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...Morgan Entrekin, chief executive of Grove Atlantic, the publisher behind last year’s Booker prize-winner, Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song, agrees. “The boom in [romantasy] has been amazing,” he says....
...Claire Keegan credits readers with the phenomenal success of her short novel Small Things Like These, shortlisted for the Booker and other prizes and now a film....
...When Tesco acquired Booker, it estimated it would make cost savings of about £175mn a year, largely in procurement and distribution. Booker also managed to take market share as a result....
...HOLD: J Sainsbury (SBRY) A strong Christmas season underpinned a bullish trading update for the supermarket group, writes Christopher Akers....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...Group sales, which also include operations in Ireland, central Europe and the Booker wholesale business, grew 7.9 per cent over Christmas and 5.7 per cent in the third quarter....
...Group same-store sales, which include operations in Ireland and central Europe along with the Booker wholesale business, were up 7.9 per cent....
...You have Cory Booker, who ran the last time, who's an attractive person....
...It was the 1996 novel Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter, by the Zimbabwean author J Nozipo Maraire....
...Thursday that full-year operating profit from its retail operations would be “slightly above” its previously indicated £2.5-2.6bn range after a Christmas trading performance that mirrored that of rival J...
...Its operating profit margins are little different to rivals such as J Sainsbury, despite its low rent bill and captive supply chain....
...It compares with growth of 7.3 per cent at Wm Morrison and 9.3 per cent at J Sainsbury over equivalent periods....
...You may recognise the voice as belonging to the actor David Tennant and, by the end of his reading of J.M....
...They also argued that other recent takeovers, such as that of Booker by Tesco, set a precedent....
...Beautifully written and Booker-shortlisted, the novel is also unexpectedly funny in a rueful way....
...This year’s International Booker Prize, announced last month, went to Dutch debut novelist Marieke Lucas Rijneveld....
...J Sainsbury and Wm Morrison are upgraded to “outperform” at Bernstein as part of a sector note advising knife catching....
...grocery demand will remain robust as cash-constrained consumers save money by reducing food expenditure at restaurants. 3) We expect the UK wholesale market to consolidate, particularly benefiting Tesco's Booker...
...Again the business was pulled up by Booker, where sales grew 5 per cent....
...For J Sainsbury, which reports on its third fiscal quarter on Wednesday, they have pencilled in a 0.6 per cent fall driven by weaker numbers at Argos....
...By blocking J Sainsbury’s planned £7.3bn supermarket merger with Asda, Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority has fired a warning shot across the bows of big business....
...J&J: the next target of anger over America’s opioid crisis?...
...On Wednesday, the UK’s competition regulator announced its preliminary verdict on J Sainsbury’s move to acquire Asda....
...Tesco/Booker was a merger between retailer and wholesaler. I’m not sure we would see Tesco/Booker as a precedent,” he told the BBC....
...I’m not sure we would see Tesco/Booker as a precedent,” he told the BBC....
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