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...Former JPMorgan investment banker Therese Esperdy will replace Mark Williamson as chairman of the UK cigarette maker Imperial Brands....
...Two years ago British American Tobacco completed a deal to buy Reynolds American, the business which housed its former US subsidiary Brown & Williamson, for $49.4bn....
...Iain Williamson will take over the role until a replacement is found. Full tale here and our Lex column’s take. Goodwin has hired a group of four partners from Taylor Wessing....
...Moyo will be replaced by chief operating officer Iain Williamson on an acting basis. More here....
...Rohan Williamson, a finance professor who studies corporate governance at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, told AP: “She couldn’t control him before....
...Sir Malcolm Williamson, NewDay’s chairman since 2010, will remain on the board as an independent non-executive director, the company added....
...Lindsay Hoyle, deputy Commons speaker, wryly noted: “He could have been taken short, given the speed he went at.” The defence secretary had good reason to look anxious....
...The tobacco arm of RJR Nabisco sold its international business to a Japan Tobacco, while in 2004 the domestic business merged with Brown & Williamson (then owned by British American Tobacco)....
...The bid comes 12 years after BAT folded its Brown & Williamson business into what is now Reynolds....
...“The dip in the PMI in October is clearly disappointing but it would be unwise to read too much into one month’s data,” Markit’s Mr Williamson said....
...Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, said: “The dip in the PMI in October is clearly disappointing, but it would be unwise to read too much into one month’s data....
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