Hints and tips:
...Trian used a $3.5bn stake in P&G to successfully lobby for Peltz’s appointment to the board, where he pushed for reorganisation designed to cut through what he called the company’s “suffocating bureaucracy...
...The grooming staple I’m never without is Jo Malone Velvet Rose & Oud Cologne Intense. In Doha we like oud-based perfumes because it comes from the Middle East....
...The monthly survey for the FT and the Peter G Peterson Foundation found that 71 per cent of likely voters trusted their state’s governor rather than Mr Trump to “make the right decision” on easing social...
...(Read our 2015 piece on Altice’s playbook and how Drahi’s strategy relies heavily on the methods of billionaire cable cowboy John Malone). Now what?...
...In the second, the FT reveals that the royal court is negotiating deals with princes to secure their release (FT, FT) News Roundup P&G deadlock in board seat battle with Peltz (FT) Rockwell shares pop...
...The latest move prompted renewed discussion as Prudential announced it is to merge its UK insurance business with M&G asset management, a fund manager it bought in 1999....
...SoftBank then approached John Malone, the billionaire cable cowboy who controls Charter and Liberty Global, and Warren Buffett about a possible investment in Sprint....
...The company, which is owned by John Malone’s cable group Liberty Global, is in the middle of a £3bn investment drive to expand its UK network....
...The distinction between the two was first made in the 1980s by Thomas Malone, a management professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
...By Thursday, the stock market capitalisation was less than the initial cash it will get from S & G; a sign that investors are still cautious....
...Liberty chief John Malone had offered to buy the entire company for about $1bn in 2011....
...Another outstanding factor in its ownership is the position of John Malone’s Liberty Media, which has an investment of about $204m in Barnes & Noble....
...Kimberly-Clark shares were down 0.4 per cent to $92.90; P&G was off 0.2 per cent at $76.16....
...● Climate Change Capital has brought Stephen Lilley from M&G’s infrastructure fund on board to run a new European renewable energy infrastructure asset management team....
...“For Max Levchin [founder of online payments service PayPal], it was plan G that worked.”...
...Anthony G. Bird Nick Timmins: I think he did. And they work pretty well....
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