Hints and tips:
...Goldman Sachs has led the pack this week in demanding its staff return to the office....
...Grocery delivery is more cost effective for retailers, which can pack several low value goods into the same basket, although even most of them fail to turn a profit from it....
...Entrepreneur Angus Grahame came up with the idea for Splosh, which delivers concentrated household cleaners, laundry soap and body wash by mail....
...“N-n-nooo,” he says. “You can’t ask. Fashion is about latent demand. You can’t research it. If I say, ‘what colour are you going to buy next fall?’...
...You can pack an item every 32 or 33 seconds if you really put your mind to it....
...Explaining meal packs to the world and then creating a niche has meant high spending on marketing — one cause for concern among potential investors....
...James Wilson EARNINGS Johnson Matthey H1 85.8p (n/a) Poundland FY 14.33p (13.56p) Royal Mail FY 34.48p (42.80p) ThyssenKrupp FY €0.95 (€0.37) Results forecasts, from Thomson Reuters, are for fully...
...● Shares in postal operator UK Mail fell faster than a weighty parcel labelled fragile after it announced a dividend cut and warned of “softened” performance....
...Instructors lead the pack through hills and sprints, offering therapy: “What are you made of; what are you here for?”...
...The PRA might then resume its stately bump ’n’ grind for another year or so....
...Royal Mail fell 3.2 per cent to 498p after RBC cut forecasts to reflect poor parcels volumes....
...“N = All is often an assumption rather than a fact about the data,” he says....
...The IPO market in the UK, which stood out in 2013, is likely to lead the pack as it re-emerges as a destination for foreign equity investors....
...much it made in the year up until the end of August will be a big thing for the Swedish flat-pack furniture maker, writes Richard Milne....
...Aamir Ahmad, who originally founded the business as a mail-order furniture company in 2003, has been looking to take control of the chain. He left the business late last year, but remains a creditor....
...Dwell was originally founded as a mail-order furniture business in 2003 by Aamir Ahmad....
...The company said overall headcount at its A&N consumer media division had fallen by 593, or 9 per cent, during the period....
...E-mail the Lex team in confidence at lex@ft.com...
...have to offer more transparency - Senior Tory Peter Cruddas resigns after cash for PM access sting: Party co-treasurer sought £250,000 donation from reporters posing as overseas clients From The Mail...
...N Brown lost 5 per cent to 229¾p after the catalogue retailer’s Christmas trading update showed margins weakening....
...Mr Daccus said the private equity group was considering merging Jacques Vert with Alexon, the listed retail group it bought in a £19m pre-pack deal this September....
...easyJet - Private equity firms KKR, Permira and Sun European Partners are all separately poised to bid for Peacocks after Sun European secured a £10m deal to buy the retailer’s Bonmarche arm in a pre-pack...
...And on that happy note, I’m about to pack my bags and head off cheerfully with my family to Yorkshire for a few days....
...N-trig’s pens interact with sensors beneath a fine grid mesh buried in the screen to enable great precision....
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