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News in-depthAerospace & Defence
How the Storm Shadow missile maker launched a new model of defence co-operation
...You either survive together or sink independently,” said Douglas Barrie, senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies....
April 8, 2024
InterviewLunch with the FT
Actor Michael Douglas: ‘What roles haven’t I done?’
...“A true renaissance man,” Douglas says. It is certainly an age-appropriate role for Douglas, given that he turns 80 this year....
April 12, 2024
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
Exclusively for FT subscribers
Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
News in-depthCVC Capital Partners Ltd
How CVC struggled to makeover profits at beauty retailer Douglas
...Yet Werner Reinartz, director of the Center for Research in Retailing at Cologne University, described Douglas as “a role model” for retailers given its balance between bricks-and-mortar stores and digital...
March 10, 2024
European companies
Beauty retailer Douglas’s shares drop 9% in underwhelming Frankfurt IPO
...investment adviser 7 Square, said that the stock’s poor performance reflected scepticism over “a challenged company that is listed in a difficult market environment”, adding that investors were sceptical given...
March 21, 2024
The Long ViewKatie Martin
In defence of Europe’s tankmakers
...As Douglas-Pennant at UBS points out, plenty of fund managers are latching on to the phenomenon....
April 12, 2024
Oil & Gas industry
Hunt’s windfall tax on oil and gas spells trouble for Scottish Tories
...A furious Douglas Ross, leader of the Scottish Conservatives, has pledged not to vote on the measure....
March 9, 2024
FT Live
Financial Adviser Service Awards 2024
Who gives you 5 star service?
Thursday, 14 NovemberNatural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
Galderma SA
Dermatology giant Galderma aims to raise $2.3bn in Swiss IPO
...“This would also allow us to de-lever the company.”The announcement by Galderma, which is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, comes in the same week as the CVC-owned perfume retailer Douglas said it intends...
March 6, 2024
InterviewIPOs
Banker to British mid-caps warns of bleak outlook for London market
...Meanwhile private equity groups faced “constipation” with pressure to both make investments and sell out of assets, he said, given the industry sits on a record number of unsold companies....
April 5, 2024
ReviewFilm
Mothers’ Instinct — Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain star in a stormy psychological drama
...It is an adeptly choreographed duet that makes you unsure which character to identify with at any given moment — or which represents more of a threat to the other....
March 27, 2024
LexNathalie Thomas
The Lex Newsletter: Should you stay or should you go? Premium content
...German beauty retailer Douglas staged an initial public offering in March, though its shares have not fared well since....
April 10, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
Boeing: how not to run a national champion
...A shift in culture after Boeing bought McDonnell Douglas in 1997 put financial returns ahead of engineering prowess....
March 21, 2024
IPOs
Strong start for Europe’s IPO market lifts recovery hopes
...Germany beauty retailer Douglas, owned by CVC, is aiming to raise €1.1bn on the Frankfurt stock exchange and is seeking a valuation of €6bn....
March 11, 2024
Miranda Green
Seeking leaders with heft takes democracies to strange places
...One of the first political events I attended as a young enthusiast featured veteran Douglas Hurd....
March 9, 2024
UK Covid inquiry
Humza Yousaf criticises Scottish government’s ‘poor’ handling of Covid inquiry requests
...He also criticised evidence given at the inquiry that suggested the SNP had made decisions for “purely political reasons”....
January 25, 2024
News in-depthAbrdn Plc
Abrdn cuts jobs, costs and investor confidence
...Some shareholders have already given up on the group....
March 10, 2024
FT Live
Transforming the Finance Function with AI
Strategies for delivering advanced analytics, automation and decision-making
Thursday, 25 AprilDigital Conference
News in-depthHouse of Commons UK
MPs clock off early as length of Commons work day hits record low
...Letter in response to this article: In Thatcher’s time, MPs worked much longer hours / From Douglas French, Conservative MP for Gloucester 1987-1997, Poole, Dorset, UK...
March 14, 2024
John Gapper
Boeing is not responding to its 737 Max change of course
...That goes back to its unhappy 1996 merger with McDonnell Douglas, which broadened its scope from commercial aircraft into defence and unleashed the mantra of shareholder value....
January 12, 2024
Due Diligence
Why hedge fund Elliott wants to sell you washing machines Premium content
...Currys’ market capitalisation of about £750mn could make it a tempting target given that it appears to be trading at a discount to the sum of its various businesses....
March 5, 2024
Inside Politics
UK general election options remain unchanged
...Gordon Brown in 2010, John Major in 1997 and Alec Douglas-Home in 1964 all held on until the last possible minute....
November 27, 2023
FT SeriesHTSI spring menswear special 2024
The Dunhill creative director’s black book of style
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart....
March 8, 2024
InterviewFilm
Love and conflict in Palestine: ‘Shoshana shows how political violence forces people into opposite camps’
...“They felt we’d given a fair representation of their relatives, given that they had polar opposite views,” he says. “We didn’t want to load the dice one way or the other.”...
February 9, 2024
Inside Politics
The perils of picking a former chancellor for PM
...Five (Alec Douglas-Home, John Major, Gordon Brown, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak) did so when their party was in a degree of electoral and political trouble....
January 9, 2024
Inside Politics
Speculation grows over timing of next election after Tory by-election defeats
...But in another sense — given the tricky economic and social fundamentals facing the Conservative party — 463 days isn’t all that much time at all....
October 23, 2023
Britain after Brexit
Freeports are a regional industrial strategy that dare not speak its name Premium content
...Rather pointedly, given Khan’s warning above, Figures also notes that the BCG forecast is based on the assumption that given the current political environment “there will be little scope over the next decade...
January 11, 2024
News in-depthMiddle East military briefing
Military briefing: can the US and its allies stop the Houthis?
...Civilian casualties, given the size of the missile strikes, were reportedly low. US military officials said they were still completing battle damage assessments....
January 13, 2024

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