Hints and tips:
...I contacted a customer service rep for SC Johnson to find out what was going on....
...It was the top seller among smartphones in China, where revenues climbed 21 per cent to $25.8bn....
...Good news for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s sales pitch to boost post-Brexit investment: one of Canada’s largest pension fund managers has unveiled plans for a C$15bn (US$12bn) spending spree on private...
...(Bloomberg) News round-up Johnson & Johnson to buy biotech Momenta in $6.5bn deal (FT) Airbnb files for initial public offering (FT) Citigroup wins freeze on funds mistakenly sent to Revlon creditors...
...One of those sons, Max De Pree, also coined concepts such as “inclusive capitalism” and “servant leadership”....
...But can investors whose votes are increasingly pivotal in takeovers and top appointments credibly claim to be passive? Not really....
...However, we now see better risk-reward for Hays, which is our new top pick among staffers....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...The Heidrick report examined chief executives’ route to the top, finding that their average age on appointment is 50, two-thirds were internal appointments and almost half held a C-suite role before their...
...SC Johnson chairman and chief executive Fisk Johnson said in a statement: “Method and Ecover have a strong tradition of innovation and delivering on consumers’ needs....
...A round up of some of 2016’s most significant corporate events and news stories....
...It has outperformed the S&P 500 by more than 2 percentage points annually for the past decade, putting him in the top 6 per cent of his peers and accumulating substantial extra profits for his investors....
...Of the top 20 groups in the S&P 500, just three — Google, Facebook and Procter & Gamble — appear in either the top 10 list of biggest-spending companies or executives....
...In all these years these numbers underperformed the US S&P 500 index, although many in the hedge fund industry argue it is unfair to make a direct comparison between the two....
...Analysts immediately questioned how Samsung companies would reorganise to protect the family’s position in the face of an inheritance tax bill that will top $5bn....
...Top marks: 103 out of 100 The US’s youngest listed carmaker has achieved remarkable feats in its 12 years. The Model S, Tesla’s second product after a two-seater sports car, is good....
...According to the authority, the top eight players in France’s personal care market accounted for about 70 per cent of sales — with the top three accounting for 43 per cent....
...“Zip. Zero. Nada,” he says....
...With 2013 champ Chris Froome hot favourite to win again next month, his recent autobiography The Climb is hard to beat for a top pro’s perspective....
...She’d asked her young son what he thought he might do when he grew up: “Stay at home, like daddy,” he said....
...While that pales next to Apple’s 360 per cent, it is great versus the flat performance of the Kospi or the S&P 500. Mr Lee is now 70, however....
...Jane’s analysts said they believe China will spend $120bn on defence this year and that will grow to $238bn in 2015 – a combined annual increase of 18.75 per cent and more than the joint total of Nato’s top...
...The benchmark S&P 500 was down 0.8 per cent at 1,305.44, ending at its lowest level in July. All of the S&P 500’s top ten sectors closed down on Monday, led by financials down 1.4 per cent....
...Reviews of new products – from the Sony S tablet to Xperia smartphones and the PlayStation Vita portable games player – have been positive....
...SC Johnson agreed to buy Sara Lee’s insecticides business for €154m in June....
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