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...Commodity trader Trafigura has restructured its leadership team as it prepares for the retirement of its longtime chief operating officer Mike Wainwright in March....
...“It’s going to become more of a credit-picker’s market,” predicts Mike Scott, head of global high-yield and credit opportunities at Man Group GLG....
...There’s a bubbling energy to “My Johnny Was a Shoemaker”, harking back to the instrumental energy of Steeleye Span’s recording half a century ago....
...Mike Shearwood had been chief executive of Clarks for two years when he resigned last year. His claim also alleged he had been given no opportunity to respond to the allegations made against him....
...Mike Weinbach, who had run JPMorgan’s mortgage business, will take over the bank’s consumer lending businesses....
...Elsewhere, Amanda Staveley has tabled a £300m bid for Mike Ashley’s premier league club Newcastle United. Details here....
...Nigel Andrews, FT film critic Travel One Man and His Bike, by Mike Carter, Ebury Press, RRP£11.99 Compared to the ever-more contrived quests that have become a mainstay of recent travel writing, Carter...
...His grandfather’s test of proficiency in the shoemaker’s art “was to take the scrap-hide and pick it up” from the bin, says Mr Swartz. “If you cut well, there are these little stringy pieces left....
...Ugly no more Crocs, the shoemaker behind those odd-looking bright-coloured clogs, is launching two styles aimed specifically at the Asian market....
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