Hints and tips:
...: Bill Stewart, Leicester; Gareth Christopher, Switzerland; Duncan Mackenzie, Norfolk Polymath 1,017: Antony McCammon, Switzerland Crossword 16,135: Neil McIndoe, London; Julian Cooke, London; Ashley Witts...
...In the UK and Ireland, B&Q sales fell 3.4 per cent while trade-focused Screwfix saw sales rise 3.7 per cent, having been up by 5.1 per cent at the half year....
...Mr Garnier will also have to rebuild a senior team depleted by departures, most notably finance director Karen Witts, who left to go to Compass this year and has been replaced only on an interim basis....
...Shares in Kingfisher, which owns DIY chains B&Q, Castorama and Screwfix, fell 3.9 per cent after the news on Wednesday morning....
...Third-quarter sales at B&Q were down 2.9 per cent like-for-like, while Screwfix sales rose 4.1 per cent....
...Karen Witts, chief financial officer, said: “The caution in the UK is more around the macroeconomic backdrop and in France it’s more about the progress we make ourselves . . . you just have to open your...
...That is the attitude of retail group Kingfisher, parent company of home improvements retailer B&Q....
...Offered a seventh or eighth slot, I would also have mentioned How Music Got Free , Stephen Witt’s page-turner about how piracy nearly destroyed the established music industry....
...The event closed with the premiere of an original song by the R&B artist The Weeknd. The reaction from the crowd was muted. It had not been a great presentation....
...However, Karen Witts, finance director, said she hoped the B&Q closures would be “broadly neutral” for jobs....
...From How Music Got Free by Stephen Witt, published on June 16, 2015 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright by Stephen Witt, 2015....
...Mr Witt holds 70 Berkshire “B class” shares worth $8,610....
...Holders of the company’s historic “A” shares, which trade at $187,000 apiece, have a greater voice than holders of “B” shares, which cost 1/1,500th of the price and have 1/10,000th of the vote....
...Rachel Polhemus, (pictured left), is senior partner at Witt/Kieffer, an executive search firm specialising in healthcare, education and not-for-profit organisations....
...The all-male trend was broken in October when Karen Witts was appointed group finance director at Kingfisher, owner of the B&Q home improvement chain....
...I hope you don’t think this unsupportive – I shared the same thought with Gordon B after “bigotgate”!...
...With David it’s an R&B thing.” And Boris? “Boris will be a rapper. You must have seen that headscarf when he was out jogging?”...
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