Hints and tips:
...“I have measured out my life in Arsenal fixtures,” wrote Nick Hornby in Fever Pitch....
...On Thursday, a senior executive at Rogers Communications, one of Canada’s biggest telecoms group, told Bloomberg that Huawei should be banned from the country’s 5G network because its relationship with the...
...Lucy Hornby Deputy bureau chief, Beijing...
...Sarah Rogers, a researcher at the University of Melbourne, said: “China will, on paper, eliminate absolute poverty by 2020.”...
...Roger King of CreditSight in New York says investments such as the HNA stakes in Deutsche Bank and Hilton are shielded from cross-financing that might complicate any asset sale....
...Activist investor New Pistoia Income has sold its stake in lossmaking British toymaker Hornby but succeeded in seeing the removal of Roger Canham as chairman of the company....
...It had also demanded that Roger Canham, then chairman of both Phoenix and Hornby, resign from his position at the toy company, which he did last week....
...The directors of toy manufacturer Hornby, producer of tiny trains, Airfix planes and Scalextric cars, have formally pushed back at proposals from its second-largest shareholder to remove chairman Roger Canham...
...Toy manufacturer Hornby is to hold a general meeting after receiving a formal request from a leading shareholder for the removal of chairman Roger Canham....
...Toy manufacturer Hornby is facing a clash between its two major shareholders after its second-largest investor made a formal request for the removal of chairman Roger Canham....
...Alexander Anton, non-executive director of rugmaker Victoria, who also manages legacy property portfolios, proposes to shunt Roger Canham, chairman for the past five years, off the board....
...New Pistoia has spent the past few months rattling Hornby’s cage, criticising the strategy and calling for the removal of Roger Canham, chairman of both Hornby and Phoenix....
...“It might not be detailed and the market is looking for whether he will throw his weight behind the border adjustment tax,” says Lisa Hornby, a portfolio manager with Schroders....
...Corporate earnings for Tuesday include Wolseley and Hornby....
...And, finally, the miniature fat controllers at Hornby are not happy....
...A “delighted” chairman Roger Canham added: [Steve] has made a significant contribution to the group since he joined and I am confident that he will lead the recovery in the financial performance and delivering...
...“The group welcomes the continued support from its lender,” said Roger Canham, executive chairman....
...Hornby parted with its chief executive last month. Executive chairman Roger Canham said: The Group welcomes the continued support from its lender, Barclays....
...Chairman Roger Canham will take on the role of executive chairman and lead the company for the “foreseeable future”....
...Roger Canham, chairman, will once again take charge of the day-to-day running of the group, having taken on the executive role in 2013 after the departure of Frank Martin, who also stepped down after a series...
...A week after warning that January sales had undershot expectations, Hornby said that chairman Roger Canham would be leading the group “for the foreseeable future”, writes Andrew Bounds....
...Last week Roger Canham, Hornby’s chairman since 2013, stepped in to the chief executive’s shoes after Richard Ames departed abruptly. Hornby’s shares jumped a third....
...Pitted against them is CPP’s board led by newish chairman Roger Canham, keen Ironman triathlete who also chairs struggling toy maker Hornby and Phoenix Asset Management, CPP’s second-biggest investor....
.../ From Roger Garside...
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