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...Shares in WW International, formerly Weight Watchers, have shed gains quicker than members and are worth one-quarter the mid-2018 peak....
...But investors were cheered by WW’s latest financial results in which the company reported its highest level of customers for a second quarter....
...She said the company should have had a better “bridge” to WW, suggesting the change had been too sudden....
...Shares in WW dropped almost 30 per cent in after-hours trading on Tuesday after the company that changed its name from Weight Watchers last year lost 300,000 subscribers within three months and cut profit...
...If I owned shares in WW, the company once known as Weight Watchers, I would have been upset to see its stock price tank by more than 30 per cent last week after it issued a grim set of results and a profit...
...The FT uncovers that several Chinese officials committed plagiarism in their university theses, WW - the company formerly known as Weight Watchers - reports a drop in subscribers and profit forecasts and...
...Last year the company re-branded as WW in order to sell itself not just as a place to shed kilos, but also provide “an ecosystem of wellness solutions”....
...Weightwatchers, the US dieting chain, is trying to stress wellness rather than weight loss by slimming down to WW....
...The strengthening US economy is proving to be a boon for industrial supplier WW Grainger....
...WW is promoted by pop idol DJ Khaled, the film-maker Kevin Smith, and French singer Hélène Ségara. “WW needs to have a more focused UK figurehead,” said Mr Saunders....
...The sharp sell off came even though the New York-listed company, which is rebranding itself as WW, produced a 13 per cent rise in revenues to $366m and a 57 per cent rise in net income to $70m....
...Alongside the name change the company unveiled a series of other initiatives to broaden its appeal....
...“The role WW can play in people’s lives goes far beyond a number on the scale,” Winfrey explains in a company statement....
...Two weeks ago, the tronc Inc newspaper company that owns the Chicago Tribune and other papers said it was scrapping its much-mocked name and reverting to the sensible title it ditched just two years earlier...
...Weight Watchers was founded in 1963 with a precise name but this week opted to change its name to WW....
...The New York-based company said that DJ Khaled will document his experience with its WW Freestyle programme on social media platforms like Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram — where he has millions...
...As it turned out, that case was just the starting bell on several rounds between the two companies....
...Still weak commodity prices and lacklustre industrial growth has limited WW Grainger’s ability to raise prices on customers in recent years as companies hold off on capital expenditure investments....
...Shares in the Milwaukee-based company fell 4.2 per cent to $56.91, taking the company’s year-to-date losses to 2.5 per cent....
...At WW Grainger, an Illinois-based industrial supply company which sells everything from lightbulbs to electric motors and safety gear, sales in the US are down 5 per cent on last year with government purchases...
...WW Grainger, the industrial supplies provider, announced a $3bn share buyback programme of its common stock over the next three years....
...Creativity, Inc – a finalist for FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year – explains the failures, the tensions and the ultimate accolades from Finding Nemo to Toy Story....
...WW Grainger, the industrial supplies company, reported a “high-single digits” decline in sales to the federal government, and warned: “Sequestration and the government shutdown remain significant headwinds...
...WW: But the final buyer – I understand – was the chief executive of a subsidiary of First Bank. KL: No. He’s not . . . he owns a company called Commonwealth Consortium Limited....
...Since the crisis, valuations in publicly traded companies in the industrial supplies sector, including WW Grainger and Fastenal, have improved as building activity has picked up....
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