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...Name and shame | Marks and Spencer, WHSmith and Argos are among the more than 200 companies called out by the UK government for failing to pay staff the minimum wage....
...Sales of air fryers at Argos are up 420 per cent year on year, while Currys is selling 18,000 to 20,000 air fryers a week, compared with 1,000 to 2,000 around the same period last year, according to Ed Connolly...
...In Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy, MIT historian David Mindell explains why. “There are no fully autonomous systems,” Mindell argues....
...BS Water Views: Rivers, Lakes, Oceans by David Ondaatje is published by Monacelli at $45...
...David concluded that real wages in manufacturing rose sharply along with productivity....
...Yesterday self-driving start-up Argo AI revealed plans for an autonomous vehicle delivery service in Miami, Austin, and Washington DC, in partnership with Ford and Walmart....
...The first track, Ahmed’s calling card “Argos Farfish”, opens with a brutal rock riff and high bleating saxophone. Ahmed’s voice comes in, urgent, imploring, exploding into a cry of “hey hey!”...
...David Stevenson, in “Are ESG and sustainability the new alpha mantra?”...
...David Howell, chairman since flotation in 2016, plans to step down next year....
...But as David Bowie might have had it: “We can be heroes, just for one day.” Even Sainsbury’s....
...Letter in response to this article: Perhaps the new alpha mantra should be ESG materiality / From Dr Dylan Minor, Chief Investment Officer, Argos Global Advisors, Santa Barbara, CA, US...
...And even though its Argos stores were closed throughout the lockdown, digital shopping meant the brand’s sales were up almost 11 per cent....
...“F-150 alone will sell over 600,000 units a year,” said David Whiston, an analyst at Morningstar. “It’s too big to mess up. Its profits drive everything else going on at Ford.”...
...“The fundamental basis of our economic system is broken,” said Bermuda premier David Burt in a speech in October....
...The Hut will therefore disappear into LSE’s Standard Listing netherworld alongside the likes of Bigdish, Cleeve Capital, Senterra Energy and Argo Blockchain....
...Sainsbury’s Argos chief executive John Rogers is stepping down to join the public relations firm WPP as chief financial officer....
...It is also below that of current peers; Tesco chief executive Dave Lewis and Morrisons boss David Potts were both paid about £4.6m in the most recent financial year....
...Sir David will have to be content with 2016’s Argos takeover as his crowning moment....
...“Sainsbury can charge a small premium [to Tesco], but to do so it needs to offer a better environment, quality and service,” said David McCarthy, an analyst at HSBC....
...John C Walden, the former Argos boss, will replace him. We’re looking to feature more job moves....
...Sales growth has also slowed at Argos, the general-merchandise retailer it acquired in 2016. Asda, by contrast, has recovered some momentum after cutting prices and improving its own-label ranges....
...“We believe that AR is going to be one of the most significant platforms of the next five years,” said David Jones, founder of You & Mr Jones, a marketing tech group that invested in Niantic in 2015....
...Merck agrees $1bn deal to buy biopharmaceutical company Peloton (FT) Billionaire Hinduja brothers weigh bid for India's Jet Airways (Reuters) Ana Botín’s comments on Dia prompt regulator’s scrutiny (FT) Argo...
...Buoyed by the successful acquisition of Argos, a general retailer, Mr Coupe’s initial confidence in the Asda takeover was almost ebullient....
...J Sainsbury bought Argos and is acquiring Asda in a two-part attempt at Bezos-proofing....
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