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...We relish the entertainment value of deviants such as Jack Sparrow, the Big Bad Wolf or the cocaine smuggler George Jung (all heroes of Depp’s oeuvre), regardless of the pain they cause....
...The foundation behind the Facebook-created digital currency Libra has named HSBC legal chief and former George W Bush-era terrorism finance tsar Stuart Levey as its first chief executive....
...Neiman Marcus, JC Penney, Pier 1 and J Crew have all filed for bankruptcy this year. But they are hardly alone. With each new day more and more high street shops and restaurants are closing....
...The list includes JC Penney, Hertz, Neiman Marcus, Whiting Petroleum and Briggs & Stratton....
...JC Penney rose more than 500 per cent from a low struck after the retailer also filed for bankruptcy....
...His name was George Gustav Heye....
...“It was off pitch but a big lump of land, like something out of [the British television sitcom] Are You Being Served,” remembers Garfield’s grandson George Weston, now chief executive of ABF....
...Ryan opened the first Primark store in Dublin in 1969, where it is known as Penneys, with an idea to provide budget fashion for young people....
...Think of Michael Bloomberg, George Soros and Tom Steyer. Banking on a recession is no strategy for winning....
...Last month George Gleason appeared at the New York Hilton to tell investors that “asset quality, our standards and principles . . . are non-negotiable”....
...Quant later designs the staff uniforms for his furniture store Habitat 1962 Quant signs a lucrative design contract with US department store JC Penney....
...Investors including George Soros’s family office and David Einhorn have bought tentative stakes in traditional US retailers, in early signs of a contrarian bet on the beleaguered sector as it battles against...
...(FT) Political stress Kellyanne Conway is one of Donald Trump’s longest-standing advisers, yet her husband, George Conway, hates him....
...JC Penney’s chief executive Marvin Ellison is leaving the struggling department store operator to join home improvement retailer Lowe’s, the companies announced on Tuesday....
...But David Penney, chartered financial planner with Penney Ruddy & Winter, says it would be “dangerous” for advisers to be making recommendations for people to transfer their final salary pension based solely...
...George Osborne, the chancellor, has promised to set up a sovereign wealth fund for the north to invest the proceeds....
...The highest climbers in wealth terms are the Weston family, headed by Galen and George Weston, who run both Selfridges and Primark in the UK, and Penneys and Brown Thomas in Ireland....
...In recent years, Chancellor George Osborne has made it clear that science is a personal priority. We ask the government to deliver its vision for this area by protecting its essential investment....
...“The Beatles cracked America,” says George Weston, chief executive of Associated British Foods, Primark’s parent. “We really don’t take it lightly. We just think that we do have something to offer.”...
...George Soros, the billionaire fund manager who owns nearly 8 per cent of JC Penney, had sided with management against Mr Ackman in recent days, according to Bloomberg....
...The latter, meanwhile, has been getting bruised in his struggle with JC Penney this week, but should have been pleased to learn from regulatory filings on Wednesday that George Soros has increased his stake...
...“With JC Penney going the direction it’s going, at the [lower] price points we’re going to have a great opportunity....
...Penney said it is cooperating with regulators.”...
...George Soros has given JC Penney a boost by taking a 7.9 per cent stake in the troubled department store, joining hedge fund manager Bill Ackman who is already its largest shareholder....
...Confirmation of the loan, which was rumoured last week, came a few days after George Soros, the billionaire investor, gave the retailer a boost by announcing he had bought nearly 8 per cent of its shares...
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