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...Figures from J Sainsbury, the UK’s second-largest supermarket chain, showed strong grocery sales but a weaker outcome in non-food categories....
UK chain hits out at ‘partygate’ and says rules should have allowed ministers and aides to go to a pub
Move follows tussles with investors over pub group’s approach to corporate governance
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...Analysts at John Hancock Investment Management broadly agree: While the outlook for the global economy is far from rosy, the high-yield segment of EM corporates appears priced for calamity....
Sales of traditional ales and stouts down almost a third compared with 2019 over Covid fears
Late summer sales at UK pub group lag behind rivals
...The signature, an “artistic rendering” of J Pierpont Morgan’s own John Hancock, exists in JPM branding to “reinforce the rich heritage of our organisation”....
World’s second-largest hotel chain is keeping faith with the return of face-to-face meetings
...Harding, the former chief executive of TalkTalk, is a Conservative peer who is married to Tory MP John Penrose and worked with Coupe when they were both at supermarket J Sainsbury....
Many chains dial down promotions amid soaring coronavirus infections
...Because the Tory party is in hock to Russian donors who all run Matt Hancock’s pub and were given contracts to buy protective equipment they never delivered. Bears own Boris....
...The big four supermarkets — Tesco, J Sainsbury, Asda and Wm Morrison — said they would encourage customers to wear face masks from Monday....
Pub chain says Covid restrictions have caused ‘economic and social mayhem and colossal debts’
Tim Martin’s sale comes a week after second fundraising by UK pub chain
Pub chain planning to raise £90m as uncertainty from UK lockdown hits
...Ireland halted J&J’s vaccine in mid-April due to concerns about blood clots....
Pub chain warns its costs will be £11m a month higher during second lockdown
Rush in England to offload food and beer in effort to curb losses but waste feared to be ‘inevitable’
Chairman Tim Martin warns new government regulations have made outlook unpredictable
...“The government didn’t seem to know that winter was coming,” said Colin Rayner, director at J Rayner and Sons, who runs a 2,000-acre farm near Windsor as well as several businesses....
...J&J has a non-binding agreement to supply Covax with 500m doses. It did not immediately respond to a request for comment....
British pub operator says lift from Eat Out to Help Out scheme will wane
Effects of pandemic push hotels group to one of the worst quarters in its history
Pub group sets out £141m share placement to see it through crisis
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