Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...“We’ve in effect created two FTSE 100 companies,” Leahy added, explaining that B&M was a constituent of the UK large cap index and MFG probably would be if it was listed....
...Since then, as well as agreeing to buy Presidio, it has made a series of large investments including buying snack company Shearer’s Foods. CD&R and BC Partners declined to comment....
...“Regrettably, Gallup has made the decision to close its operations in China,” the company said in a notice seen by the Financial Times....
...to us that they don’t understand how consumers shop today and they don’t understand the dynamics of a marketplace with no barriers to entry, constant influx of new competitors,” Joanne Crevoiserat, the company...
...In recent years, the company has sought to diversify through acquisitions. It bought personal finance company Credit Karma for $8.1bn in 2020 and email marketing provider MailChimp for $12bn in 2021....
...Should companies be punished for handing money back to shareholders? The Department of Justice seems to think so....
...CD&R bought MFG for £500mn nearly a decade ago....
...Josh Gabert-DoyonI’m Josh Gabert-Doyon, in for Marc Filippino, and here’s the news you need to start your day....
US lender’s move comes as rivals become more cautious in second-largest economy
...The company has ramped up research spend. In the last fiscal year, R&D costs were equal to 7.8 per cent of revenue, up from 3.3 per cent in 2014....
...JD Sports will pay $87.50 per Hibbett share in cash, representing a premium of about 21 per cent to the US company’s last closing price....
...The cheap yen has had a positive effect on the profitability of many Japanese companies, it has fuelled food and energy inflation but, crucially for Hawaii, it has made a dollar-denominated holiday feel...
...‘I’m not interested in psychopaths....
...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....
...Khan and her counterpart at the Department Justice, Jonathan Kanter, are advancing novel theories of harm from M&A in order to challenge transactions....
...Anyway, on a separate issue, you’ve got to tell your Abrdn CEO to stop using words like futurist to describe himself or his strategy for the company....
...Their low key M&A strategy also helps. Acquisitions, if they happen at all, are of the small, bolt-on variety....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] I’m Miles Johnson, and from the Financial Times and Pushkin Industries. This is Hot Money Season 2: The New Narcos. Episode 3: Sun, Guns and Sangria....
...It is possible, however, that curbing M&A will reduce incentives for investors to back early-stage companies, handing a greater advantage to incumbents....
...I remember some of the things I said about each company. But I’m not telling you what they were, because it would embarrass me to do so....
...Spending on R&D reached nearly 8 per cent of revenue last year, up from just over 2 per cent a decade ago....
...Frank Liang, general manager of C Sun, said his company was seeking to expand to Thailand and Malaysia, while also considering Japan....
...I’m putting this author on my must read list for the future....
...Indeed, Huffman pays tribute to r/wallstreetbets in the prospectus (emphasis added): Time and again, Reddit communities have provided exactly that context and been a tremendous force for good: they have...
...I’m sure she hasn’t hurt ratings”....
International Edition