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...B&M said pre-tax profit more than doubled to £525.4m in the year ended March as the company benefited through lockdowns from its status as an essential retailer....
...On the face of it, the most affected of the UK’s listed national inn groups are Marston’s, JD Wetherspoon and M&B. It looks like last orders....
...Georges Moroz, Bronx, NY Crossword 16,395: David Micklethwait, London; Peter Tilford, Florida; David Westacott, Vienna Polymath 1,060: Liz Wicken, Cambridge, England Crossword 16,389: David Riddle, Woodford...
...Mr Bilton, who is married to the model Lisa B, is also chairman of Ibiza property company Sabina Estates, another Woodford portfolio company....
...Purple Rain, Prince’s funk R&B hit of the 1980s, is all about finding a way through the deluge and embracing change....
...But company insiders admit that “football-pitch” sized renovations of its B&Q outlets are not winning any fans: the disruption caused a 3 per cent fall in sales....
...Yes, that's billion with a “B”. In just under a year, Woodford had a six-bagger on his hands....
...“A, B, C: Always Be Closing”. That was the advice Alec Baldwin’s sales guru gave budding estate agents in the movie Glengarry Glen Ross....
...Job moves Stockbroker Cenkos has bumped one of Neil Woodford’s historic allies off its board....
...Our view was a) that’s market capitalism; b) governments are lousy customers, so what did you expect?...
...But Mr van K has won the support of more than half of the Provvy’s investors, including Neil Woodford, Marathon Asset Management and Invesco....
...He evidently hopes to emulate the clinical success of Arrowhead, which signed a deal late last year with Johnson & Johnson to develop and market its hepatitis B treatment....
...All but one or two of the top 10 holdings of Woodford Income Focus and Woodford Equity Income funds are down since January....
...● IP Group dropped after a regulatory filing showed cornerstone investor Woodford Investment Management had cut its stake in the intellectual property developer to 13.41 per cent, from 14.08 per cent previously...
...“If broker A has revenue of 100 — and broker B has revenue of 100 and they merge, almost always that does not equal 200,” said Neil Scarth of Frost Consulting, a research adviser to asset managers....
...Capita has bounced, helped by key shareholder Neil Woodford speculating about potential takeover interest....
...Why Woodford would Fund manager Neil Woodford’s use of unquoted securities almost caused him some bother, when their value relative to his declining equity holdings neared a 10 per cent regulatory cap....
...Here’s a summary of what’s moving at the start of Thursday trading: Neil Woodford backed Allied Minds is the worst performing London-listed stock this morning after it reported a deepening in its first...
...Meanwhile, B-Secur, which authenticates people using their heartbeat, has raised £3.5m....
...And, finally, veteran pharmaceuticals investor Neil Woodford suffered further losses at Allied Minds, the intellectual property group he has backed heavily....
...Income Focus Top Isa share sales 2017 Lloyds Banking Group plc BT Group plc GlaxoSmithKline plc National Grid Royal Dutch Shell Plc B Shares Imperial Brands Group SSE plc Legal & General Group...
...Véronique Laury, chief executive, said: “B&Q’s performance was impacted by seasonal swings across Q1 and Q2....
...What is now the Chingford and Woodford Green parliamentary constituency has been represented by Winston Churchill, who watched part of the Blitz from Chingford, and Norman Tebbit, Margaret Thatcher’s battering...
...Mr Rackley’s been to Omaha too: “Read the books, bought the B-shares and collected the Letters to Shareholders . . . queued outside the CenturyLink Centre at 6am and washed down dinner at Piccolo’s with...
...We’ve not seen so very much of it in the UK yet except from the likes of Neil Woodford. And he took the old-fashioned way out by selling his shares when he lost patience with Rolls-Royce in December....
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