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...Richard Chamberlain, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets, said the purchase would increase JD’s presence in the US market, but “the concern now is that JD is somewhat substituting organic growth with M&A...
...Richard Chamberlain at RBC Capital Markets was bullish about its long-term prospects....
...Chief marketing officer Alex Schultz has also relocated to the UK this year....
...Barclays analyst Richard Taylor said sales “had been very strong” and that the update statement “appears to allay concerns that JD has been forced to discount heavily to clear inventory”....
...The company, from Schultz on down, has hit back hard....
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...RBC analyst Richard Chamberlain said the results were resilient but noted the sharp rise in inventory levels, which were 43 per cent higher than last year. Greenhalgh played down the rise....
...The table with the longest and richest history, however, takes a more literal and organic approach to its design: Richard Schultz’s Petal table for Knoll (£3,744 at The Conran Shop), which was first released...
...Tension rises as, first, solo singers (the meltingly lovely Golda Schultz and Marianne Crebassa) and then the double choir sing of reassurance and resurrection....
...Last year, Schultz warned the Republican party that without an ambitious plan to address climate change it would lose younger voters....
...The settlement comes after Kåre Schultz, Teva’s chief executive, said earlier this month that the wave of lawsuits was unfair because pharmaceutical companies had followed the law....
...Many are, like Richard Branson, non-residents — surely a disqualification....
LA artist Martine Syms explores the relationship between cars and culture ahead of Frieze art fair
...(FT) In the news Schultz row is brewing Howard Schultz, the billionaire founder of Starbucks who is considering an independent bid for the White House, ruled out running as a Democrat in a Texas town-hall...
...Howard Schultz’s attempt to become US president prompted me to re-read this 2008 history of Starbucks....
...The coffee chain’s billionaire founder Howard Schultz briefly flirted last year with running as a self-funded independent for the White House....
...His candidacy has been encouraged by the likes of the DreamWorks co-founder David Geffen, and Richard Edelman, head of the public relations company Edelman....
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...My colleague Richard Waters, San Francisco bureau chief, wrote a very interesting piece on “edge” computing, which looks at how big data may live more in devices and distributed networks than in the cloud...
...Richard Nixon was never a US governor....
...Richard Edelman, whose eponymous public relations firm publishes an annual study of trust (or the lack of it) in business, government and other institutions, says there are “relatively few” business leaders...
Biotech entrepreneur Anna Skaya on her cat DNA business
...Winfrey’s rousing speech at this year’s Golden Globes may have sparked hopes of an Oprah 2020 ticket, and it is rumoured that Starbucks’ Howard Schultz and billionaire Mark Cuban may be eyeing their own...
...Richard Clarke, analyst at Bernstein, said Costa is relatively overexposed to locations where footfall is growing slowly or falling....
...Chief executive Howard Schultz earlier this month announced plans for a further 500 stores in China, adding to the 1,900 it had by the end of last year....
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