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...Jefferies has named Philippe Drouin as its Emea head of consumer food and beverage. He was previously UBS chair of global consumer and retail....
...“It’s an impressive beast, but it’s a beast,” said Philippe Houchois, an auto analyst at Jefferies who was one of the handful selected to try it....
...Jefferies is hiring James Liddy as Emea head of gaming, leisure and lodging investment banking. Liddy joins from Deutsche Bank and was previously at Moelis....
...The “weak link”, as Jefferies puts it, is Refinitiv’s “desktop franchise”, ie Eikon, ie the Bloomberg terminal competitor that is often invoked in the sentence “stupid f---ing Eikon”....
...He also said the company had raised the price of its electric F-150 Lightning pick-up truck by $11,000 since launching the model....
...Investors were “sceptical following years of sub-par financial metrics”, said Philippe Houchois, an auto analyst at Jefferies. “The efforts are truly laudable,” said Dan Levy, analyst at Barclays....
...Jefferies has hired senior Bank of America software investment banker Ron Eliasek, per Reuters....
...He and his colleagues at F-Secure get paid a lot of money for their work as so-called “penetration testers”....
...Jefferies illustrates: Simple, right? Well, yes and no. The first challenge is getting a handle on the scale of the problem....
...Chevron, ExxonMobil and Glencore were among the nearly 17,000 companies graded an “F”....
...Zooplus, despite sitting on €130m of net cash, has more than halved marketing spend to 1.5 per cent of revenues last year, notes Jefferies, a fraction of Chewy’s....
...“[I]f the trigger for a reappraisal of ESG has been the Ukraine-triggered energy surge and a related rethink as regards the value of so-called stranded assets, the reality is that an energy crisis was already...
...Refurbishment costs will be highest for the “gas guzzler” offices rated F and G, according to Mike Prew, an analyst at Jefferies....
...Expanding electric cars’ share of US rental fleets, which now stands at 5 per cent, will be a challenge, said Hamzah Mazari, analyst at Jefferies*....
...“This is [Spitznagel’s] monumental ‘f*** you’ to the investment industry,” he writes in the foreword to Safe Haven....
...This was part of the reason that JR Storment published a piece about the death of his eight-year-old son, Wiley....
...Andy Douglas of Jefferies said the offer had been pitched at “healthy multiples . . . We sense we are getting close to the end game.”...
...]f you’re going to continue to tell them what you just told me, I’m going to jail, okay?”...
...“I don’t use the F word often, but I would say that they are… fabulous. I love their work, but it’s out of my price range.”...
...“With Lyxor reportedly for sale, this might suggest Standard Life Aberdeen is a potential buyer,” said Tom Mills, an analyst at Jefferies....
...L-f-l rents down 27%: net rental income fell down to just £87.3m which represents a l-f-l fall of 27% (excluding premium outlets), as a result of covid and the reduced rent collection rate....
...London Crossword 16,278: Peter Bromwich, Birmingham; James Reid, Fife, Scotland; EASherratt, Staffordshire, England Polymath 1,040: Patricia Blakemore, West Midlands, England Crossword 16,272: Martha F...
...Sandy Morris, defence analyst at Jefferies who has had BAE shares rated as a “hold” since 2016, said the pension deficit had been a “long-running sore and distraction”....
...Cineworld is pursuing a similar strategy of upgrading F&B offerings in its US Regal estate. Film rental charges appeared to be a higher proportion of revenue in Q4....
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