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...A plaque above the organ nods to the city’s once-thriving ceramics industry, honouring local potter George Meakin, who in 1851 founded ceramics manufacturing company J & G Meakin with his brother James....
...Through the sale of bracelets and pendants, the brand has raised more than $20mn to provide water, immunisations and educational tools to those in need. louisvuittonforunicef.com V is for Visual AidsAcne...
...V, U, or L? The nature of Covid-19 growth impact means that some elements – e.g., production resumption, inventory restocking, and travel normalisation – would lend a natural rebound to growth....
...Calquence is one of AstraZeneca’s big pipeline hopes, going head to head with J&J’s $6bn market leader Imbruvica....
...If Debt/GDP is about 1 now (UK-US levels) you can run a primary deficit of (g-r) — where g is growth rate and r is real cost of borrowing — and keep Debt/GDP constant....
...But money is scarcer for grand visions: P&G, under pressure from slow sales and activist investors, is cutting $400m from agency fees over the next three years....
...That's because lenders' worries these days involve situations like J Crew's “trapdoor” collateral transfer, in which private-equity sponsors drop a company's most valuable assets into subsidiaries outside...
...J Sainsbury boss Mike Coupe has justified plans to buy Argos by referring to a daughter who uses her phone “like a shopping remote control”....
...In 1986, Apex launched the G-Force, a version of Dyson’s bagless cleaner in Hello Kitty pink and Barbie purple....
...This year on Singles Day Ms Xu says that P&G made its first Rmb100m ($16m) in six minutes, compared with eight hours last year....
...Stephanie Flanders, chief market strategist for Europe, J P Morgan Asset Management To more than 3% by the end of 2017....
...The weak pound has attracted tourist spending, helping retail sales to grow far faster than most, if not all, major economies....
...Sue Vening’s family have sold traditional pie and mash at G Kelly in Roman Road since 1937....
...Credit to small businesses is currently rationed as tightly as lamb chops after V-J Day. But Shawbrook boasts it will double commercial lending in 2013, albeit from a low base....
...There is some evidence that family involvement does help performance, as at DMGT, AB Foods and BSkyB (although not at J Sainsbury)....
...Next week China releases data for fixed asset investment, retail sales, and industrial production....
...Bernd Buchholz, chief executive of G+J, resigned from the Bertelsmann board this week in apparent protest about Mr Rabe’s plans to take full control of G+J by buying out the 25 per cent own by the Jahr family...
...Mr Rabe recently also talked about raising money by selling stakes in Bertelsmann units – RTL TV, Random House books, Arvato media services or G+J magazines....
...Overall sales at L&G’s insurance business were down 1 per cent at £1.34bn, although that number will be boosted by a £1.1bn bulk annuity deal it signed in the fourth quarter....
...The slightly disappointing annuity sales meant that L&G spent more capital on writing new business in other areas because in recent years new annuities have brought in capital when they are written....
...L&G and Pru are both expected to follow big increases in their dividend pay-outs at the full year with further 20 per cent rises in their interim dividends on the back of continued strong cash generation...
...Google wants g.co.uk – it didn’t comment on what it would use it for....
...But it remains a fact that any job tends to be better than no job and recent business surveys (e.g....
...RTL television, G&J magazines, Random House books and Arvato media services all cut costs, and underperforming assets – such as the UK’s Channel 5 – were sold....
...This beat the 83 per cent growth achieved in the year-earlier period, as shoppers in the UK, continental Europe and the US bought affordable luxury brands, such as Mulberry, D&G, See by Chloé and J Brand...
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