As the Lloyds share sale sweeteners that could get you £200 back on a £1,000 invested are revealed, we take a look at the bank - along with a fund manager's view that the UK will do well.

Gem Misa, co-founder of Cauli Rice, a start-up producing ready-made cauliflower 'rice', is among the winners of this year's Virgin StartUp Foodpreneur Festival competition. Virgin StartUp, a non-profit firm providing funding and support for entrepreneurs, is giving the winners the chance to meet buyers at US discount retailing giant Target Corporation, who are seeking up to four new products to try out in its stores.

Hayward will be best remembered by shareholders as the boss who went off yachting around the Isle of White while the company's value drained away following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. What is remarkable is that despite all of this investors gave the nod to him becoming chairman of resources and commodity trading giant Glencore after his predecessor, former French legionnaire Simon Murray, was forced to retreat in a cloud of smoke.

Barclays chairman John McFarlane clearly has decided if you are going to own a world class investment bank you might as well have a Master of the Universe to run it. The 'go to' bank becomes the second poorly-led British lender to look to JP Morgan discards for leadership.

Martin-Baker, based in Denham, Middlesex, has saved a remarkable 7,486 aviators since the first in-flight use of an ejection seat in May 1949 by Jo Lancaster in an Armstrong Whitworth. Saving lives remains the company's ethos to this day. A running tally of the number of successful ejections - 30 this year alone - resides in Martin-Baker's office reception, which is tucked away at the end of a quiet residential road near Uxbridge.

The social media giant paid just over £4,000 last year in UK corporate taxes. Such behaviour is usually perfectly legal, it is the rules that are outmoded. Defenders of Facebook's tiny tax payment argue that the company is investing and creating jobs here, so why complain?

A group of blue chip investors attempted to press for change at the top of the global banking giant, including a plan for succession for CEO Stuart Gulliver (pictured) and chairman Douglas Flint. They hoped to put pressure on HSBC via lobby group the Investor Forum - which recently turned its sights on embattled commodities trader Glencore.

More than five years after the British public ejected him from office, blaming Labour for the banking crisis, Brown's legacy still has unsung resonance in international finance. There is no way the former prime minister is ever going to be managing director of the International Monetary Fund as once seemed likely.

The only people who use it are those who are excluded or alienated from the digital age - the poor and the elderly. For the operators of 118 118 these consumers are fish in a barrel. The profits from the service are by any measure extraordinary. The profit margin for this company is almost 90 per cent. Even a pre-crash banker would goggle at such a margin.

Lagarde is the first woman to hold the job and she also has worked enormously hard to make the IMF appear to be a kinder and gentler institution. In the not so distant past it might have been impossible, for instance, for the IMF to holds its annual gathering in Latin America because of the sheer hatred among the populus of its policies.

Poundland CEO Jim McCarthy lives his life by the mantra of extracting the last drop of value from everything which has helped the store become the largest of its type in Europe. The business floated in March 2014 when its shares jumped 19 per cent on their debut. Since then, annual profits have grown to £36m from £21m and the firm has expanded to 528 stores.