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...Shareholders and analysts said that the retailer had turned a corner under Norman’s leadership....
...It has also been hit by high-profile exits including HSBC, which in June said it would move out of its 42-storey Norman Foster-designed headquarters tower by 2026....
...Temporary placements were also hit, however, as Hays “did not see our normal seasonal step-up in worker volumes”....
...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....
...In a letter to Kwasi Kwarteng seen by the Financial Times, the bosses of companies such as Adecco, Hays, Randstad and Manpower urged the business secretary to rethink proposals to repeal a decades-long ban...
...Hays follows rival recruiter PageGroup, which on Wednesday also reported a decline in activity, denting profitability....
...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....
...The IT services group, which works with the likes of Howdens and Hays, made two purchases around the time it published its interim results last year....
...If Robert Walters seems too unpredictable a punt, there is the bigger and more diversified Hays....
...Jaime Norman, senior actuarial director at consultancy Broadstone, said the PPF was in an “awkward position” given its financial strength....
...In its half-year results, Hays reported an 8 per cent fall in operating profit to £97mn, in spite of record fees....
...Like its UK peer Robert Walters, Hays reported surprisingly strong growth in Germany; net fees rose 22 per cent....
...Machin has been spearheading a turnaround of the chain, kick-started by his predecessor Steve Rowe, in tandem with chair Archie Norman and co-chief executive Katie Bickerstaffe....
...It has taken over North London café Norman’s, a hipster version of a traditional British greasy spoon, which sees queues at weekends for its egg and chips and beans on toast....
...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....
...And finally A few decades ago, the residents of Wigtown (population c. 1,000) in south-west Scotland wondered if they could follow Hay-on-Wye in Wales’s lead....
...Recruiters PageGroup and Hays also fell 6 and 5 per cent, respectively....
...HSBC has had its headquarters in Canary Wharf since 2002, when it moved into its 42-storey Norman Foster-designed offices under then-chair Sir John Bond....
...Archie Norman, the former Asda supermarket boss who became a Tory MP, was among those who struggled to adapt to life at Westminster....
...Norman Foster, who had designed HSBC’s incredible Hong Kong HQ, at the time the most expensive building in the world, went to work on their London tower, a sleek extrusion....
...Norman Augustine, a former chief executive of US defence group Lockheed Martin, famously predicted in the 1980s that given the exponential cost of new military aircraft, by 2054 the entire defence budget...
...account the findings of the planning inspector, David Nicholson, who has past form with embodied carbon; it was one of the reasons he recommended rejecting the “Tulip,” an observation tower designed by Lord Norman...
...Making hay while the sun shines is normal in cyclical industries. But this much hay suggests producers are in a strategic bind. On the fossil fuel side, that is to be expected....
...Evidence of a turn in the previously booming jobs market sent shares in Robert Walters down more than 7 per cent in London trading on Tuesday morning, with other recruiters’ shares, such as PageGroup and Hays...
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