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Covering UK business, drinks and tobacco for @Business. Previous: Chief Business Correspondent at The Sunday Times. DMs open.
London, England
Joined June 2009
Grimsby, once Europe's biggest fishing port, voted 70% for Brexit. But now voters say Brexit was rhetoric and broken promises. “The fishing industry in the UK is smaller than the lawnmower industry,” says Patrick Salmon. “Nobody gives a toss, really.” .
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Grimsby, blaming the EU for decades of decline, voted overwhelmingly to leave. It hasn’t helped—and may have made matters worse.
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Exclusive: Claire's Stores is considering a potential bankruptcy for its US operations, as bankers race to find a buyer. The teen accessory chain has received interest for its European assets.
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Claire’s Stores Inc. is considering a potential bankruptcy for its US operations, according to people with knowledge of the matter, as the former fixture of shopping malls across the country strugg...
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Ben & Jerry’s fight with Unilever on social justice in the Trump era is heating up ahead of the £15bn spin off of its ice cream division. Interviews with insiders and court filings show how nasty the dispute has become. With @CHughesMorgan.
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The battle between the two sides has heated up as Unilever prepares to spin off its £15 billion ice-cream business.
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@JamieNimmo63 Claire’s has been controlled by former creditors including investment firms Elliott and Monarch Alternative Capital since its 2018 bankruptcy.
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Claire’s Stores Inc. is exploring a sale as the jewelry retailer faces mounting competition and higher import costs from US tariffs.
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Exclusive: Claire's, the retailer backed by Elliott Management, has been put up for sale. Pressure from higher import costs has hit the chain which has more than 2,000 stores. Advisors from Houlihan Lokey are hunting for a buyer. With @JamieNimmo63 .
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Claire’s Stores Inc. is exploring a sale as the jewelry retailer faces mounting competition and higher import costs from US tariffs.
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NEW: The director of AOG Technics, at the centre of a global investigation into bogus airplane parts, appeared at a London court for the first time today. Jose Alejandro Zamora Yrala was charged with fraudulent trading by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office.
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The director of a firm at the center of a global investigation into bogus airplane parts appeared at a London court for the first time on Monday.
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RT @JamieNimmo63: Liad Meidar, managing partner of activist investor Gatemore, has moved out of the UK, becoming the latest to quit the cou….
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One of Britain’s most prominent activist investors has relocated to the US, becoming the latest finance professional to leave the country at a time when many of its richest residents are facing...
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Breaking: The UK's Serious Fraud Office has charged the director of the company at the centre of a fake plane parts probe, which it said left planes grounded. The SFO has charged AOG Technics Ltd's director, Jose Zamora Yrala with fraudulent trading.
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The former director of a firm at the center of a global investigation into bogus airplane parts was charged with fraud by UK authorities.
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RT @LucyGJWhite: For the last year, I’ve been working on an investigation that’s left me staggered. It’s a damning indictment of the UK’s c….
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Recent changes to immigration policy won’t do anything for people who’ve been exploited while seeking jobs in the UK. But they may worsen the care-worker shortage.
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Big farming’s latest battle ground is the UK’s planning laws and the local villages taking a stand. But with the UK so reliant on imports for pork and poultry, producers are pushing ministers to step in. Cranswick’s fight with a Norfolk village: .
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If Britain is going to wean itself off pig and chicken meat imports, producers argue output should rise. But locals disagree.
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RT @JamieNimmo63: Thought billionaire Jim Ratcliffe was having a rough time at Manchester United? His foray into the car business is provin….
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The maker of the Grenadier faces a major bump in the road to profitability.
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Exclusive: Diageo reaches Ciroc Vodka Deal with LeBron James-backed Tequila
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Diageo Plc is forming a joint venture between its Ciroc vodka brand and a tequila backed by basketball star LeBron James.
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RT @JamieNimmo63: British defence companies like Babcock are already hiring thousands of workers in anticipation of a spending boom - but c….
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More money to upgrade the military should boost thousands of suppliers — if they can overcome a shortage of staff and skills.
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RT @AlexCrawfordSky: The entire world has been reliant on these Palestinian journalists as our eyes and ears inside the warzone that is Gaz….
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RT @AlexCrawfordSky: The last article written by @HossamShabat hours before his killing in a targeted Israeli airstrike is a searing piec….
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Filed hours before his killing in an Israeli airstrike, journalist Hossam Shabat describes the resumption of Israel's scorched earth campaign in his hometown of Beit Hanoun.
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RT @evans_edward: Groping, racism, drunk-driving: Inside allegations against leading London property broker Foxtons .
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Foxtons is often seen as an entry point for aspiring real estate agents. Junior employees described unwanted touching, drunk-driving — and senior staff who either ignored inappropriate behavior or...
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Extraordinary read from colleagues on the six women who were allegedly sexually assaulted by Evelyn de Rothschild over three decades. @GriffithsKath_ @harrynwilson and @GavinFinchBBG .
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The butler summoned the young female employee to Evelyn de Rothschild’s private office at his grand manor house in Buckinghamshire, northwest of London.
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RT @creery_j: Scoop: Former Matalan boss Jo Whitfield will join the board of directors at Asda as the supermarket tries to bolster its reta….
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Inside the illicit vaping industry which has pitted Big Tobacco against start-ups making $$$ and regulators, who are raiding vape shops across the US. The crackdown just got messier with Trump taking office: . Today's @business Big Take is on the standoff:.
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