Hints and tips:
....— Should the company known as Bass, in its 1984 iteration, be seen as having evolved into InterContinental Hotels, or into Mitchells & Butlers?...
...Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Bootsy Collins once played the cafés and bars of this neighbourhood that has long since morphed from boho to upscale....
...Pub group Mitchells & Butlers, which owns the Harvester and All Bar One chains, is one of those cutting jobs....
...Through a series of deals with Pearson since 2013, Rabe (pictured below) brought together Penguin Random House and eventually took full ownership of the sprawling family of 275 separate imprints, which issue...
...Pearson, takes US and British inflation back to the American Revolution, showing routine spikes surrounding major wars....
...Andy Mitchell, chief executive, saw his base salary almost double in the past year to £425,000....
...Chairman Mitchell Zuklie says: “Our single biggest innovation is to allow this renaissance of individual creativity in the firm.”...
...Mitchell Zuklie Global chairman and CEOOrrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Mitchell Zuklie took the helm of the firm nearly four years ago....
...Ms Zhong recently studied at the University of Warwick and praised examples of the UK’s openness to foreign investment, citing Nikkei’s recent purchase of the Financial Times from Pearson....
...China’s largest chemical group with revenues of $40bn China’s “merger king” is back, writes Tom Mitchell in Beijing....
...Penguin, formerly owned by Pearson, merged with Random House last year....
...Last year Microsoft invested $300m in a 17.6 per cent stake in Nook Media while Pearson, owner of the Financial Times, bought a 5 per cent stake for $89.5m....
...May Suffolk Life buys Sipp business of Pearson Jones, the Yorkshire-based wealth manager (280 clients); Origen, the Hampshire-based financial advice group, sells Sipp book (400 clients) to Suffolk Life...
...I’ve had fun developing the wine list for The Pearson Room [a brasserie in Canada Square], and am getting into sherries....
...Mitchells & Butlers fell 1.8 per cent to 261¼p. Ahead of a shareholder meeting on Thursday, Joe Lewis’s Piedmont vehicle raised its holding in the pubs group to 25.8 per cent....
...Mitchells & Butlers declined 6.1 per cent to 231p after interim results gave no update on its 14-month search for a chief executive....
...Argentine collectors Juan Vergez and Patricia Pearson-Vergez point out that they have attended the fair every year since its inception and are on the hunt for works by British artist Mathew Hale this time...
...- Pearson makes £100m/225p a share cash offer for vocational training group Melorio – statement....
...- Corporate: Praktiker, Mitchells & Butler, Dragon Oil, Tate & Lyle, Sports Direct, Petropavlovsk, Pearson, Imperial Tobacco, Elan, Faroe Petroleum, Kingfisher,...
...That’s why John Makinson, chairman of educational publisher Pearson India (owned by Pearson, owner of the FT), for example, was there showcasing a project to enhance rural literacy....
...Alastair Mitchell, chief executive, said the UK market had proved too “conservative”....
...Some of the leading figures in the construction trade are women – look at Terminal 5’s chief designer Dervilla Mitchell.”...
...Citigroup’s five UK picks for 2007 were Pearson, owner of the Financial Times, off 0.4 per cent to 777p; ICAP, the inter-dealer broker, down 0.6 per cent to 477p; pub group Mitchells & Butler, up 0.1 per...
...Robert Tchenguiz’s approach for Mitchells & Butlers is unravelling as it looked increasingly likely that the pub and bar group would be able to fight off a takeover....
...Mitchells & Butlers rose 1.8 per cent to 346½p after Morgan Stanley upgraded its recommendation on the pubs operator to “overweight” from “equalweight” and increased its price target to 400p from 340p previously...
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