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...“Attitudes towards migrants across Europe have become more positive year-on-year for the last 20 years or so,” sum up James Dennison and Andrew Geddes of the European University Institute....
...Hi all, James here in Hong Kong....
...She will be paid a salary of £800,000 as Direct Line’s chief executive, broadly in line with what Mr Geddes was paid....
...Ms James is due to become chief executive later this year, taking over from Paul Geddes who will step down after 10 years....
...On Tuesday, chief executive Paul Geddes, who oversaw the IPO, beat analysts’ expectations with his final annual results. But market reaction was muted....
...Job moves Penny James has been named chief executive of Direct Line, replacing Paul Geddes, who announced in July that he’d be standing down after a decade at the helm....
...“Retailers will be encouraged . . . this is consistent with a strengthening in overall consumer spending growth,” said Ian Geddes, head of retail at Deloitte....
...“My parents are never able to understand what I do,” James Passmore of Plugged In PR says, before attempting the same feat of explication for the FT....
...One of the Old Town’s plethora of hidden pockets that snake off the arterial Royal Mile, its smart Georgian dwellings once housed the likes of James Boswell....
...Paul Geddes, chief executive, said: “It is a very different position from when we IPO’d [in 2012] when we didn’t talk about growth at all.”...
...James Oram, analyst at Citigroup, said that it was a “solid set of results”....
...James Smith, developed markets economist at ING, said the rebound was “likely to prove temporary”, and suggested the extent of the jump may have been affected by difficulties in making seasonal adjustments...
...James Knightley at ING notes that despite the December fall, 2016 was still a good year for British retailers, with growth of 4.9 per cent in the year....
...banking, HSBC 20 Ed Carolan , president, Campbell Fresh, Campbell Soup Company 21 Jenny Dearborn , senior vice-president and chief learning officer, SAP 22 Iain Conn , chief executive, Centrica 23 Paul Geddes...
...James Lowman, chief executive of the ACS, said: “In areas where large stores’ trading hours are extended, we will simply see the same amount of trade spread over more hours and shifting from small stores...
...Vodafone non-executive director Sir Crispin Davis slapped Tory party co-treasurer (and Greenhill banker) James Lupton on the back....
...In Hitchcock’s film, James Stewart’s photographer LB Jefferies sits inside his apartment during a sweltering summer....
...Such demanding purchasers might resort to the services of a property search agent such as Property Vision’s James Geddes, who has been working in the £5m-plus market for five years....
...Some cite the Geddes Axe of the early Twenties when Britain confronted its first world war debts, or earlier. Even in the soft heart of Middle England you can sense the unease....
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