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...Then, earning power was recognised as a sensible basis for public share ownership and companies such as Sears Roebuck became market leaders....
...It all started with Sears. At the end of the 19th century, Chicago-based Sears, Roebuck & Co’s catalogue was a monster, a doorstop manifesto of capitalism geared to homesteaders and smallholders....
...Tech groups and pharma companies are not in the depths of a recession. They are having a great time....
...jonathan.guthrie@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Focus on the haystack — not on the needles / From Brendan P Geary, Washington, DC, US Active v passive: put more faith in market forces / From...
...Twenty-five years ago, you might have thought a portfolio containing shares in General Electric and General Motors, ICI, Marks and Spencer, Barclays Bank and Sears Roebuck represented a low-risk, conservative...
...Jonathan Guthrie Head of Lex Best of Lex articles HK stocks/extradition bill: derailed HK unrest/Singapore banks: safe harbour Hong Kong v Shenzhen: Central casting HKEX: futures shock Ferguson/Brexit...
...Instagram v influencers Instagram’s recent shift to facilitate more direct ecommerce on the platform is likely to provide a new source of revenue for influencers....
...“[For] somebody that is of my generation, Sears Roebuck was a big deal,” he told reporters on Monday, discussing the “sad” news that the retailer had filed for bankruptcy protection....
...Even more astutely, Hill says: “You can very readily see where [the US department store chain] Sears, Roebuck and Company’s business would go if such a plan was perfected.”...
...Richard Sears, one of the founders of Sears Roebuck, put it well: “Honesty is the best policy. I know, I’ve tried it both ways.”...
...Indeed, at the beginning of the last century, second generation scions of the founding German-Jewish families prospered through partnering on deals, such as taking retailer Sears Roebuck public....
...Niblock, who has been at the company for 25 years, will stay at the company until a replacement is found....
...Arguably the “killer application” of the railroads, the mail order catalog of Sears-Roebuck, didn't arrive until the end of the century, as economist Brad DeLong has argued....
Lex argues that GKN shareholders must accept hostile offer from Melrose
...Lex, however, made a foray into the genre this week, opposing the idea of a “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” between Hewlett Packard Enterprise and chief executive Meg Whitman....
...Richard Sears started out in 1886 as a watch seller in Minneapolis before teaming up in Chicago with Alvah Roebuck to form one of America’s first mail order catalogue businesses, a venture that placed the...
...michael.skapinker@ft.com Letter in response to this column: A pat not a slap for the PR world over Bell Pottinger / From Robin V Sears, principal, Earnscliffe Strategy Group...
...As for “Apple v Apple”, The Beatles’ record label has already fought legal battles with the US tech giant. jonathan.guthrie@ft.com...
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...The problem with the name is that it could mislead the public into believing the company benefits society, as Turing did. Mr Shkreli should change it. jonathan.guthrie@ft.com...
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...George Osborne quoted Shakespeare’s Henry V as he delivered the last Budget of this administration....
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