Hints and tips:
...They’ve integrated Jimmy Choo, which has proven a useful fillip, but a decrease in inventory, changes in distribution and a reduction in discounting have offered the company some respite in the choppy waters...
...Yet, while these projects promise a fillip to UK production, they are a legacy of investment decisions made during the era of $100-a-barrel oil....
...The BBC will receive a further fillip on Thursday, when a government-commissioned review recommends that non-payment of the licence fee should not be decriminalised....
...Ashley Heppenstall, chief executive, on Monday said the latest drilling revealed a revised range of between 800m and 1.8bn barrels. The shares slid 10.3 per cent to SKr147.90....
...Mr Ashley is the majority shareholder in Sports Direct with a stake of 72 per cent....
...On balance we expect the positive economic momentum to be sustained as the recovery broadens out from the surprising consumer spending fillip that we have seen in 2013....
...It wouldn’t be a replica of 3i’s forerunner, the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation, previously extolled here, but it could still give a fillip to efforts to plug the country’s SME funding gap...
...Sports Direct, the sportswear company controlled by entrepreneur Mike Ashley, is to venture into China to exploit brands that include Dunlop and Slazenger....
...However, the company also warned that the fillip from next year’s Euro 2008 competition would be smaller than previously expected. Analysts cut their earnings targets by about 28 per cent....
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