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...There will again be plenty more central bank speakers — a good excuse to once again plug my colleague Chris Giles’s excellent Central Banks newsletter (for Premium subscribers) — and the earnings-season...
...Chubb Q3, Dassault Systemes Q3, Deutsche Bank Q3, Ford Motor Company Q3, General Dynamics Q3, Harley-Davidson Q3, Heathrow airport Q3, Heineken Q3 trading update, Hilton Worldwide Holdings Q3, KPN Q3, Kraft...
...Data visualisation by Chris Campbell...
...Options trading in Robinhood’s shares also began on Wednesday, according to Chris Murphy, co-head of derivative strategy at trading company Susquehanna International Group....
...At Kraft, he says, “I wasn’t big on Miracle Whip. But I ate a ton of mac and cheese.”...
...Flight director Chris Kraft was furious, as was lead astronaut Shepard. The Russians could feel the Americans snapping at their heels; the Americans could feel the Russians getting away from them....
...Labour MP Chris Bryant accused him of “aiding and abetting one of the biggest crackdowns on democracy in the world”....
...For most big food companies, however, direct sales “get lost in the rounding of their annual accounts”, said Chris Bones, a former dean of Henley Business School who chairs the UK consultancy Good Growth...
...The decision “seems to set up a showdown” with credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s, said Chris Growe, analyst at Stifel....
...Robert Kraft, owner of New England Patriots NFL franchise, scored an important legal victory in his attempt to fight charges of solicitation of prostitution....
...Chris Kempczinski, the former McDonald’s US president who was promoted to chief executive on Sunday, will earn an annual salary of $1.25m, up from $725,000 last year, with a target annual bonus of more than...
...“The company is still significantly controlled by 3G,” said Chris Growe, an analyst at Stifel....
...Rivals from Kellogg to General Mills sought to emulate 3G’s frugality, which according to Chris Growe, managing director at the brokerage Stifel, pushed Kraft Heinz’s already-low overheads from 11.5 per...
...(New Yorker) Kraft Heinz’s austerity diet Almost four years since 3G Capital, whose brands range from Budweiser to Burger King, engineered the $63bn megamerger of Kraft and Heinz, the company’s financial...
...(FT) In the news Kraft’s triple blow Kraft Heinz shares slumped after the food company cut its dividend by more than a third, took a $15.4bn impairment charge and also disclosed that it had received an...
...In particular, large food conglomerates, such as Kraft Heinz are under fire from new brands offering more “natural” options, said Templeton....
...You might think that the legendary investor’s biggest problem was related to the disastrous performance of Kraft Heinz, the consumer goods group he bought with Brazilian partner 3G in 2015....
...Chris Bush, former UK managing director Chris Bush, 53, worked his way up from being a 16-year-old store worker to UK managing director of Tesco during a 32-year career....
...(NYT, Atlantic) Buffett’s last day at Kraft Heinz Warren Buffett steps down on Monday from the board of Kraft Heinz after five years, leaving the food group in which his Berkshire Hathaway investment company...
...In recent years, a philosophical divide opened between the US players, epitomised by 3G Capital-backed Kraft Heinz, which cut cost more ruthlessly than European rivals Unilever and Nestlé....
...“You need to be able to articulate and communicate a team’s entire story on a championship ring,” says Chris Poitras, vice-president and chief operating officer of Jostens College and Pro Sports Division...
...Margin – which was another focus for improvement after Kraft was seen off – also improved....
...So we just say that’s business we’re not doing,” Chris Lofgren, chief executive of Schneider National, a leading carrier, told a New York conference....
...Lombard Melrose could win more from GKN by winning friends News of Melrose’s £7bn bid — the biggest hostile approach in Britain since Kraft targeted Cadbury eight years ago — has had commentators harking...
...In the first in a new FT series, How to Lead, he tells our editor Lionel Barber how he fought off a $143bn hostile bid from Kraft Heinz....
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