Hints and tips:
...No fowl play....
...The latest quarter brought more fowl results: another profit margin decline blamed this time on higher marketing expense. Still, Tyson’s beef and pork segments both hit record margins....
...The predicament in which he now finds himself says much about how China Inc has changed since then — and the changes still to come....
...A decade ago, they had no idea they might enjoy using their phones to ping enraged fowl at smirking green pigs. Now they do. Believe it or not, this is progress. Email the Lex team at lex@ft.com...
...Fowl pox. Swine fever. Foot-and-mouth. Animal diseases often take prosaic names. This does not make them cheap to treat....
This year’s problems are not the first of this type – and are unlikely to be the last
...Fowl’s deeds Diageo should have read the following entry from An Ornithologist’s Guide to Entrepreneurs before buying a big stake in United Spirits, the drinks business of Vijay Mallya....
...Tesco’s fowl deed It is appropriate that Tesco chief executive Philip Clarke is preparing to axe Fresh & Easy just after Thanksgiving, a time when US turkeys rightly feel nervous, writes Jonathan Guthrie...
...CMGE also distributes Chinese versions of other favourite games such as Fruit Ninja, as well as develop its own localised version of the game which features a chef slashing fowls and turtles for the pot....
...There is also a single menu surviving from one of the Academy’s 18th-century annual dinners but it’s not much help as a precedent as it includes fish and sauce, ham, fowls, greens, pigeon pye, roast beef...
...While the carrier has worked hard to become profitable, industry consolidation has left it stuck in the middle, “neither fish nor fowl”, says Mr Pilarski, “too big to be nimble like Allegiant Air, too small...
...Corn and meat prices have backed off a bit in recent weeks, but if this welcome trend reverses, the American consumer may start to crack – and the first fissures may appear in the form of a fowl taste....
...An executive at London-based marketing agency Mother, who likes the company canteen and picks the roasted guinea fowl as a particular favourite, says: “It does make us feel that [we are] encouraged not to...
...But two hedge funds controlling about a quarter of the company felt the fowl on offer would have been woefully scrawny after Blackstone finished plucking it clean....
...The fowl itself may be deep-fried or smoked, but is usually roasted....
...Beautiful game In fowl as in football, wealthy foreigners are buying the best....
...Among the dishes I have enjoyed are a guinea fowl boudin; chicken and egg broth served in a tureen for two; trout Grenobloise; pollock with a pistou sauce; crêpe Suzette served in a copper pan; and a mille-feuille...
...In reality, Facebook and MySpace are fish and fowl, the different courses they are on demonstrating the evolving web’s inchoate nature....
...Simon Schama is an FT contributing editor ‘Food, Inc’, a documentary featuring Michael Pollan, has just been released on DVD ………………………………………….....
...Banks are neither public fish nor private fowl. They have long relied on the support of public central banks....
...When it comes to enforcing change at the top, China Inc does not usually muck about....
...Google has spent much of the money from this gilded fowl, and the time afforded it by the failure of its competitors to mount a tougher challenge, preparing for what comes next....
...focuses on fowl play at the pond. Here the issues are bullying, prejudice and finding your inner swan....
...fashion attempts to edge into the arena via pilgrim-inspired black-and-white dressing (see Jil Sander’s rigorously elegant high-necked white polo, skinny black pants and austere single-buttoned jackets) or fowl-esque...
...“Like the Liberal Democrats, Robbie has faced the criticism that he is neither fish nor fowl, as it were,” the official said....
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