The former chairman of ICI has been offering advice to everyone from fruit sellers to factory owners.

Companies GAF's chairman offered to buy the company for $2.3 billion, almost all of it in cash.

Money managers here complain that the company's chairman, Ron Sommer, has offered little explanation of its plan for expansion.

They cheered him as he entered the room, and the chairman offered him a 'wee dram of whisky'.

The club's chairman had offered a trip to Las Vegas if they should make it 11.

The chairman also offered the President or his lawyers the chance to appear before the committee.

As for the loans, Mr. Weingarten said, "If the chairman of the board offers you a relocation loan, who's to say he can't do that?"

It seems that most chairmen do offer a brief explanation of the tribunal's procedures, though these may be rather perfunctory.

It was later disclosed that the then chairman, Ron Bendall, had offered him a revised, shorter term, contract, which he had refused to accept.

The chairman of the Sony Corporation, one of Japan's most astonishing business success stories, offered a stark view of the future.