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...There are several player kings in Robert Icke’s fresh, fleet, state-of-the-nation staging of Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays — all of them between a rock and a hard place....
...Travis Perkins’ chief executive Nick Roberts said deflationary pressure on the company’s commodity products had been greater than expected....
...“Market conditions remain challenging with continued weakness across new-build housing,” said chief executive Nick Roberts....
...Chief executive Nick Roberts said in April that Travis Perkins expected to deliver a full year performance in line with market expectations of £272mn....
...Robert Gardner, Nationwide’s chief economist, said: “The decline in borrowing costs around the turn of the year appears to have prompted an uptick in the housing market.”...
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...Chief executive Nick Roberts put on a brave face, describing the performance as “resilient”. The fact that he used the same word when discussing prospects for 2023 shows that they’re hardly glowing....
...Foxtons FY, Fresnillo FY, Greggs FY, Hiscox FY, Inchcape FY, IWG FY, Johnson Service Group FY, Keller FY, Reach FY, Ross Stores Q4, SIG FY, STV Group FY, Target Corp Q4, Thales FY, TKH Group FY, Travis Perkins...
...We will write about this in the days to come, and meanwhile email us your thoughts: robert.armstrong@ft.com & ethan.wu@ft.com....
...Walters H1, Smurfit Kappa H1, Starbucks Q3, Toyota Q1, Travis Perkins H1, Uber Q2, Weir Group H1 Wednesday Chinook Therapeutics special meeting of shareholders to vote on the proposed acquisition of the...
...SELL: Travis Perkins (TPK) The double-digit growth in Travis Perkins’ top line doesn’t tell the full story of what was a tough six months for the company, writes Michael Fahy....
...Dario “inventor of the moron risk premium” Perkins at TS Lombard maintains this has always been silly....
...“We are encouraged by the robustness of the RMI market and the continued recovery in our other key end markets,” said chief executive Nick Roberts....
...Robert Barrington, professor of anti-corruption practice at the University of Sussex, says there probably still is a role for offshore finance centres “but we don’t need all of them — Jersey, Guernsey, BVI...
...Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins has promoted investors Annie Case and Josh Coyne to partner....
...Zadie Smith’s blistering debut play remoulds Chaucer’s lusty character, lifting her from the pages of The Canterbury Tales and setting her down in a London pub (lovingly created in Robert Jones’s detailed...
...The flood of central bank liquidity has caused valuations to become stretched, most notably in the US where the cyclically-adjusted price/earnings ratio invented by Nobel laureate Robert Shiller reached...
...“I am confident that these proposed changes will enable us to trade successfully through this period of uncertainty with a cost base that better reflects the environment we are operating in,” Mr Roberts...
...Chinese solar company Hanergy bought the promising solar start-up MiaSolé, which had been backed by Kleiner Perkins, in 2013....
...It begins with a commission for this month’s London Design Biennale, the Pavilion of the African Diaspora, a temporary “folly” created in collaboration with architect Zena Howard from Perkins+Will....
...The Stanford University spinout is backed by a long list of luminaries, including Bill Gates, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and, crucially, Volkswagen....
...On Monday the property group trumpeted that it was parachuting in Robert Noel, industry heavyweight and ex-boss of Land Securities, to take the chair by the end of September....
...Most housebuilders have already closed their sites, along with home builders’ merchants, including Jewson, Selco, B&Q and Travis Perkins....
...Others this week include builders’ merchant Travis Perkins, packaging group DS Smith and rail and bus operator Go-Ahead....
...Bryan Roberts, an independent retail analyst, said it would be difficult for suppliers to “literally and metaphorically unpick the label” in order to sell clothing on as the majority of clothes shops in...
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