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Consumers more choosy as economic weakness and end of revenge buying hits groups from LVMH to Kering
Empire built by Franco-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi is seeking €500mn from investors
The French retail tycoon is about to be wiped out as part of a bailout of his cash-strapped empire
Two competing groups offer cash injections as French supermarket races to restructure debts
French food retailer warns that shareholders will be ‘massively’ diluted
...Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, considered the development “positive for players, the progression of the cloud game streaming market, and the growth of our industry”....
Group built by Jean-Charles Naouri set to begin official talks with creditors as wealthy investors circle
Details of investigation by French prosecutor come as food retail group posts annual loss of €316mn
...Reporting by Robert Smith, Sarah White, Arash Massoudi, Leila Abboud, Adrienne Klasa, Barney Jopson and Ivan Levingston....
Calls grow for regulation of UK’s influential and concentrated investment advice sector
...Additional reporting by Robert Smith in London...
...Extreme heat is “pulling down our growth,” says Kathy Baughman McLeod, director of the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center at the Atlantic Council, and “dragging down our economies ....
US bank’s asset management arm targets retirement schemes’ illiquid holdings
...Romin Dabir, partner at Reed Smith, said many executives felt that the senior managers’ regime, for example, went too far but that “a significant dilution of the rules is likely to lead to accusations that...
Three years after group’s demerger from Prudential, critics say structure does not work
...However, the failed GSK bid was followed by criticism from major shareholders, including Terry Smith of Fundsmith, who said Unilever had “lost the plot” with an excessive focus on sustainability over profits...
...My grooming and wellbeing gurus are my wife, Erin Lee Smith, who is a make-up artist and the beauty director of ByGeorge in Austin. This comes in very handy....
Former chair of Standard Life Aberdeen under pressure to prove critics of new venture wrong
...Warburg Pincus injected £250mn into the group in 2020 to help get the merger with Smith & Williamson over the line....
...Smith has blamed the end of “easy money” and warned too much monetary tightening could lead to recession....
...Adrienne Robbins, 42, turned up in the late afternoon, and was carrying a sign that read: “We’re going backwards America.” She worried about women in other parts of the country....
...These were first exposed in 2019 by my colleagues Robert Smith and Cynthia O’Murchu....
...strategically aligned, although higher grade attainment and restrictions around international travel as a result of the pandemic have impacted occupancy in a small number of cities,” said chief executive, Richard Smith...
...Edited by Adrienne Klasa Corrections: Due to a typographical error, the first paragraph of this story incorrectly stated the number of people who had died from Covid-19 for several hours on April 9, 2020...
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