Hints and tips:
...Celebrations will ring out across Asia and beyond this Saturday with the beginning of the next lunar year — the year of the dragon for most countries that mark the occasion....
...General Manoj Pande to hold a joint press briefing with US Army chief General James McConville at the Indo-Pacific Armies Chiefs Conference in New Delhi South Korea: a military parade will be held to mark...
...Shares in London-listed PZ Cussons were roughly flat in afternoon trading....
...Other holdings I decided to retain include Chesnara, Duke Royalty, Phoenix and Rathbones, plus a large PZ Cussons holding, where the jury is still out....
...Straggler PZ Cussons, home of Imperial Leather soap, did so in 2005. Four decades later, asset manager Schroders is following suit....
...Tesco has named Caroline Silver, an advisory partner at Moelis & Company and chair of healthcare group PZ Cussons, as a non-executive director on its board....
...But the forecast might be uncertain for this quarter after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg warned of a growing competitive threat from Apple....
...PZ Cussons said it remained on track to match expectations, in spite of higher raw material costs and the risk of weakening consumer confidence....
...Sell: PZ Cussons (PZC) We anticipate the group’s “important transitional year” will not be without its costs, writes Mark Robinson. There’s no point in flogging a dead horse....
...Question marks remain over holdings such as Aviva and PZ Cussons, but hopefully they will be very reluctant to destroy their long, positive dividend histories....
...The chief executive of PZ Cussons, the company behind Imperial Leather, is leaving after 13 years at the helm....
...Second, K L Kepong International — the thwarted bidder for palm oil group MP Evans — has been quietly building up a stake and have just gone over the 20 per cent mark....
...PZ Cussons’ 50 per cent share of the market is also considered “incredibly strong”....
...Back in December, a warning from PZ Cussons on a 10 per cent fall in first-half operating profits sent its shares tumbling....
...Buyout bosses never get the same sort of scrutiny, and rarely have the sort of duty of care that marks out the best retail owners....
...From that list only a dozen or so are still quoted: Associated British Foods, Marks and Spencer, Imperial Tobacco, Reckitt & Colman, Tate & Lyle and, of course, Unilever....
...Some factories whose supply chains required items on the central bank’s ban list, such as margarine or glass, have had to go without, or buy dollars on the black market at high mark-ups....
...Personal care business PZ Cussons has appointed Caroline Silver, an investment banker at Moelis & Co, as its chairman from January of next year....
...Soap maker PZ Cussons faded 2.8 per cent to 331p after Canaccord advised taking profit....
...My largest holding by capitalisation, PZ Cussons, has been my most disappointing performer by far, of which more later....
...At the time, her son Mark was about to get married....
...trajectory from a low point: world disasters such as the Nepal earthquake and the very serious Ebola outbreak usually result in increased activity for Air Partner, but I also learned from chief executive Mark...
...Buy: PZ Cussons (PZC) The historic trading premium of PZ Cussons’ stock relative to peers has evaporated due to the problems in Nigeria, writes Mark Robinson....
...One was the acquisition of 10,000 shares in PZ Cussons at 312p by its finance director Brandon Leigh....
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