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ALEX BRUMMER: Paris plays the food gambit as Canadian convenience store chain makes £14bn bid for Carrefour By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:23 GMT, 14 January 2021 | Updated: 22:23 GMT, 14 January 2021 Here is a hypothetical. What would be the political response were a bidder from the Anglosphere to swoop … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Despite holding firm in the face of initial bids for Signature, Nigel Rudd has record of selling rather than building enterprises for future By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 11 January 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 11 January 2021 Shareholders in Signature, formerly known as BBA Aviation, must be … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: No signs of faith in Marks & Spencer’s widely-held shares picking up yet – there is an arduous K2- style climb ahead The headwinds for the famous old stores group are gale force M&S is being buffeted by a High Street store reboot, Covid and new UK-EU trade arrangements By Alex Brummer for … Read more
The bizarre juxtaposition of the US Capitol invaded and trashed and share indexes on both sides of the Atlantic hitting fresh highs looks inexplicable. Conventional wisdom is that the bigger the political uncertainty the worse it is for equity prices. The current exuberance shows a willingness of investors to look over the hill to the … Read more
The boss of Softbank, Masayoshi Son, will have to do some rapid rethinking if he was counting on a cheque for almost £30billion from gaming chip maker Nvidia for Cambridge-based Arm Holdings. Having been entertained on Downing Street as a conquering hero in 2016, when Softbank swept up Arm in record speed, the Japanese tycoon … Read more
Rishi Sunak is well used to the routine now. For the 13th time since March 17, he’s having to dig deep into the Exchequer in his mammoth effort to keep as many businesses and jobs intact as he can, and to try to limit the long-term damage to Britain’s economic prospects. By the standards of … Read more
There is a great deal not to like about the £8.1billion bid by casino operator MGM for Entain, owner of the bookies Ladbrokes and Coral, and a pioneer of sports betting technology. Britain has long been the home of sports betting and Ladbrokes, the Queen’s favourite bookmaker, is much a part of the UK’s blood … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: A nimble economy with creative and scientific advantage, the UK holds many aces – it must now be careful not to gamble them away Being part of the EU has distorted the vision of corporate Britain and government As latecomers to the EU project, Britain has been a proselyte Both firms and government … Read more
As a result of an administrative error, when the newly-knighted Dave Lewis (pictured) was chief executive, some 78,000 Tesco staff were paid below the minimum wage for part of 2017.
ALEX BRUMMER: Astrazeneca defies its critics to show British pharma can flourish outside the EU By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 30 December 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 30 December 2020 During a conversation with Astrazeneca boss Pascal Soriot this year, the French executive remarked that British science and pharmaceuticals did … Read more