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...He joins a team of other operating advisers including former Boeing chief executive Jim McNerney and former Marsh McLennan leader Dan Glaser as well as Sir Terry Leahy, who also ran Tesco from 1997 to 2011...
...Sir Terry Leahy, a senior adviser at CD&R and chair of Morrisons, said the grocer’s balance sheet will be strengthened by the deal but insisted it was not “the only consideration” and added it would benefit...
...VMLY&R to create the world’s largest creative advertising company in October last year....
...Tony Kent’s The Shadow Network (Elliot & Thompson, £16.99) is the latest outing for his team of Joe Dempsey and Michael Devlin....
...He added that he had several conversations with Sir Terry Leahy, Morrisons’ chair and senior adviser to CD&R, about succession planning since the buyout in 2021....
...The choreographer’s storytelling genius, aided by the movie’s scenarist Caroline Thompson, makes short work of exposition....
...The tech giant’s intent to buy the James R Thompson Center building, designed by Germany-born architect Helmut Jahn, from the state of Illinois came as the Chicago business community takes on a momentous...
...Mark Thompson, the former BBC director-general who went on to become chief executive of The New York Times until 2020, also receives a knighthood....
...The slowdown in tech companies’ ad spending mainly affected WPP’s integrated creative agencies, such as VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson, which reported a 2.3 per cent decline in the second quarter....
...He was taken under the wing of Joe Glaser, Louis Armstrong’s longtime manager, and became the agent for many jazz and R&B musicians, including Little Willie John and Sarah Vaughan....
...Emma Thompson simply wanted to chat, allowing Levine to capture her in a rainbow of emotions for a recent New Yorker profile. For John, he took a sonic approach....
...Thompson would take LSD and then go to a police convention, and I never did that....
...The great bassist Danny Thompson was the next to leave (he soon released his own debut solo album, Whatever), replaced by Nigel Portman-Smith....
...It was an impeccably staged collision of glam pop, juke-joint R&B, doo-wop and electronic music, topped by the seductive oddity of Bryan Ferry’s quavering croon....
...stores, new products, better branding and expanded ecommerce will help generate the additional profit needed to support Wm Morrison’s heavy debts following its takeover by private equity, according to Sir Terry...
...“I don’t think we’ve seen the last of this volatility, especially when you think about inflation, the big R word [recession], broader economic uncertainty and everything going on in Europe,” said Cade Thompson...
...“Terry basically said, ‘this is sandbagging — your numbers are way off,” Yeung says....
...CD&R had a knight of the realm onboard to smooth its Morrisons takeover: Sir Terry Leahy, the former Tesco chief, was a longtime adviser to the US firm....
...All three, along with Morrisons former chair, Andrew Higginson, previously worked at Tesco under Sir Terry Leahy, who is a senior adviser to CD&R and now chairs Morrisons....
...Sir Terry Leahy is earmarked to become the chair, two people briefed on the private equity firm’s plans said on Sunday....
...Sir Terry Leahy tells Jonathan Eley, your correspondent, that four-fifths of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice’s returns historically come from sales growth and operational improvements (“Leahy bullish on Morrisons...
...Investors such as Fundsmith’s Terry Smith can expect Unilever to continue trying their patience. Margins will keep eroding amid difficult supply conditions....
...Clayton, Dubilier and Rice plans to appoint Sir Terry Leahy as chair of supermarket group Wm Morrison after winning the £10bn takeover battle for the UK grocer, said two people briefed on the private equity...
...Dorothy Thompson, who earned the equivalent today of $1.8mn per year, inspired Katharine Hepburn’s character in Woman of the Year and advised President Roosevelt....
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