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...For 12 years until 2011, the firm — then known as RSM McGladrey — was part of the publicly listed tax preparer H&R Block. “It made us into a national firm, which was great....
...The recent experience of H&R Block, a gigantic American tax adviser, is striking in this respect....
...This article has been updated to clarify that Higg Inc has rebranded as Worldly, not the Higg Index as incorrectly stated in a previous version. ...
...H&R Block once held a banking charter....
...This helps it to make money all year round while H&R Block’s business is almost entirely seasonal....
...Citadelle director R Shanmugaratnam has been charged with falsification of accounts in Singapore and has yet to submit a plea....
...The three joined from the S&P 400 benchmark of midsized companies and will switch places with tax software group H&R Block, Coty, a beauty company, and Kohls, a department store, which are dropping to the...
...Its most recent instalment, co-created with Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton and American R&B singer Gabriella Wilson, aka H.E.R., was released at London Fashion Week earlier this month....
...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...
...The company is appealing against the verdict, but it is also facing a raft of plaintiffs from states and counties pursuing it, along with other opioid makers and distributors, for its alleged role in the...
...H&R Block is projecting full-year revenues of $3.05bn to $3.1bn....
...There are civil suits against much larger companies including Johnson & Johnson and Teva, as well as distributors and pharmacies....
...After rising 14 per cent in 2017, H&R Block shares were up almost 13 per cent so far in 2018 ahead of the after-the-bell plunge....
...H & R Block, meanwhile, was the biggest decliner on the benchmark index, tumbling nearly 19 per cent to $24.04 after issuing disappointing margin guidance....
...The gain comes as H&R’s new chief executive, Jeff Jones, starts to make his mark on H&R Block....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on October 5. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Having a big distributor go bust on the eve of the prime selling season is not a terribly merry harbinger. Shares slumped, sales dropped and Mattel suspended its dividend....
...We sometimes dropped in to gawk at the Ferris wheel in the Toys R Us flagship store on Times Square....
...H&R Block said that its board had also approved a 9 per cent boost for its quarterly dividend, bringing it to 24 cents per share....
...That is a legitimate worry: private equity has a history of reducing R&D when the debt loads are high....
...US President Donald Trump’s proposal to simplify and cut business and individual tax rates briefly sent shares of tax preparer H&R Block into a tailspin on Wednesday....
...H & R Block does offer software, too, but those users actually declined last year from 7.6m to 7.4m....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on October 24 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...“It’s the wild west,” says Josh Loerzel, vice president of marketing at Zing, a toy manufacturer that ships to Walmart and Toys R Us....
...(FT) Japan Inc goes global for M&A advice Only three domestic brokerages rank among the top-ten deal advisers in Japan during the third quarter. Why is Japan Inc looking for foreign advice?...
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