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...More affordable whiskeys such as Buchanan’s and Bulleit jumped 36 and 19 per cent respectively. “Consumers are still facing multiple headwinds,” said Crew....
...Diageo’s new chief executive Debra Crew has taken up the position a month earlier than expected after the company said outgoing leader Sir Ivan Menezes was in hospital recovering from emergency surgery....
...Diageo chief executive Debra Crew said at the CAGNY conference of consumer analysts in Miami last month that prices would “normalise to one to two points of growth in line with historical pre-Covid levels...
...Net income jumped 201 per cent to $14bn, beating consensus estimates of $13bn compiled by S&P Capital IQ....
...The S&P 500 ended 0.4 per cent lower after oscillating between gains and losses on Friday afternoon, but was up 2.6 per cent over the past five sessions, its biggest weekly gain since late March....
...Debra Crew, who previously ran Diageo’s North America operations has now started in the role....
...Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 was down 0.1 per cent on Friday, but added 2.4 per cent in the week....
...After 10 years as bar captain, Sir Ivan Menezes will hand the keys to Debra Crew, currently chief operating officer....
...Net income in the third quarter fell 52 per cent to $4.4bn, below consensus estimates for $5bn, according to S&P Capital IQ....
...Samuel Johar, chair of board advisory group Buchanan Harvey, said the appointment of Lewis made the planned split and listing more likely. “He has an excellent record in consumer goods . . ....
...Net losses shrunk to $200m from $227m, less than consensus estimates compiled by S&P Capital IQ, which suggested they would widen to $269m....
...Duncan Buchanan, policy director at the Road Haulage Association, another trade body, said that even allowing for general congestion at ports globally caused by Covid-19, there were “serious problems” at...
...The world’s biggest drinks company in 2014 teamed up with P Diddy in a 50-50 joint venture to buy DeLeón tequila, having already struck a $100m deal with the US rap star to market Cîroc vodka in the US....
...“Advertisers say they are concerned about Facebook’s many problems, but that concern hasn’t led to a drop in ad spending,” Debra Aho Williamson, principal analyst at research firm eMarketer, wrote in a note...
...“In order for Facebook to move forward, it needs to show that its daily and monthly active user counts in the US and Canada and in Europe have stabilised,” said Debra Aho Williamson, principal analyst at...
...Hawkins, P. Capaldi and Sir M. Gambon. ★★★★☆...
...Leveraged loans have gained just under 3 per cent, data from S&P Dow Jones Indices shows. S&P Global and Fitch rating agencies project defaults will decline over the coming year....
...Rio shares were trading flat on the Australian Stock Exchange, outperforming both the benchmark S&P/ASX 200, which was down 0.3 per cent, as well as other rivals....
...“There is no doubt you have seen a stall in the momentum of the rally across various risk markets,” said Michael Buchanan, deputy chief investment officer of Western Asset Management....
...This morning, the mining group terminated the contracts of its energy & minerals chief executive Alan Davies and its legal & regulatory affairs group executive Debra Valentine – after reviewing the findings...
...Pat Buchanan rode “America First” a long way against George HW Bush of New World Order fame in 1992; and after the Iraq and Afghan wars and the financial crisis, it became a national phenomenon....
...Overall the S&P 500 rose 0.13 per cent to 2,017.46....
...The S&P 500 companies as a whole have spent more than $6 trillion on such payments between 2005 and 2014, bolstering share prices and the markets even as they were cutting jobs and investment....
...The S&P 500 US utilities index has risen by a third since that EEI paper was published in 2013. The market share taken by distributed generation is small....
...S&P Capital IQ has a 12-month target for the S&P 500 of 1,780....
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