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...Improving margins in its motor business were materialising slower than expected and would remain challenging until the early part of 2024 due to high inflation, notably in labour costs, said Greenwood....
...Direct Line’s shares were modestly higher by late-morning trading in London. Direct Line said Jon Greenwood, its acting chief executive, had chosen not to pursue the CEO role....
...The company’s acting chief executive Jon Greenwood said the earnings outlook “continues to be challenging” but stressed that Direct Line continued to “take the actions required to drive business performance...
...Direct Line’s shares have plunged more than 40 per cent over the past year, compared with a 30 per cent drop for peer Admiral, which revealed last week that similar motor and weather effects had pushed it...
...The chief executive of Direct Line has stepped down, two weeks after the motor and home insurer issued its latest profit warning and scrapped its dividend....
...He adds: “This allows them to agree more easily on a set of corporate values and cultural settings, which may be incorporated in the business....
...Shareholder votes on actual CEO pay are nonbinding in most countries, including the Netherlands, where Stellantis is incorporated....
...Total policy sales were down by 2 per cent, with motor and home policy sales down by almost a tenth and policies in force down 4 per cent since January 31 this year....
...The CRS says that vehicle parts exported to Canada and Mexico often return to the US to be incorporated into the finished vehicles....
...(AutoStore’s main line of robots is still painted in the same shade.)...
...In 2018, Oklahoma City opened a streetcar network with two lines, reviving a public transportation option that had ceased operation in 1947....
...According to ISS ESG, 39 per cent of energy companies in the world’s biggest indices had incorporated climate targets into their chief executives’ pay by last year, the highest proportion of any sector....
...Businesses such as General Motors, Nike and Kellogg’s have signed up to report in line with the accounting standards, which BlackRock has been involved with for several years including as part of its investor...
...Di Castri’s music was on these lines, though its ear was more imaginatively tuned to otherworldly sounds than some, and it also incorporated settings of three poems ancient and modern, brilliantly despatched...
...Last month Lynas announced it would build a rare earths processing plant in Texas, with Blue Line Corporation....
...The biggest example of that has been Africa’s jump straight to mobile phones, almost entirely bypassing fixed-line technology....
...Its underlying measure of pre-tax profit rose 15 per cent in 2017, in line with expectations, to £31.3m. The loan book grew 27 per cent to £1.6bn, while customer deposits grew 29 per cent....
...Motor head Toyota has developed its first companion robot. The 10cm-high cutie is reckoned to have the intelligence of a 5-year-old....
...With Marc by Marc Jacobs now incorporated in the Marc Jacobs line, and its renewed emphasis on luxurious maturity, there may be a gap in the market for an American house with a flirty, fun, playful aesthetic...
...According to Rogue Wave, a US software group, the average luxury car today has more than 300m lines of code – compared with about 8m in the F35 fighter jet. But innovation comes with risks....
...In the meantime, it is worth going back to look at how Worthington sees a couple of these new business lines operating....
...It now has a line of luxury gel mattresses and pillows, the sales of which have increased globally by 75 per cent a year since their introduction in 2009....
...“In line with this, we do not aim to become a higher-end brand....
...machines at the Ford Motor Company’s River Route plant....
...There are no conventional tail lights because the major part of the rear of the car is devoted to heat dissipation, meaning that the LED lighting system had to be incorporated into the trailing edge of the...
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