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...Disney is facing proxy battles with Nelson Peltz’s Trian Partners and Blackwells Capital, which are seeking board seats and other changes aimed at boosting its share price....
...Blackwells Capital, the second activist, has put up its own slate of three directors for the board....
...The company recently won the support of investor ValueAct Capital, but another activist firm, Blackwells Capital, said this month that it would put forward its own slate of nominees at the shareholder meeting...
...Christopher Wellise, head of sustainability at the global data centre operator Equinix, said the company engages with governments around the world about managing energy usage....
...Christopher Croft Chief Executive, LIIBA London EC3, UK...
...Angus Suttie stoneware teapot, £3,500, at Oxford Ceramics Adam Buick stoneware Vessel with Slate Inclusion II (2020), £2,800, at Sarah Myerscough Gallery Wabi Inspirations by Axel Vervoordt, £30.99, at Blackwell...
...’s, Oxford Founded in 1879, Blackwell’s has been selling books to Oxford students and residents since the first lightbulb was invented....
...City Insider’s spy thought he heard Horta-Osório talking to a serial FTSE 100 chairman about chairing Lloyds, just as the selection process begins to replace Norman Blackwell at the head of the bank’s board...
...R Goodfellow, Surrey Crossword 16,158: John Johnston, New York; Annie Baker, London; Sebastian MacKay, Edinburgh Polymath 1,020: Abizer Nasir, London Crossword 16,152: Roger Clews, London; Vivienne Blackwell...
...Sir Christopher Hohn’s hedge fund has sold the majority of its stake in the London Stock Exchange Group, just months after failing in its attempts to remove its chairman....
...Christopher de Hamel is author of ‘Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts’ (Allen Lane)....
...Tickets are available online, from the Blackwell’s box office at the festival, or by calling 0870 343 1001....
...Whitbread said on Tuesday that Christopher Rogers, who was appointed managing director of the coffee chain in November 2012, would step down to be replaced by Dominic Paul, who joins from Royal Caribbean...
...Tickets are available from the website, from the festival box office in the Blackwell’s marquee, or by telephone: 0333 666 3366....
...With shares down to 18p for the first time in a year, finance director Christopher Lee joined his colleagues in buying on Monday....
...Inside, they can enjoy the new Blackwell Hall, a grand, double-height exhibition space, atop which the bookstacks are visible on glazed walkways known as The Floating Stack....
...Edith Holden Blackwell, the original Edwardian Country Lady, would surely approve....
...Not if we follow the analysis in Christopher Clark’s groundbreaking book The Sleepwalkers (2012)....
...Plaid shirt wearers included keynote speaker Christopher Poole, founder of message board 4Chan, and Joshua Huck of Lamebook.com....
...Atheists: A Non-Believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion, by Alain de Botton, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99, 320 pages The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in our Strange World, by Gavin Flood, Wiley-Blackwell...
...Christopher Moat, chief executive, said that banks, which had demanded a cut in fees charged by IVA providers three years ago, were becoming more willing to accept the arrangements....
...Christopher Winn, chairman, said the company was committed to improve dividend levels following the cut two years ago as it struggled with debt after the £9m ($13m) acquisition of Retail Business Solutions...
...Christopher Moat, chief executive, said that the banks, which had demanded a reduction in the fees charged by IVA providers at the end of 2007, were beginning to see the merits of the arrangements....
...Christopher Bogart, one of Burford’s principals, said £200m had never been a target, and that the money raised was “more than enough capital for us to do what we planned to do....
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