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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

Liberty Media Corp

Formula One owner closes in on €4bn deal for MotoGP

...Formula One owner Liberty Media is in exclusive talks to buy the company that owns MotoGP for more than €4bn, in a deal that would unite the elite car and motorcycle racing series, according to people familiar...

March 27, 2024

FT Live

Transforming the Finance Function with AI

Strategies for delivering advanced analytics, automation and decision-making

Informa PLC

Informa employee snubbed Israeli tech firm citing company policy

...The Israeli tech company had been attempting to register a senior director at the annual Finovate conference, a global event for financial technology companies....

January 31, 2024

ReviewStyle

Knitwear label John Smedley wants to bring manufacturing home

...Despite this, UK companies, such as John Smedley, are bullish about their potential to grow. “For a long time, price drove everything....

April 24, 2024

LexArtificial intelligence

Rent the Runway needs more than AI to go from rags to riches Premium

...The stock, worth $345 when the company went public in October 2021, now trades at just over $11, to give RTR a market value of $41mn....

April 19, 2024

ReviewDance

Hung Dance, London review — a man, a woman and a giant feather

...It was a busy, buzzy Friday night at Notting Hill’s Coronet Theatre, where the 30-artist, 16-day Taiwan Festival was entering its second week with Taipei’s Hung Dance company....

April 22, 2024

FT Live

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Europe’s leading tech event for corporates, startups, investors and governments

Oil & Gas industry

Ithaca Energy agrees £750mn deal for most of Eni’s UK oil and gasfields

...The two companies revealed last month that they were in talks about the North Sea assets and on Tuesday, confirmed the deal had been agreed....

April 23, 2024

Paul Killik

Why buying company shares has gone out of fashion

...These investors, however, have very little say in the running of the companies contained in their funds, unlike direct shareholders....

April 5, 2024

Janan Ganesh

The rise of the political casual

...There is a misconception that football fans aim to avoid people who have zero interest in the sport. No. The real drag is the casual: the office pest who wonders how “your lot” got on over the weekend....

February 9, 2024

TikTok Inc

TikTok gears up for legal fight in US to prevent ban

...Andersen indicated to some staff that he would stay on in the short term as the company steadied itself ahead of the expected legal battle, the person added....

April 22, 2024

FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen

A look at Temu’s murky business model

...Plus, the FT’s Dan McCrum unpacks the mystery behind how Temu took over the retail world....

March 8, 2024

Gillian Tett

Green audits are coming for a company near you

...Since most large American entities touch the Golden State, this will suck 8,000 companies into the net, according to Crunchbase estimates....

February 29, 2024

Travel

Shortcuts: Explora launches new expeditions and the ‘power-hour’ lunch comes to London

...Now though, the company is looking beyond its core business of luxury lodge-based trips....

March 30, 2024

John Thornhill

The Klarna drama reveals a governance gap

...The company was swimming in a sea of losses after expanding aggressively in the US....

February 29, 2024

LexApple Inc

Apple is not the only company backing away from driverless cars Premium

...With over $155bn in cash at the plan’s inception, Apple had the funds and reputation to pose a credible threat to the car industry. The company has ramped up research spend....

March 7, 2024

FT Live

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Recognising the best in banking globally

Menswear

V-necks are back

...At the mid-level, a cashmere style in a muted shade from Sheep Inc, John Smedley or — my favourite — Begg x Co will quickly become a staple of your wardrobe....

April 8, 2024

The Big Read

The battle over TikTok

...the person close to the company....

March 15, 2024

Transcript

Transcript: Is the CV dead?

...It’s her voice you heard at the top of the show. Jess is one of the co-founders of Vizzy, a company looking to replace the drab CV with something slicker....

March 5, 2024

Inside BusinessRichard Waters

Apple faces the most disruptive threat it has seen in the iPhone era

...The company has some clear advantages in the coming battle — yet, starting late, it could also be facing the most disruptive threat it has seen in the iPhone era....

March 1, 2024

Special ReportFT High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific

Australia’s Commonwealth Bank tie-in gives More Telecom a boost

...Morgan argues that the difference is CBA acquired a direct stake in the telecoms company and took a board seat....

April 3, 2024

LexLego

Lego’s corporate model is key to its brick-by-brick success Premium

...There is evidence that tightly held companies like Lego benefit from a long-term perspective. Building the business, like its product, is an exercise in patience. It can yield impressive results....

March 24, 2024

LexApple Inc

For Apple, a €1.8bn EU fine is just the start Premium

...Like its Big Tech peers, the company has faced regulatory action in the past without upending the way it does business....

March 5, 2024

LexRussian business & finance

Russia/Ukraine: companies weigh investor disapproval with cost of exit Premium

...In the 1930s, US General Smedley Butler identified the vicious nature of war when he wrote that profits are measured in dollars and losses in lives....

September 7, 2023

The Art of FashionThe Art of Fashion: the Individuality issue

The go-to guys for rare 1990s fashion

...Since 2012, their company has been selling vintage ready-to-wear direct to celebrities and rich clients or their stylists, as well as through Selfridges in London and Manchester, Switch Boutique in Los Angeles...

March 26, 2024

ReviewTheatre

The Frogs, Kiln Theatre review — Spymonkey lavish new layers of absurdity on Aristophanes

...Meanwhile the serious point of the piece — the company’s deep grief over Kreiss and soul-searching about continuing — gets lost in the melee....

February 14, 2024

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