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...He hasn’t announced a blank-cheque deal since January, when his Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp V announced a tie-up with the digital lender SoFi....
...That line is still highlighted in marketing by Vanguard, the mutual fund business Bogle founded. BlackRock and State Street, two other big US fund managers, have their own variants....
...So the companies running those marketing channels — the aggregators — take a lot of the profits. Relying on asset managers seeking high yields has a downside, too....
...Citi downgrades AB Foods and Marks & Spencer in a retail note....
...Miguel Patricio is “a very good guy, and we’re going to give it a try”, he added, but the move had “nothing to do with AB InBev”. Got that?...
...(FT) Warren v Wall Street? Elizabeth Warren is one of the country’s most prominent critics of Wall Street firms and big banks....
...The statement mentions investment in sales, marketing and integrated technology solutions....
...Paypal’s recent acquisitions range from a marketing technology business to a company that helps sellers prevent fraud....
...(FT) Singed returns Utilities seemed like a safe bet for investors until the biggest wildfire in California history ravaged PG&E Corp last year....
...The move to gut its saloon range came as part of an expanded $25.5bn savings plan, aimed at restoring the company’s financial health compared with its arch rival GM....
...In 2012, disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong lost Nike, RadioShack, AB InBev and Trek as sponsors following a doping scandal....
...A 34oz bottle of P&G’s Pantene Pro-V Shampoo & Conditioner was listed by 10 different sellers — nine of them third parties — on the shopping site....
...In other words, it’s marketing gold....
...The marketing of the deal lands as a wave of supply hit the market....
...This blending helped to lift sales at Beam through joint products and marketing....
...Mr Muromachi appears committed for now: “My biggest responsibility is to achieve a V-shaped recovery in the next financial year,” he says....
...The DoJ will also assess distribution, marketing and other operations that affect who controls pricing and supplies of the beverages, so AB InBev may have to sell other assets to gain regulatory approval...
...Media publishers are turning to new sources of revenue such as content marketing and de facto corporate-sponsored editorial copy....
...It hasn’t disclosed how much any of this cost; as a marketing technique, it can’t be cheap. Regardless, the company’s deep pockets and early success do pose a serious challenge to Netflix....
...“The theoretical net operating margin for ‘all you can eat’ subscription services is 3 per cent but that assumes only negligible marketing spend,” says Mark Mulligan, a music analyst at MIDiA Consulting....
...And, yes, that does include taking account of the shift in marketing spend to a period when – as it turns out – hardly anyone was buying, and the lower financial income associated with the sales dip....
...Code Club has received financial support from Google....
...“Those names weren’t meant to be draconian or pejorative,” Jeanette Fitzgerald, Epsilon’s chief privacy officer, told the Financial Times....
...A marketing campaign for its newly acquired beers, including Model Especial and Corona, had lured consumers as the summer began, the brewer said....
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