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Due Diligence
Hold the bacon: Icahn orders a proxy battle at McDonald’s Premium content
...In 2014, Shari’s father Sumner dismissed his daughter’s prospects as the next chief of the family empire, saying he would “not discuss succession . . . you know why? I’m not going to die.”...
February 22, 2022
Due Diligence
Redstone’s legacy: a dealmaker who understood the value of content Premium content
...Cable cowboys double down on Switzerland A year ago Mike Fries (pictured below) thought he was freeing himself from the pesky Swiss telecoms market. Now he finds himself doubling down on it....
August 13, 2020
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
FirstFT
FirstFT: Today’s top news
...ViacomCBS is considering rebranding its streaming services as Paramount+, creating a “super-service” to compete with the likes of Disney+ and Netflix and revive the media empire following this week’s death of Sumner...
August 14, 2020
ReviewLife & Arts
How Michael Ovitz and Sumner Redstone changed Hollywood forever
...In the case of Sumner Redstone, they may never have known the name, despite the influence the 95-year-old patriarch of CBS and Viacom once wielded over the content of film and television screens....
October 3, 2018
FirstFT
FirstFT: Today’s top stories
...(FT) A second wave of media M&A is coming When billionaire Sumner Redstone decided to split Viacom and CBS in 2006, Netflix was a DVD-by-mail business....
August 8, 2019
Due Diligence
DD, like the We Company, is an elevated state of consciousness Premium content
...The retailer, founded by British billionaire Mike Ashley, pictured below, and its auditor of more than a decade, Grant Thornton, are parting ways....
August 15, 2019
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
Due Diligence
Elliott: from activist investor to owner Premium content
...Calkins succeeds Mike Searles, who retired after five years of leading Benjamin Moore, and he will report to Berkshire vice-chairman Greg Abel....
January 9, 2019
ReviewLife & Arts
New Order provide a bittersweet start to the Manchester International Festival
...The show meandered somewhat as Sumner dropped his guitar for just a mike. A shouted request for an old favourite was answered with: “It’s not that kind of gig. Chill out.”...
June 30, 2017
News in-depthThe Big Read
Cable cowboy John Malone views a new landscape
...CBS and its sister company, Viacom, are controlled by Sumner Redstone and his daughter, Shari....
May 10, 2017
Retail & Consumer industry
Primark, Sports Direct and Next eye BHS sites
...Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct has already looked at the portfolio and could return to pick up some stores....
June 2, 2016
Property sector
Landlords face struggle to fill BHS sites locked in a ‘time warp’
...Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct and Philip Day, who heads Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Peacocks, have been named as possible contenders....
April 27, 2016
FT AlphavilleJoseph Cotterill
The Closer
...Mike Ullman will rejoin the company as chief executive two years after Johnson, a veteran of Target and Apple, ousted him and came in to overhaul the retailer’s strategy....
April 8, 2013
FT AlphavilleCardiff Garcia
Fiscalists vs market monetarists, a bloggy taxonomy
...) – Mike Konczal questions whether the expectations channel of monetary policy really works, citing the recent disinflation....
June 13, 2013
FT AlphavilleJoseph Cotterill
The Closer
...- Scott Sumner likes China; maybe not so much France. - “Pawnbroking is back, and in a big way.”...
February 25, 2013
InterviewLunch with the FT
Lunch with the FT: Brad Grey
...We tuck in and I mention another of the “boulders” that Grey may have been referring to earlier: the 2006 firing of Tom Cruise by Sumner Redstone....
October 27, 2012
FT Live
Due Diligence Live
Where leaders in investment and finance meet
Tuesday, 8 OctoberLondon, UK
FT AlphavilleCardiff Garcia
Further further reading
...- Scott Sumner explains the wheel of politics. - Carlyle has a new CFO. - Why JP Morgan’s “Twitter fund” is overhyped....
February 14, 2011
Work & Careers
20 questions: Philippe Dauman, Viacom
...When will Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone retire? I hope he never retires. He taught me to be tenacious, and we share a great optimism. What’s on your iPod?...
July 1, 2010
UK companies
Bidders line up for sale of Redstone’s UK cinemas
...Israel Theaters, Israel’s largest cinema group, and Empire Cinemas, the UK cinema chain, have reached the second round of bidding for the 21 UK cinemas put up for sale by Sumner Redstone, the US media magnate...
June 24, 2009
Private equity
Cameras roll on cinema auction
...Other possible bidders could include Mike Ross, the former managing director of Ster Century Europe, the cinema chain....
May 28, 2009
Property sector
Another year of pain for property market
...Mike Slade, Helical Bar’s outspoken chief executive, expects a “double dip” downturn, with the drop in rental income leading to a secondary hit on property values....
June 20, 2008
Investments
The Reit showpiece is looking a bit run down
...Equities, for example, are regarded as better-looking at the moment,” Sumner says....
May 25, 2007
US & Canadian companies
Drama could overshadow Paramount’s revival
...None other than Sumner Redstone, the company chairman, stepped in this week to counter the bad publicity, saying he had “unequivocal faith in the integrity” of Mr Grey....
April 21, 2006
Private equity
Observer - Asia
...The reason: Biondi’s brother, Mike, is co-chairman of investment banking at Lazard and is working closely with Wasserstein on what could be one of the investment bank’s biggest deals....
January 31, 2006
UK companies
U2's Bono and partners agree to buy Eidos
...said Sumner Redstone, chairman and chief executive of Viacom, at a conference in January. ?No major media company can afford to ignore it.?...
March 22, 2005
US & Canadian companies
Eisner claims Ovitz hawked Disney assets
...Mike Rust? was addressed to ?4T2? a code name for Mr Dreyer. It included ?bullet points?...
November 17, 2004

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