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News Corp
Rupert Murdoch faces sceptical investors in bid to reunite empire
...Thomson had no comment beyond News Corp’s announcement that it was exploring a merger with Fox....
October 19, 2022
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Succession race begins to lead Cern ‘god particle’ research project
...The last UK national to be director-general was the physicist Professor Sir Christopher Llewellyn Smith, who stepped down in 1998....
April 2, 2024
FT Live
Investing in America
Foreign companies as drivers of US growth, resilience and competitiveness
Tuesday, 10 DecemberHybrid Conference
FirstFT
FirstFT: Slowdown in dealmaking leaves private equity with record unsold assets
...Thomson Reuters has an $8bn war chest to spend on acquisitions and investments in artificial intelligence, its chief executive has told the FT....
March 11, 2024
Capricorn Energy
Capricorn Energy directors quit en masse in victory for activist
...The board departures mark a sorry end in particular to Thomson’s tenure at Capricorn....
January 24, 2023
News in-depthInvestor activism
Oil majors under pressure as activists circle
...“We don’t really think of ourselves as activists but as active owners,” founder Christopher James told the Financial Times....
December 20, 2021
ReviewMusic
The Mother of Us All — Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein’s opera celebrates a pioneering feminist
...She is the centrepiece of Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein’s moving feminist paean to her and her crusade....
February 11, 2020
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
City Bulletin
Opening Quote: Royal Bank of Scotland gets a new but familiar name
...Michelle Scrimgeour, CEO of Legal & General Investment Management, and Patrick Thomson, CEO for EMEA of JPMorgan Asset Management, have been appointed deputy chairs of the group which speaks on behalf of...
February 14, 2020
Corporate choices: emerging from coronavirus
The ‘retail bros’ betting on a quick market recovery
...Letter in response to this article: An important evolution for retail investors / From Charles White-Thomson, Chairman, Saxo Capital Markets UK, London E14, UK...
June 12, 2020
Brexit
Last exit from Brussels, maybe, for UK’s European commissioner
...George Thomson (Labour): Responsible for regional policy. 1977-80: Christopher Tugendhat (Con): Previously a features editor for the FT, took charge of financial policy before becoming vice-president to...
November 29, 2019
Ageing Populations
Older workers need understanding from employers about their physical limitations
...Christopher Brooks, senior policy manager for consumer and community at Age UK, the charity for older people, says older workers are more likely to be made redundant and find it harder to return to work...
November 21, 2019
News in-depthTobacco
Philip Morris and Altria gamble on post-cigarette future
...This promise was “transformational” to Juul’s mission, according to Dan Thomson, managing director of Juul’s UK arm: “We’ve got the biggest manufacturer of cigarettes in America to hasten their own decline...
August 27, 2019
Small Talk - CompaniesKate Burgess
MJ Gleeson board learns a hard lesson on a luminary’s retirement
...So Mr Harrison has left the building and MJ Gleeson has installed James Thomson, the conveniently available former boss of nearby rival Keepmoat Homes, as interim chief....
June 16, 2019
Personal Finance
Weekend catchup — this week’s personal finance headlines
...This level was much worse than the 49.3 forecast by City economists in a Thomson Reuters poll and below the 48.9 reported for May....
July 5, 2019
Newsletter
Opinion today: The ‘sweet’ billionaire leading Condé Nast
...A K Thomson writes that this week’s chess world championships show that the game needs an injection of old-fashioned thrills....
December 1, 2018
Life & Arts
Where are all the Middle Eastern designers?
...Thomson Reuters projects that global fashion spending by Muslims will reach $373bn by 2022....
September 7, 2018
FT Live
Due Diligence Live
Where leaders in investment and finance meet
Tuesday, 8 OctoberLondon, UK
US & Canadian companies
Mattel pins sales drop on Toys R Us fallout
...Mattel reported revenue of $708.4m, down 4 per cent from $735.6m a year earlier, versus the median forecast of $694.4m from analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters....
April 26, 2018
Law
Pro bono is no side project for law firms
...They began working with a software team at Thomson Reuters and, together, developed an automated platform to process asylum requests....
June 7, 2018
Due Diligence
There’s one guaranteed winner from Melrose’s £7bn pursuit of GKN Premium content
...Smart Reads Not all Thomsons on board with the Thomson Reuters deal The $17bn deal to carve out part of its financial and data business to Blackstone drew objections from the grandson of Roy Thomson, the...
February 16, 2018
Due Diligence
Since 2000 GE has paid $6bn in adviser fees. Was it worth it? Premium content
...With hundreds of deals executed since the turn of the century (according to Thomson Reuters data), the once almighty conglomerate has dished out more than $6bn in fees to advisers....
October 2, 2018
Due Diligence
Inside story about the past few weeks of dealmaking at GSK Premium content
...For the wider private equity world this is the latest example of huge funds willing to deploy large sums in one go (recall Blackstone's Thomson Reuters deal earlier this year)....
March 28, 2018
Aerospace & Defence
Australia targets arms exports amid defence splurge
...We want to change that and leverage more of our own sovereign capability,” Christopher Pyne, Australia’s defence industry minister, told the Financial Times....
July 27, 2017
Fund management
Movers & shakers: March 20
...Mr Lack, who previously worked in the same role for Brewin Dolphin, succeeds Christopher Higgins, who is moving to a new role as head of strategy for Pemberton....
March 19, 2017
US & Canadian companies
Week in Review, July 16
...After only two years in the job, Christopher Bailey is to give up his role as chief executive in favour of an outsider, Marco Gobbetti, head of Céline, the fashion house that is part of LVMH of France....
July 15, 2016
Life & Arts
Literary Life: FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival highlights
...FT columnist David Tang and Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s librarian and a Thomson expert, give a masterclass on Thomson’s work....
March 17, 2017
Investments
Matchtech chief pledges support
...Caroline Thomson, Mark Rollins and Christopher Humphrey have shelled out a combined £108,000 on the camera equipment group’s shares since the start of August....
August 19, 2016

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