Hints and tips:
...The Liberal party, with a large L, the centre-right party, was seen as having swung too far to the right by a lot of its supporters after my defenestration....
...uncouple yourself from that business as soon as you can so that you can reach as many people as you can....
...They are as simple to create as the Pot Noodle, without all the exhausting business of tearing off a foil lid. Today, our nation is awash with toasties of every description....
...Earlier this month, a new Nightjet sleeper train pulled out of Vienna Hauptbahnhof bound for Paris Gare de l’Est, the first direct rail link between the two cities since the Orient Express retired from the...
...He pivoted to direct-to-consumer, making the most of the traffic Netflix brought to the site; released a see-now-buy-now collection of 12 looks, made by seamstresses at home during lockdown; launched womenswear...
...Management guides to c£60mn of net benefit in 2H (c£78m extra costs offset by six month business rates relief of £137mn)....
...P&C business models in mature markets....
...The drag from these brands caused L’Oréal’s North American sales to decline 0.8 per cent last year on a like-for-like basis, ending more than a decade of consecutive yearly growth....
...According to Bloomberg, consensus is currently forecasting PBT of c£185m (giving EPS of c6.9p) in FY 2020/21 and c.£340m (12.7p) in FY 2021/22....
...bung so direct it might as well have been delivered intravenously....
...“A lot of lenders moved away from accepting as much variable income as they did before the pandemic,” says David Hollingworth, director at mortgage broker L&C Mortgages....
...Apart from negative l-f-l rental and value growth, we assume recapitalizations to an LTV of c.35% by 2021 lowering the EPS and NAV by c.49% and c.61%....
...After postponing the dividend, Aviva is above its 180% top of range level at 182% as of 1Q20, Direct Line is towards the top end of 140-180% risk appetite with 176%, and RSA is above 150% with the target...
...As his memoir suggests, Rohatyn was trusted by those on Wall Street and in Washington, but his way of doing business has largely fallen by the wayside amid the pursuit of short-term profits....
...They’re now doing rather worse after a flood of bad press, and in spite of “dear CEO” letters this morning from the FCA agreeing that purchasers of business interruption insurance should never have expected...
...In the eleven months since CEO Jack Bowles took over the business, the speed of change has been impressive, and we believe that BAT is now future-proofing its business by investing through the P&L in NGPs...
...business rates, of which c£500m relates to stores; someway ahead of Ocado’s cumulative profitability....
...fans for customers who’ll buy lots of things once they stop dying.”...
...The group has submitted a revised business case which now includes opening of 15 branches in the North of UK compared to 30 previously and hence will return £50m of the original £120m capital and innovation...
...Given our outlook on growth, we forecast returns to contract by c.4pp over our forecast period (ROIC core business including goodwill) vs....
...to c. 19% of debt maturities through end 2021....
...In September, We Mean Business, a group of major international companies with a combined market capitalisation of more than $2.3tn, including Nestle, L’Oreal, Danone, Ikea and Nokia, committed to reaching...
...Most of its customers are between half and a quarter of Wexner’s age. The chain is the flagship of L Brands, the business he founded as The Limited in 1963....
...With this advice, I spent the first several months at the company doing a lot of listening and getting to know the business, the employees, and analysing future opportunities....
...Holiday snappers do not want to buy digital cameras the size of a shoebox and the price of a car....
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