Hints and tips:
...Chief operating officer James Dixon and chair David Gammon seem to think the reward isn’t enough. In the past few weeks, Dixon has sold £281,000 worth of shares while Gammon sold £490,000....
...Dixons and Carphone were worth a combined £3bn in 2014. The successor company is currently capitalised at around a quarter of that sum....
...That’s where we meet 88-year-old Terry Barrett wearing a bright red T-shirt. She says the most important issue for her right now is inflation. Terry BarrettMy expenses have just gone up and up....
...Back in Bedfordshire, Irons’ small team of weavers creates bespoke rush matting, tableware and basketry, and her skills have been called upon by designers including Tom Dixon and Faye Toogood....
...Asda was the first to accept, with Tesco, Dixons and WHSmith following....
...Shadbolt, New Jersey, US Crossword 16,320: Robert Holloway, Paris, France; Michael Shipster, Winchester, England; S Fisher, London, England Polymath 1,047: Nicholas Hartley, Belgium Crossword 16,314: A Dixon...
...The knights of the British architectural establishment Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw, Terry Farrell, Michael and Patty Hopkins alongside others including Chris Wilkinson and Ian Ritchie...
...Before Dixons, Mr Browett was a senior executive at Tesco, where he was highly regarded and among the cadre of young executives who developed core parts of the grocer’s strategy under Sir Terry Leahy....
...No one who was schooled at Sir Terry Leahy’s Tesco in the late-1990s, and then turned round Dixons’ dismal service in the noughties is afraid of ruthless decisions....
...Poundland’s rival B&M, which is chaired by former Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy, more than doubled pre-tax profit last year to £154.5m after it opened dozens of new stores....
...John Dixon The head of non-food at Marks and Spencer, Mr Dixon is credited with transforming the retailer’s operations while working under former chairman and chief executive Sir Stuart Rose....
...Sir Terry Leahy, the former chief executive who transformed Tesco from a struggling domestic supermarket chain to a muscular international brand, is an adviser to private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice...
...Earlier this week, former chief executive Sir Terry Leahy, who ran the supermarket chain for 14 years, criticised his successor Philip Clarke....
...After Philip Clarke took the helm of Tesco in 2011, few of the cadre of senior managers assembled by his predecessor Sir Terry Leahy survived the test of time....
...The same company performs both plays, led by Michelle Terry and Edward Bennett....
...After leaving Tesco, he became chief executive of Dixons. But Tesco alumni are not confined to the retail sector....
...Other boards Mr Gildersleeve, aged 68, serves on include Dixons Carphone, where he is deputy chairman, TalkTalk Telecom, Spire Healthcare and Maltby Capital....
...I think it could go either way: this is the woman, after all, who posed nude with a cat for photographer Terry Richardson, so she’s clearly not nervous about taking risks; on the other hand, when my colleague...
...He was highly regarded at Tesco, where he was one of the cadre of young executives who developed core parts of the retailer’s strategy under Sir Terry Leahy....
...Terry Duddy, chief executive of Home Retail Group, said he had seen no “discernible” impact from the collapse of Comet, and he did not expect to benefit from the failure of HMV....
...There was some surprise when, as one of a clutch of senior executives regarded as possible successors to Sir Terry, he left Tesco in June 2007 to join Dixons, the electricals retailer, which was then struggling...
...Terry Duddy, chief executive of Home Retail Group, owner of Argos and Homebase, said high street retailers faced a double whammy....
...Terry Duddy, chief executive of Argos’s parent company Home Retail Group, says: “People want to shop online, but they do want their purchases faster, locally and with certainty.”...
...The Event of Literature, by Terry Eagleton, Yale, RRP£18.99, 264 pages Thirty years ago, Terry Eagleton published what would become one of the best-selling books in the history of criticism....
...Mr Turner’s criticisms led Sir Stanley Kalms, chairman of Dixons, to claim the CBI no longer represented its members’ views....
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