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...UK companies news will be peppered with trading updates, notably supermarket chains Marks and Spencer, J Sainsbury and Tesco, discount retailer B&M and Greggs, purveyor of hot pastry snacks such as the vegan...
...Companies are taking on “fewer large leveraged buyout transactions”, said Gregg Lemos-Stein, a senior analyst at S&P Global Ratings....
...My favourites are the Swarovski-crystal Manolos I have in red, green, black and gold – they’re like Dorothy’s shoes in The Wizard of Oz....
...album Somewhere Different dominated, alongside covers of songs by the two pillars of jazz-harp lineage, Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane....
...Roisin Currie, Greggs’ retail and property director, will take over as chief executive in May....
...I don’t know much about him, but a) I like his books and b) I think he’ll bring some good billionaire-adjacent gossip, which will keep Nancy happy....
...High street bellwether Next and discount peer B&M both lifted profit expectations last month....
...For the tangled tales of the cruise-liner drama Transatlantic (1931), the young cinematographer went full-throttle with deep focus and wide angles a decade before his colleague Gregg Toland employed such...
...Retailers from Sainsbury’s, DFS and Dunelm to Topps, B&M and Asos have warned over operating costs inflation....
...About half of B&Q’s 300 stores are open and Timpson is starting to reopen its key-cutting and shoe repair outlets....
...B&Q, Dunelm and Sports Direct had people waiting patiently to improve their homes and fitness with cash they might once have spent on holidays or meals out....
...Lombard How you think about Greggs’ future really depends on whether you believe 2022 will be remotely like 2019....
...Also out this morning are results from one non-high street retailer on a roll: discounter B&M....
...Being an MBA student, you are programmed to have a plan A, B, C and D. During Covid you cannot have a plan B: you make plans, wake up the next day and everything is different....
...Neither Boohoo nor Asos, which have picked up Debenhams and Arcadia brands including Topshop, Topman and Dorothy Perkins, have opted to take on the leases for the shops....
...The variant, first identified in South Africa and now the dominant strain in the country, is proving much more difficult to counter than B.1.1.7, the form that first emerged in the UK....
...We currently model WFH to represent 10% of half of B&I going forward (B&I c40% of revenue) and our estimates sit c10% below consensus in FY21 onwards....
...Since stores started to reopen, Greggs said sales trends had been “encouraging”: last week sales were back to 72 per cent of the equivalent 2019 level....
...These include Marks and Spencer, New Look, John Lewis, Sports Direct and the Arcadia stable, which includes Topshop, Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis....
...Discount retailer B&M has recruited Alex Russo as its CFO. Currently group finance director of retailer Wilko, he will join B&M no later than June 2021....
...When fresh-faced Dorothy (Constance Wu) starts working at a club, veteran Ramona (a magnetic Jennifer Lopez) takes her under her wing. Cue glorious slo-mo sequences and Lizzo and Cardi B cameos....
...Dorothy Parker once quipped that Katharine Hepburn ran the gamut of emotions from A to B. Martin Freeman’s range is even more economical: A to A....
...You’re going to probably end up with a B. The real question is, has he got capability to be an A?” But then, a “B” leader with excellent players plus luck can end up a champion....
...Watson and his wife Dorothy, and founder members GA Henderson and Fay K Henderson, are credited with coining the term “vegan”....
...1949) and Nima Poovaya-Smith (b. 1953)....
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