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...Currys’ largest shareholder has backed the board’s decision to reject a takeover bid from US investment group Elliott Management....
...Elliott Management said earlier on Saturday that it was considering making a cash offer for Currys. Elliott said there was no certainty it would make an offer for Currys....
...Until Elliott showed an interest, Currys’ shares had languished on the London stock market....
...Currys was founded by Henry Curry in 1884 as a bike manufacturer, before diversifying into selling toys, radios and gramophones when it listed on the stock market in 1927....
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...Retailers globally were already under intense pressure before the pandemic’s arrival in 2020 and things haven’t improved....
...The trouble is, if you don’t get those numbers right, those numbers become the governing factors,” said Richard Hyman, a retail analyst at Thought Provoking Consulting....
...If I didn’t do that work — I was self-employed — I didn’t get paid....
...“If there is an opportunity in front of you, if you haven’t got a really good reason not to take it, then take it because you don’t know where it could lead you to.”...
...Yet when she got a call offering her a permanent home in Switzerland, she didn’t think long....
...“We still don’t think they have taken into consideration the reasons people are leaving the profession,” said Ronan....
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...“The law meant we couldn’t say goodbye.”...
...Alex Baldock, chief executive of electronics retailer Currys, called the decision “unfair”....
...“We don’t have the resources to actually do a structural search and rescue effort,” Leijtens said, adding that Frontex complies with international rules on mayday calls....
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...“If you look at where we are today, compared to any of the last seven years, the headwinds are just not nearly as strong,” he said in unusually upbeat comments, but cautioned that “[this] shouldn’t be misinterpreted...
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