Hints and tips:
...Transfer Market Tim Lewis, who as a Clifford Chance partner advised Stan Kroenke on his acquisition of Arsenal, has taken on the role of executive vice-chair....
...The John Lewis Partnership will this week start offering free food to its department store and Waitrose supermarket staff....
...Roisin Currie, Greggs’ retail and property director, will take over as chief executive in May....
...unveiled on Tuesday and says it is a temporary one-issue group, includes supermarket groups Tesco, J Sainsbury, Coop and Wm Morrison; DIY specialist Kingfisher; bookstore Waterstones and food-to-go chain Greggs...
...High-street staple Greggs, the baker, announced its first loss in 37 years as revenues fell 30 per cent during the pandemic....
...Glass Lewis sided with the challenger....
...International business: M&S reviews future of French stores amid Brexit delivery delays Human Resources: Marriott warns of ‘fight for talent’ as hotels struggle to find staff Revision: Pret A Manger vs Greggs...
...By contrast, John Lewis may not even be able to share profit with its partners — which was its purpose. Staff bonuses at Greggs plc and Sports Direct plc look more generous....
...Many chains, including Next, Debenhams, John Lewis, Marks and Spencer, New Look and River Island, have chosen not to reopen all their stores at once....
...The new generation of Spac sponsors are also drawing in better-known companies that people want to invest in, or as Skadden partner Gregg Noel told team DD, “capture their imagination”....
...Staying in the UK, Greggs the baker is expected to report a rise in 2019 profit on Tuesday....
...This week alone saw privately held John Lewis warn that it may have to axe its staff bonus, Debenhams enter talks with lenders for refinancing and shares in Halfords plummet 25 per cent after a profit warning...
...Hold: Greggs (GRG) Greggs’ shares are trading on 19 times forward earnings — a clear premium to other food retailers in the sector....
...At John Lewis, which has centralised its call centres as well as its kitchens, “profound changes are coming down the track”, Charlie Mayfield, chairman, said....
...Winners from the run-up to the festive period so far include John Lewis and House of Fraser, while results from Next and Marks & Spencer have been less pleasing....
...Proving the recovery isn’t restricted to the fit and sporty, Greggs the baker takes fifth place, as its shares puffed up by an impressive 79 per cent....
...Twelve are quoted with more than 3 per cent in workers’ hands — such as telecoms company BT and Greggs, the baker....
...In early trading, shares in Greggs rose 14 per cent to 611.5p....
...And it will have to decide when one of their market structure experts, Gregg Berman, is leaving. One can only sympathise. Faced with this complexity, who would be a regulator?...
...Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love, by James Booth, Bloomsbury, RRP£25, 544 pages Roger Lewis is author of ‘What am I Still Doing Here?’...
...A flurry of activity by the OFT has preceded the merger, with Tuesday’s statement of objections following findings published on Friday that provisionally concluded that John Lewis, Debenhams and House of...
...Greggs stores in the UK’s largest inner city shopping centre, the Manchester Arndale, are selling more than 700 mince pies a day, or 22,000 in December....
...Terry Duddy, Chief Executive, Home Retail Group Charlie Mayfield, Chairman, John Lewis Partnership Martin Shuker, Managing Director, KFC UK and Ireland Ian Cheshire, Group Chief Executive, Kingfisher...
...in Monday’s Financial Times, 14 signatories, including Ian Cheshire, chief executive of Kingfisher, a DIY group, and the chairman of the British Retail Consortium, Charlie Mayfield, chairman of the John Lewis...
...“It just shows what big companies such as John Lewis can achieve when they send in a few smart graduates.” …………………………………………………………….....
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