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...Rival J Sainsbury has generated an almost identical performance. It is the same across other parts of the industry....
...They were available for a year or so when I was in my 20s – it was a collaboration with J Crew – and I bought every pair in my size....
...The annual report also disclosed that former chief executive Philip Clarke converted his final salary pension entitlement into a £10.7m lump sum....
...When he learnt that the exchanges were pushing ahead with bitcoin futures, Mr Peterffy spoke to Terry Duffy, chief executive of CME, and Christopher Giancarlo, CFTC chairman....
...Hopefully [Mr Giancarlo] can work with other agencies that will create benefits for our business,” says Terry Duffy, chief executive of CME Group, the biggest US futures market operator....
...Terry Duffy, CME chief executive, told the conference that an “anti-globalisation mentality” was not good for consumers. “When you look at exchanges, we are truly global in nature,” he said....
...Terry Duffy, chief executive of the CME, said they were “too prescriptive” and called for a rethink. But Mr Giancarlo argues they are modelled too much on the futures industry....
...People with little interest in either electronic music or J.S. Bach were happy to hear the Baroque master’s music filtered through a Moog synthesiser....
...Philip Clarke, the Tesco lifer who had succeeded Sir Terry in March 2011, was facing twin threats — from Waitrose at the top of the market and German discounters Aldi and Lidl at the bottom....
...This year-long festival features all of minimalism’s usual suspects — Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass among them — but opens unexpectedly with an evening of medieval plainsong from The Sixteen....
...Kind Consumer, the company behind Voke, has attracted high-profile investors including private equity veteran Jon Moulton, former J Sainsbury chairman Sir Peter Davis and Sir Terry Leahy, the former Tesco...
...This week, Tesco was in turmoil after Dave Lewis, the new chief executive recruited to take over from Philip Clarke, Sir Terry’s flailing successor, disclosed that it had overstated its first-year profits...
...But it has been beset by problems over the past few years, with the German discounters Aldi and Lidl and upmarket rivals J Sainsbury and Waitrose all nibbling at its sales....
...Mere hours earlier, just before the stock market opened in London, Britain’s largest supermarket chain and one of the world’s biggest retailers had made the announcement it would replace Philip Clarke, its...
...By then Tesco had edged past J Sainsbury to become Britain’s biggest grocer....
...By then, chief executive Sir Terry Leahy, a Liverpudlian with vision, had been replaced by Philip Clarke, a fellow Merseysider understocked with that commodity....
...He replaces Mr King, lionised chief executive of J Sainsbury, next month....
...The challenges for Mr King’s successor, Mike Coupe, are not as daunting as those handed to Philip Clarke by Sir Terry Leahy at Tesco in 2011 – but daunting enough....
...When Justin King hangs up his grocer’s apron in July, the chief executive of J Sainsbury will have completed an almost textbook business turnround....
...For Tesco the joint venture represents a further dismantling of the international strategy built by former chief executive Sir Terry Leahy....
...He said the move could put pressure on rivals – notably J Sainsbury – further to scale back its store opening programme and capital expenditure....
...“The business has failed, let’s face it,” said Tesco chief executive Philip Clarke of Fresh & Easy, the brainchild of his predecessor Sir Terry Leahy that launched with much fanfare five years ago....
...After months of dithering, Philip Clarke, Tesco’s chief executive, has decided to pull the plug on its US experiment....
...At Peregrine Financial, founder and chief executive Russell Wasendorf Sr has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $100m from customers....
...Peter J. Conradi’s ‘A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson’ is published by Bloomsbury...
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