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...The UK Special Situations Fund will be managed by Alex Savvides, who will join from J O Hambro Capital Management, Jupiter said....
...Competitors such as Wm Morrison and Asda, which account for more than a fifth of the market, are struggling with highly leveraged balance sheets....
...Without going full J-Lo, Eldridge suggests a milder version, where you might “define your lip shape with a liner a touch darker than your lipstick”....
...Mandy Madden Kelley, entrepreneur I would never part with my Ox Chair, originally by Hans J Wegner....
...Meanwhile, executives from Tesco, J Sainsbury, Asda and Wm Morrison on Tuesday told MPs they would support an online scheme that would require petrol stations to share live fuel prices with customers in...
...Lisa Brankin, chair of Ford UK, said: “Our business needs three things from the UK government: ambition, commitment and consistency. A relaxation of 2030 would undermine all three.”...
...It draws me to think of Toni Morrison’s famous description of racism as a distraction, usurping energy that might be placed elsewhere....
...Industry figures said the so-called big four supermarkets — Tesco, J Sainsbury, Asda and Wm Morrison — had become less price-competitive at the pump because they faced increased competition selling groceries...
...Morrisons said that it had cut prices on a number of products this week that it made or prepared itself....
...In January, the founders’ granddaughter, Lisa Wilkinson, was replaced as chair by Chris Howell, but remained on the board....
...The discounters took market share from recently acquired Asda and Morrisons. Those two are constrained by high debt servicing costs, which should support remaining listed groups Sainsbury’s and Tesco....
...Morrisons — whose footprint leaves it exposed to poorer areas — did even worse, with sales flat year on year....
...Retail conglomerate Bestway has bought a stake worth £193mn in J Sainsbury, the UK’s second largest supermarket chain....
...Hoyningen-Huene’s 1927 portrait of jazz star Josephine Baker to Irving Penn’s dream-like 1950s photograph of his wife lying in a field reading Gertrude Stein’s Picasso, or Helmut Newton’s shot of model Lisa...
...In 2019, the Competition and Markets Authority blocked the proposed takeover of Asda by J Sainsbury, saying the deal would lead to higher prices and less choice....
...Asda plans to open 300 new convenience stores in the next four years as part of its quest to supplant J Sainsbury as the UK’s second-largest grocer....
...Except last week, Aldi overtook Morrisons in market share, according to data from Kantar....
...Aldi overtook Wm Morrison to become the UK’s fourth-largest supermarket by market share during the year....
...I recently bought a painting by Alexis Soul-Gray, who is still at the Royal College.” foundart.co.uk See also: Emily Tsingou, emilytsingoufineart.com Headshot credits: Amelia Allen, Bonnie H Morrison (...
...“The channel shift [back to stores] has been a benefit for the biggest retailers,” said Lisa Hooker, head of UK retail at PwC....
...McColl’s was valued at about £200mn when it floated in 2014, but has found it hard to compete with larger companies such as Tesco, J Sainsbury and Co-op....
...Morrisons and CD&R declined to comment....
...Whether his thesis stands up against larger competitors such as J Sainsbury is open to doubt....
...Morrisons said on Monday it would spend another £100mn keeping the prices of 150 key lines in check....
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