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...Despite that strategy not panning out so well, partner Chris Dixon isn’t giving up, the Wall Street Journal reports....
...In Anya Reiss’s updating at the St James Theatre, Astrov (an ebullient, likeable Joe Dixon) has his maps on a laptop....
...In Russell Bolam’s production, John Hannah plays Vanya and Joe Dixon Astrov....
...Back on the FTSE 250, Mitchells & Butlers, the pub chain, is 2.9 per cent higher at 454.1p....
...Labour’s Austin Mitchell, a prominent critic of the accounting profession, said: “I can’t believe in poachers becoming gamekeepers and then going back to poaching with an honest mind.”...
...Corruption was endemic, especially in the Met: Dixon of Dock Green was probably on the take. What was different then is that malpractices were tidied away in the closet. There was a social compact....
...Pubs group Mitchells & Butlers slipped 2.6 per cent to 328.4p ahead of annual results on Tuesday....
...Presenting itself as a discount Dixons that allows customers to snap up items such as televisions and musical instruments at bargain prices, the company also offers loan and pawnbroking services and is one...
...Dixons Retail lost 3.1 per cent to 9.7p....
...Analysts have argued that Kesa and Dixons Retail , up 0.7 per cent to 14p, should be looking at options to reduce competition, such as merging their struggling UK businesses....
...Mitchell and Webb (BBC2 Tuesday) have returned for a new series....
...Put up or shut up at M&B Mitchells & Butlers’ bar-room blitzkrieg on its principal shareholder shows one thing: its independent and executive directors aren’t prepared to sit still and soak up what they...
...Among the gainers, Mitchells & Butlers firmed 7.1 per cent to 147¼p after the horse racing tycoons John Magnier and JP McManus raised their stake in the pubs group to about 15 per cent....
...Peter Dixon, former chairman, Housing Corporation. Chris Hoy, Olympic cyclist. David Jones, former Next chairman. Kenneth Jones, president, Association of Chief Police Officers....
...Elsewhere, in the sector, Mitchells & Butlers added 4.7 per cent to 340¾p after Kaupthing Singer & Friedland took on a block of 12m shares, about 3 per cent of the company, and sold them to a client....
...In the mid-caps, Mitchells & Butlers handed back some of Tuesday’s 18 per cent gain....
...Mitchells & Butlers, meanwhile, rose 4 per cent to 342½p despite news that Punch Taverns had withdrawn a plan to buy the All Bar One owner....
...Mitchells & Butlers eased 1.8 per cent to 390p on rumours that it had received and rejected a 500p-a-share bid approach from rival Punch Taverns, 3.9 per cent cheaper at 632½p....
...Mitchells & Butlers rose 5.5 per cent to 397p on fresh rumours of a merger with rival pub group Punch Taverns, up 0.5 per cent to 658p....
...Also on the list for discussion: Dixons, Premier Oil, Tele Atlas and whatever else suddenly happens to be on the move....
...Mitchells & Butlers, the pub company, moved up 5.9 per cent to 620p. Traders said the US rate cut should help those companies trying to use the debt markets to finance property based transactions....
...Mitchells & Butlers eased 0.7 per cent to 585½p after Blue Oar Securities said R20, the investment vehicle of Robert Tchenguiz, could also have taken out a interest-rate hedge on a £4.5bn property joint...
...That hit the share price of Mitchells & Butlers , 4.3 per cent weaker at 631p....
...It pointed to slowing sales at pub operator Mitchells & Butlers, off 2.1 per cent at 875p, as evidence of increased pressure on the casual dining sector....
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