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...Additional reporting by Alistair Gray in London...
...The trades were placed via accounts held with Halifax Share Dealing, Hargreaves Lansdown and IG, and included shares in the US-listed consumer goods group Snyder’s-Lance and broadcaster HSN....
...Lance’s Vanya sprawls on a chair as if he has just been flung there by events, despair churning in him....
...The company’s debt burden has leapt from $3.5bn a year ago to $9.9bn after the group bought snack maker Snyder’s-Lance in March, the biggest acquisition in its near 150-year history....
...But, according to Lance Burbidge, a partner at financial research provider Autonomous, 14 per cent of the insurer’s operating profit between 2010 and 2014 was “wiped out” by restructuring and corporate transaction...
...Lance Batchelor pledged on Thursday to “reset the relationship” with investors disappointed by returns since its listing, as he unveiled a strategy shake-up — including expanding Saga’s motor insurance business...
...On Tuesday, senior managers led by Lance Batchelor, the former Domino’s Pizza chief, sought to regain the initiative as Saga released its first set of accounts as a public company....
...Saga has hired Lance Batchelor, formerly of Domino’s Pizza, as chief executive. The ex-Royal Navy officer is well regarded, especially in marketing circles, but it is clearly a big change at the top....
...Lance Batchelor, chief executive, could potentially receive £2.6m....
...Additional reporting by Gerrit Wiesmann, Andrea Felsted and Alistair Gray...
...Shawn Mcrae, a 24-year-old lance-corporal from a platoon that lost a man to enemy fire in Marjah on May 6, summed up the questions many people are posing....
...● Nigel Gray, head of the capital modelling team at Lloyd’s of London, has been named chief actuary at MGM Advantage....
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