Lewis J. Korman

April 17, 2024

Demand grows for Asian investment products that exclude China

...Christopher Lees, senior fund manager at J O Hambro Capital Management, said he had heard about potential client demand for “emerging markets ex-China and Asian allies products” as a way to tap into the...

June 13, 2023

FT Live

Future of Retail

Securing long-term business growth with technology innovation

Sainsburys Bank PLC

Sainsbury’s to exit core banking business

...Many British retailers including Marks and Spencer, John Lewis and Tesco, entered financial services in the 1990s, at a time of strong lending growth....

January 18, 2024

LexUK retail industry

The lessons from UK supermarkets’ misadventures in banking Premium

...Others, such as John Lewis, which have suggested they can use shoppers’ brand affection to find success in unrelated sectors should take note....

January 18, 2024

Walt Disney Co

Nelson Peltz backed for seat on Disney board by proxy adviser ISS

...Chris Rossbach, a fund manager at J Stern & Co, said it had voted in favour of Disney’s board recommendations....

March 21, 2024

Leo Lewis

J-pop abuse scandal exposes broader crisis of governance

...leo.lewis@ft.com...

June 11, 2023

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

LexHelen Thomas

The Lex Newsletter: dealmakers’ green shoots and barren lands Premium

...John Lewis, take note. Read it here. 3) The headlines this week were full of the latest acceleration of China’s demographic collapse....

January 19, 2024

Special ReportInnovative Lawyers: Europe

Practice of law: best examples in legal work

Featuring the most innovative services that lawyers have developed for clients

September 22, 2023

ReviewFilm

Oppenheimer — Christopher Nolan delivers the bomb but can’t crack the man

...No action figures are yet being sold of J Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb....

July 19, 2023

News in-depthBankruptcy

Talc ruling a blow to J&J and the ‘Texas two-step’ bankruptcy jig

...its actions,” said Samir Parikh, a bankruptcy law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School....

February 6, 2023

Confederation of British Industry

Fewer than one-third of CBI members backed overhaul

...The departures dented the lobby group’s finances, forcing it to plan redundancies, while dozens more companies, such as J Sainsbury, publicly paused their ties with the group....

June 13, 2023

John Lewis Partnership PLC

UK retailer John Lewis links up with Abrdn to build homes for rent

...residential accommodation in partnership with a specialist developer; Marks and Spencer has several such schemes in progress as it overhauls its store estate, while supermarket groups such as Tesco and J...

December 2, 2022

Due Diligence

Where the private credit boom could go bust Premium

...J. Christopher Flowers, the private equity investor known for reviving failed financial institutions, has warned that private capital’s push into insurance is coming with systemic risks....

October 17, 2023

Anna Berkeley

How to dress for your first job

...Look at Office and John Lewis for a mix of brands at good price points, or retailers such as Russell & Bromley or Oliver Sweeney....

March 25, 2023

The Big Read

The fighter jet that could create a new alliance between the UK and Japan

...“For the first time possibly ever, the kind of threat platform that the two countries are baselining their needs on is a Chinese aircraft — the Chengdu J-20,” he says....

November 27, 2022

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Summit

Guiding business in a new global age

News in-depthUK retail industry

M&S and Waitrose fight it out for the shopping baskets of middle England

...Bailey, who joined from J Sainsbury a few months into the pandemic, acknowledged he must work with what he has....

December 23, 2022

Travel

Northern Ireland: from the Troubles to a tourism hotspot

...But it also hosts concerts and events, and this October “A-Wing”, where Troubles inmates were housed, will open its doors as a working distillery reviving J&J McConnell’s Irish Whisky, founded in 1776....

April 6, 2023

The Weekend Essay

Rule of the Rings — why film-makers can’t resist Tolkien’s fantasy world

...He is not a writer on a par with Lewis, but his obsessive desire to make his world whole is why he has the bigger legacy....

August 26, 2022

The Big Read

‘Texas two-step’: the US legal move letting corporations off the hook

...You can have this accelerated resolution and really a great outcome for victims,” says Samir Parikh, a professor at Lewis & Clark Law School....

October 25, 2022

Women in business

How mothers shape their daughters’ careers

...Her mother, Margaret Casely-Hayford, was the first black woman to become a partner at a City law firm and was director of legal services for the John Lewis Partnership for nine years....

March 8, 2023

Health

US lawmakers plan bill to outlaw ‘Texas two-step’ bankruptcy ploy

...Samir Parikh, a bankruptcy law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Oregon, said many commentators arguing that mass lawsuits should not be resolved through bankruptcy do not understand the alternatives...

February 28, 2022

Newsletter

Asset Management: How Sam Bankman-Fried seduced blue-chip investors

...“There’ll be a new focus on liquidity,” says Andrew Lewis, chief financial officer of FTSE 250 aerospace and defence group Chemring....

November 14, 2022

Marks & Spencer Group PLC

M&S executive team could earn £15mn this year if targets hit

...John Lewis Partnership is an outlier in that it has capped executive pay at no more than 75 times the annual salary of a shop-floor worker....

June 7, 2022

UK retail industry

New UK retail lobby group ‘open to’ online sales levy

...The Retail Jobs Alliance, which was unveiled on Tuesday and says it is a temporary one-issue group, includes supermarket groups Tesco, J Sainsbury, Coop and Wm Morrison; DIY specialist Kingfisher; bookstore...

May 4, 2022

FT Magazine

Inside the John Lewis nightmare

...says James Bailey, executive director of Waitrose, who joined from rival supermarket J Sainsbury....

October 21, 2021

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