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...Potts insisted the CD&R deal was good for Morrisons in the long term despite its £6.6bn debt burden....
...He added that he had several conversations with Sir Terry Leahy, Morrisons’ chair and senior adviser to CD&R, about succession planning since the buyout in 2021....
...Potts’ team will continue to run the business day to day....
...There is plenty of menace in White Fox (Bantam, £18.99/Doubleday, $28), the last volume of Owen Matthews’ outstanding trilogy featuring KGB Lt Col Alexander Vasin....
...According to the latest Kantar data, Morrisons’ share of the UK market was 9.1 per cent in the 12 weeks to September 4, down from 9.8 per cent at the time of the CD&R takeover....
...Morrisons chief executive, David Potts, said he had “made a significant contribution to the business over the past eight years”....
...Leahy was also fulsome in his praise for David Potts, the Morrisons chief executive with whom he previously worked at Tesco, and played down the idea that Potts might leave once the acquisition had bedded...
...If successful, the CD&R transaction would also reunite Leahy with Morrisons chief executive Dave Potts and chief operating officer Trevor Strain, both of whom worked under him at Tesco....
...Shares are lower now than they were when Potts took over and have fallen 6.3 per cent over the past year, compared with a rise of 11.5 per cent in the FTSE 100 index of top UK companies in which it was a...
...Potts, who is 64, is now the longest-serving chief executive among the big four supermarkets, having taken over in 2015....
...Dave Potts, Morrisons’ chief executive, who is 64, is the longest-serving chief executive among the big four supermarkets, having taken over in 2015....
...Lt Col Holmes’s disease is kept in check by Ibrance, a medicine developed by Pfizer in the US....
...Its brands relied heavily on shelf space at now defunct toy store chain Toys R Us. Nerf sales ended up sliding more than a fifth to $500m. Hasbro is firing back....
...That’s the line Jack Nicholson’s character Colonel Nathan R. Jessup fires back at Tom Cruise’s Lt. Daniel Kaffee in the 1992 film A Few Good Men, in response to being told “I want the truth!”...
...But, like its predecessor, forevher is co-produced and largely co-written by Joel Pott, a name that might provoke shrugs in most, but who also co-wrote George Ezra’s bazillion-selling albums, so it’s not...
...And Davy’s more optimistic: [R]ecently announced containerboard price increases are being implemented, which will help stabilise box prices....
...In theory, the disappearance of Toys R Us should have benefited remaining participants....
...Lt Gen McMaster, 54, is one of several generals serving in Mr Trump’s cabinet....
...While Mr Trump has said he is willing to act alone on North Korea, Lt Gen McMaster made it clear that the US was emphasising the ability of China to bring pressure to bear on North Korea....
...US President Donald Trump on Monday named Lt General HR McMaster as his national security adviser, after Michael Flynn stepped down from the role last week....
...Her replacement remains unclear and the White House official said Lt Gen McMaster was still deciding what responsibilities the role should cover....
...Lt Gen McMaster is highly regarded inside the military....
...Even with Lt Gen McMaster in the White House, we face a long and dangerous four years. gideon.rachman@ft.com...
...But when Lt Gen McMaster insisted this week that Washington was “going to have to rely on Chinese leadership” to apply economic pressure on Pyongyang, he asked for something that Beijing has obdurately refused...
...Incoming boss David Potts evidently thought this was too generous, as did most retail analysts....
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