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...“We need to increasingly rely on banks’ role as the watchtowers of the sector,” said the ECB’s top banking supervisor Andrea Enria in a recent speech....
...Tesco avoids “plastering the website with every single ad format that we can possibly think of”, as Ashley puts it....
...“It’s always stimulating to be challenged by their intuitions and innovative concepts,” says vice-president Andrea Molteni....
...Under the UK Companies Act, Andrea Leadsom, the secretary of business, has the power to appoint an auditor to a quoted company if it fails to appoint one itself....
...Under the UK Companies Act, the secretary of state for the department for business, Andrea Leadsom, has the power to appoint an auditor to a quoted company if it fails to appoint one itself....
...Andrea Radrizzani, owner of Leeds United, promoted back into English football’s top division after 16 years, provides a bullish view....
...In an episode from last autumn, Beverley and Van, Ashley calls Goldstein about her late grandmother Beverley who had been trapped in an unhappy marriage and who often talked tenderly about Van, a salesman...
...Andreas Schwab, a German MEP and longtime Google critic, is also unsure....
...The deals Newcastle Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is still in the hunt to acquire Newcastle, the Premier League team, from UK retail tycoon Mike Ashley for about £350m....
...On paper, Sports Direct billionaire Mike Ashley and business secretary Andrea Leadsom are titans of trade, colossi of commerce, doyen(ne)s of dealmaking....
...Under the UK Companies Act, the secretary of state for the department for business, Andrea Leadsom, has the power to appoint an auditor to a quoted company if it cannot appoint one itself....
...If Sports Direct had failed to appoint an auditor, the business secretary, Andrea Leadsom, has powers to force a firm to do the work....
...Ashley’s disdain for the norms of corporate governance often frustrates investors....
...Andrea Phillips, vice-chair of the Iowa Democratic party, says voters like her personal touch. “People love the selfie thing that she’s doing.”...
...The retailer, founded by British billionaire Mike Ashley, pictured below, and its auditor of more than a decade, Grant Thornton, are parting ways....
...The first company is a low-price outfit — its typical store has been described as “an explosion in a sneaker warehouse” — run by erratic founder Mike Ashley....
...(FT) Buyer’s remorse While Andrea Orcel was enjoying his gardening leave under the Peruvian sun, Santander was getting cold feet about its new chief executive....
...The target was one of a number attached to a new four-year scheme for about 2,000 employees as well as executives, but excluding Mr Ashley....
...However, the 330m shares, or 55 per cent, controlled by Mr Ashley ensured that Mr Hellawell was comfortably re-elected....
...This year, it would also cast its vote against the election of Mr Ashley....
...Mike Ashley, who owns 55 per cent of Sports Direct, which has a shareholding in Debenhams, is not one of the shareholders looking to agitate for change, the people added....
...Shares in Sports Direct fell 10 per cent as a slowdown in growth caused profits to miss expectations at the retailer controlled by Mike Ashley....
...Mr Forsey has long served as right hand man to Mr Ashley — the founder and executive chairman of Sports Direct — having joined the retailer as a Saturday assistant in Mr Ashley’s first shop in the 1980s....
...But the department store chain, which was hit by disastrous trading in 2013 and came under siege from billionaire retailer Mike Ashley, said it was on track to meet market expectations....
...This was the third attempt to award shares to Mr Ashley after two previous proposals sparked investor rebellions....
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