Hints and tips:
...I said, hold a quarter of those potatoes back and I’m going to plant them in the right phase two weeks later....
...At the Pavilion shopping centre, Sharon insists Johnson “did a good job”....
...Dame Sharon White told workers at John Lewis and Waitrose of a “difficult week” following her decision to step down as she acknowledged there was no ideal timing for her departure and that she intended to...
...They are also both experiencing a degree of leadership upheaval, with Dame Sharon White stepping down as chair of John Lewis next year, or as soon as a replacement is found....
...The bespoke 120 sq m Orchid House — which is set within the garden’s vast, cathedral-like Bicentenary Glasshouse — officially opened on July 12, and allows the garden to display its collection of more than...
...“It’s all thanks to him . . . that I’m a lawyer today,” she tells her parents years later. But she is also unnerved and repulsed....
...But Sharon Graham, general secretary of the Unite union, was scathing....
...“I’m sure people still bring plants back from holiday. The really risky one is potatoes. You’ll hear of people bringing back potatoes to grow on their allotment,” says Elliot....
...After nearly two decades of decline, M&S was. Covid probably helped management to accelerate its transformation plans. Less fortunate was Dame Sharon White at John Lewis....
...“Unless I’m imagining it I saw Sharon Graham applauding quite loudly during [shadow chancellor] Rachel Reeves’s speech,” said one Labour official....
...As chair, I’m chief trustee of the partnership, responsible for ensuring the partnership model not only survives, but thrives for another 75 years.”...
...I’m well aware that we live in a region with complicated politics....
...Just as Dame Sharon White is breaking up with the John Lewis Partnership, many of its once-loyal customers have already left the brand....
...Following Wilko’s collapse in August, PwC had already sold 51 sites out of the chain’s total of 408 to its rival B&M for £13mn, while announcing 52 closures....
...“I’m not a sociologist but something needs to change and we need to get a grip on it,” he said....
...Apoorva Shah, a senior banker in BNP Paribas’s UK M&A team, has left the company....
...“I’m happy for the family....
...Alexion’s Sharon Barr will replace him, becoming responsible for drugs in cardiovascular, renal, metabolism, respiratory and immunology....
...clients ignore the eighth-century tradition for a Christmas tree to be hung inverted from the ceiling, leaving it impossible to water — although he did once install an upside-down tree for advertising agency M&...
...“I’m absolutely going to put him straight into the school dinners because that’s zero cost for me,” Graham said....
...How this will work out, I’m not sure....
...Waitrose is beginning to look a bit shabby compared to M&S. Something clearly needs to change.”...
...Assume, optimistically, that the turnround works out, Waitrose might then achieve the same operating margin — 4.2 per cent — as M&S’s food division....
...Waitrose has lost market share to M&S in recent years, partly since online grocer Ocado swapped to selling M&S products in 2020....
...Sharon White will step down as chair of John Lewis and Waitrose in 2025....
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