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...As Vera Wang, who worked as an accessories designer at Ralph Lauren before starting her eponymous business, puts it: “Ralph has a unique brand that defies fashion....
...I think he understands a small-business owner, which is really important to me,” said the 54-year-old, who runs a chain of retail stores....
...The problems were replicated at J&J, which at one stage paused its EU rollout....
...In non-results sellside, SocGen likes J Sainsbury as part of a sector thing: What have we learnt about customer behaviour during the COVID-19 crisis?...
...J Sainsbury and Wm Morrison are upgraded to “outperform” at Bernstein as part of a sector note advising knife catching....
...While OSIsoft is to be established as a business unit, we note that its technology could be leveraged across all of Aveva’s business units....
...The most disconcerting aspect of the Brexit process remains the absence of what George H.W....
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...Best placed if the recovery is W shaped: Hays' average cons FY20/21e EPS are cut by c.70% YTD vs. 35-60% downgrades for others. We see limited downside even if the recovery is W shaped....
...Calquence is one of AstraZeneca’s big pipeline hopes, going head to head with J&J’s $6bn market leader Imbruvica....
...The charge levelled at family-friendly J&J in the Oklahoma trial was that it behaved like a “drug kingpin”....
...For most of the history of business, it was enough that a business made a profit. As the old phrase has it, the business of business is to stay in business....
...(FT) Drug reaction Despite the tweets of Donald Trump, big pharma has found a way to raise drug prices and will keep doing so until the administration shows real resolve....
...So we just say that’s business we’re not doing,” Chris Lofgren, chief executive of Schneider National, a leading carrier, told a New York conference....
...In the early 1980s it almost passed on J Aron, the money-spinning commodities business that launched the career of Lloyd Blankfein, the bank’s chairman and chief executive....
...The J Coin would be convertible into yen on a one-to-one basis, operating via a smartphone app and using QR codes to be scanned in stores....
...Revenues from all of J&J’s prescription drugs were $16.8bn compared to $6.6bn for the entire consumer business, which includes not just baby products but well-known brands such as Listerine and Neutrogena...
...There is an experimental, L-shaped branch a couple of blocks from the bank’s headquarters, where a few smartly dressed youngsters hover like attendants in an Apple store....
...But the battered retailer faces fierce competition from discounters, and rivals such as Tesco and J Sainsbury that are also expanding their convenience estates....
...It’s a fundamental change in the way business is done.” Today, Lady Geek publishes its second Empathy Index....
...Although revenues from its food business fell 2 per cent to £7.09bn in 2014, its convenience business held its own, with like-for-like sales growing 3.2 per cent....
...The trackers also include many of the institutions that are supposed to be on our side, such as the government and the companies with which we do business....
...On London’s Oxford Street, shop windows proclaim up to 50 per cent off, while on New York’s Fifth Avenue, stores including J Crew have been offering money-off promotions....
...But, he argues – to my mind, convincingly – the dollar’s role as a store of value has if anything been strengthened by the crisis....
...A merger with J Sainsbury has long been mooted but with the supermarket having built a sizeable non-food business, the moment may have passed....
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