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...Most large consumer packaged goods groups, including P&G, are still operating on tighter margins than they were before the pandemic....
...The chances of (c) are impossible to estimate, even granting that Putin looks weaker now....
...E-P-C you in Prague The European Political Community hasn’t even been inaugurated but has already made a decision: its second meeting will be held in Moldova, writes Henry Foy in Brussels....
...At the farm level, we’re really at record levels,” said Tom Scott, vice-president for agribusiness consulting at S&P Global Commodity Insights....
...Despite the apparent progress towards making Wednesday’s coupon payments, rating agency S&P Global downgraded Russia’s credit rating to double C late on Thursday, citing “reported difficulties meeting debt-service...
...Lex research shows former McKinseyites sit on boards or in C-suites of more than 70 S&P 500 companies, more than a quarter of the index’s market capitalisation of over $30tn....
...A report by S&P Global Market Intelligence found that companies with female executives have higher profits and stock performances....
...They illustrate their argument by comparing the paths to success of the richest people in Mexico and the USA (p. 39)....
...The company has also reiterated that it’ll bring in “a top international management consulting firm to audit and reshape its HR procedures and policies”....
...Just take a look at this, which purports to show the synergies between the bank’s Global Wealth Management (GWM), Asset Management (AM), Personal & Corporate Banking (P&C) and Investment Banking (IB) arms...
...The shares trade on a FY20E EV/EBIT of 11.3x (falling to 9.1x) and a P/E of 9.0x (falling to 5.7x)....
...Last year, Chinese online insurer ZhongAn Online P & C Insurance tied up with Grab to build a digital insurance marketplace for the ride-hailer’s drivers in south-east Asia....
...Accenture, the consulting firm, and Oceanic Global, a New York-based non-profit that combats plastic use, are also on board....
...C Specialist) Apple faces shareholder vote on human rights policies (FT) Villains or visionaries?...
...“The P&C industry typically has more touchpoints with the customer as policies get renewed every year,” says Yaron Ben-Zvi, founder of life insurance start-up Haven Life....
...However, he added: “The new CEO’s background in non-life and the international business could help shift strategic focus from low-growth, low-return UK life business toward P&C outside of UK, which could...
...The ONS estimates the value of land and assets-over-land to be over £5tn compared to a GDP of c£2tn....
...As a mediocre pianist with a repertoire vanishing by the year (I’m now down to the first half of Chopin’s “Nocturne in C Sharp Minor”, the second half of Coldplay’s “The Scientist” and a blues arrangement...
...Sanford C Bernstein’s global quantitative strategy team were the latest to voice anxiety about corporate earnings in a note that decried the broader blurring of lines between fact and opinion in popular...
...“I just thought holy c**p. We live in 2018 and people are still commenting this.” To recruit more women is “absolutely the right thing to do”, he says, but he has practical reasons for the initiative....
...P&G, the biggest consumer goods group in the US, has been shrinking its business by reducing its brands from 170 to 65 since 2015....
...Organic sales growth of the 50 largest consumer companies, including P&G, PepsiCo and Unilever, has fallen from an average of 7.3 per cent in 2011 to minus 0.7 per cent last year, says consultants OC&C....
...We expect a modest rate hike in June followed by a further move in September,” said Nicholas Stamenkovic, independent market strategist at NFS Macro Consulting....
...According to PwC’s global Financial Services HR Consulting practice, quoted in The Times, City bonuses could be down “possibly by 10 per cent in aggregate” this time round....
...After all, it was an editor — C P Scott, of The Guardian — who said: “Comment is free but facts are sacred”....
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