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...Urban Legend doughnuts are available in London branches of Tesco and in Selfridges, with a trial under way in J Sainsbury....
...Alibaba group president J Michael Evans resigned from Farfetch’s board last week, in another sign that previous supporters are stepping back....
...Food retailing is a highly consolidated industry in the UK, with the top four traditional supermarkets — Tesco, J Sainsbury, Asda and Morrisons — plus the two discounters Aldi and Lidl controlling more than...
...“The odds that we wake up and see a J&J or Lilly do something big like buying Alnylam, Incyte or Vertex goes down from where it would have been,” said Stifel’s Opler....
...Supermarkets Aldi, Lidl, Asda, Morrison, Marks and Spencer, and Tesco have in recent weeks imposed caps on the number of boxes of eggs that customers can buy, while rival J Sainsbury this month sparked fury...
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...Ashtyn Evans, analyst at Edward Jones, said J&J had a decent quarter without providing many surprises....
...(That said, Richard J Evans, one of the world’s foremost historians of Germany, was a notably sharp critic)....
...Two of the UK’s “big four” supermarkets, J Sainsbury and Tesco, said they would push ahead with removing buy-one-get-one-free deals on unhealthy foods this year despite the government’s delay....
...Among the other external advisers are film-maker Sofia Coppola, hedge fund supremo J Tomilson Hill and Evan Spiegel, chief executive of Snap. One artist, Jenny Saville, also sits on the board....
...The hire, not just from outside the company but outside the consumer goods sector, was an “extraordinary decision”, said Nestlé shareholder Christopher Rossbach, of J Stern & Co....
...Nearer home, I am a big fan of Three Lives bookstore in the West Village, because I always need books, and J Mueser is a great men’s clothing store that carries funkier independent labels....
...Ashtyn Evans, analyst at Edward Jones, said the break-up plan “could help unlock value for shareholders by increasing focus on the consumer business, which has grown minimally over the last five years”....
...Letters in response to this article: A mayonnaise challenge for Unilever’s Jope / From Paul Tuckwell, Pyrford, Surrey, UK Purpose before profit can give brands an edge / From Charles J Skuba, Professor...
...Christopher Rossbach, managing partner at fund manager J Stern & Co, said: “Companies should make a distinction between what are essential goods like basic foods or infant nutrition, and more discretionary...
...“They have a triple A credit rating, $94bn in annual sales, $20bn in annual cash flow, they’ve got $34bn in cash on their balance sheet and their market cap is $430bn,” said Ashtyn Evans, analyst at Edward...
...“With the spin-off potentially being up to two years away, it will probably take some time before investors have a clear picture of the growth potential of the new consumer company,” said Ashtyn Evans, analyst...
...Having spent nearly 30 years in the advertising industry in Australia, she had been regional director of J Walter Thompson in south-east Asia and had run her own agency....
...Discovering a protégé in young Morgan Evans, she is determined to get him to Oxford....
...Four years ago, Evan Greenberg, chief executive of Chubb, one of the largest US insurers by market value, spoke out against “abusive behaviour”, including what he said were excessive commissions....
...Andrew J Oswald: Young economists have not lived through times like these. I am afraid we all learn by painful experience....
...Shake and double-strain into a cocktail glass Brandy Crusta at J Sheekey 28-32 St Martin’s Court, London WC2N 4AL J Sheekey, one of London’s loveliest seafood restaurants (and refuge amid frenetic Covent...
...Chubb is led by Evan Greenberg, son Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, who turned AIG into a financial powerhouse over four decades....
...J Sainsbury was at one point stocking Spar meat products and Marks and Spencer suspended some products lines after food suppliers encountered delays in shipping goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland...
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