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...He also ran Kingfisher, which owns DIY chain B&Q, as well as Greencore and Carlton Communications, and chaired Blackstone’s main European entity....
...The first, The Splendid and the Vile, by the unique Erik Larson, pulls off the unlikely feat of finding something new to say about Winston Churchill, in his almost thriller-like account of Churchill’s first...
...It competes with traditional DIY retailers such as Leroy Merlin and Castorama in France, and B&Q and Kingfisher in the UK....
...ManoMano’s UK sales tripled last year to €105m, though that is still a long way behind market leader B&Q, which had UK sales of £3.28bn in the year to January 2020....
...Larson recommends telling people that their vaccination will protect others....
...Share your views and favourites Hope comes from attorney Bryan Stevenson (Michael B....
...Its eclectic score draws on everything from hip-hop and R’n’B to Broadway show tune traditions....
...Sales growth continued into the second half, M&B said....
...At home, total sales at B&Q fell 3.3 per cent....
...That is almost twice the expected sales decline at B&Q, the group’s main UK and Ireland format....
...Castorama and Brico Dépôt, which it acquired in 2002, have experienced stagnating sales amid strong competition from Leroy Merlin, a privately owned rival....
...Production has fallen from a peak of 1.9m barrels per day in 2010 to just above 1.4m b/d....
...Kingfisher has been losing market share to rival Leroy Merlin and start-up Mano Mano. The head of its French operations was replaced earlier this year....
...Second-quarter earnings for companies in the S&P 500 index are on track to increase 24.6 per cent from the same period of last year, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S....
...Sellside stories ● RBC downgraded Kingfisher, the B&Q and Castorama owner, to “underperform” from “sector perform” with a 200p target price....
...Gillian Tett — Shipping is the new frontier in the climate change fight Matthew Vincent — Shell boss’s €20m payday shows executive palms remain well oiled Charles Larson Jr — NOPEC bill would weaken American...
...Professor Heidi Larson puts forward a five point plan for boosting vaccine confidence across the globe....
...RBC’s leisure note put “outperform” ratings on Cineworld, Domino’s Pizza, Greene King, Gym Group, Marston’s and Merlin Entertainments....
...“I want all the girls watching here and now to know that a new day is on the horizon,” she said in her acceptance speech for a Cecil B DeMille lifetime achievement award. ”When that new day finally dawns...
...Merlin commutes to London for four days a fortnight. The rest of the time he spends painting and working remotely from his finca in the centre of the island, which the couple have turned into a B&B....
...The expected FTSE 100 relegation candidates were ConvaTec, Merlin (up 0.7 per cent to 360p) and Babcock (ahead 3.2 per cent to 685p)....
...The company behind DIY stores such as B&Q and France’s Castorama chains saw underlying pre-tax profit come in at £440m, 0.9 per cent ahead of the year before and above expectations of £426m according to...
...Starting coverage with a “buy” rating and 112p target price, the broker said L&B is at a 30 per cent discount to peers in spite of offering the sector’s highest dividend and earnings growth....
...While they trade even more barrels of crude, gasoline and diesel than Glencore (Vitol handles slightly over 7m barrels a day versus Glencore's 5.5m b/d), they have no intention of following Ivan Glasenberg's...
...Royal Dutch Shell B surged 6.7 per cent to £20.22 and BP added 4.3 per cent to 451p....
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