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...“We wanted a package directed towards Americans and funnelled through airlines,” said Sarah Nelson the president of the Association of Flight Attendants....
...If you missed it, this long read by our media correspondent Anna Nicolaou charts the drama of The People v Harvey Weinstein trial....
...Lyft has hired the IPO adviser Class V, which was founded by Lise Buyer, one of the key architects of Google’s 2004 Dutch auction. But Uber will not be far behind....
...A 34oz bottle of P&G’s Pantene Pro-V Shampoo & Conditioner was listed by 10 different sellers — nine of them third parties — on the shopping site....
...(NYT) Walmart reports Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, reports third-quarter earnings. Investors will focus on ecommerce as the company chases Amazon....
...Malone and Maffei rubbed elbows with Haim Saban and Jonathan Nelson of Providence Equity Partners — both backers of Univision — in Sun Valley earlier this month....
...Walmart has looked to discount its prices, even for organic groceries, to retain market share....
...The biggest activist fight — Nelson Peltz v Procter & Gamble — was only recently settled, two months after a shareholder vote....
...“[The] 4K TV product is getting commoditised more this year as prices drop and we see a significant step-up in the 4K TV assortments at mass merchants such as Walmart and Target,” Mr Binder said....
...Among the many tradeoffs emphasised by economists are guns v butter, public v private, efficiency v equity, quality v quantity or cost and short-term v long-term performance....
...Walmart acquired discount stores Wertkauf and Interspar in 1997 but after nine years it conceded defeat, sold 85 stores to Metro AG and incurred a loss of $1bn....
...Meanwhile, non-union retailer Walmart was being targeted by a similar effort, called “OUR Walmart”, backed by the 1.3m-member United Food and Commercial Workers union....
...But the real foretaste of the future – and digital hell – is with companies such as Walmart and Amazon, he claims....
...Three Icahn representatives – Jim Nelson, SungHwan Cho and Mr Icahn’s son Brett – are stepping down from the board after three and a half years....
...(Financial Times) Nelson Peltz to take Pepsi break-up case to shareholders: Nelson Peltz will take his campaign to split PepsiCo directly to fellow investors, less than a week after the US drinks and snacks...
...on.ft.com/12qs3Ga Zuma pulls out of regional summit Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s president, has cancelled a trip to attend a regional summit in Mozambique on Thursday amid mounting concerns over the health of Nelson...
...“It is generally accepted that Facebook does have an impact,” says Jonathan Nelson, chief executive of digital at Omnicom....
...Target’s gain year-to-date has beaten Walmart’s performance....
...These include UK/Prussia v France at Waterloo in 1815, UK/France v Germany between 1914 and 1918 and France/Germany v UK in Brussels ever since 1973....
...Nelson Lichtenstein, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of a book on Walmart, says the company offers “a highly structured moral order” for its employees....
...Food minister K V Thomas said the government would allow 51 per cent foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail, paving the way for retail giants like Walmart and Tesco to enter the market....
...PepsiCo was boosted by news that activist investor Nelson Peltz has taken a $146m stake....
...The Supreme Court will rule, not on the merits of the case, known as Dukes v Walmart, but on Walmart’s claim that the class is too broadly constituted, and that the complaints should be brought on a more...
...The case, Dukes v Walmart, was originally brought in the names of seven former female employees, but includes affidavits from some 120 Walmart employees, arguing that the company’s male-dominated culture...
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