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...Executive search firm Spencer Stuart has been gauging interest from a range of City of London figures and senior bankers for one of the most senior roles in British banking, according to several people familiar...
...A similar letter sent by 104 British businesses this month, including Tesco, BT, and Marks and Spencer, urged Sunak to refocus on the UK’s net zero goal or risk the country being left behind....
...Spencer said “it was not for the government to set retail prices nor to comment on day-to-day commercial decisions by companies” in response to a parliamentary question on Thursday....
...Companies including Unilever, Marks and Spencer and PepsiCo have been invited to the meeting with environment secretary Thérèse Coffey, alongside trade groups such as the British Retail Consortium, the Food...
...Additional reporting by Jim Pickard...
...Jim Ryan, chief executive of Sony Interactive Entertainment, said Microsoft had only offered to keep releasing Activision’s hit Call of Duty games on PlayStation for a limited number of years, despite assurances...
...Many British retailers including Marks and Spencer, John Lewis and Tesco, entered financial services in the 1990s, at a time of strong lending growth....
...Ben Spencer, Conservative MP for Runnymede and Weybridge in north Surrey, said the Ulez expansion “does not stand up to scrutiny”....
...On the one hand, this musical from Jim Barne and Kit Buchan echoes every romcom in cinema history; on the other, it sends itself up for doing so....
...I can’t remember a similar level of oversupply,” said Jim Lennon, senior commodities consultant at Macquarie....
...Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division, said on Twitter that the companies had signed “a binding agreement to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation following the acquisition”....
...It is a message that will have a willing audience within the Tory party — and as Jim Pickard and Attracta Mooney detail here, one of the politicians who may be swayed by it is the prime minister....
...He graduated in engineering then showed a flair for entrepreneurship, sourcing and distributing T-shirts and Teletubbies merchandise to retailers such as Marks and Spencer....
...UK retail bellwether Marks and Spencer lifted its annual forecast after reporting higher sales in its clothing and food businesses....
...“Microsoft is committed to helping bring more games to more people however they choose to play,” Xbox boss Phil Spencer said in a post on Twitter on Wednesday....
...Mark Spencer, the farming minister, who supported Truss’s leadership rival Rishi Sunak, praised the agenda as “ambitious” and said it would “stimulate growth within the economy that benefits us all”....
...MARCHJames by Percival Everett (Mantle/Doubleday)How would Huckleberry Finn read if it wasn’t Huck telling the story, but the enslaved African-American Jim?...
...Additional reporting by Jim Pickard and George Hammond...
...“Marks and Spencer hasn’t left Russia....
...And the photograph that was released was him handing a can of Estrella, Simon Case laughing, and some Marks and Spencer sandwiches on the table....
...Shapps said rival Stena Line would put on extra ferries between Scotland and Northern Ireland from Tuesday to help retailers including Asda and Marks and Spencer resupply....
...Jim rarely fails to praise Jesus as the money pours in through the ’80s....
...Spencer added that Johnson’s speech had been “a wonderful piece of theatre — exceptionally good at boosting spirits — but it was just that: theatre....
...However, Cox claimed that the Conservative chief whip, Mark Spencer, was aware he was in the BVI when he voted remotely....
...But leading companies including McDonald’s, Tesco and Marks and Spencer had called for the government to strengthen the environmental bill, by widening the description to include all forms of deforestation...
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