Hints and tips:
...Mars Snacking is dominated by mass-market brands such as M&Ms, Snickers, Twix and Maltesers, and until this week’s deal it had no position in the premium category occupied by the likes of Lindt and Godiva...
...But now, in our small band, I’m sorry to report that there is discord. Dissent. Russia is at war, and so are we....
...(I went to two weddings in two different states last week and I’m still recovering.)...
...Let us know what you think at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. A programming note: FintechFT will take a one-week break in observance of the Easter holiday. The next issue will be April 25....
...I'm addicted. Drugs got me feeling tough I don't listen. I've been in my bag baby. Uh, Virgil Louis V on my back, baby. Living fast, dying slow that's the catch, baby....
...et al v....
...“If I were King of Lisbon, I would soon rule over the whole world,” said Charles V of Portugal’s 16th-century capital....
...I’m not so sure. The regulator has already given the company several stays of execution....
...Still, the M&A fallout from this pandemic should not be underestimated....
...Though his signature is absent from filings in the FTC v....
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...In the years since, people have queued for all manner of things: for the Savage Beauty show at the Met, and later the V&A; they have camped outside Wembley Ikea for Off-White designer Virgil Abloh’s homeware...
...“I’m my mom’s retirement plan,” he said, according to the brief....
...I’m constantly trying to see how we are similar; I’m not trying to see how we’re different.”...
...DYLAN ARYVAND: I'm Dylan Aryvand, I'm 13 years old, and I started reselling when I was eight years old....
...AstraZeneca’s M&A team probably has an entire alphabet of deal codenames on the go at the moment. In that context, was serious contact made to Gilead? Yeah, probably....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...I’m very suspicious of the long-short guys but I would not tar all alternatives with the same brush....
...“I went to see Savage Beauty [the 2015 Alexander McQueen retrospective at the V&A] many times. It felt like the opposite of the fashion industry, which was really speeding up....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...The artist Grayson Perry’s Brexit vases, which have gone on display in a different part of the V&A, offer a sophisticated variant of the same approach, drawing on crowd-sourced suggestions from Remainers...
...“It’s pretty savage.” Another producer bemoans the issue with promotion. After all, if you’ve only got one portal to go to, and there are more and more shows, how do you stand out?...
...Last year was exceptional for Europe Inc in terms of growth, profitability and business expectations....
...I’m not sure this is artwashing, in any meaningful sense....
...Sorrell to friends: “I’m not. Otherwise I wouldn’t be in this position.”...
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