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...As the FT’s Sujeet Indap reported on Wednesday, a Delaware decision last week striking down how much decision-making power Ken Moelis has at his boutique bank Moelis & Co, may prove pivotal in the Crown...
...Chief executive Ken Murphy said the group had been grappling with the rising costs of products from suppliers while also trying to prevent customers being lured away to discount chains....
...Food company Kraft Heinz last summer halted supplies of some products to Tesco in a dispute over pricing that has since been resolved....
...One fine for overly aggressive culture to start: 3G-backed Kraft Heinz has agreed to pay $62m after being charged with false accounting over a period of three years in which it is alleged the food company...
...Ken Lebrun, a partner at law firm Davis Polk in Tokyo, said: “Doing deals is their business. They are always readjusting their portfolio and they are able to do that without too much emotional baggage....
...“The market has been slapped hard,” said Ken Monaghan, co-director of high yield at Amundi Pioneer in Durham, North Carolina....
...Crown Resorts has promoted chief financial officer Ken Barton to the top job in a management shake-up....
...Job moves Ken Hitchner is set to retire as Goldman Sachs’ Asia-Pacific chairman and chief executive later this year after 27 years with the bank....
...The old guard was reminded of its ascendancy earlier this month when Ken Griffin of Citadel paid $99m for a plot to extend his already sizeable oceanfront estate just up the road from Mar-a-Lago....
...With the extra breathing room, large companies such as Kraft Heinz and Campbell Soup have allowed their balance sheets to swell....
...Barclays has hired Ken Brown as its chairman of equity capital markets in Europe and Middle East based in London....
...Franklin Resources has hired Matthew Nicholls to succeed Ken Lewis as the investment firm’s chief financial officer....
...join the pantheon of wealthy businessmen who have bought American football teams: Paul Allen, the Seattle Seahawks owner who co-founded Microsoft along with Bill Gates; New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft...
...A banker close to Ken Moelis (pictured below) said that investors were dropping the bank’s stock after the founder and chief executive of the eponymous firm decided to stand by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince...
...Kraft withdrew its offer just two days later, but Mr Polman launched a thorough review of the company’s business portfolio, cost structure and balance sheet....
...Job Moves Blackstone also appointed Ken Caplan and Kathleen McCarthy as global co-head of the real estate division....
...“Since the Kraft-Heinz bid, shares have rallied,” said Liberum analyst Robert Waldschmidt....
...Ken Goldman, an analyst at JPMorgan, said Kraft Heinz was “one of the better stories in food” but added that “it is clear in our view that Street expectations got ahead of themselves and that management’...
...Rival WPP found itself caught in a bind over February’s failed 3G-backed Kraft Heinz bid for Unilever....
...“Lazard’s increased market share of large, complex and cross-border transactions reflects the unrivalled scale and depth of our advisory expertise,” said chief executive Ken Jacobs....
...This year’s blockbuster transactions include Heinz’s takeover of US foods group Kraft and GE’s sale of its financial services arm, GE Capital....
...Ken Powell, chief executive of General Mills, the US cereal company, says that Hispanics are especially valuable because of their greater propensity for cooking and eating at home....
...Ken Arieff Wong, who researches the industry for Nomura in Kuala Lumpur, estimates that consumption rose by 5.2 per cent last year, while production was up 1 per cent....
...Kraft Foods, buying Cadbury 18. The Ground Zero Mosque 19. Poland’s – in the same plane crash that also killed the President 20....
...The Tories believe that the takeover regime should not be tightened, despite concerns following Kraft’s contentious £11.7bn takeover of Cadbury....
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