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...The Oscars is the most-watched awards show, drawing 18.7mn viewers in 2023, (this year’s Golden Globes reached just half that number, according to analytics firm Nielsen) and is now broadcast across digital...
...UK supermarket chain J Sainsbury has forecast that its full-year profit will come in at the upper end of the range it had previously flagged after grocery sales in the first half rose by a tenth and its...
...I’ve sampled enough “miracle creams” with mundane results to know that J-Lo’s Firm + Flaunt Targeted Booty Balm is unlikely to give me her shapely posterior....
...And growth in the UK is similarly impressive: according to Nielsen data, print romance sales are up 20 per cent year on year....
...Matthew J Sánchez, the founder of LA-based scent brand Matteo Parfums, uses ingredients from third-party companies that offer independent perfumers access to a library of responsibly sourced scents: his...
...On Nielsen’s data, Morrisons still underperforms. But Lidl gains only 0.4 percentage points of share, and Aldi none. The incumbents have shifted their strategies....
...Letter in response to this article: The Fed’s accounting ploy has echoes of S&L crisis / From Alex J Pollock, Lake Forest, IL, US...
...Last month, British shoppers shelled out £1.5bn on online groceries, a record 17 per cent of all such spending, according to Nielsen IQ....
...Nielsen, the data provider, has estimated that the volume of printed books sold in the UK was up more than 5 per cent in 2020, compared with the year before....
...Spanish giant Barcelona claims 165m Asians are “very interested” in the club based on Nielsen SportsDNA data....
...Expect Europe’s biggest peacetime recession in nearly 100 years Erik Nielsen, UniCredit’s chief global economist Attempting to forecast the economic effects of the lockdown is truly a fool’s game....
...In the 12 weeks to May 16, Tesco’s sales rose 11.7 per cent and those of J Sainsbury grew 11 per cent year on year, according to Nielsen....
...While all supermarkets took more at the tills, the winner among the “big four” traditional grocers was J Sainsbury with a 22.4 per cent increase over the four weeks on Nielsen data....
...Companies including JCPenney, Neiman Marcus and J Crew have been unable to cope with a collapse in sales and filed for bankruptcy....
...In non-results sellside, Berenberg goes up to “buy” on J Sainsbury, 250p target. Sainsbury’s equity story has been dominated over the past two years by the Asda merger....
...Sales of sandwiches through convenience stores and delis in the four weeks to May 23 were down 57.7 per cent from a year earlier, according to Nielsen....
...WPP owns a range of creative, digital and media buying groups, ranging from J Walter Thompson to Ogilvy & Mather and GroupM....
...Sellside stories ● UBS upgraded J Sainsbury from “neutral” to “buy” with a 240p-a-share price target....
...edward.luce@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Double standards over government intrusion / From Harold J Smith, White Plains, NY, US...
...However, the latest version of the proposal has been backed by several senators who are vying to be the Democratic party’s nominee for president next year, including Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Kirsten...
...J Sainsbury reported a fall in sales in the third quarter, which includes the key Christmas period, and warned that the outlook remained “uncertain”, especially in general merchandise....
...J Sainsbury third quarter trading update Sainsbury’s trading update this morning says nothing at all about the progress of its planned merger with Asda. But it really didn’t need to....
...Tesco sales fell 0.6 per cent on a slightly improved market share, while J Sainsbury’s sales fell 0.2 per cent with a 5 basis point share gain....
...I may feel sentimental for the old days, when we would crowd around the telly for the next instalment of T J Hooker, but my childhood self would die of envy for the choice we have today....
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