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...Rival J Sainsbury has generated an almost identical performance. It is the same across other parts of the industry....
...Hemmerdinger, a former J Sainsbury and Carphone Warehouse executive, is seen as an obvious internal candidate for Burnley’s job and is said to be widely liked within the company....
...William J. Stokes is a musician and member of art-pop band Voka Gentle. He has written for publications including Mojo, Q, Saatchi Gallery Magazine and Idler, and is a columnist for Sound on Sound....
...Several food retailers, including J Sainsbury and Lidl, pay just over £9 an hour....
...Then we make our way along Wood Vale, past K & J Libretto & Daughters, a resolutely ungentrified butcher’s shop....
...Biographies of note in the early part of the year include Richard J Evans’s Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (Little Brown, February) — the first one of the late historian and polymath....
...Partners Dr Jeremy Farrar Director, Wellcome Trust Neil Woodford CBE Head of Investment, Woodford Investment Management Matt Regan General Manager, AbbVie Alan Hirzel Chief Executive, Abcam Timothy J...
...Business advisor and entrepreneur Tilly McAuliffe Owner, Think Publishing Surinder (Max) Mongia Chairman, Strongfield Technologies Turi Munthe Founder, Demotix Gary Noon CEO, Clinical Insights B J...
...A.J.P. Taylor, the Birkdale-born historian, attributed Lancastrian whimsicality to the “south-west wind, bringing an atmosphere that is always blurred and usually gentle”....
...William Ransom, the 160-year-old consumer healthcare group, which owns Metanium nappy rash cream and J Pickles skincare, has started to invest again in advertising after several years when the company concedes...
...Fiona Dawson, managing director of Mars UK, says: “Consumers would be unforgiving if we cut our quality at a time when we’re under economic pressure.”...
...Fiona Dawson, Mars UK’s managing director, says customers expect the company to “do the right thing”, adding that “nobody has to buy confectionery”....
...was argued as far back as 700 BC, Kenneth Lapatin, an antiquities curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California, told me. The Etruscans wore gold, amber and engraved gemstones....
...As Jonathan Dawson, co-founder of Penfida, admits: “There’s an awful lot to be said for a negotiated solution rather than having a punch-up.”...
...And these choreographic sins repeat with David Dawson’s mugging of J.S. Bach’s D minor keyboard concerto....
...Imperial Tobacco climbed to a fresh all-time high on Friday but the J Sainsbury takeover story took centre stage in London....
...J.R. La Cruz, Netherlands Tim Price: I’m not sure I’d view index funds as inherently superior to actively managed funds – they’re just typically cheaper....
...The demerger is partly aimed at defusing tensions with the distribution arm’s supermarket customers – including Asda, Wm Morrison, J Sainsbury and Tesco – which increasingly compete with music and books...
...firmed 3.4 per cent to £11.29 on reports the owner of Argos has turned down a £7bn approach from private equity for its Experian credit information arm, while vague talk of venture capital interest sent J...
...“The aggressive stance on non-smoking is commendable from a health point of view but it has to be putting additional pressure on top-line growth,” said James Dawson, analyst at Charles Stanley....
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