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...“About suffering they were never wrong,/The Old Masters,” wrote WH Auden in his poem Musée des Beaux Arts. But we are often wrong about the old masters themselves....
...No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer, WH Allen, RRP £20, Penguin Random House, RRP $28, 320 pages Andrew Hill is the FT’s management editor...
...This could explain why WH Group trades at 12 times forward earnings and MYS Group at 18, well below Beyond Meat’s over 270 times....
...WH Smith declined to comment. WH Smith operates 600 stores at high-margin locations including airports, train stations and hospitals as well as 600 on the UK high street....
...“Cibra has significant growth plans and its management team have an established track record, having previously developed OFD Holding Inc, which it began sold to Yara in 2014 for $377m,” noted analysts at...
...WH Group was among the worst performers on Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index, falling as much as 10 per cent....
...In the half-year to June, WH Group recorded a 5 per cent drop in Chinese packaged meat revenues to $1.6bn, about 15 per cent of the group’s total....
...WH Smith generated more sales from its travel business than high street stores in the year to August 31, highlighting the company’s successful shift in focus in response to decline on Britain’s high streets...
...Martin Scicluna — the outgoing chairman of Great Portland Estates, former senior independent director at Worldpay, non-executive director at Lloyds Banking Group, Deloitte partner working with Dixons, WH...
...(NYT) Japan Inc overpays? No way A punchy defence of Japan’s flashy overseas spending spree from Goldman Sachs’ Yoshihiko Yano....
...Pork producer WH Group was up as much as 3.4 per cent after it forged a strategic partnership with JD.com, China’s largest ecommerce company by direct sales....
...• WH Ireland has appointed Mike Ingram as chief market strategist, a newly created role in which he will provide market and political commentary to the financial services group....
...WH Smith also said on Thursday that an improvement in the travel part of its business had been overshadowed by weakness at its high street stores....
...WH Smith’s Travel business has grown steadily over the last ten years....
...WH Smith’s late arrival After 200 years, WH Smith has returned to its origins as a railway station bookseller, deriving a majority of its revenues from travel outlets....
...Say you bought 1,000 shares in Apple Inc in July 1981, when they were worth as little as 21 cents each, costing you $210....
...WH Group’s shares had pulled back to be up 3.1 per cent at the end of the morning session in Hong Kong at HK$8.23 a share. The Hang Seng index was flat....
...But WH Smith has shown that it is actually possible to extract cash from less sought after properties, year after year, with the right strategy....
...WH Ireland opts for the specialist Polar Capital Technology....
...That unwieldy adviser collection was partially blamed for WH Group’s failure. It successfully listed three months later, slashing both its deal size and its bankers – just two got back on the deal....
...Ryman, chaired by Dragons’ Den star Theo Paphitis, saw like-for-like sales inch up just 0.6 per cent last year, while WH Smith said that stationery sales had risen 3 per cent in the year to September....
...Buy: Apple Inc (AAPL) At $106, Apple shares trade at an enticing 13 times broker Drexel Hamilton’s forecast earnings per share of $8.22 for the year to September....
...UK retailer WH Smith, whose shops are often found in stations and airports, also recently reported a boost in sales from adult colouring books....
...Former WH Smith boss Kate Swann hopped over to running food travel group SSP because she’d been at the retailer long enough and had received a better offer....
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