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...Rogers, who served as co-chair of President Barack Obama’s inaugural Committee in 2009, is a board member of McDonald’s, Nike and the New York Times, while Hobson is the chair of Starbucks and a director...
...The New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday said it would cancel trades in some stocks after problems with its opening auction caused sharp swings in blue-chip names such as ExxonMobil and McDonald’s....
...THG has previously been subject to takeover interest from a range of investors, including property tycoon Nick Candy and THG non-executive director Iain McDonald, seeking to take advantage of a share price...
...Steven McDonald, an analyst at S&P Global, said the progress Citrix had made “tempers the risk of integration mis-steps and cost-saving delays and bolsters our confidence that its improving profitability...
...Longtime McDonald’s board member Sheila Penrose is retiring, several months after being targeted in an unsuccessful campaign....
...opening its first gym in Sydney a decade ago, Gilchrist’s team began turning the high-tech workout into a sophisticated franchise business that opened new locations at a pace rivalling the early years of McDonald...
...IPO as Beijing’s Tech Crackdown Goes On (The Information) Chinese Tycoon Behind Big nickel short faces billions in losses (Bloomberg) Top US pension fund rejects calls for fossil fuel divestment (FT) McDonald...
...Among those to push for contrition from Numis was Iain McDonald, THG’s longest serving non-executive director, according to a person familiar with the companies....
...It was hidden among the free-flowing Sedum plants, near the apiary where Cook’s bees produced some 165 pounds of honey this year....
...Griffin highlighted how an oblique tweet of a McDonald’s ice cream cone and a frog emoji from Ryan Cohen, a big GameStop shareholder, appeared to be the spark for a doubling of the stock’s price in one afternoon...
...McDonald’s is due to hold its annual meeting virtually on May 21....
...“This misconduct undermines the integrity of the price discovery process and can result, as it did here, in harm to law-abiding market participants,” said James McDonald, the CFTC’s director of enforcement...
...over illegal rebate scandal (FT) Equinox closes in on new funding to challenge Peloton in at-home fitness (BBG) Football Association’s streaming deal puts funding at risk (FT) Citic to sell stake in McDonald...
...It initially blocked attempts by McDonald’s to set up shop there....
...They took in American Express and McDonald’s in the 1980s; JPMorgan, Microsoft and Walmart in the 1990s; Cisco, Pfizer and Verizon in the 2000s....
...The company’s shares fell 12 per cent last year, and are down by about the same amount so far in 2018 as competition in the fast-food sector — including burger rivals Burger King and McDonald’s — continues...
...The company has experienced rapid growth over the past four years, signing up content and advertising partners including Twitter, Yahoo, McDonald’s and British Airways....
...McDonald's, which was trading at an expensive 85.7 times earnings in 1972 (versus 23.6 today), managed to post annualised returns of 12.2 per cent over the following decades....
...The industry has grown rapidly in recent years, building storefront networks bigger than McDonald’s, as Americans have struggled to bridge gaps between income and expenses....
...AT&T, Verizon, McDonald’s and L’Oréal are among the marketers that pulled advertising from YouTube last year. The company has been trying to assuage those concerns with a series of measures....
...● Kathryn McDonald has been appointed head of sustainable investing at Axa Investment Managers’ Rosenberg equities team. She will be based in California for the €747bn French asset manager....
...Scott McDonald, Oliver Wyman’s chief executive, described the quarter as “pretty weak” but said he “remained very confident in the outlook”....
...A similar auction for McDonald’s also saw low demand from investors in China....
...While Cargill’s main activity is finding customers for farmers’ grain, the company also makes ingredients for leading food and drink companies including Coca-Cola and McDonald’s, and it has a large meat...
...be rebranded to Burger King over the next four years after Groupe Bertrand, the majority shareholder in Burger King France, last year acquired Belgium-based Quick group as part of a campaign to dethrone McDonald...
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