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...Mr Chavez, 55, will be replaced by Marc Nachmann, a London-based, 25-year veteran of the firm who was previously co-head of Goldman’s global investment banking division....
...In conversation with Marc Filippino, Mr Barber offers his thoughts on Ms Merkel’s battle to keep the flag of multilateralism flying. (FT)...
...Mark Burgess will become the second senior executive in Europe this year to leave Columbia Threadneedle, having led a 160-strong investment team for almost a decade....
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...“The RAC is a very high quality, resilient business in a stable industry, with great customer service and a loyal membership base,” said Marc Boughton, co-head of the strategic opportunities fund....
...In a recent note on Towers Watson, Marc Macron, an analyst at RW Baird, said the company was increasingly seen as “the highest quality provider in the space” by employers, having saved them an average of...
...alison.smith@ft.com Tesco: jonathan.guthrie@ft.com Jimmy Choo: kate.burgess@ft.com...
...Partnership: kate.burgess@ft.com Other notes: alison.smith@ft.com...
...Give us your mojo What would Marc Bolland, chief executive of Marks and Spencer, give for a little of Primark’s momentum?...
...Two Swiss investors, Rainer-Marc Frey, a director of UBS and founder of hedge fund RMF, and Thomas Schmidheiny, the billionaire former chairman of Holcim, the cement maker, have offered Lonrho shareholders...
...Inadequately sugared pill Just because kids can buy every sweet in the motorway café, doesn’t mean they should or will, even if the government has handed out the cash, writes Kate Burgess....
...Marc Bolland’s £600m ($962m) store revamp plan at Marks and Spencer is set to come under fresh scrutiny next week, with the group expected to reveal its first fall in profit for two years....
...Marc Jobling, the ABI’s assistant director of corporate governance, says too often these announcements come out of the blue for investors, suggesting that boards have made plans but not articulated them...
...Marc Jobling, assistant director for corporate governance at the ABI, said: “Succession planning is always on boards’ minds but rarely gets on to the boards’ agenda.”...
...A full Klingon lexicon was developed by linguist Marc Okrand, and Star Trek devotees really speak it....
...Marks and Spencer boss Marc Bolland has restructured the senior management of the retailer’s women’s wear business, but Kate Bostock has retained her role as head of the general merchandise business, including...
...Marks and Spencer has given up a search for a strategy director to supplement its senior ranks, as it faces fresh anger over the remuneration of both Marc Bolland and Sir Stuart Rose....
...While the company is now in the process of splitting the roles once more with the arrival of Marc Bolland as chief executive in May, the relationship between the shareholders and Sir Stuart remains prickly...
...Marc Bolland has negotiated a “golden hello” of up to £15m for joining Marks and Spencer, threatening the uneasy peace hammered out between the retailer and its top investors....
...But that is what Marc Bolland will get for joining Marks and Spencer as chief executive....
...“To be effective the code needs to continue to be investor led so that it can evolve to reflect the needs” of their customers, said Marc Joplin of the Association of British Insurers....
...The supermarket chain said Dalton Philips, an Irishman who was chief operating officer of Canadian retailer Loblaw, would replace Marc Bolland....
...Additional reporting by Kate Burgess...
...But Sir Stuart Rose, executive chairman of M&S, said: “Marc has been talking to us for a while. He’s intrigued by the potential of the M&S brand . . ....
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