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...As Cov Review puts it: “. . . the blocker was essentially a command to ‘not do as J Crew did, except if you do as J Crew did.’”...
...It is good for the booksellers and good for the industry.” Over the years, Maas has kept a gruelling writing schedule....
...The boss of J Sainsbury said shoppers were starting to splurge on certain items after two years of shopping for bargains, as Britain’s second-biggest supermarket forecast rising profits this year....
...J&J was valued at $367bn, as of market close in New York on Thursday....
...Industry groups contend there is no need to change the current system....
...BookTok — the TikTok content sub-genre for book reviews — is shaping the publishing industry “more than you could imagine”, said Newton....
...At the start of the year it also settled a dispute over its $11bn takeover of Pilot Flying J, a truck stop chain....
...J Sainsbury’s fresh plans to boost shareholder returns and cut a further £1bn in costs over the next three years drew a lukewarm response from investors on Wednesday after the supermarket chain also disclosed...
...Sales momentum slowed in the second half of the year, however, and despite the uptick in sales, industry data show that Asda has consistently underperformed its bigger rivals Tesco and J Sainsbury....
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...J Sainsbury plans to withdraw from financial services and offload its core banking business to other providers as the British supermarket turns its focus back on retail following a strategic review of the...
...“I am sure the banking industry doesn’t agree with all the proposals but we have to make this financial industry as safe as possible,” said Swiss finance minister Karin Keller-Sutter, when announcing the...
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...J Sainsbury was among the biggest fallers on the FTSE 100 on Wednesday after strong grocery sales failed to allay concerns over its struggling general merchandise business....
...In 2017, J&F agreed to pay a $3.2bn fine in Brazil after admitting to bribing politicians. The payment was suspended by the supreme court last year....
...The strength of Asian demand and the ability to secure large corporate clients has given companies the chance to turn profitable more rapidly than start-ups in other industries....
...Rival J Sainsbury launched its rival scheme, Nectar Prices, in April. Sainsbury’s said at its half year results it had added more than 3mn Nectar card members since April. It now has 18mn members*....
...There is one massive exception to all this: K-pop and J-Pop. In the world of Korean pop, superstardom is very much still in business....
...On Thursday, J Sainsbury followed Tesco in reporting market share gains. Collectively Tesco and Sainsbury’s now dominate 42.2 per cent of the market, according to Kantar Worldpanel, a data group....
...A pioneering rewards card allowed Tesco to overtake rival J Sainsbury nearly 30 years ago. On Tuesday it was the latter’s turn to credit a loyalty scheme for rising market share....
...Chris Rossbach, a fund manager at J Stern & Co, said it had voted in favour of Disney’s board recommendations....
...“Many of the medicines selected for price setting already have significant rebates and discounts due to the robust private market negotiation that [already] occurs,” said Stephen J Ubl, Phrma chief executive...
...The song’s immense success — it is the longest-running number one in Japanese chart history — has been boosted by its use in a television anime about the entertainment industry....
...UK supermarket chain J Sainsbury has forecast that its full-year profit will come in at the upper end of the range it had previously flagged after grocery sales in the first half rose by a tenth and its...
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