Robert J Ownes

Royal Mail owner rejects £4.5bn takeover bid from Czech billionaire Křetínský

...Křetínský, a lawyer-turned-energy tycoon, is the largest shareholder in IDS with a 27.5 per cent stake and has been a prolific dealmaker in the UK, buying stakes in supermarket chain J Sainsbury and London...

April 17, 2024

ReviewFT Books Essay

Are video games coming for the novel?

...Occasionally the influence is clear, as in J Robert Lennon’s 2021 novel Subdivision, in which a woman checks into a mysterious small-town guesthouse....

April 17, 2024

FT Live

Future of Retail

Securing long-term business growth with technology innovation

Letter

Letter: Does gender explain why intelligence was missed?

...Robert A J MatthewsDidcot, Oxfordshire, UK...

December 1, 2023

Markets InsightToby Nangle

What’s wrong with the Shiller Cape benchmark for markets?

...More than half a century later, in 1988, economists Robert Shiller and John Campbell investigated whether this approach could help predict aggregate stock market returns. They found that it could....

February 5, 2024

O. J. Simpson

OJ Simpson, NFL star known for ‘trial of the century’, dies aged 76

...As the case progressed on TV, Simpson’s legal team of Johnnie Cochran and Robert Shapiro tapped into the theme of race and the LA police department....

April 11, 2024

Film

‘Oppenheimer’ blitzes 2024 Bafta Film Awards with seven wins

...In a litmus test of industry feeling ahead of next month’s Oscars, Nolan’s biography of nuclear physicist J Robert Oppenheimer left with seven Baftas in total, including the blue-riband award for best film...

February 19, 2024

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

Sainsburys Bank PLC

Sainsbury’s to exit core banking business

...Roberts said it was “business as usual for now at Sainsbury’s Bank”....

January 18, 2024

J Sainsbury PLC

Sainsbury’s to cut costs by £1bn and launch share buyback

...J Sainsbury’s fresh plans to boost shareholder returns and cut a further £1bn in costs over the next three years drew a lukewarm response from investors on Wednesday after the supermarket chain also disclosed...

February 7, 2024

Robert Armstrong

American style and what it says about class

...The other includes Brooks Brothers button-collar oxford cloth shirts; J Press tweed jackets; Bass Weejuns and penny loafers generally; Docksides and Sperry boat shoes; odd lightweight cloths such as madras...

January 17, 2024

J Sainsbury PLC

Sainsbury’s shares slide as general merchandise sales disappoint

...J Sainsbury was among the biggest fallers on the FTSE 100 on Wednesday after strong grocery sales failed to allay concerns over its struggling general merchandise business....

January 10, 2024

LexUK retail industry

The lessons from UK supermarkets’ misadventures in banking Premium

...When he joined Sainsbury’s in 2020, chief executive Simon Roberts declared that the retailer would go back to basics and focus on its food business....

January 18, 2024

Inside Politics

UK’s undecided voters offer little solace to Tories

...Now try this Although I am distraught about the end of Radio 3’s weekend jazz programme, J to Z, I am very happy indeed that its new schedule moves the wonderful Night Tracks an hour earlier....

April 4, 2024

LexJ Sainsbury PLC

UK supermarkets: market share gains invite ‘Tescopoly’ comparison Premium

...Roberts has since invested nearly £700mn in prices. A £1.3bn savings programme, of which £1.1bn is already in the bag, has helped....

November 2, 2023

In the footsteps of . . .

Across the Yorkshire Dales in the footsteps of JB Priestley

The past chimes with the present on a walk through the landscape that, the author wrote in 1934, offers ‘everything a man can possibly want’

September 5, 2023

Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

‘Oppenheimer’ wins best picture Oscar and dominates awards

...Nolan’s three-hour biopic of J Robert Oppenheimer, the atomic bomb inventor, was a critical and commercial success, taking in close to $1bn at the box office....

March 11, 2024

FT Live

Business of Luxury Summit

Gathering leaders in luxury for the 20th year

Letter

Letter: Why the prophet of pessimism may be right about innovation

...In his fascinating book The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The US Standard of Living Since the Civil War, US economist Robert J Gordon — whom the IMF once dubbed the “prophet of pessimism” — raises related...

January 12, 2024

J Sainsbury PLC

Sainsbury’s says annual profit will hit upper end of forecast

...UK supermarket chain J Sainsbury has forecast that its full-year profit will come in at the upper end of the range it had previously flagged after grocery sales in the first half rose by a tenth and its...

November 2, 2023

The Oscars 2024: all you need to know

Oppenheimer leaves Oscar rivals in the dust with 13 nominations

...Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed biopic about American nuclear physicist J Robert Oppenheimer received 13 nominations in total, including nods for the blue-ribbon Best Picture, Best Director for Nolan and Best...

January 23, 2024

Unhedged

Larry Summers: we haven’t nailed the landing yet Premium

...Send your reading of the post-Fed moves: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....

December 15, 2023

LexUK retail industry

Nectar: cost crisis helps J Sainsbury hive off more data Premium

...Simon Roberts, chief executive of the UK supermarket group, said its recent “Nectar Prices” initiative helped fuel a return to volume growth last quarter....

July 4, 2023

Investments

Directors’ Deals: Wetherspoon founder raises stake

...Non-executive directors Robert Moorhead and Tea Colaianni also got in on the action, buying a cumulative £99,000-worth of shares....

September 15, 2023

HTSI

20 highlights of Paris Design Week

...GP & J Baker x Kit Kemp Design Studio Designer and hotelier Kit Kemp’s first collaboration with British fabric and wallpaper house GP & J Baker transmutes her eclectic style into colour-saturated prints...

January 16, 2024

Rutherford Hall

The message from Riyadh: you have to be on the pitch to score

...Messages recovered by Robert Shrimsley...

February 5, 2024

ObituaryRobert Hanssen

Robert Philip Hanssen, double agent, 1944-2023

...He emulated former director J Edgar Hoover by wearing dark suits, but his quick temper and dour manner made him unpopular....

June 10, 2023

J Sainsbury PLC

Sainsbury’s says food inflation ‘starting to fall’ as sales rise

...UK supermarket chain J Sainsbury has provided further evidence that food price inflation is easing, as the group reported an almost 10 per cent increase in sales....

July 4, 2023

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