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...All of these companies have underperformed the FTSE 100 index. Size is one reason. Bunzl, Howdens et al are generally smaller than the household names, and smaller companies can grow faster....
...In 2022, McKillen was awarded L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government for his contribution to the country’s culture....
...It retells the established adventures of Odin, Thor, Loki et al, alongside brand-new ones set in the present day....
...It’s from JPMorgan analysts Tien-tsin Huang et al, who cover IT services at the bank....
...“With rumours of 45bn barrels of reserves, everybody wanted a piece of the cake, and companies were fighting hard,” said Alan Mohtadi, who heads T&S Consulting Energy and Security, which advises companies...
...Secondly, we thought that banking wasn’t enough so in order to generate value....
...“If I think of the amount of pressure I’m under as a deposit taker and the care and attention I have to take when providing unsecured lending to younger people, it is staggering me that Klarna et al are...
...It isn’t the first international business venture for the North American-based league, which also holds operations in China....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Meanwhile, Rita Liu of Alipay talked about the mobile payments company’s partnership with Uefa. Obviously there was tons more that was discussed....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...The lesson was: “If you continue like this, you are controlled by others and you won’t survive if I cut your supply chain,” he says....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...When sages speak Here is a thumping research report from Jonathan Woetzel, Jeongmin Seong et al from the McKinsey Global Institute....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...Here’s a chart from a 2019 paper by Michael Rosenfeld et al. to demonstrate: Note the spike in “met in bar or restaurant” alongside the spike “met online”....
...He declined to say whether he would sell his shares in the company or handle the chain’s increasing dependence on China....
...Ten years on from the New Atheism campaign of ultra-reductionists Richard Dawkins et al, Rees, while stating he is an atheist, declares that he shares a sense of “mystery” with those who believe in God....
...We didn’t have the cash with us, so we signed an “IOU”....
...(FT) News Round-Up Novartis delays Alcon spin off until 2019 (FT) Union hits out at possible tie-up between T-Mobile and Sprint (FastFT) France’s Total confirms interest in Engie’s LNG business (FastFT...
...The DoJ’s intervention set up one of the biggest antitrust showdowns since it sought to block AT&T’s attempted $39bn takeover of T-Mobile USA in 2011....
...” – The Essar-Rosneft (et al) deal made StanChart v happy. – A Penn Wharton tax budget policy simulator. – Unemployment in America, mapped over time. – Hindus for Trump sounds like it was… fun....
...He predicts Mr Trump will clinch the state, adding: “If Trump doesn’t win Florida he doesn’t win the election.”...
...T-Mobile, for instance, saw a 50 per cent drop in sickness absence at one of its call centres after it introduced a staff choir; Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list shows a strong correlation...
...He called for a new leader with marketing experience and said Mr Dorsey should return to running mobile payments company Square....
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