Norway last week and he told me the chilling story of the crazy free newspaper war in Denmark that almost killed everyone involved. I thought it was an important cautionary tale of Free gone wrong, and I encouraged him to [...]

→  May 1, 2009 0

Iceland has an alcoholic psyche. The shared Icelandic alcoholism presents itself in co-dependence, denial and massive self-delusion. The self-delusion lead us to think that we had it all figured out, that we could drink more than everyone before us in history without suffering the hangovers. Co-dependence tied us strongly together in masking the problems, shushing the voices [...]

→  April 22, 2009 1

One major factor in why people should think twice about voting for the same old parties is that they haven’t managed to be transparent about who are paying their way.  Fortunately Channel 2 has decided to inform voters about the six politicians from the Independence Party, Social Democrats and the Progressive Party who were sponsored by [...]