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...Unscripted (Cornerstone Press/Penguin Press) by James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams makes a worthy bid for Paramount founder Sumner Redstone to be considered Logan-worthy....
...The trial will be held away from the public UK, Shortlist for the Booker Prize announced Switzerland, Trinity, a 67mn-year-old skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex goes up for auction in Zurich....
...At a minimum, Lachlan needs a majority of non-family holders of B class shares, which come with more powerful voting rights....
...But she is most excited about the acts whom many of the audience will be encountering for the first time: she singles out B....
...(A lively 2011 tribute to 1950s R&B group The “5” Royales was billed as a Cropper solo album, but he prefers to think of it as a collaborative project.)...
...He added that “there does not really seem to be a plan B”....
...There are a series of updates from FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 groups on Wednesday, including Kingfisher (owner of B&Q and Screwfix), outsourcer Serco, energy group SSE and housebuilder Berkeley....
...Just weeks after securing their first round of outside funding, company executives are plunging straight into a $100m “Series B” round, aimed at financing Getir’s expansion into international markets....
...The difference between a retreat and a countryside B&B is slim: both are peaceful and remote, though a retreat will have a clear writing space. The main difference is the purpose....
...What word appears in the titles of Booker Prize winning novels by both D C B Pierre and Arundhati Roy? Click here for the answers...
...Goldman Sachs to summarise: EBIT (+13.5% YoY growth) and retail cash flow slightly ahead of consensus, helped by delivering Booker synergies one year ahead of guidance....
...Tesco/Booker was a merger between retailer and wholesaler. I’m not sure we would see Tesco/Booker as a precedent,” he told the BBC....
...Northern Trust Capital Markets saw Kingfisher as a candidate for an activist investor as the current valuation puts no value on its French businesses or its B&Q chain in the UK....
...Last year, Sphere closed a $20m Series B funding round led by Index Ventures, which is also an early investor in buzzy start-ups such as Deliveroo, Bird and Revolut....
...Booker, the wholesaler Tesco acquired for £4bn last year, was stronger, increasing like-for-like sales at Booker by 11 per cent in the third quarter, year on year....
...Booker Ervin The Good Book — The Early Years 1960-62 (Acrobat) Booker Ervin’s unique tenor sax voice was forged out of road-trip necessity and the hollers and moans of chittlin-circuit R&B....
...Sir Terry Leahy’s decision to step down from B&M European Value Retail on the same day that Tesco gained regulatory clearance to buy Booker for £3.7bn invites an assessment of the two acts of his retailing...
...Sir Terry did not state reasons for his departure from B&M....
...” ● Marks and Spencer, Asos, B&M and Pets At Home are all downgraded to “neutral” in a Citigroup review of the European retail sector, with Next cut to “sell”....
...It forecast that the B&Q owner has cut its buying costs 12 per cent, which has been reinvested in pricing and clearing old ranges....
...But Nisa remains under pressure from the big chains, which can offer a wider variety of fresh food, and discounters such as Lidl, Aldi and B&M....
...Earlier this month B&M, the discount general retailer, said it had bought the convenience chain Heron Food Group and planned to roll out a discount convenience grocery brand....
...Prize that a) it was a novel and b) it was good enough to be shortlisted....
...The most recent recruit is Booker-prize-winning novelist Marlon James, who is currently penning an epic fantasy trilogy he describes as an “African Game of Thrones”....
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