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September 18, 2023

Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn: Pigments album review — rewarding and unpredictable

...Her independent spirit is underlined by Pigments, a collaboration with New York-based musician Spencer Zahn. The pair first joined forces in 2018 for a dreamy electronic song called “Cyanotype”....

November 25, 2022

FT Live

Future of Retail

Securing long-term business growth with technology innovation

UK economy

UK businesses face ‘week of woe’ as corporation tax rise hits

...Lord Michael Spencer, founder of interdealer broker ICAP and a Tory party donor, said: “The UK should maintain corporation tax at no higher than 20 per cent to put us in the most competitive bracket globally...

March 31, 2023

Style

Men’s formalwear is becoming jazzier off the red carpet, too

...“Swap your white dress shirt for ivory, pale blue or pink,” Spencer suggests. “I think the chicest colour you can choose is cream....

December 13, 2022

Transcript

Has plant-based meat peaked?

...Marks and Spencer launched legal action, and just yesterday the two parties agreed to a secret peace treaty. Marks and Spencer would only say that it felt Colin was now protected....

February 2, 2022

ObituaryQueen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II: April 21 1926-September 8 2022

...“The 1969 film and the 1992 documentary Elizabeth R were broadcasts that changed the scope and style of the monarchy.”...

September 8, 2022

FT Live

TNW Conference 2024 - The Next Web

Europe’s leading tech event for corporates, startups, investors and governments

Technology

FT Tech Champions: innovate to thrive

...agora Digital Capital Markets (UK) Aimed at streamlining and digitising bond deals, the group’s backers include ICAP and NEX founder Lord Michael Spencer....

November 1, 2021

Letter

Letter: UK must make support for investment a permanent feature

...Professor Peter Spencer Dr Paulo Santos Monteiro Professor Peter Smith Department of Economics, University of York, York, UK...

March 11, 2021

News in-depthUK companies

‘Why have we not grown any giant companies?’ The UK’s attempt to take on Silicon Valley

...Billionaire Icap founder Michael Spencer used £50,000 of cash from him and three friends from their company bonuses in 1986....

September 10, 2021

Disrupted Times

Historic US stimulus plan approaches finishing line

...In London, Marks and Spencer’s flagship Marble Arch store faces demolition as business moves online....

March 10, 2021

UK politics

Johnson to publish impact assessments on Covid restrictions

...Ben Spencer, another Conservative MP, also said that the impact assessments would be crucial ahead of Tuesday’s vote....

November 29, 2020

The Big Read

Bagging bargains: the unexpected rise of the discount megastore

...Helped by the collapse of chains such as Woolworths, Focus DIY and Toys R Us, B&M went from 21 UK stores in 2005 to 673 today, plus a subsidiary in France....

February 2, 2021

Coronavirus

Companies and workers fight over virus insurance

...Robert Berkley, chief executive of W R Berkley, said he did not believe the risk was “overwhelming” for his company, but could hurt others....

April 25, 2020

InterviewRichard Russell (XL Recordings)

Richard Russell: the XL Recordings boss who would rather make music

...“He was working at Marks and Spencer at the time, he didn’t know what was going on.” His family is Jewish, but he experienced their faith as oppressive....

April 8, 2020

Tesco PLC

Tesco considers launching ‘Finest’ stores

...“Big companies have to be able to do R&D without thinking it is in deployment,” he said. “Jack’s is doing all it was designed for at limited cost.”...

June 18, 2019

FT Live

Business of Luxury Summit

Gathering leaders in luxury for the 20th year

Equities

Markets Now - Wednesday 20th May 2020

...We believe the 59% YTD share decline more than reflects the risks that M&S Clothing and Home sales struggle for an elongated period and we therefore move from U/R to BUY....

May 20, 2020

Due Diligence

Race is on to salvage WeWork IPO as billions hang in the balance Premium

...As John McClain, a portfolio manager at Diamond Hill Capital Management, told the FT’s Joe Rennison, he couldn’t remember another unicorn having “zero support from either debt or equity investors”....

September 18, 2019

Equities

Markets not live, Tuesday 11th February 2020

...– the nCov2019 R-0 is >2, then the propagation rate must be described by a pretty steep exponential curve....

February 11, 2020

LombardKate Burgess

Aveva is next pick for Stealth Stakhanovite index and FTSE 100

...The right systems could save customers millions, he says, yet just 6 per cent of the oil and gas industry’s yearly R&D capital expenditure is spent on software....

May 29, 2019

Special ReportEurope’s Road to Growth

Companies take a ‘grow your own’ approach to digital talent

...as R and Python....

November 21, 2018

Retail & Consumer industry

The mystery of commercial rents: boom or bust?

...and maternity and baby outlet Mothercare; retailer Marks and Spencer has announced store closures; and department store House of Fraser began preparing for retail closures....

September 7, 2018

Equities

Bright start to 2018 fizzled out and the year-end brought turmoil

...Maplin, Toys R Us and Poundworld all went bust, while Marks and Spencer, House of Fraser and Debenhams announced store closures....

January 5, 2019

Special ReportFT Property: Global

Landlords adapt to counter rise of online retailers

...Globally, chains including Abercrombie & Fitch, Marks and Spencer and Guess have closed underperforming stores in order to concentrate on flagship stores or on their online presence....

March 12, 2019

UK retail industry

Black Friday hurts UK retailers as footfall declines

...that the consumer has started the important Christmas season in cautious mood, despite heavy discounting, will add to pressures in the retail sector, which has led to House of Fraser, Poundworld, Toys ‘R’...

November 25, 2018

US retail

US retail recovery under new scrutiny on Wall Street

...Retail landlords have meanwhile become more conservative in rent demands as a spate of closures by tenants including Toys R Us and Sears push up vacancy rates....

January 6, 2019

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