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...It has distributed about R$35.5bn (US$7bn). More than 430,000 people have received payments, including over 200,000 claimants in the UK case, BHP said....
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...The R-word now hanging around Rishi Sunak, which she was quick to exploit....
...Williams cuts something of a Dorian Gray figure: he has just turned 50 but looks at least 15 years younger. In person, he is quiet, reserved, speaks precisely, exudes calm....
...Read said he was nevertheless confident about 2022 targets for the company, which owns agencies including Wunderman Thompson, VMLY&R, and Burson Cohn & Wolfe....
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...R was beneath 1 in Wales, Yorkshire and the East of England....
...French buyout group Ardian has a $19bn secondaries fund and Blackstone was on course to raise about $20bn for its latest such vehicle, chief operating officer Jon Gray said on an earnings call in October...
...This article is the first part of an FT series examining the future of retail It was on the site of an old Toys ‘R’ Us store in the middle of the pandemic that Amazon launched a renewed assault on the one...
...Danuta Gray, chair of St Modwen, said the board had “considered Blackstone’s approach from a position of strength” and took “a robust position on value”....
...While GameStop got most of the attention on the Reddit forum r/WallStreetBets, the #saveAMC hashtag quickly caught fire too....
...In 2018, Bain Capital and KKR paid $20m to former employees of Toys R Us, a retail chain they bought in 2005....
...Neiman Marcus is the latest addition to a list of private-equity backed bankruptcies in retail, which includes Toys R Us, Gymboree and Payless ShoeSource as well as J Crew....
...And the sector is still feeling the fallout from the demise of the retailer Toys R Us two years ago. The liquidation of Toys R Us didn’t just close off an important route to sales....
...Analysts had anticipated a slowdown, given the weakness elsewhere in the sector and other factors including an especially strong comparable period last year, when toy sales were boosted by the closure of Toys R...
...Retail landlords in the US are grappling with a wave of store closures and bankruptcies of household names including Forever 21, Sears and Toys R Us....
...struggles threaten to exacerbate a developing crisis in US shopping malls, which have been particularly hard-hit by a wave of store closures and bankruptcies of household names including Sears and Toys R...
...Ropes & Gray has hired Ryan Preston Dahl as a partner in its Chicago and New York offices. He joins the firm’s restructuring team from Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York....
...Polymath 1,027: Christina Dyall, Chadwell Heath Crossword 16,194: Ross Casley, California; Stephen Payne, Cornwall; Iolanthe Lonergan, London Polymath 1,026: Simon Marks, London Crossword 16,188: Julia Gray...
...One will be based in suburban New Jersey, where the old Toys R Us business had been one of the state’s best-known employers....
...Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year and Toys R Us collapsed into liquidation. It comes as a reminder that it is not only retailers in weak shopping malls that are under strain....
...Competition from smaller upstarts and the collapse of retailer Toys R Us have added to the pressure....
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