Either He Goes ...Or I Do ; the Odds Are Stacked Against Vodafone Chief Arun Sarin . . . Growth Is Sluggish, the Share Price Is Sliding and the Chairman Is Considering the Toughest Ultimatum

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Someone has got it in for Arun Sarin, the Vodafone boss. With a dire share price performance, a Pounds 28 billion asset write-off and lacklustre growth in its biggest markets, that might seem blindingly obvious. Add to that calls by shareholders for a total change in strategy, and even Inspector Clouseau might be able to round up a suspect or two.

But what is happening at the world's biggest mobile phones group is very strange.

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Either He Goes ...Or I Do ; the Odds Are Stacked Against Vodafone Chief Arun Sarin . . . Growth Is Sluggish, the Share Price Is Sliding and the Chairman Is Considering the Toughest Ultimatum

Since before last November, rumours have been circulating in the City that chairman Lord MacLaurin has lost confidence in Sarin and has been trying to build a consensus on Vodafone's multinational board to oust him.

It has even been rumoured that Mac-Laurin, the fe...

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