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...asked Bloomberg’s Andrea Felsted in February. Betteridge’s law of headlines wins again....
...Hard to disagree with Zelda Perkins, Harvey Weinstein’s former PA, that it should be a basic right to earn a living free from sexual harassment and abuse....
...The brands, including Dorothy Perkins, Burtons and Evans, will go into five of Tesco’s biggest stores. They will be joined by other third-party outlets, including Claire’s Accessories and Sock Shop....
...Underlying UK like-for-like sales from the brands that include Topshop and Topman, as well as Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Wallis and Miss Selfridge, fell by 0.9 per cent in the year to August 29....
....” - Andrea Leadsom, Brexit backing minister “Cameron’s legacy will be breaking up two unions. Neither needed to happen.” - J.K....
...bank agreed to provide a “gatekeeper” role on the BHS sale as a favour to Arcadia, a long-time client and the owner of many other high street chains including Topshop, Miss Selfridge, Wallis and Dorothy Perkins...
...The move came after Arcadia, whose stable of high street fashion brands includes Topshop, Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Ms Selfridge, demanded an additional 2 per cent discount from suppliers....
...Andrew Hill is the FT’s management editor; Andrea Felsted is senior retail correspondent Portrait by Benjamin McMahon Photographs: Rex; Getty; PA images; Corbis...
...After changing three CEOs in 15 months — including in the first instance highly respected Andrea Guerra who was CEO for a decade — Mr Vecchio, at nearly 81, has decided he should run the group again....
...There were no liabilities as part of the deal and its bank debt had been written off by Sir Philip’s Arcadia group, which includes Topshop and Dorothy Perkins....
...Financiers, lawyers and accountants step in The buyer of BHS is a previously unknown vehicle led by a group of financiers, lawyers and accountants, writes Andrea Felsted....
...He has offloaded a number of sites to Primark, and has also installed some of his other brands, including Wallis and Dorothy Perkins, into BHS stores....
...Sir Philip said Dorothy Perkins and Wallis had performed strongly. Conditions were tougher for Topshop, although it was still doing well, Sir Philip said....
...Aldi and Lidl — Andrea Felsted, London German discounters Aldi and Lidl are disrupting the grocery market around the world — from their heartlands of continental Europe to the UK, US and Australia....
...Topshop and Topman are widely considered the two jewels in the crown of Sir Philip’s Arcadia retail empire, whose other brands include department store BHS and high street names such as Evans, Dorothy Perkins...
...No other parts of Sir Philip’s retail group, which includes department store BHS and high street names including Evans, Dorothy Perkins and Miss Selfridge, are included in the scope of the deal....
...The owner of Arcadia, whose brands include Topshop, Bhs and Dorothy Perkins, said he was looking for ways to help train young people as sewing machinists and pattern cutters as rising wages in China and...
....● Travis Perkins, the UK’s largest builders’ merchant, will today name Simon King, the former Tesco and Asda executive, as managing director of its Wickes DIY business....
...Sir Philip Green, who runs the Green family-owned Arcadia retailing group which includes Top Shop, BHS and Dorothy Perkins, warned of tougher conditions on the high street as his holding company slipped...
...Michael Fallon, David Rutley, Andrea Leadsom, Jessie Norman. John Thurso. WORK AND PENSIONS (Anne Begg) – Karen Buck, Margaret Curran, Kate Green, Shabana Mahmood....
...Geoff Cooper, chief executive of Travis Perkins, said sales at Wickes, the group’s DIY chain, would be ahead of last year’s Easter period, adding: “There’s huge numbers of people who either can’t move or...
...features include premieres from a strong contingent of British directors this year, including Shane Meadows (whose Le Donk, starring Paddy Considine, tells the story of a down-and-out roadie’s comeback) and Andrea...
...This is part of chairman and chief executive Andrea Jung’s idea of “self-reinvention”, which she believes is crucial to her future plans for Avon....
...Thompson, Chairman and President, Thompson Hospitality Jonathan Tisch, Chairman and CEO, Loews Hotels Laura D’Andrea Tyson, Dean, London Business School John Vogelstein, Vice Chairman, Warburg Pincus...
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