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...During his own tenure, CD&R had done “a number of successful deals”, Leahy said, including the IPO of UK value retailer B&M, which delivered a £1bn payday for CD&R and the Arora family at the time, and the...
...CD&R, which owns UK supermarket chain Morrisons, raised $26bn for new deals last year....
...CD&R bought MFG for £500mn nearly a decade ago....
...The group of senior class A and subordinate class B bonds are securitised at the operating companies....
...When a courier received a receipt, all they saw was an anonymised route from A to B, alongside the number of miles and what they were paid....
...CD&R declined to comment....
...“Children are the R&D department of the human species — the blue-sky guys, the brainstormers. Adults are production and marketing.”...
...“It will follow a similar model to B&M,” he added, referring to the discount retailer that Leahy chaired for five years after CD&R acquired a majority stake in it in 2012....
...Shania Twain He’s got a very R&B style to his country. That is just totally my vibe. Like, I just love to listen to it....
...According to the latest Kantar data, Morrisons’ share of the UK market was 9.1 per cent in the 12 weeks to September 4, down from 9.8 per cent at the time of the CD&R takeover....
...“CD&R . . . helped us professionalise things like governance and risk management,” said Arora. “But they always left us alone to get on with the trading”....
...Michael Gleeson has stepped down as chief financial officer at Wm Morrison months after the supermarket chain was taken over by private equity and ahead of a major refinancing....
...Supermarkets and “variety discounters” such as B&M and Home Bargains have been undercutting it on staples such as deodorant, shaving products and toiletries, while online rivals and department stores are...
...Bhanumurthy, vice-chancellor of the Dr B R Ambedkar School of Economics University....
...“We’re probably past the peak of the disruptive effect of discounters . . . supermarkets have learned how to compete with them.”...
...CD&R declined to comment on the report....
...In February Asda, the third-biggest supermarket, was sold to a consortium of TDR Capital and the Blackburn-based Issa brothers....
...YouTube has shut down R Kelly’s official video channels on its website, the first big action taken to wipe his music off the internet after the R&B artist was last week convicted for sex trafficking and...
...CD&R will have to squeeze a lot from Morrisons. Lex expects asset sales will be needed to achieve a decent investment return. Supermarkets have not deserved premium ratings lately....
...The Angel You Don’t Know’s blend of US R&B and Afropop was warmly received, including end-of-year picks by the New York Times and the New Yorker....
...The battle for Wm Morrison looks set to enter a fourth month after shares in the supermarket chain surged above the level of the latest takeover proposal....
...In Supermarket Sweep, a timed race is used to decide the show’s winner....
...Clayton, Dubilier & Rice an extended August 20 deadline to make an offer for Wm Morrison, in the latest twist in a bidding war between two US private equity groups for control of the UK’s third-largest supermarket...
...CD&R claims experience of UK retail with both B&M, the pile-’em-high discounter, and a collection of petrol station convenience shops....
...market,” said Ralfe, a former pensions adviser to the supermarket group....
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