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...corporate landscape has made progress on shareholder-friendly reforms and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe must now accelerate the modernisation of its idiosyncratic form of capitalism, argues Cornwall Capital’s JC...
...Joshua Gans, professor at Rotman School of Management Good to Great by Jim Collins I took away two points from this book: 1) get the right people on your bus, then find the right seat for them; and 2) identify...
...Good morning, New York FT ALPHAVILLE Sums and definitions: Neil Collins took a long look at George Osborne’s third Budget (“his most vacuous to date”) before being amazed by the shrinking gap between the...
...Kent Reliance tied up a deal with US private equity group JC Flowers which saw it cede control of half of its assets in exchange for a £50m capital expansion....
...“The CFTC is way understaffed,” says Collin Peterson, senior Democrat on the House agriculture committee, which oversees the agency....
...Mr Collins invested $600m of equity from Ripplewood and co-investors into the buy-out in 2007 of Reader’s Digest, the venerable magazine publisher....
...“Both are working very hard to drive nationwide market share through a series of local market share moves,” says Michael Collins, a retail consultant at Bain & Company....
...Tim Young, an analyst at Collins Stewart, interpreted JC Flowers’ comments on its conservative funding structure, and 165p a share being the maximum price paid for Friends shares, as the private equity group...
...Tim Young, insurance analyst at Collins Stewart, said he was “beginning to question the judgement” of the chairman....
...Friends is being stalked by JC Flowers, a US private equity group. “Friends is wide open to takeover by Flowers,” said Tim Young, analyst at Collins Stewart....
...Shinsei, which was bought and revived by foreign investors including Flowers and Timothy Collins, of US buyout firm Ripplewood, in 2000, said JC Flowers and other investors would bid for a 22.7% stake at...
...The Japanese bank was reported to have approached Collins Stewart at the end of last year....
...JC Flowers and Cerberus, the US private equity groups, could also take a look. However, a takeover might be tricky....
...How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In By Jim Collins Random House Business Books, £15.99 The author who told us how companies can go “from good to great” now explains how they can sink...
...Shinsei was originally bought in 2000 and revived by Mr Flowers and Timothy Collins, the head of US private equity firm Ripplewood....
...To help us, we use some very useful screening tools such as Credit Suisse’s HOLT and Collins Stewart’s Quest to analyse and value companies....
...We would continue to sell into any strength,” said Alex Potter of Collins Stewart....
...A fresh push is under way to sell the bank, with Lloyds TSB reckoned to be the most interested (although Lina Saigol had some interesting thoughts about JC Flowers this morning)....
...In the words of John Francome, a former champion jockey who felt he was unjustly suspended, JC officials were “Cabbage Patch dolls”....
...“This is bargain basement,” says Tim Young, analyst at Collins Stewart....
...Here he worked with Tim Collins, a former Lazard banker who runs another buy-out group called Ripplewood and a circle of blue- chip banks....
...JC Flowers & Co also has a big holding in HSH Nordbank, the German bank, where an IPO is likely in the next year or two....
...JC Flowers, his private equity fund, emerged as the leading contender to purchase the futures trading arm of Refco, the US brokerage group that is close to collapsing after its chief executive was last week...
...JC Penney makes decent money on merchandise that was previously a low-margin commodity....
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