Hints and tips:
...Retail correspondent Laura Onita assesses how John Lewis and Marks and Spencer are faring in the battle for affluent English shoppers....
...However, farming minister Mark Spencer praised the agenda as “ambitious” and said it would “stimulate growth within the economy that benefits us all”....
...Jennie Jerome, daughter of a New York financier, married Lord Randolph Spencer Churchill. Later that year, she gave birth to Winston Churchill....
...Rus in urbe perfectly described SRs in London, with their green Barbours and Puffa jackets....
...The story starts stodgily, overflowing with doublespeak-heavy dialogue that gradually leaks a murky trail of slum landlords and political intransigence that leads all the way to the Elysée Palace....
...The UK and the EU can be leaders in such efforts because if America pushes something like that, the important messaging will be hidden in broader superpower rivalry.” — Spencer Dodington, London, UK...
...What Aintabi did not know was that the board had already engaged headhunters Spencer Stuart to find a successor....
...Together with Anthony Good, a British PR executive who brought brands such as Marks & Spencer to India, and other investors, he acquired Cox & Kings around 1980, according to Courtney’s manuscript....
...And the photograph that was released was him handing a can of Estrella, Simon Case laughing, and some Marks and Spencer sandwiches on the table....
...The headhunter Spencer Stewart has been appointed to find a successor....
...Credit Suisse prefers Marks & Spencer to Next. M&S first ......
...Ocado’s full-year results are a bit weak and largely irrelevant, except perhaps to its JV partner Marks & Spencer. The former’s up and the latter’s down though, so who knows....
...,” Ms Spencer asked. “He did not ask me any questions. He told me. There must be some security leak within the bank’s systems.” Which?...
...Methane gas leaks into the air; fires spontaneously combust. People living near these toxic sites are exposed to carcinogens....
...High-street stalwart Marks and Spencer revealed a sharp drop in profit and announced an expansion of its programme of store closures as it undergoes an extensive restructuring....
...But it made me wonder why we don’t see a lot more leaks like this one, given the growing prevalence of Yammer and its many variants....
...An excellent new paper this week by Spencer Dale, group chief economist of BP, and Bassam Fattouh, director of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, provided a clear-thinking assessment of Peak Demand...
...Not so Robert Swannell, Marks and Spencer’s retiring chairman ....
...Yet, as the experience of female executives shows, the pipeline leaks, the speed of the current varies and the flow can even reverse....
...David Cameron has been accused by Labour of “cronyism” on a lavish scale after a leak revealed that his resignation honours list will reward 48 allies, aides and donors who campaigned for Britain to stay...
Vehicle launched by Cameron Sr underperforms index and sees drop in assets under management
...In Miliband Sr’s case, it was argued that his views “should disturb everyone who loves this country” and implied that his son was unfit to lead the nation....
...Eubank Sr’s response is emphatic. “You have people out there who criticise me, saying why don’t I step to the side. Who would do that? Where is the sense in that?...
...“The oil market is oversupplied,” says Spencer Welch, a director in the oil markets team at the research organisation IHS....
...——————————————- Letter in response to this article: A word or two on superheroines / From Mr Spencer Lee...
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