Hints and tips:
...Jenny Johnson was at the movies with her kids when her phone rang. She stepped into a theatre lobby smelling like popcorn to answer the $4.5bn call. “What’s your final number,” said Nelson Peltz....
...That need to reinvent itself — and fast — was what led to the fateful phone call between Johnson and activist investor Nelson Peltz, as the FT’s Madison Darbyshire details in her latest Big Read....
...Jenny Johnson, president and chief executive of Franklin Templeton: “alternatives space, high-net-worth expansion, fintech”....
...Hardwick’s exceptionally unusual 1979 novel Sleepless Nights appears to anticipate compressed, koan-like autofictional methods employed today by Jenny Offill, Sheila Heti and Maggie Nelson....
...Instead, I received the following: “Yeh, I mean . . ....
...Taipei has been home to many tastemakers over the years, but there is a new force in town: Jenny Yeh, 45, founder of the Winsing Arts Foundation....
...The combined business will manage more than $1.5tn in assets, with Franklin chief executive Jenny Johnson at the helm, the companies announced on Tuesday....
...“It’s markets like this . . . where active managers get to show outperformance,” Jenny Johnson, chief executive of Franklin Templeton, told analysts in April....
...Franklin chief executive Jenny Johnson (pictured above) told the FT she’s playing “offence” not “defence”. Fund managers in Europe have followed the same playbook....
...The main draw of the Portrait restaurant is a vast panoramic window that runs the length of the room, framing the Houses of Parliament, Whitehall and Nelson’s column....
...Jenny Ungless, a career coach, says: “Anything that makes you think differently about your situation, gives you a new perspective or shows how to deal with people is going to help.”...
...Jenny Uglow is a uniquely gifted historian. Her style is supremely elegant and often amusingly bathetic, her researches exhaustive but lightly worn....
...Located next to Nelson’s flagship HMS Victory, the Mary Rose Museum at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is sited where the ship was built in 1510....
...When Nelson Mandela was imprisoned on Robben Island, he highlighted a passage in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar as inspiration....
...He selected mid-century furniture, including a Noguchi coffee table, Harry Bertoia’s Diamond chair and a George Nelson bench....
...Nelson Peltz, the activist US investor who owns 3.5 per cent of Cadbury and sold a 2-3 per cent stake in Kraft after the deal was announced, said: “I don’t think Kraft overpaid given what was paid for Wrigley...
...But one prominent Cadbury investor reduced its bet on a bid battle, with Nelson Peltz’s Trian Partners, the US activist investor, selling about 10 per cent of its previous 3.3per cent stake in Cadbury for...
...Nelson Peltz was the founder of a hedge fund called Trian Fund Management and the investor behind Triarc, the restaurant chain that had sold Snapple to Cadbury six years before....
...The Cadbury chief executive bought Snapple from Nelson Peltz’s Triarc companies in 2000; masterminded the acquisition of US gum group Adams in 2003; and sold or spun-off all of Cadbury’s beverages businesses...
...The separation of Cadbury’s beverage and confectionery arms, in part because of pressure from US activist investor Nelson Peltz, who holds shares in both Cadbury and Kraft, briefly made it the world’s biggest...
...During 2007, Cadbury was hectored by investors, including Nelson Peltz, a US activist investor, to strengthen previous confectionery margins of about 10 per cent amid concerns it was not maximising the value...
...(You can hear what Roger Carr thinks of the deal in this interview with the FT’s consumer industries correspondent Jenny Wiggins). But it is worth asking who the real winner is here....
...Late in 2007, Trian Fund Management, the investment vehicle of Nelson Peltz, a US activist investor, had threatened Cadbury with “more active” intervention if there were not “meaningful” progress on profit...
...US activist investor Nelson Peltz, who forced Cadbury to move ahead with a split of its confectionery and beverages arms last year, owns shares in both Cadbury and Kraft....
...For many of the new generation of bloggers, the “ur-Frugal Cyber Mom” title belongs to Stephanie Nelson, a mother of three who launched her Coupon Mom blog in 2001....
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