Stanford Group Company

April 16, 2024

Fishing industry

Chinese fishing company accused of environmental and labour abuses

...Mitsubishi said its group companies were currently buying from ZOF, while FCF declined to say if it was doing so....

March 7, 2024

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Thames Water

Chinese state banks are lenders to Thames Water’s parent company

...Two Chinese state-owned banks hold a crucial role in the future of Thames Water, as part of a group of lenders involved in a stand-off over debt at the parent company of Britain’s largest water utility....

April 4, 2024

EG Group

EG Group in talks to sell some UK assets to co-founder Zuber Issa

...EG Group is in talks to offload some UK assets to billionaire co-founder Zuber Issa in what the company told investors was an attempt to reduce the debt pile of its petrol-station empire....

March 6, 2024

Altice Europe NV

Altice France on collision course with creditors

...While the loose terms of Altice’s bonds and loans give the company broad latitude to sell assets without repaying debt at face value, some bondholders believe that the company can still be persuaded to take...

March 21, 2024

Puig SA

Spanish beauty group Puig aims for €14bn IPO

...Both Byredo, a cult Swedish fragrance group, and Charlotte Tilbury, a British make-up brand associated with its eponymous founder, were acquired by Puig during a deal spree encompassing 11 companies in 12...

April 18, 2024

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Letter

Letter: Schools need to restore the awe and wonder of science

...Jonathan Osborne Professor of Science Education, Stanford UniversityChair, OECD PISA Science Expert Group Stanford, CA, US...

December 22, 2023

John Thornhill

The AI race is generating a dual reality

...Private sector companies have certainly captured many of the smartest AI researchers....

April 18, 2024

Transcript

Transcript: How ‘shit-fixers’ make companies tick

...He’s a professor at Stanford University and the co-author of a new book called The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder....

February 13, 2024

Thames Water

Former Thames Water owner Macquarie among lenders to utility’s parent company

...The company’s shareholders, including pension and sovereign-wealth funds, have refused to inject more cash....

April 9, 2024

Cryptocurrencies

Crypto group Copper served sushi off partially clad models

...Hammond, who had been an adviser to Copper, was made chair in 2023 following a fundraising that valued the company at $2bn. He holds a “small stake” in the group....

March 26, 2024

Hornby PLC

Mike Ashley to advise model train maker Hornby

...The sportswear billionaire has struck an unpaid consultancy agreement with the company after his retail empire Frasers Group built an 8.9 per cent stake in the business....

March 20, 2024

Lok'nStore Group PLC

Lok’nStore agrees £378mn takeover by Belgian-listed rival Shurgard

...Lok’nStore is set to become the latest company to leave the UK stock market, after the self-storage group agreed to be bought by Belgian-listed rival Shurgard for £378mn....

April 11, 2024

LexSamhällsbyggnadsbolaget i Norden

Property group SBB’s creative refinancing staves off crisis Premium

...Swedish property group Samhällsbyggnadsbolaget (SBB) has too much debt and too little time....

March 25, 2024

Glencore

Mining group Glencore records big rise in emissions

...Mining and trading group Glencore recorded a big increase in carbon emissions last year after it expanded coal production and restarted an oil refinery in South Africa that was closed by an explosion....

March 20, 2024

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FTX Trading Ltd

Law firm conflicts ‘permeated FTX’s bankruptcy’, professors allege

...Skeel said he had no interaction with the Bankman-Frieds and handled all interactions with the Stanford publication....

March 26, 2024

Management

‘I work in a frustration factory’: how to make workplaces run better

...Professors Huggy Rao and Bob Sutton realised they were on to something when executives in their management and innovation classes at Stanford University began to offer vivid descriptions of the obstacles...

January 28, 2024

Cryptocurrencies

Crypto group Copper launches review after ‘embarrassing’ sushi party

...The UK group hosted a party at the five-star Mandrake hotel in central London at which two people who appeared to be wearing thin bodysuits lay on a long table with plates of sushi on their bodies, the Financial...

March 28, 2024

888 Holdings PLC

Gambling group 888 to change name to evoke

...The company said the four markets that would now be its focus — UK, Italy, Spain and Denmark — generated about 85 per cent of its revenues....

March 26, 2024

BYD Co Ltd

BYD misses profit forecasts as Huawei challenge emerges

...While the company has long had ambitions to enter the car market, some experts have previously questioned how it could succeed in the face of US sanctions....

March 26, 2024

Music

Rock band Kiss sells rights for $300mn to company behind Abba hologram show

...The company said the deal would “unlock new audiences and revenue streams”....

April 4, 2024

Donald Trump

Donald Trump has $4.6bn stake in social media group after market debut

...Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind his Truth Social platform, rose as high as $79.38 a share from the previous day’s price of $49.95, before closing up 16 per cent at $57.99....

March 26, 2024

Economists Exchange

Erik Brynjolfsson: ‘This could be the best decade in history — or the worst’

...Companies are going to be born and destroyed, as will occupations....

January 31, 2024

UK equities

UK’s ‘staggeringly cheap’ stocks trade at record discount to US

...Some UK companies have pointed to higher valuations when choosing to list in New York rather than London....

March 23, 2024

DS Smith PLC

International Paper’s takeover move raises possibility of bidding war for DS Smith

...Earlier this month the company announced a new chief executive, Andrew Silvernail, would join the group in May from an advisory role at private equity group KKR....

March 26, 2024

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