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...Marks and Spencer and Argos, which is owned by Sainsbury’s, left thousands of employees out of pocket by £578,000 and £480,000 respectively....
...Or we could boggle for the umpteenth time at Argo Blockchain. Instead, we’re going to talk about ourselves....
...Finance director Kevin O’Byrne said the decision was made after the Bank of England reiterated that it would cease buying gilts to stabilise the market on October 14, prompting fears of more volatility....
...The group also said that Kevin Byrne, finance director, would retire from the company in March 2023 and be replaced by Bláthnaid Bergin, currently commercial and retail finance director....
...Sales at Argos, which the supermarket group acquired in 2017, were down 10.5 per cent year on year in the 16 weeks to June 25....
...“We delivered sales ahead of expectations despite now lapping the onset of the pandemic,” said Kevin O’Byrne, finance chief at Sainsbury’s....
...Sainsbury’s closed 170 Argos stores in the year and expected to shut another 70 in the current year as nine out of 10 Argos orders now originate online....
...Argos is the UK’s largest toy retailer and finance director Kevin O’Byrne said the company’s exposure to this segment and to video games had hurt it in the run-up to Christmas....
...In 2018, it paid £60m to buy the Nectar loyalty card scheme, of which both it and Argos are members, from Canada’s Aimia....
...There are just a handful of sizeable, independent Bermuda-based companies left, including Arch, RenaissanceRe and Argo....
...Possible successors include John Rogers, who heads the Argos business; finance director Kevin O’Byrne — who has also been linked to the coming chief executive vacancy at Kingfisher — as well as Paul Mills-Hicks...
...Kevin Foley has been appointed JPMorgan Chase’s head of leveraged finance capital markets for Emea, following Kristian Orssten’s retirement....
...The combined business will be chaired by Sainsbury’s chairman David Tyler and led by the Sainsbury’s chief executive Mike Coupe and chief financial officer Kevin O’Byrne....
...Kevin O’Byrne, chief financial officer, and John Rogers, chief executive of Sainsbury’s Argos, received bonuses of £411,000 and £457,000 respectively....
...It said the integration of Argos, acquired in 2016, was ahead of plan, with 280 Argos stores expected to be open in Sainsbury’s by the end of the current financial year, against a plan of 250....
...We are two years into the delivery of our strategy and this is an important time as we integrate the Argos and habitat business into the group....
...He will hand over in two weeks to Kevin O’Byrne, a former finance director of Dixons and chief executive of DIY chain B&Q....
...Goodman Group Director, Organisation and Development, Babcock International 98 Russel Braterman Marketing Director, Premier Inn, Whitbread 99 Stephen Vowles Marketing Director, Argos 100 Kyri Evagora...
...“Looking through the monthly volatility in retail sales, the trend remains exceptionally strong,” said Kevin Daly, an economist at Goldman Sachs....
...Take Kevin (Clerks) Smith’s dreadful Tusk, another pulp-derived curio, this one with its roots in Tod Browning’s Freaks (1932)....
...“We were disappointed that in naming Kevin as CEO [of Warner Bros] they lost two very talented executives in the process,” he says....
...The award for sound went to Les Miserables and that for editing went to Argo, Ben Affleck’s Iran hostage crisis drama....
...Its remaining assets largely comprised of stakes in three other oil companies: Sterling Energy, Desire Petroleum and Argos Resources....
...On the other hand, consumers are less likely to impulse-buy at catalogue emporium Argos....
...“I suspect there is some element of consumer sentiment [in weak sales of electrical goods],” said Kevin O’Byrne, finance director of DSG, after the group said profits would be £40m-£50m lower than expected...
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