Thomas J. Wirks

Publishers call for support to boost UK’s £11bn book industry

...Genres from fantasy novels — such as those written by Sarah J Maas and Samantha Shannon — to “cosy crime” that spans authors from Agatha Christie to Richard Osman, have underpinned booming sales....

March 11, 2024

LexHelen Thomas

The Lex Newsletter: dealmakers’ green shoots and barren lands Premium

...Email me: helen.thomas@ft.com. 1) It’s been freezing in London....

January 19, 2024

FT Live

Global Private Banking Awards 2024

Celebrating excellence in wealth management

News updates from October 26: US GDP rises 4.9%, Ford strikes deal with auto union

Bloomsbury banks strong revenues amid popularity of fantasy novels

...Nigel Newton, chief executive, pointed to the “huge” growth in fantasy novels, with sales of Sarah J....

October 26, 2023

Donald Trump

Trump family’s luxury Scottish golf resort makes first-ever profit

...SLC Turnberry — the company that operates the resort — lists the Donald J Trump Revocable Trust as its ultimate controlling shareholder....

January 10, 2024

Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

‘Oppenheimer’ wins best picture Oscar and dominates awards

...Emma Thomas, Nolan’s wife and the film’s producer, accepted the best picture prize. “I could deny it but I have been dreaming of this for so long,” Thomas said in her acceptance speech....

March 11, 2024

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury chief warns of AI threat to publishing

...Newton pointed to the “huge” growth in fantasy novels, with sales of books by Sarah J Maas and Samantha Shannon growing 79 per cent and 169 per cent respectively in the period and demand for Harry Potter...

October 26, 2023

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

Food & Beverage

‘Healthier’ food brands challenge Krispy Kreme and Nutella

...Urban Legend doughnuts are available in London branches of Tesco and in Selfridges, with a trial under way in J Sainsbury....

December 27, 2022

Chinese business & finance

Evergrande shares fall nearly 90% as creditor talks postponed

.../ From Gary Mongiovi, Professor of Economics, Peter J Tobin College of Business, St John’s University, New York, NY, US...

August 28, 2023

Life & Arts

FT Weekend Quiz: Stephen Fry, Betfair and EastEnders

...In which film was the main character Thomas Jerome Newton played by David Bowie?...

August 11, 2023

FT Magazine

Palm Beach waits for the return of Donald Trump

...Trump; 2013 — Donald J. Trump; 2022 — Donald J. Trump; 2023 — Donald J. Trump. This year’s Super Bowl has a distinctively Trumpy flavour too....

February 29, 2024

On Wall StreetBrendan Greeley

The easy dream of someone else’s dollars

...The writer is an FT contributing editor In April of 1835, Edmund J Forstall in New Orleans wrote a letter to Thomas Baring in London....

December 23, 2023

Helen Thomas

Don’t make UK supermarkets the ‘greedflation’ bogeymen

...helen.thomas@ft.com@helentbiz...

May 19, 2023

News in-depthBertelsmann SE & Co KGaA

Bertelsmann’s ‘raven father’ chief executive under fire after setbacks

...Some staff at Europe’s biggest media group Bertelsmann have a cruel new nickname for its chief executive Thomas Rabe: “Rabenvater” — raven father....

February 28, 2023

Berkshire Hathaway Inc

Buffett followers contemplate Berkshire without Munger

...In February 2022, Thomas Murphy, 96, stepped down from the board and died three months later. Another director, David Gottesman, died in September last year at 96....

November 30, 2023

News in-depthBankruptcy

Talc ruling a blow to J&J and the ‘Texas two-step’ bankruptcy jig

...Judge Thomas Ambro, who wrote the ruling, said only a “debtor in financial distress” should file for bankruptcy and LTL was not in that position because of a $61bn financial backstop provided to it by J&...

February 6, 2023

FT Live

Transforming the Finance Function with AI

Strategies for delivering advanced analytics, automation and decision-making

ReviewMusic

Mostly Mozart festival review — a satisfying new fusion and a phenomenal young bassist

...Prepared by Malcolm J Merriweather, the Summer for the City Chorus was superb....

August 2, 2023

Travelista

Seven buzzy new city escapes

...overlooking the International Yacht Restoration School, fits in seamlessly with the rest of the 18th- and 19th-century waterfront; it has a bar, Studio Bar, that all but commands you to put on your navy J...

October 29, 2023

Donald Trump

Trump’s Scottish golf courses trapped in lossmaking bunker

...The Donald J Trump Revocable Trust is listed as owning Golf Recreation Scotland....

February 2, 2023

Johnson & Johnson Co Inc

J&J blocked from using bankruptcy to resolve talcum powder lawsuits

...However, in a 56-page ruling, Judge Thomas Ambro said that wanting to protect the J&J brand or to “comprehensively resolve litigation” was not an appropriate pretext for using the bankruptcy system....

January 30, 2023

The crisis in European equities

‘There are no domestic equity investors’: why companies are fleeing London’s stock market

...article: Don’t overlook role of retail investors in UK equities / From Chris Hill, Chief Executive, Hargreaves Lansdown, Bristol, UK London listings vote with their feet on Sox regulation / From Sandra J...

March 3, 2023

Due Diligence

Where the private credit boom could go bust Premium

...Earlier this year, Vista Equity Partners and Thoma Bravo turned to private credit to help refinance the debts of portfolio companies Finastra and Hyland Software, respectively....

October 17, 2023

FT SeriesCity Living Special

The British Ceramics Biennial — not just about pots

...A plaque above the organ nods to the city’s once-thriving ceramics industry, honouring local potter George Meakin, who in 1851 founded ceramics manufacturing company J & G Meakin with his brother James....

September 22, 2023

The Oscars 2024: all you need to know

Director Christopher Nolan: ‘Oppenheimer is absolutely a cautionary tale’

...He slides into the corner booth next to me and we start talking about life in LA, where he has lived with his family (he and wife Emma Thomas have four children) for more than 20 years....

July 21, 2023

Black History Month 2022 — celebrating creativity across the arts

On Windrush Day, Thomas J Price’s new statue honours a generation of immigrants

...thomasjprice.com ‘Thomas J Price: Witness’ runs at The Studio Museum, New York, to October 1, studiomuseum.org...

June 22, 2022

ReviewFT Books Essay

What makes empires rise and fall?

...Corporations, warned Thomas Hobbes grimly, were “worms in the entrails” of the body politic, and not simply destabilising, but also corrupting....

July 27, 2023

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