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...Oliver Barnes 3. GSK Listing: London Like many other pharmaceutical companies, GSK generates almost half its sales in the US because of the country’s high drug prices....
...Tim Reeve, V&A deputy director, said that, while the museum had benefited from record-high domestic visitor numbers, a drop-off in international visitors had held back demand....
...Yet access to capital and legal advice for companies is often unaffordable....
...(FT) Barnes & Noble prepares to turn a new page US hedge fund Elliott Management is close to acquiring the bookstore chain Barnes & Noble....
...(FT) Dockwork ers v robots Dockworkers in Los Angeles are making a last stand against the automation of lucrative port jobs....
...Tripe — a captain in the East India Company army — took photographs when on leave in what was then a British colony....
...Some 158 properties have changed hands in Barnes over the past 12 months, 18 per cent lower than the 192 exchanged in the previous year, according to property research company LonRes....
...Julian Barnes once wrote that literature encompasses politics but not vice versa....
...The company said Wells would stay on until a successor is found....
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...Bombarded Day two of the Bombardier v Boeing tariff scandal and attention has turned on the British government’s motivation to fight back against proposed US action against the Canadian company....
...Conditions at the start of the race were fair but had seriously deteriorated by the time the boats reached Barnes Bridge, about a mile from the finish....
...AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner and Bayer’s purchase of Monsanto) that are still pending approval from the competition watchdog....
...(BBC) Video of the day Google v Apple, round 2 As Google again draws level with Apple as the world’s largest company, John Authers looks at the historic performance of companies once they have become the...
...Recently, their targets have included a growing number of Chinese companies....
...Such an expansion, which Amazon itself has not confirmed, would position it as a competitor to booksellers such as Barnes & Noble....
...Barnes & Noble, the US bookseller fighting fires both in its brick-and-mortar and digital businesses, said on Wednesday that it will split its Nook and retail divisions into two separate companies....
...Earnings Barnes & Noble Q4 -$0.59 (-$1.80)General Mills Q4 $0.72 ($0.53)Monsanto Q3 $1.55 ($1.66)Northgate FY 33.91p (28.30p)Stagecoach FY 25.14p (29.70p) Shareholder meetings Hon Hai Precision Inpex Royal...
...“We want to see a discussion now about how the EU needs to change, not an all-consuming debate on In v Out,” said Simon Walker, director-general of the IoD....
...Companies and organisations – winners of International Trade, Innovation and Sustainable Development Awards 1-9 7thSense Design A A Fulton Company Abbey Forged Products Adder Technology Aero Stanrew...
...Family seat Oxford v Cambridge BNY Mellon Boat Race is rowed on the Thames, the 160th contest....
...If you don’t want to compromise, it’s very difficult – it’s like the Barnes & Noble effect. There are no small bookshops....
...Barnes & Noble slumped 17.1 per cent to $11.24 after the company said it was considering a sale of its Nook e-reader business....
...The anti-tax message in that 1992 decision, Quill v North Dakota, is not as clear-cut as Amazon’s friends let on....
...We tried to get Barnes & Noble’s side of the story on this, but a spokeswoman said the company did not comment on litigation. Both the Nook and Alex run on the Android operating system....
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