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...The retailer has claimed that the evidence suggests Morgan Stanley’s “erratic behaviour” was “at least partly the result of snobbery”, and that the bank rejected it as an investment banking client in April...
...In the current litigation, Frasers said Morgan Stanley rejected it as a client in April 2021 and alleged this was because Simon Smith, global co-head of the investment banking division at Morgan Stanley,...
...The company grew adjusted pre-tax profit by 42 per cent to £478mn in the year to April 30, and last month confirmed it is on track to earn an equivalent figure of £500mn-£550mn in its current financial year...
...“We think real household disposable income will continue to rise this year due to lower inflation and the boost from further cuts to national insurance tax announced in the March Budget from April,” said...
...after the accounting regulator, the Financial Reporting Council, closed an investigation into the financial statements of Sports Direct International, later renamed Frasers Group, for the 12 months to April...
...Ashley Webb, an economist at Capital Economics, said the BoE figures suggested “the drag on consumer spending and the housing market from higher interest rates [was] easing”, adding: “The recession will...
...“The fear is that the rise this year will contribute to stickier wage growth and inflation,” said Ashley Webb, UK economist at consultancy Capital Economics, noting that last year’s pay boost had coincided...
...Since April, the government has borrowed £116.4bn, £24.4bn more than in the same period last year and the second-highest level of borrowing on record for that period....
...Chief executive Michael Murray — who is also founder Mike Ashley’s son-in-law — attributed the performance to Generations Z and Alpha....
...Ashley still owns 72 per cent of the retailer, which started life as a single store in Maidenhead in 1982....
...Ashley Webb, UK economist at Capital Economics, said that while some of the expansion in sales could have been due to a rebound from the more seasonable weather in April, the boost to household incomes from...
...Since 2019 RSM has moved into the FTSE 350 audit market, winning work that involves checking the books of companies such as Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group, bakery chain Greggs and Clipper Logistics....
...Following their presentation at the Austrian pavilion at last year’s Venice Biennale, art duo Jakob Lena Knebl and Ashley Hans Scheirl now bring their stage-like installations — what they call “spaces of...
...Ashley Webb, UK economist at Capital Economics, said the uptick resulted from “fast wage growth, due to the tight labour market, and government handouts supporting nominal household incomes”....
...“April’s flash PMIs suggest the economy is still proving resilient to the dual drags of high inflation and high interest rates going into [the second quarter of 2023]”, said Ashley Webb, UK economist at...
...Ashley Webb, UK economist at Capital Economics, said this was “not big enough to constitute a bank run”....
...Russell Reynolds, the executive search firm, warned in April that chief diversity officer appointments “often failed to come with business support, resource investment, and concern for the personal demands...
...Household bills were increased by 7.5 per cent in April — the biggest rise in two decades — to an average of £448 a year....
...Amanda Staveley did not go unnoticed when she showed up at The Masters golf tournament in April, representing the Saudi Arabian side of a rift that had divided the sport for almost two years....
...“Since April, we have been turning new customers away,” he says....
...Net borrowing of mortgage debt was at its lowest level since April 2016, excluding the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic....
...He recalls seeing April Ashley, one of Britain’s first officially trans women, at the restaurant, and always saying hello. “Nothing is strange for me,” he concludes. “Nothing has really surprised me....
...Shortly after becoming chief executive last September, Schultz sold off 15 “non-core” brands to Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group....
...But by April it had appointed Teneo to try to find a buyer, with Passi stepping down as chief executive....
...Interest on government debt also boosted UK borrowing as it cost £7.3bn in November, £2.4bn more than in the same month last year and the highest November figure since monthly records began in April 1997...
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