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From Stephen Butcher, Hambleton, Rutland, UK
...“The need to execute on cross-border M&A is here. It’s for many companies an existential reality. Their supply chains have been disrupted by two major global conflicts,” Pick said....
...The number of outward M&A deals was also down from the previous quarter and the smallest since the last three months of 2020....
...“I’m trying to create a pathway for people like me, to be able to see what is possible and to be able to be in those rooms [where deals are done].”...
...Emeritus Professor Albion M UrdankUniversity of California, Los Angeles, US...
...B&M said it would provide more details about its plans in November when it publishes its interim results but added that it would not retain the Wilko brand....
...Council fined the Big Four firm for failing to meet audit requirements during its review of M&C Saatchi’s accounts for the year to December 2018....
...H&M has appointed Daniel Ervér as new chief executive of the group, succeeding Helena Helmersson. Ervér has been with H&M for 18 years, most recently as the head of the H&M brand....
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...Disclosure of accounting errors had forced M&C Saatchi to adjust its reported profits for 2018 and previous years....
...Here’s more on the regions driving a nascent recovery in the M&A market....
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...I’m Claer Barrett, the FT’s consumer editor....
...Josep M Colomer Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, Washington, DC, US...
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