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...The loan also had a “springing guarantee” from Arm if no IPO happens within 18 months, meaning that the $8.5 billion liability would go on to Arm’s balance sheet without an IPO announcement by the end of...
...One of these investments was into a fund that helped finance the films Rocketman, the Elton John biopic, and latest in the Men in Black franchise....
...“But the business simply could not withstand the financial impact of having to close all its UK, franchise and joint venture stores for almost three months.”...
...At the time, chief executive Kevin O’Donnell said the company was “well capitalised with ample liquidity and our core franchise remains strong”....
...JD Sports Fashion, under blunt chairman Peter Cowgill, put the company into a prepack administration on Tuesday....
...But, according to Berenberg, revenue from franchises is less than 1 per cent of the group total....
...Sir Richard had surrendered or lost his various UK railway franchises. His airlines were struggling....
...of the company’s Horizon IT system....
...Pension funding risk, which incumbent Stagecoach refused to take on and is now suing over, also appears less of an issue as liabilities will pass to government after phase one of the deal....
...The committee confirmed there had been no public bailout of the franchise: VTEC had its liability capped at £165m, which it paid through a guarantee to the DfT....
...The US asset manager would pay $5m in cash and $20m to assume liabilities and provide new liquidity to meet costs, another person familiar with the proposal said....
...Pension liabilities could yet bedevil any thought of disposal of Arcadia, too. Falling bond yields meant the company’s net pension liability has more than doubled over the past year, to £426m....
...’ liabilities....
...But the case for the government to reduce the liabilities of all corporate schemes is poor....
...Pension funds need gilts to back their liabilities. Their returns are dropping with yields, inflating deficits. A crisis is brewing in legacy final salary schemes....
...The group already owns the franchise to some BHS stores in the Middle East....
...Initially nothing cost more than a shilling, its stores sold lighting and had self-service cafés and food departments 1931 Company lists on the London Stock Exchange 1985 Starts to franchise the brand...
...that was offering to buy its assets but not its liabilities....
...The baggage Centrica bears with it like an alimony liability is the exploration and production business assembled by former chief executive Sam Laidlaw....
...He said the first priority for the bank was to deliver better returns for investors — by, for example, rebuilding its small business banking franchise to create a “better quality business”....
...They rose gently, then tilted forward, gaining speed....
...Retail Acquisitions will take on BHS’s pension liabilities — which were about £100m in the year to August 2013....
...However, the case is a reminder that tobacco companies’ liabilities are prone to increase as the climate of opinion hardens against purveyors of coffin nails worldwide....
...Failures such as the West Coast mainline franchise contest are inevitable if civil service skills are not improved, a Commons inquiry has found....
...Gilt yields are up, reducing the liabilities, while stock market gains have lifted the scheme's assets. At the same time, after a ten year struggle to retrench, the company’s fortunes have turned....
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