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...M&S and John Lewis, they will have to run faster.” M&S cannot afford distractions....
...“I’m very grateful to Katie for her support in seeing M&S through this important period in the reshaping of the business....
...This “significantly and negatively impacted the average number of active customers” last year, the company said on Thursday, and hurt profits, compared with the original business plan agreed with M&S....
...“M&S’s decision to increase minimum pay levels in line with numerous other supermarkets reflects this reality,” Speke said....
...I’m not sure what to think about this....
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...and the regeneration of our towns and cities,” M&S said on Friday....
...S&P, best known for its rating agency business and stock market indices, could announce a deal for Visible Alpha as soon as Tuesday, the people said....
...However, this trivia obscures a broader phenomenon: indexing has become a huge, profitable and influential business, utterly dominated by a small cabal of companies....
...“M&S has a history of overpromising and underdelivering.” The strong performance from Tesco and M&S comes a day after rival J Sainsbury disappointed investors with weak general merchandise sales....
...How peculiar is it to measure success in business by selling the business, not by benefiting from the success of the business? You actually have to part with an asset....
...S&P Global’s flash eurozone composite purchasing managers’ index, which measures business activity across the bloc, rose to an eight-month high of 48.9 this month, up from 47.9 in January....
...Moreover, the success rate for Japan’s outbound M&A has been lacklustre with a quarter of transactions made between 1990 and 2014 ending in write-offs, compared with about 5 per cent for US deals....
...Partly because it’s been subject to some MainFT scrutiny as a potential M&A candidate recently....
...“What used to take us three weeks can take us three hours and clients currently pay on the time taken, not the output,” says S4’s Sorrell....
...Messages from the archive of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategist WhatsApp to Stephen: Fantastic job getting Oliver Dowden for our platinum client business dinner....
...The S&P 500 isn’t at such extremes today....
...“But Dai-ichi Life is clearly on the conservative side and people will look at it and say that’s Japan Inc. It’s great news for M&A in Japan.”...
...Its plans mark the start of what is expected to be a fiercely competitive battle between venues for the lucrative business of Treasury clearing....
...But, as S&P puts it when explaining why U.S....
...He declined to comment on its acquisition pipeline but in November said the company was looking at “another six or seven” altnets in the M&A market.It was also announced on Friday that Liberty Global and...
...But there were also improvements in M&S’s troublesome clothing business, long a focus to revitalise the group. Here like-for-like sales rose 5.5 per cent....
...I’m not sure of the market relevance of either point, but there you go. Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
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