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...Julien Temple’s deeply depressing documentary Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan (available on BBC iPlayer) was heavy on MacGowan’s own self-mythologising — how he would have joined the IRA,...
...But Mr Haines said the changes to Upfield, which employs about 4,000 people and also owns Elmlea, Becel, Country Crock, Rama and Blue Band, were intended to outlast that period....
...“What crock,” interrupted Scrooge. “We should all State Purpose, Align Management,” sang the carollers. “Spam!” said Scrooge....
...Newell, the maker of Crock-Pots, Mr Coffee coffeemakers and Rubbermaid Tupperware, allied itself with Mr Icahn after Starboard disclosed it had built a stake in the company and would seek to overhaul its...
...Starboard Value, the activist fund, is launching a proxy fight at Newell Brands, the maker of Yankee Candles, Sharpie pens and Crock-Pots, setting up a showdown with billionaire investor Carl Icahn over...
...Mr Polman said in a statement on Friday: “We set out our 2020 programme to accelerate sustainable value creation . . ....
...Border control is a priority, she says, relaxing on her sun-flooded porch as a white bean, chicken chilli simmers in the crock pot....
...Jarden’s brands include Yankee Candle, Crock-Pot, Breville and Josten’s graduation rings. Newell’s top brands include Sharpie markers and Paper Mate pens....
...Once the transaction is completed, Newell will add an array of well-known US brands from Jarden’s portfolio, including Crock-Pots, Marmot jackets and Aerobeds, that will nearly triple its revenues....
...The 80-year-old Skippy brand, Mr Ettinger said, doesn’t immediately provide for cross-selling with Hormel’s meat products – as, say, its Country Crock products do – but fits the company because it is an...
...By 2007, the company, then known as CSN Stores – an acronym of their names – was a collection of 200 websites that sold everything from luggage to waterbeds to crock-pots, with sales of $202m....
...Remember, Sinha ran JC Flowers’ abortive attempt to take over The Crock. One quick question....
...However, he is also known for his witty if impolitic remarks out of step with Detroit’s polite executive culture, once referring to the science of global warming as “a total crock of shit”....
...Nicholas Farrell’s performance here is buttoned up right to the chin, except for the single moment when an unexpected kindness from one of his pupils on the eve of his retirement reduces “the Crock” to tears...
...Not every storm produces a rainbow, but for consultants the crock of gold created by the financial tempest continues to spill over....
...Dirt poor and regularly ravaged by natural disasters and corrupt leadership, its government has proved a poisoned chalice, or a crock of gold, to those who have sought to run it....
...Steve Jobs says a Bloomberg article saying that an Apple engineer warned at an early stage about the antenna problem is a “a total crock”....
...Meanwhile, ageing crock or not, HGAA – burdened by the growing economic crisis in the Balkans – soon began to limp and needed two rounds of capital, with BayernLB having to shoulder most of the burden and...
...- Meet the talented Mr Rolet. - Point counter point: AIG, Goldman and the New York Times. - Tuesday, Barclays reaches for its lawyers, but the stock market doesn’t seem to care....
...villainy as the contemptuous, adulterous Mrs Crocker-Harris....
...Following an exhaustive six month search, Mr Caldwell has been named as the independent valuer of Northern Rock with a brief to decide how much compensation should be paid to shareholders who lost out when...
...Even so, Mr Lutz’s opinions have at times been an embarrassment to his employer. He was once quoted as describing the science of global warming as “a total crock of shit”....
...Mr Arnold has serious form – in the Emergency Room of finance, no less – having quietly resuscitated Abbey National when its treasury department threatened to throw a lightly-aired coronary a few years back...
...Mr Richards and Mr Wood, both savvy investors of their kind, obviously have a right to speak out (though it is a little rich that the RAB boss brands private equity bidders circling the ailing bank “vulture...
...And Mr Sanderson is 67 – he may not be in the market for a new, long-term strategic challenge....
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