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...Analysts said the vote to oust Thompson reflected shareholders’ desire for Illumina to expedite the legal process around the Grail acquisition and divest the company....
...Thompson, who started out as an editorial trainee at the BBC more than four decades ago, will lead CNN’s business and also act as “editor-in-chief” for the news network, parent company Warner Bros Discovery...
...company’s share price....
...Thompson’s talks with CNN were first reported by Semafor....
...Google said the $105mn it is spending for the Thompson Center will help serve a hybrid labour force that works in and out of the office....
...Frasers Group has appointed four new board members including Sir Jon Thompson, the former head of the UK’s accounting regulator, which engaged in a bitter legal battle with the retailer during his tenure...
...Boeing has called a company-wide safety meeting for Tuesday to discuss its response to the incident....
...Illumina’s former chair John Thompson was ousted from its board in May following a battle with Icahn, who criticised management for closing the $8bn acquisition of cancer test company Grail without regulatory...
...Nicko Thompson, 31, says he bought his first Harley for his 30th birthday. Thompson, a university teacher from North Dakota, does it for the sense of togetherness....
...Thompson was chief executive of computer security group Symantec at the time of its February 2006 acquisition of IMlogic, a company founded and led by deSouza....
...Andrew Teno, Icahn’s nominee for a board seat at the world’s biggest gene sequencing company, won a shareholder vote at the company’s annual meeting on Thursday, while Thompson was unseated....
...Thompson was chief executive of Symantec at the time of its February 2006 acquisition of IMlogic, a company founded and led by deSouza....
...The company faces growing competition from several new entrants and Chinese gene sequencing company MGI....
...Icahn told the Financial Times deSouza and Thompson’s record in running Illumina was “very troubling” and it was time for both men to be replaced....
...Since 2012, only seven US fights have gone to a vote at companies with a market capitalisation of more than $30bn, according to analytics company Insightia. And it’s due to get messier....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on June 13, 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The Thai Silk Co, founded in 1951 by Thompson, who was fascinated by the unique texture woven in the kingdom, remains the parent company of the Jim Thompson brand....
...Francis deSouza, Illumina chief executive, and chair John Thompson were talking to Icahn over his board nominees, the company said....
...Icahn wants to appoint three new directors to the board and remove Illumina chief executive Francis deSouza and chair John Thompson....
...US arm of Australian asset manager Perpetual, which manages 20 mutual funds, with combined assets of around $10bn in the US under the brands of affiliates JO Hambro, Trillium, Barrow Hanley, Regnan and Thompson...
...In April, in the early stages of the Ukraine invasion, a Prigozhin company sent a shipment of tractors through the Douala port on their way to his logging operation in Central African Republic....
...If the studios cut budgets, it likely will be the smaller shows that get the chop, said Robert Thompson, a professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University....
...Clay Thompson, a lawyer who represents claimants who allege J&J’s baby talc caused their cancers, says the bankruptcy scheme deployed by the company had delivered a “financial windfall” to shareholders,...
...Staff costs totalled £3.93bn at WPP, the London-listed owner of Wunderman Thompson and Ogilvy, an increase of 9 per cent on the same forex-adjusted basis....
...TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, a private company last valued at $180bn in December 2020, has ring fenced its international operations by creating a separate corporate structure based in Singapore....
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