The Daher Group

Zara returns to Ukraine following 2-year closure

...Inditex has left Russia, once its second biggest market by store numbers after Spain, by selling roughly half of its 500-odd shops to the Daher Group of the United Arab Emirates and closing the rest....

March 1, 2024

News in-depthPuig SA

Marc Puig, the beauty boss giving his family wealth instead of power

...The IPO of the 110-year-old company comes at a time when Europe’s biggest family-backed beauty groups are navigating succession planning....

May 2, 2024

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Management consulting

Peter Mandelson’s advisory firm valued at £30mn in deal with ex-Obama aide

...The investment by the Messina Group, founded in 2013 by former Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, values Mandelson’s firm Global Counsel at about £30mn, said people close to the transaction....

April 17, 2024

News in-depthEnterprise software

The unstoppable rise of Fortnox: Swedish software group attracts short sellers

...At stake is the company’s market capitalisation which was $4.6bn on Tuesday, a 23 times multiple of forecast sales that has made it one of the world’s most highly valued software groups, more expensive on...

March 27, 2024

Bain Capital

Bain Capital promotes top dealmaker to co-managing partner

...Since 2016, Lavine and Connaughton, 58, have been co-managing partners of the group, overseeing its day-to-day operations....

March 27, 2024

News in-depthBayer AG

Bill Anderson: the Texan wrestling with Bayer’s mountain of pain

...what was once one of the world’s largest chemical groups and the pride of corporate Germany, with 100,000 employees and a market value that peaked at €121bn....

March 8, 2024

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Investments

Directors’ Deals: Yu Group bosses ditch shares

...Yu Group has had an extraordinary run since the pandemic....

May 3, 2024

L'Occitane International SA

L’Occitane owner offers to take skincare group private at €6.5bn valuation

...“The cosmetics sector is undergoing profound changes, and our company has significantly transformed into a geographically balanced multi-brand group,” Geiger said in a statement....

April 29, 2024

LexHelen Thomas

The Lex Newsletter: Big is still beautiful Premium

...Still, if you want proof that the bleating about London has gone too far, take a look at Wood Group....

April 17, 2024

Europe Express

A message from the IMF on how to fix the EU’s ‘limping’ single market Premium

...On Tuesday, prosecutors added a new probe into alleged ties between Orlen’s Swiss trading subsidiary and the Lebanese militant group Hizbollah....

May 2, 2024

Special ReportFTfm: Exchange Traded Funds

Women continue to lead the way in the ETF industry

...But the frankest account of why a women’s membership group was needed in the ETF industry — and why it helps to have men in the room — comes from Ross, an industry veteran who was behind the SPDR launch....

March 25, 2024

LexASML Holding NV

ASML’s poor quarter is not a good reason to fret about its future Premium

...This makes for uncomfortable reading, especially given the group’s strong share price run. Indeed, its stock fell about 6 per cent on Wednesday....

April 17, 2024

Puig SA

Puig aims for top-of-the-range €14bn valuation at IPO

...Sales figures from the first quarter of the year showed a wide divergence in performance between top luxury groups, with those more orientated towards wealthy shoppers faring better....

April 29, 2024

Lagardere Group

Arnaud Lagardère forced to resign executive roles after preliminary charges filed

...Lagardère’s directors will meet in the near future to take “all provisional measures required to ensure the group’s governance pending Arnaud Lagardère being able to resume the management of the group”,...

April 30, 2024

News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war

Border clashes prompt fears of Hizbollah joining Israel-Hamas war

...said Joseph Daher, an author and academic studying Hizbollah....

October 11, 2023

FT Live

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Letter

Letter: Europe wants Biden to lift the pause on LNG projects

...Craig Mackinlay MP Chair, Net Zero Scrutiny Group, House of Commons, London SW1, UK...

April 26, 2024

Moral Money

‘The whole institution is boiling’: Revolt inside a key climate target group Premium

...Blended capital flows fell to a 10-year low in 2022, according to the most recent estimates by research group Convergence....

April 12, 2024

FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen

Trump’s Truth Social hits the Nasdaq

...Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...

March 27, 2024

Oil & Gas industry

World’s most indebted oil group hits out at critics

...The company’s pool of investors for the bonds has dwindled, and much of the group’s longer dated paper remains firmly in distressed territory, below a widely recognised threshold of 70 cents on the dollar...

April 18, 2024

UBS Group AG

UBS shakes up Middle East wealth management team

...Daher had been head of the Middle East for Credit Suisse....

July 6, 2023

FT Magazine

The Opus Dei diaries

...It was started in 2020 by former members and recently expanded to the English-speaking world through a Reddit group, called Opus Dei Exposed. The group has hundreds of members....

March 16, 2024

News

Directors’ Deals: Dots director dashes for cash

...At the start of this year, Nanoco received the second payment worth $71.75mn and decided to return £30mn to shareholders through the tender offer, which was pitched at a 25 per cent premium to the share...

April 26, 2024

Management consulting

Former Tory leader William Hague joins corporate intelligence group Hakluyt

...and private equity groups....

April 18, 2024

London Stock Exchange Group

LSE Group investors back doubling chief’s pay to US levels

...London Stock Exchange Group’s shareholders have backed a proposal to double the pay of its chief executive to a maximum possible £13.1mn, making David Schwimmer one of the top-paid FTSE 100 bosses....

April 25, 2024

Embracer Group

Debt-strapped European games group Embracer plans 3-way split

...Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends, which holds film and gaming rights to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books as well as the Tomb Raider franchise, will remain part of the existing Embracer group....

April 22, 2024

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