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January 15, 2024

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UK supermarket chain Wm Morrison in £2.5bn petrol forecourt deal

...Private-equity owned UK supermarket chain Wm Morrison has agreed a £2.5bn deal to sell its petrol forecourt business to the Motor Fuel Group....

January 30, 2024

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Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

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Hung Dance, London review — a man, a woman and a giant feather

...It was a busy, buzzy Friday night at Notting Hill’s Coronet Theatre, where the 30-artist, 16-day Taiwan Festival was entering its second week with Taipei’s Hung Dance company....

April 22, 2024

FT Alphaville

When’s a flapjack not a flapjack? It’s a maddeningly difficult question

...In the UK, the chewy, oat-y, sticky blocks have featured prominently in two recent tax Tribunal decisions: — DuelFuel Nutrition Limited vs HM Revenue & Customs (Judgment date: February 2nd)— WM Morrison...

March 11, 2024

Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC

Morrisons posts annual loss of £1bn as debt-financing costs bite

...Wm Morrisons, the private equity-owned UK supermarket chain, made a loss of £1bn last year, partly because of high debt-financing costs....

March 12, 2024

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A look at Temu’s murky business model

...Instagram overtook TikTok in new app downloads last year, US President Joe Biden announced a plan to set up a port on the coast of Gaza to help facilitate aid delivery to the enclave, and a huge corruption...

March 8, 2024

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John Thornhill

The Klarna drama reveals a governance gap

...The company was swimming in a sea of losses after expanding aggressively in the US....

February 29, 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions

CD&R’s Morrisons sells petrol forecourts to sister company MFG for £2.5bn

...Private-equity owned UK supermarket chain Wm Morrison has agreed a £2.5bn deal to sell its petrol forecourt business to sister company Motor Fuel Group, in a move that will help Morrisons shore up its balance...

January 30, 2024

Gillian Tett

Green audits are coming for a company near you

...But it also highlights an oft-ignored point about our 21st-century world: as big companies increasingly straddle borders, globalisation is not always synonymous with a “race to the bottom” and a loosening...

February 29, 2024

Special ReportFT High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific

Australia’s Commonwealth Bank tie-in gives More Telecom a boost

...Morgan argues that the difference is CBA acquired a direct stake in the telecoms company and took a board seat....

April 3, 2024

News in-depthWeight Watchers International Inc

WeightWatchers faces an era when weight loss comes in a syringe

...The rise and fall of WeightWatchers Sistani describes the new WW as a judgment-free “weight health” company embracing “a full spectrum of solutions”....

April 9, 2024

LexApple Inc

For Apple, a €1.8bn EU fine is just the start Premium

...At first glance, the €1.8bn fine for stifling competition in music streaming is not a lethal problem for the company....

March 5, 2024

LexApple Inc

Apple is not the only company backing away from driverless cars Premium

...With over $155bn in cash at the plan’s inception, Apple had the funds and reputation to pose a credible threat to the car industry. The company has ramped up research spend....

March 7, 2024

Hipgnosis Songs Fund

Hipgnosis cuts value of music portfolio by over a quarter

...This means that the company is still trading at a sizeable discount to even the new, reduced valuation....

March 4, 2024

LexLego

Lego’s corporate model is key to its brick-by-brick success Premium

...Many one-product companies run out of road. Small plastic bricks have supported Denmark’s Lego for more than 70 years. A clear focus can pay off....

March 24, 2024

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Due Diligence

Steven Mnuchin cashes in on a banking crisis . . . again Premium

...The mysterious rise of the company behind China’s Temu Has there ever been a weirder company to be valued at more than $150bn on the US stock market?...

March 7, 2024

LexITV PLC

ITV needs a ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’ moment Premium

...Shares in the nearly seven-decades-old company have fallen 60 per cent in the past four years as it struggles to shake off a reputation as an ex-growth stock still tied to traditional “linear” television...

March 9, 2024

The Big Read

The battle over TikTok

...One early investor, who maintains a significant stake in the company and knows Chew, says ByteDance “hasn’t communicated anything” about the state of play. “They are a deeply uncommunicative company....

March 15, 2024

Electric vehicles

Can European carmakers stop China’s electric behemoth BYD?

...But the company also has a close eye on other markets....

February 29, 2024

British American Tobacco PLC

BAT chief: moving to US not a ‘no-brainer’ as he defends London listing

...The chief executive of British American Tobacco has dismissed the idea of moving the company’s listing from London to New York as a “distraction”, after it emerged that the top-10 shareholder who pushed...

March 17, 2024

Wirecard AG

The Japanese cosmetics retailer who became a surprise witness at the Wirecard trial

...of the Asian companies allegedly at the heart of Wirecard’s deception....

January 26, 2024

ReviewDance

Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon is vividly played by the Royal Ballet — review

...The Royal Ballet’s 50th anniversary revival opened last week and was well danced and vividly played by a company on fine form....

January 22, 2024

Peggy Hollinger

Boeing’s mid-flight drama is a severe blow to a troubled company

...What the company really needs now is not another leader who may be focused on cost-cutting but one with the gumption to take a risk on a new future for Boeing....

January 8, 2024

ObituaryIra Millstein

Ira Millstein, lawyer, 1926-2024

...Millstein was a passionate critic of Milton Friedman’s doctrine that the sole responsibility of companies was to make profits....

March 18, 2024

News in-depthGambling industry

The Blackstone-backed business that cornered a critical part of US betting market

...Blackstone still owns just under a fifth of the company, according to people close to the firm....

January 16, 2024

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