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...B&Q owner Kingfisher — whose total returns lag behind the index by 43 per cent over two decades — is worth roughly the same now as it was as a sprawling retail conglomerate two decades ago....
...B&M did return the proceeds, as did most of the supermarkets and other large retailers that enjoyed a sales boom, such as B&Q owner Kingfisher....
...Brian Dawson occasionally guides groups; he does not charge but invites guests to make a £15 donation to the Foulness Heritage Centre; he can be reached via email at b.dawson540@btinternet.com Follow @FTLifeArts...
...But as highfalutin and academic as it all sounds, Green’s starting point is often surprisingly everyday: for his debut menswear show in London in 2013, he built human sculptures fashioned from B&Q fence...
...Like most people of her age group, Anna Dawson, a self-employed casting director, has never sought financial advice....
...There have been previous scuffles between Canadian prime ministers and US presidents — among them a stand-off between Lyndon B Johnson and Lester Pearson during the Vietnam war....
...For fugal variety there are also silver-voiced Brit Ralph Fiennes (butler Alfred), a plangently wheedling Zach Galifianakis (Joker) and Rosario Dawson’s mezzo-toned Commissioner Gordon, daughter of the old...
...I got four As and a B. When I started my own business at 19 after working for three years, I had an overriding sense of self-confidence that I could do this and succeed....
...K Universal Derek Jones Chief Executive, Babraham Bioscience Technologies Limited Dr Alexander Moscho Chief Executive, UK & Ireland, & Managing Director, Bayer Dr John B March Chief Executive, BigDNA...
...Business advisor and entrepreneur Tilly McAuliffe Owner, Think Publishing Surinder (Max) Mongia Chairman, Strongfield Technologies Turi Munthe Founder, Demotix Gary Noon CEO, Clinical Insights B...
...We’re not Wilkinson, not B&M,” he says referring to three of his fiercest rivals. “We’re a poor man’s John Lewis.”...
...Within Oban, a 1930s four-bedroom colonial-style villa, with a sea-facing terrace and a one-bedroom annexe, is on sale through Dawsons for £525,000....
...Other potential buyers of the assets include Kingfisher, owner of the B&Q chain, which according to Reuters has said in the past that it would consider acquiring the company’s individual stores....
...Dawson Holdings rose 21 per cent to 17¼p after Smiths News, up 2.1 per cent to 96p, agreed to buy the books business for 17.7p a share in cash. Sutton Harbour added 12.6 per cent to 47p....
...But “The Meeting”, carrying the same pre-sale estimate as “Moses” ($3m-$5m) is half its size, and is a darker and more confined work, lacking the lighter palette and “Cecil B DeMille” quality of “Moses”....
...“The Baltic’s rise is mainly being driven by demand from China,” said Andrew Dawson, a broker at Freight Investor Services....
...BP gained 2.5 per cent to 591p and the B shares of Royal Dutch Shell took on 2.8 per cent to 17.67. The pair alone added more than 20 points to the Footsie....
...The question is whether Guy Dawson and Justin Dowley, who have run Tricorn since leaving Merrill Lynch seven years ago, can persuade their clients to go with them....
...‘B’ shares of Royal Dutch Shell added 2 per cent to 16.08 amid yet another airing of theories that it may sell its stake in Woodside Petroleum....
...Pirkle says the Scots who settled in the hills above Atlanta were innately resistant to authority: “Whiskey was illegal, but you couldn’t tell a Dawson Countian that....
...B&B slid 18 per cent to 50p, crashing through its emergency rights issue price of 55p. Bruce Packard, an analyst at Pali, set a price target of zero on the stock....
...However, Dawson International, the cashmere group that supplies Prada and Gucci, slumped 13 per cent to 5.87p as takeover talks ended without agreement....
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