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...“It was never the goal to sever ties with Diageo,” Combs’s lawyer John Hueston told the Financial Times. “They have no legal basis to terminate the agreement.”...
...Arriving weary and hungry from the bullet train in Hiroshima one night last spring, I trod the natural path by heading to a 7-Eleven convenience store for a can of beer, an onigiri rice ball and some fried...
...Waitrose’s sales rose 5 per cent to £7.7bn, driven by an average 6.6 per cent increase in prices. Sales at John Lewis were down 4 per cent to £4.8bn....
...US-based asset manager Artisan Partners, one of the three shareholders, is among the investors that said Seven & i, which owns the 7-Eleven convenience store brand, had failed to keep pace with recent improvements...
...Murphy said his supermarket was not focused on winning customers from “any one retailer” and brushed off suggestions that the arrival of Tesco veteran Jason Tarry at John Lewis, the owner of Waitrose, would...
...Douglas is named after Scottish entrepreneur John Sharp Douglas, who in 1821 opened a soap factory in Hamburg....
...Chains including Primark, the clothing retailer, John Lewis, the UK department store, and Target of the US have complained of a growing problem....
...You know, he said, the ones I told you to buy from the health food store that you told me worked well. “I did?”...
...The day after American lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to force the Chinese owner of TikTok to sell the video-sharing app, its chief executive Shou Zi Chew expressed confusion....
...“They are buying these to later resell them to areas that faced US restrictions at a much higher price,” one store owner in Taipei said, adding that graphics cards can be resold for three times the price...
...john.gapper@ft.com...
...But according to analysts, watches will remain resilient as a store of value....
...A maestro relojero (master watch repairman), he left the island in 1998 and set up shop next to a 7-Eleven at a strip mall in Miami’s Key Biscayne neighbourhood....
...Owner-managers are also closer to their customers, so they can learn from them and respond to their needs more quickly....
...Its maker John Reidar explained that he often has to cover the vines in spring with a tight mesh to hasten the flowering. The scale is small....
...She also contacted Madeleine Couture, a custom shop she had previously worked for, whose owners, Benjamin and Ione Stoddard, hired her immediately....
...Open for business breakfasts on Thursday mornings (7.30am–9.30am). Reservations recommended. Open Monday–Friday, 12.30pm–2.30pm and 7.30pm–11.30pm; Saturday, 7.30pm–11.30pm....
...Seating is relatively limited, so it’s not set up for hours-long work sessions FYI: Open Monday–Saturday, 7.30am–5pm....
...Going to the grocery store is a mortgage.” A colleague also on strike shared the same sentiment....
...Shares in the FTSE 100 group, which is controlled by the Anglo-Irish Weston family, were down 7 per cent in early trade on Thursday....
...Mattress Firm itself spent a period in bankruptcy protection in 2018 and closed hundreds of stores. It pulled plans to list earlier this year....
...This soundbite is actually more than 50 years old – courtesy of 1971’s Treasury Secretary, John Connally....
...Expect a grand mix of owner show-arounds, good wine and convivial conversation, staying in a 17th-century manor outside Bridport....
...Meanwhile, the convenience chain 7-Eleven — which pumps out 80mn cups of cut-price coffee every year to hungover “tradies”, those on a budget and petrol buyers — boasts how its beans are Fairtrade....
...Ad revenues at Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram, fell 3.7 per cent over the same period to $27.2bn....
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