Hints and tips:
...The Bank of Japan’s monetary policy committee is not expected to change interest rates when it meets on Friday, but there will be a lot of interest in its Outlook Report. One more thing . . ....
...As big fashion houses continue to hike prices and create ever more blockbuster fashion shows, an emerging generation of designers, working alone or with minuscule teams, and often on tiny budgets, offer...
...calls the “engines for growth of the big agencies”....
...Then it made her poor again (New York Times) Christopher Grimes, Los Angeles bureau chief I loved this recent NY Mag piece on Erewhon, America’s most fashionable grocery store....
...Chinese interest in investing in the US is not limited to big manufacturing companies....
...Monks, Sir Martin Sorrell’s digital advertising company. Only a few retailers have expanded successfully beyond national boundaries....
...Reach out to me (imani.moise@ft.com) or Sid (sid.v@ft.com) to let us know. Happy reading!...
...“I’m not a gamer,” he’s admitted and there has been derision over his claims that it has become a lot easier if users want to switch from an iPhone to an Android device....
...There has been a lot of speculation recently that inflation is about to make a comeback....
...“A lot of these changes were happening before: the shift to e-commerce, the slow decline of department stores and multi-brand retail stores, greater focus on sustainability and supply chains, materials,...
...That’s a big jump from 2020’s revenues ($139m as stated above). The ability for a company to tell its own story makes a big difference....
...Has Big Tech become too big for the good of society? “I don’t know,” says Hastings. “I don’t see bigness as the fundamental issue.”...
...Clown car maker Aston Martin needs more money....
...However, Gilead has what AZN doesn’t - a lot of cash ($24bn as of Q1)....
...But the course of the pandemic will have a big impact on the relative income of big urban city centres....
...Additional reporting by Martin Coulter...
...Real estate and venture capital make a lot of sense for those people that can stand the illiquidity of those investments,” he says....
...Mike Coupe, chief executive, is likely to face questions about how he plans to reinvigorate operational performance, not least from his new chairman, Martin Scicluna....
...Then I’ll go to San Ginés for the best churros con chocolate and on to the food markets – most go to San Miguel, but I prefer San Antón or Antón Martin....
...Some companies use the fact that they are exploring lots of different ideas as a PR tool — we don’t....
...“You are going to see a lot more people speaking out against these,” predicted Mr Williams....
...Tracking down niche toys is now a function better performed by Amazon than speciality big-box stores, Ms Chang-McGrath says....
...A lot of these [big] brands are trying to reinvent themselves for this kind of demanding consumer but many of them fail....
...The unease at Fox extends to the big differences in how the two companies approach film and television production....
...Martin Sutherland, brought in as chief executive two and a bit years ago, is halfway through a five-year plan to turn the company round after a series of profit warnings....
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