Hints and tips:
...Norman said there were more closures to come, with M&S saying this week that just over 90 stores are expected to go....
...Bickerstaffe and Machin were promoted from joint chief operating officers by chair Archie Norman after former boss Steve Rowe announced plans to quit....
...Chair Archie Norman previously told investors he was not happy with the online grocer’s performance. Ocado’s finance chief told reporters that it would make a pre-tax profit in about five or six years....
...I’m not sure how long I can continue.” While these economic issues have caused dissatisfaction among Malaysians, Anwar is also feeling pressure on the political front....
...A seasoned leader with experience of the public markets, she was a non-executive at M&S when chair Archie Norman first asked her if she would move into an executive role in 2020....
...Archie Norman, who was appointed M&S chair in September 2017, has a philosophy that new leadership teams need to arrive “like a thunderclap” to succeed....
...In response to this, M&S has launched a broad-based campaign for shareholder democracy and engagement....
...“That’s who I’m running against,” Haley told CNN on Tuesday. “There is nobody else I need to debate.” “I’m going after Trump,” the former US ambassador to the UN said....
...It was founded in New York City on 26 October 1955 by a trio of left-wing veterans rooted in the counterculture, including Norman Mailer....
...M&S chief executive Stuart Machin, who succeeded Steve Rowe, has been spearheading a turnaround of the chain in tandem with chair Archie Norman and co-chief executive Katie Bickerstaffe....
...His song of choice is Sinatra’s “My Way” — I’m not surprised....
...M&S, which started life as a market stall in Leeds in 1884, was a founding member of the FTSE 100, set up in 1984....
...At the centre of this M&A saga, sits a man who is a geophysicist, miner and dealmaker, born into a mining family....
...I’m looking forward to having a go at the ragu this weekend....
...to intense derision, perhaps more than any other woman in recent cultural history, when she became Beatle John Lennon’s “fiercely unglamorous-looking Japanese girlfriend” (as Lennon’s biographer Philip Norman...
...During the 1920s, much of the manor was refashioned by the English architect Norman Jewson, who embellished the interior with his elegant arts and crafts handiwork....
...“To me it says, ‘I’m not preened, dolled-up, and I’m comfortable with that’. It signals ‘casual with intention’.” It’s up for debate whether all baseball cap wearers are quite so considered....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Economic data: The US reports monthly factory orders and Brazil releases its latest consumer prices data....
...(I’m halfway through Norman Fowler’s diaries, which were just published on Tuesday and demonstrate all this very neatly.)...
...I’m bracing for your response. Nathaniel Norman New York, NY, US...
...“I’m frequently asked if I would like to have a political job,” Wilson told the Crisis What Crisis podcast. “I’m not ruling it out.”...
...She was married to Norman Grossman from 1965 to 1984; she is survived by two sons, and by many of her fortunate writers....
...Among other things, we listened to Lana Del Rey’s Norman F***ing Rockwell!...
...Russell Norman, founder of Brutto Cheese I always serve a cheese course. I don’t have a sweet tooth and we have some delicious cheeses in the UK....
...I’m uncomfortable if you’re excluding others and furious when I feel I’m somehow complicit. If a restaurant can’t welcome everyone, how can anyone feel welcome?...
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