Hints and tips:
...The high street department store FW Woolworth folded in 1997, but the spun-out B&Q remains a key part of Kingfisher....
...Reliance’s chief financial officer V Srikanth said in a May earnings call that the company had “minimised feedstock cost by sourcing arbitrage barrels”....
...Another famous Australian political strategist, Lynton Crosby, talked about knocking the barnacles off the boat....
...Merryn Somerset Webb comments that as a fightback against Wall Street, the movement is hopeless: “The money that banks and fund managers make comes from trading commission and fees — not from their investment...
...Merryn Somerset Webb, by contrast, argues that the crisis should inject some reality into the debate around the energy transition....
...“This system is not really good for anyone,” says one pharmaceutical company employee in Massachusetts....
...Renowned short seller Jim Chanos made almost $100m betting against fraudulent German payments company Wirecard....
...Lam shuttered his designer collection last year to focus on his more affordably priced 10 Crosby line....
...Sage is owned within its Real Estate Partners Europe V fund, an opportunistic fund, and could ultimately be sold or listed....
...When appointed head of Nasa by Kennedy, James Webb immediately urged the president to double the budget for the moon landing programme....
...Complaints went viral and the company was forced to apologise....
...That is based on the 1990 case Barber v Guardian Royal Exchange, whereby the European Court of Justice held that pensions are pay and must be made equal between the sexes....
...Hermès is by far my favourite shop, and I have slowly collected men’s V-neck cashmere sweaters from there....
...The V&A was born of a curious mix of Prince Albert’s reformist energy; the 1840s design school movement for education reform; and the East India Company collection....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek Illustration by James Fryer...
...Jimmy Webb, David Crosby and Vince Gill sang it faithfully at a 2001 All Star Tribute to Brian Wilson in New York. But that’s about it....
...Photographs: Rebecca Lupton; Christopher Furlong/360; Craven Dunill Jackfield; V&A/DeMorgan...
...For Nic Webb, an artist who specialises in sculptural vessels and spoons, working with unseasoned wood offers freedom....
...It was the graphic V in his monogram design of that period that became the basis for the latest Acte V collection....
...There’s a reason “David v Goliath” has become the favoured Oscar narrative over the past 10 years: it exactly reproduces the contours of an industry that has itself bifurcated between studio spectacle and...
...“The [London-based] V&A and the Crafts Council have them but, other than that, in the regions we’re very significant.”...
...Or would this threaten the group company as well?...
...Food Britannia, by Andrew Webb, Random House Books, RRP£25 Like a gluttonous contemporary William Cobbett, Webb has toured the country talking to food producers old and new....
...As my semi-retired hedge fund manager friend says: “One company’s cost cutting is another company’s lost sale.”...
...But I don’t buy the V-shaped recovery argument for a new bull market....
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