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...Inflatables have become a huge part of Richardson’s business....
...Sports Direct hired Merrill Lynch as bankers and installed respected former Whitbread finance director David Richardson as chair....
...Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, said she was receiving a deluge of calls from companies as pressure mounts....
...Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, said there was a more vocal debate about a boycott because the human rights situation was “exponentially worse” than when China last held the Olympics...
...There she unveiled a Gilbert & George’s singing sculpture, followed by the likes of Mario Merz and Jannis Kounellis, later also promoting Jeff Koons, Vito Acconci and Ashley Bickerton....
...Brands such as Ralph Lauren and Laura Ashley would have inspired her taste, but she would be buying her matching curtains, cushions and table runners from high-end catalogues: think slightly above Pottery...
...Ashley Hamilton Claxton, head of responsible investment at Royal London Asset Management, said: “We hope this change in leadership will help the board draw a line under the governance issues at Metro Bank...
...David Richardson, who became chairman when the company floated in 2007, quit only a few months later, saying that he had been “unable to establish a strong working relationship with the executive team”....
...The retailer’s first chairman, David Richardson, lasted less than three months in the role....
...Snyder’s arguments provide an important warning from history....
..., Ashley Hicks, Josephine Ryan and Mary Fox Linton....
...Nominees for Womenswear Designer of the Year award were relative newcomers Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen for The Row, Jack McCollough & Lazaro Hernandez for Proenza Schouler and Marc Jacobs....
...Actors Tony Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave and Jeanne Moreau, artists such as the sculptor Lynn Chadwick and designers such as Laura Ashley led the way for a host of people who bought and renovated run-down...
...Jeremy Richardson, formerly chief executive, Injured Jockey’s Fund, the housing group. Mark Ridgway, MD, Group Rhodes, the machinery company....
...“I can’t see Mike Ashley bidding much over 60p a share for Blacks,” said Louise Richardson, retail analyst at Arden Partners. “For one thing he’d be buying Blacks’ debt”....
...We see Ginsberg and Snyder note new musical fashions. “What is this punk rock craze?” Snyder wrote to Ginsberg at the end of 1977....
...could not work with Mr Ashley....
...And now Mr Ashley has decided the group sometimes suffers when it follows the City’s counsel, it just might not appear at all....
...of Mr Ashley, founder and deputy chairman, to follow normal corporate governance practices....
...Its share price has crashed more than two-thirds and the retailer is still without a permanent chairman after David Richardson abruptly quit in May, having decided he could not work with Mr Ashley, who made...
...The company is believed to be finding it hard to recruit a permanent non-executive chairman – in line with corporate governance best practice – following the early exit of David Richardson, the former Whitbread...
...The banks that managed the flotation, Citigroup and Credit Suisse as well as Merrill Lynch, are believed to feel they did all they could in persuading Mr Ashley to appoint a heavyweight chairman, David Richardson...
...Sports Direct, which has endured near-constant criticism for its corporate governance standards since floating in February, is still without a permanent chairman after David Richardson, the former finance...
...It is thought the City veteran fell out with Mike Ashley, Sports Direct’s founder, over the latter’s reluctance to behave like other listed companies....
...David Richardson resigned on Thursday as chairman of Sports Direct, dealing a fresh blow to the already fragile credibility of the sports retailer founded by reclusive billionaire Mike Ashley....
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