Results from BaBar and Belle and LHCb, ongoing work at Fermilab drive our interest in b-quark phenomenology, especially CP-violation and the CKM matrix. Our work includes developing and exploiting our factorisation formalism for two-body hadronic decays such as B -> pi pi and B -> pi K, and extracting the CKM matrix element Vub from combined experimental and theoretical results for exclusive semileptonic B -> pi decays. We have active links with the LHCb group at RAL.