Hints and tips:
...CVC Capital Partners, Ardian and L Catterton have all had conversations with advisers about potential initial public offerings....
...In 2020, Cato’s once almost barren farm was recognised as one of the most innovative in France and awarded the prestigious Lauréat National de l’Agro-Ecologie....
...Less obvious picks are WHSmith and baker Greggs, on the grounds that their hub-based stores can profit from investment in transport networks....
...Popular picks from journalist contestants included UK pub chain Wetherspoons and high street pasty purveyor Greggs....
...A sale could give shares in L Brands a much-needed lift....
...Gregg Lemkau is having a difficult time in paradise. The co-head of investment banking at Goldman Sachs had come to Hawaii with his wife and four kids for a family vacation....
...There’s a liveblog on Ghosn over here and some write-ups of Sainsbury and Greggs updates, which both look much as expected....
...Greggs, the bakery chain, has assessed the effects on its line of pastries and snacks. “You’ve got BLT sandwiches. What happens if there’s no L and no T? Well, you’ve got a bacon sandwich....
...Hold: Greggs (GRG) Greggs is clearly defying the odds when it comes to high street retailing and we expect it to do well over the festive period....
...• GSK • Keepmoat • L&Q • Sage … Bupa Workwell Engagement and Wellbeing Award Recognises those investing in the engagement and wellbeing of their employees • Dairy Crest* • East Coast Mainline*...
...L&G said it had met with officials on a range of issues, not just the charge cap....
...For Greggs, rising sales in the downturn were the intoxicant....
...Giacometti’s “L’Homme qui marche I”, sold in 2010 for £65m (then $103.4m) holds the world record for any sculpture but no painting has come near these prices – the artist’s record currently stands at $14.6m...
...The other big strategic question hanging over the company is what it will do with its stake in L’Oréal. A shareholder agreement requires Nestle to give L’Oréal first refusal should it decide to sell....
...The OFT’s announcement also hands a significant victory to both Mr Miliband and Gregg McClymont, Labour’s shadow pensions minister, who have both campaigned on the issue....
...Sir Martin may not have invented the L’Oréal strapline “because I’m worth it”, but he is definitely trying to exploit it now....
...Target “received an early season boost from the combination of warm weather and an earlier Easter”, said Gregg Steinhafel, chief executive of the chain....
...The journalist H.L. Mencken once observed that, “complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers.”...
...“From a P&L point of view, it’s very obvious if you backtrack,” he said....
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