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...At a souvenir kiosk off Trafalgar Square, Dave Choo had done brisk business selling white flags bearing an image of the Queen for £10, but he said it was nothing like the jubilee....
...During Khan’s Senate confirmation hearing in April, Mike Lee, Republican senator from Utah, raised the issue of impartiality, citing a 1966 court decision to disqualify then-FTC chair Paul Rand Dixon from...
...Company dancer Stina Quagebeur’s Take Five Blues is a brisk workout for eight dancers that skitters busily across Nigel Kennedy’s take on Dave Brubeck’s ultra-lounge classic....
...Dave Lee in San Francisco reports the biggest food delivery app in the US is shaking up the fees it charges per order....
...jemima.kelly@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Old age, retirement and the meaning of work / From Dave Smith, Stoke-on-Trent, UK...
...It followed cuts announced last week by the restaurant chain PizzaExpress and the electronics retailer Dixons Carphone....
...Shadbolt, New Jersey, US Crossword 16,320: Robert Holloway, Paris, France; Michael Shipster, Winchester, England; S Fisher, London, England Polymath 1,047: Nicholas Hartley, Belgium Crossword 16,314: A Dixon...
...Peter Dixon: The levelling up plans promised in the 2019 Conservative manifesto have been totally blown off course....
...“There’s a big movement toward responsible capital,” said Andrew Dixon, a venture capital investor, former Goldman Sachs banker, and founder of the Woodhaven Trust....
...Lex There is some mystery as to why Dave Lewis has quit as chief executive of Tesco but, despite a turnround at the supermarket group, investors may also feel now is the right time to depart....
...They regard Tesco and Dixons as retail’s Blur and Oasis, “jumping over the pond only to subsequently do a U-turn”. Primark is instead heading for Chicago, to add to its nine stateside outlets....
...He now runs Dixons Carphone. There is less agreement over Marc Bolland, who went from Dutch brewer Heineken to supermarket chain Wm Morrison and then to Marks and Spencer....
...The retailer shocked the stock market in September 2014, just weeks after chief executive Dave Lewis had taken charge, when it revealed it had overinflated its profits by £250m, causing £2bn to be wiped...
...Marks and Spencer, J Sainsbury and Dixons are among those to have regretted foreign expansion....
...Ross Dixon, lawyer at Hickman & Rose who acted for Chris Bush, said: “This is an unfair and extraordinary outcome and one that calls for urgent reform of the DPA process....
...Dave Palmer, a former British intelligence employee who is Darktrace’s director of technology, describes this as the “canvas on which the AI explains why it’s worried about problems.”...
...“Some of our engineering companies . . . talk about having to get graduates from France”, because of the lack of UK engineering graduates, Dave Hodgson, Bedford’s mayor, told the committee....
...The criminal investigation was triggered in 2014 after Tesco’s incoming chief executive Dave Lewis revealed that the group had overstated its profits by £263m....
...Dave Goulson, bee expert and biology professor at the University of Sussex, disagrees....
...Dave Lewis, chief executive, has announced the biggest shake-up in the supermarket group’s 96-year-old history, shedding thousands of jobs by closing its long-time head office in Cheshunt and 43 stores....
...The exit leaves the field open for John Allan, the former chairman of Dixons, who is also on the shortlist, to be appointed to the role....
...Sir Charles and Google Ventures’ Tom Hulme and Dr Krishna Yeshwant are also joining the advisory board, which is chaired by Dave Norwood, the founder of IP Group, and includes Pete Davies and Alex Snow from...
...Tesco is poised to put its mobile business on the block, as chief executive Dave Lewis intensifies his sales of the supermarket chain’s non-core assets....
...Dave Lewis, the former Unilever executive who joined Tesco as troubleshooting chief executive, describes the numbers as “a step in the right direction”....
...John Allan, the former chairman of Dixons, is also a potential candidate for the job. Tesco declined to comment....
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