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...The £28mn acquisition of Westcountry Food in December supplemented the purchase of MJ Baker last February, and expands the company’s presence in the South West....
...For Baker McKenzie, the Reinvent challenge was a way to tackle a perennial conundrum....
...Dixons and Carphone were worth a combined £3bn in 2014. The successor company is currently capitalised at around a quarter of that sum....
...Steve Baker, deputy chair of the Covid Recovery Group of lockdown-sceptic MPs, rejected the measures....
...Carphone; Cairn Energy; Morgan Stanley; US Bancorp; Bank of New York Mellon; Procter & Gamble Thursday Entain; Sage Group; Intel; IBM; Northern Trust; Woodside Petroleum; Baker Hughes; United Airlines...
...It currently owns shares in TalkTalk, where Carphone Warehouse founder Charles Dunstone is executive chairman, and IWG, the serviced office provider run by Mark Dixon....
...Shadbolt, New Jersey, US Crossword 16,320: Robert Holloway, Paris, France; Michael Shipster, Winchester, England; S Fisher, London, England Polymath 1,047: Nicholas Hartley, Belgium Crossword 16,314: A Dixon...
...“buy” at Citigroup; Ted Baker cut to “hold” at Cantor; Weir downgraded to “hold” at Liberum....
...Ted Baker has reported its first set of interim results since boss Ray Kelvin quit in the wake of a “hugging” scandal....
...Baker McKenzie has hired corporate finance partner Nick Bryans to join the firm’s London office from Ashurst....
...A Todd Selby photograph (“The View at Noma”, the restaurant in Copenhagen) sits alongside a collection of bronze Tom Dixon bowls on top of a second-hand chest of drawers....
...Will the real Ted Baker . . . Ted Baker has never been your typical retailer. How many others would have a “hug zone” beside the boss’s desk?...
...But Ted Baker also shrugged off recent allegations about its founder to post a 12 per cent rise in sales....
...“Everybody is leaving it until the last conceivable moment, despite the fact there was a two-year deadline,” says Harry Small, head of data protection law at Baker McKenzie....
...“For most retailers in the UK, the cost of goods is in dollars, they source goods elsewhere,” said Mr Baker....
...Peter Dixon, Commerzbank By end 2017 I expect CPI inflation to be north of 2.5%, with a peak of around 3% in mid-2018....
...Peter Dixon, Commerzbank I suspect that the symmetric bias to monetary policy will remain in place but in practice rates are likely to remain unchanged....
...Melanie Baker and Jacob Nell, UK economists, Morgan Stanley We think borrowing will increase....
...Melanie Baker and Jacob Nell, UK economists, Morgan Stanley Post Brexit, we expect the UK to tighten immigration controls to meet the government’s “tens of 1000s” target....
...Peter Dixon, Commerzbank Relative to the expected 2016 outcome, I reckon we will lose around 0.6 percentage points of growth as it slows to 1.4%....
...Melanie Baker and Jacob Nell, UK economists, Morgan Stanley Feel about the same as 12 months ago We have broadly the same view about the long-term impact of leaving the EU....
...Melanie Baker and Jacob Nell, Morgan Stanley There are so many government policies on housing that it is difficult to be confident about the net impact....
...Melanie Baker, Jacob Nell, Morgan Stanley We expect 50bp of rate rises by the end of 2016. We think the reflation story is working in the UK....
...Melanie Baker, Jacob Nell, Morgan Stanley c) is closest to our views. We continue to think that the OBR is too optimistic on the likely near-term path of GDP growth, and therefore on revenues....
...Amateur bakers and gadget-obsessed consumers helped Dixons continue its turnround as demand for food mixers and tablet computers boosted sales at the electronics retailer....
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