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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....
...list of 10 drugs to face price negotiations includes a diabetes pill called Jardiance sold by Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly; a medicine to prevent strokes called Eliquis made by Pfizer and Bristol Myers...
...This year’s event includes a concert at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl by Abba tribute act Björn Again....
...Evan Seigerman, analyst at BMO Capital Markets, said drugs developed by Bristol, Pfizer, Lilly, Merck, AbbVie, and Amgen were likely to be on the initial CMS list....
...My favourite purchases have included a cloudy rosé from the California producer Ruth Lewandowski Wines (whose owner, Evan Lewandowski, previously worked in Alsace), a kombucha-like orange wine from Chilean...
...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...
...Merck, BMS, J&J, Novartis and some trade groups have launched a legal broadside against them, filing lawsuits in several different courts across the US....
...Bristol-Myers Squibb has agreed to acquire Turning Point Therapeutics for $4.1bn in the latest in a series of bolt-on acquisitions by pharmaceutical companies looking to bolster their drug pipelines....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
UK supermarket could not substantiate claims over products’ environmental impact, ASA watchdog rules
...Ashtyn Evans, analyst at Edward Jones, said J&J had a decent quarter without providing many surprises....
...Next on your left is the Evan Walker footbridge, named after the architect and politician who led the 1990s conversion of what was a dour industrial zone into the lively Southbank commercial and entertainment...
...(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...
...J&J shares trade on a multiple of 18 times forward earnings, well above Pfizer’s 12 times and Bristol-Myers Squibb’s 9 times. Duato will have to deliver on the vaccine front to justify this premium....
...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...
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