ARTHUR J HIGGANS

November 1, 2023

...J) Q4, Halfords Q3 trading update, Intel Q4, Levi Strauss & Co Q4, LG Electronics Q4, McCormick & Co Q4, Marsh & McLennan Q4, Mitie Group Q1 trading update, Murphy Oil Q4, Northrop Grumman Q4, Southwest...

January 21, 2024

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Executive Pay

US corporate jet spending jumps as executives keep pandemic-era perks

...Insurance broker Arthur J Gallagher reported a Covid flight policy in 2022 and 2021, and dropped pandemic references from its regulatory filings this year....

June 27, 2023

InterviewBNP Paribas SA

Jean-Laurent Bonnafé, BNP’s longtime ‘introvert’ boss

...Arthur Sadoun, who once advised BNP on campaigns as a publicist, said Bonnafé gave him counsel when he became chief executive of advertising group Publicis in 2017....

July 13, 2023

Style

Rowing Blazers expands its preppy portfolio with Chipp

...Brooks Brothers filed for bankruptcy in 2020, while J Crew has suffered years of sales declines....

March 25, 2023

The Big Read

The newfound influence of the UK’s competition watchdog

...Under then prime minister Theresa May, the CMA blocked the £7bn takeover of supermarket group Asda by larger rival J Sainsbury in 2019....

September 19, 2023

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The Weekend Essay

Rule of the Rings — why film-makers can’t resist Tolkien’s fantasy world

...very strange books about places that don’t exist, fights that never happened, all set against the sort of medieval background that Mark Twain thought he had discredited with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur...

August 26, 2022

Letter

Letter: ‘Portrait of Omai’ is unique and must remain in Britain

...of Historical Anthropology, University of Cambridge Sujit SivasundaramProfessor of World History, University of Cambridge James FoxDirector of Studies in History of Art, Emmanuel College, Cambridge Arthur...

June 28, 2022

Robin Lane Fox

Cuttings edge: how to propagate plants at low cost

...For rooting compost, I use J Arthur Bower’s John Innes seed compost at roughly £9.99 per 25-litre bag, and I mix it with about a third of its bulk of perlite....

September 2, 2022

The Art Market

Warhol’s $195mn Marilyn kicks off epic New York auction season

...Works in the Tezos Foundation Permanent Art Collection will be shown on its website and will be displayed physically “sooner rather than later”, says Arthur Breitman, co-founder of Tezos....

May 12, 2022

News in-depthInsurance

Collapse of Aon-Willis deal validates insurers’ fears about broker power

Merger failure loosens middlemen’s ‘chokehold’ as Biden administration hails tough antitrust policy

August 31, 2021

FT Swamp Notes

China’s calculus in Ukraine’s war Premium

March 21, 2022

Investors Chronicle

Investors’ Chronicle: Fuller Smith & Turner, J Sainsbury, Purplebricks

...HOLD: Fuller Smith & Turner (FSTA) The pub group has managed to keep debt in check ahead of the lifting of restrictions on July 19, writes Arthur Sants....

July 9, 2021

Letter

Letter: Donning a Stetson did not stop Wedgwood’s decline

...Chairman Sir Arthur Bryan’s acclaimed takeover of smaller potteries — Adams, Coalport, Masons Ironstone, J&G Meakin, Johnson Bros and glassmaker Waterford Crystal — in the ’70s led ultimately to their annihilation...

September 3, 2021

Insurance

Aon and Willis divest assets to ease approval of $30bn merger

Insurance brokers say $3.6bn deal with rival Gallagher will resolve EU competition questions

May 12, 2021

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

FT AlphavilleJamie Powell

Tesla Insurance: worth more than Aviva

...Worth more than Aviva, Arthur J Gallagher and Hannover Rück -- the third largest reinsurer globally....

August 24, 2021

FT Swamp Notes

The Ukraine crisis’ new F-word: Finlandisation Premium

...Probably by picking better political leaders and having more skilled people in politics generally.” — J....

February 11, 2022

FT Books Essay

Ulysses at 100: the birth of the modern

...Shortly before his death, I spoke to Arthur Schlesinger about John F Kennedy’s visit to Ireland in June 1963....

January 19, 2022

ReviewScience fiction books

Otherworldly . . . sci-fi’s globetrotting wealth of diversity

...In his introduction, editor Jesse J Holland describes the importance to him of Black Panther, and others like him, as “an unapologetic, proud, intelligent paragon of Blackness, our personal King Arthur”....

May 3, 2021

US retail

Fashion group J Crew pushed into bankruptcy by coronavirus

...The J Crew brand was not developed until 1983 by Arthur Cinader, son of the founder, and Emily Woods, Arthur’s daughter.Started as a clothing catalogue venture, J Crew opened its first store in Lower Manhattan...

May 4, 2020

FT Magazine

Inside the John Lewis nightmare

...says James Bailey, executive director of Waitrose, who joined from rival supermarket J Sainsbury....

October 21, 2021

UK insurance industry

Hyperion to buy A-Plan as consolidation of insurance brokers hots up

...Arthur J Gallagher bought specialist insurance broker Stackhouse Poland last year, while Ardonagh has made a string of acquisitions and recently completed a refinancing that has left it with a £300m war...

September 23, 2020

ReviewFilm

Buddies — a powerful Aids drama from 1985

...Arthur J. Bressan made this touching, powerful Aids drama in 1985. It wears its heart on its sleeve and its budget likewise: no-frills austerity as a badge of honour....

December 4, 2019

UK insurance industry

Ardonagh looks overseas after £2bn refinancing

...The move comes as the insurance broking industry consolidates, with Aon and Willis Towers Watson combining to become a new number one and other large brokers such as Arthur J Gallagher growing via acquisition...

July 20, 2020

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

Is 47.2 our unhappiest age?

...Letter in response to this article: Happiness is accepting that perfection is impossible / From Dr Dipak J Kanabar, London W13, UK...

October 2, 2020

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