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...Dana Walden, co-chair of Disney Entertainment At Disney, where many executives have worked for decades, Walden counts as a relative newcomer....
...‘J’Ouvert’ is on BBC iPlayer...
...by Amy Berryman, J’Ouvert by Yasmin Joseph and Anna X from Joseph Charlton....
...Walden, by Amy Berryman, focuses on the environment; Anna X, by Joseph Charlton, considers fake news, misinformation, trust, and social media....
...of the Monday and Saturday puzzles Crossword 16,425: Bill Stewart, Leicester; R Harpur, Herefordshire; Martyn Abbott, Lincolnshire Polymath 1,065: P Johnson, Berwickshire Crossword 16,419: Paul Rock, Walden...
...At which point, I yelled three letters at the television: L, B and J, as in Lyndon Baines Johnson....
...He was replaced by John Walden, a US citizen who previously ran Argos owner Home Retail Group before it was bought by J Sainsbury....
...Equally off the grid is Mark Boyle’s The Way Home (Oneworld, April), an account of life without technology that updates Henry David Thoreau’s Walden to the computer age....
...Follow David J Lynch on Twitter: @davidjlynch...
...In particular, Mr Walden talked up Argos’s achievements in transforming its business model to one that is more focused on digital....
...Mr Rogers, who has been Sainsbury’s finance director since 2010, will become chief executive of Home Retail, taking over from its current head John Walden, who intends to leave the company once the takeover...
...John Walden, chief executive, said: The past year has been a landmark period for the Group....
...Mr Rogers, who has been Sainsbury’s chief financial officer since 2010, will replace John Walden as chief executive of Home Retail. Mr Walden intends to leave once the £1.4bn takeover is completed....
...The group, which has agreed to be taken over by J Sainsbury, also booked an impairment charge of £852m on goodwill that arose from its original acquisition of Argos in 1998, following the acceptance of Sainsbury...
...Home Retail Group, the company behind the Argos chain, has reported its strongest quarterly sales growth in two years, as it gets ready to be acquired by UK supermarket group J Sainsbury....
...for its remaining business from J Sainsbury and South Africa’s Steinhoff International....
...Steinhoff, the South African retail conglomerate, announced a £1.4bn all-cash offer for Home Retail last month, topping an earlier bid by supermarket group J Sainsbury....
...The prospect of selling the business to Wesfarmers, which owns retail chains Coles and Bunnings in Australia, comes a week after UK supermarket chain J Sainsbury revealed it had made an approach to buy Home...
...Mr Walden said: This has been a very eventful period for the Group. Argos traded through a challenging market while launching significant new propositions....
...Since he became chief executive of Home Retail in 2014, John Walden has worked to transform a tarnished catalogue retail brand into a cutting-edge digital shopping operation....
...If J Sainsbury tables a firm bid for Argos owner Home Retail Group by Tuesday’s deadline, at least one member of its board will be on familiar ground....
...John Walden, chief executive of Home Retail, is understood to have met with Markus Jooste, his counterpart at Steinhoff, although there was no discussion of an acquisition....
...Poor Christmas trading at Argos forced owner Home Retail Group into its second profits downgrade in three months on Thursday, damping the price the company may be able to demand from suitor J Sainsbury for...
...Home Retail Group, which is being pursued by supermarket chain J Sainsbury, is in advanced talks to sell its DIY chain Homebase to one of Australia’s biggest companies for £340m cash....
...J Sainsbury has sought to pre-empt an assault by Amazon on the UK grocery sector by making an approach to buy Home Retail Group, the owner of Argos and Homebase....
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