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...Potts insisted the CD&R deal was good for Morrisons in the long term despite its £6.6bn debt burden....
...He added that he had several conversations with Sir Terry Leahy, Morrisons’ chair and senior adviser to CD&R, about succession planning since the buyout in 2021....
...Potts’ team will continue to run the business day to day....
...Her multi-platinum repertoire has spanned golden-age R&B, punk-pop riffing, country-tinged ballads and clubby bangers, all powered by her gloriously sweet-spiky vocals and irrepressible attitude....
...According to the latest Kantar data, Morrisons’ share of the UK market was 9.1 per cent in the 12 weeks to September 4, down from 9.8 per cent at the time of the CD&R takeover....
...Acts — sorry, artists — with whom Rubin has worked over the past 40 years include Public Enemy, Johnny Cash, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jay-Z and Adele....
...Wisecracks are tossed out, such as this droll description of outlaw country singer Johnny Paycheck: “Like a lot of small men, he was wrapped tighter than the inside of a golf ball and hit just about as often...
...Morrisons chief executive, David Potts, said he had “made a significant contribution to the business over the past eight years”....
...Lewis R Gordon is an American philosopher whose book Fear of Black Consciousness was published earlier this year....
...Leahy was also fulsome in his praise for David Potts, the Morrisons chief executive with whom he previously worked at Tesco, and played down the idea that Potts might leave once the acquisition had bedded...
...One book, though, stays in print: Death Be Not Proud, the trailblazing memoir of grief that Gunther (with Fineman) wrote after the death of their son Johnny from a brain tumour, aged 17....
...Nightclubs and wine bars in mid-1970s London and New York often rang out with the Slickers’ “Johnny Too Bad”, Desmond Dekker’s “007 (Shanty Town)” and other numbers from the film....
...If successful, the CD&R transaction would also reunite Leahy with Morrisons chief executive Dave Potts and chief operating officer Trevor Strain, both of whom worked under him at Tesco....
...Shares are lower now than they were when Potts took over and have fallen 6.3 per cent over the past year, compared with a rise of 11.5 per cent in the FTSE 100 index of top UK companies in which it was a...
...Potts, who is 64, is now the longest-serving chief executive among the big four supermarkets, having taken over in 2015....
...Dave Potts, Morrisons’ chief executive, who is 64, is the longest-serving chief executive among the big four supermarkets, having taken over in 2015....
...He fell in love with the drums after hearing Chico Hamilton and taught himself to play by listening to records by Johnny Dodds, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington and other jazz giants....
...The high value-added stuff, including R&D, would remain onshore. It didn’t turn out like that....
...It is one of the great late-career runs of albums, to put alongside Johnny Cash’s or Leonard Cohen’s, even if the notion of Jones the artist might still seem odd to those who can only visualise him under...
...By 1993, Wired magazine was already running the headline “Cyberpunk R.I.P”....
...Griffin cut his teeth playing big band R&B, Davis stood out among Count Basie’s brass and both could make their presence felt in the space of a bar....
...Only two common words in English end G-R-Y. Can you name them both? What’s the English word for what Americans call a ‘sidewalk’?...
...But, like its predecessor, forevher is co-produced and largely co-written by Joel Pott, a name that might provoke shrugs in most, but who also co-wrote George Ezra’s bazillion-selling albums, so it’s not...
...Maren Morris’s breakthrough 2015 hit “My Church” was a rollicking piece of country-gospel-rock that both celebrated getting in the car with the radio on, and name-checked Hank Williams and Johnny Cash....
...A Game of Thrones is the first book in which novel sequence by George R R Martin? The logo for Amnesty International consists of barbed wire — and what other item?...
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