Consumer anxiety curbs sales at US chain stores November 3, 2011 TOP US store chains reported disappointing October sales yesterday, showing that consumers across the income spectrum were anxious about the state of the economy as they began their holiday shopping. Overall, the 23 major US-based retailers that report monthly results posted an average 3.4 per cent gain in sales at stores open at least a [...]
STARBUCKS PROFITS BEAT FORECASTS November 3, 2011 COFFEE chain Starbucks’s quarterly profit rose slightly more than expected, it announced last night, after the summer’s economic jitters failed to dilute the coffee buying habits of customers. Fourth-quarter net income hit $358.5m (£223.5m), up 28.5 per cent on a year
Kellogg’s outlook disappoints November 3, 2011 Kellogg reported a disappointing quarterly profit and gave a weak outlook yesterday, as it spends more to improve its manufacturing following a massive cereal recall last year. Kellogg, the world’s biggest cereal maker with brands including Corn Flakes and Rice Krispies, cut its 2011 profit forecast and said earnings in 2012 would be below its [...]
Abercrombie share price slumps November 3, 2011 Shares in fashion retailer Abercrombie & Fitch plunged by a fifth yesterday after it said its sales outside the US were weaker than expected in the past quarter. It met expectations for its overall third-quarter sales with seven per cent growth in stores open for more than a year, as US shoppers continued to buy. [...]
Correction November 3, 2011 – The article entitled ‘Polymetal in debut day on the FTSE 100’ published in yesterday’s edition (03/11/2011) should have referred to Polymetal’s debut as a listed company on the London Stock Exchange. We apologise for any confusion. – The wrong headshot photograph was published on p31 in yesterday’s edition (03/11/2011) with the article Why Managed [...]
Unison votes in favour of strike action November 3, 2011 MINISTERS renewed their efforts to avert nationwide strike action yesterday after Britain’s biggest public sector union, Unison, said its members had voted in favour of walkouts on 30 November. Unison, which represents 1.1m workers, said the result showed “overwhelming” support for a 24-hour walkout, with 77 per cent of participants voting in favour of a [...]
Canary Wharf gets court order November 3, 2011 THE MAKESHIFT campsite filled with a motley group of protesters will not be allowed to spill over into Canary Wharf after its owners won a High Court injunction. It was feared the headquarters of Barclays and HSBC could be targeted next after an astonishing U-turn by St Paul’s and the City of London Corporation, who [...]
CITY VIEWS: SHOULD THE PROTESTERS BE ALLOWED TO STAY UNTIL JANUARY? November 3, 2011 CHRIS HILL | XCHANGING “No. I think it litters the city up and disrupts the normal people working in the city and St Paul’s.” ROB MITCHELL | LONGITUDE “No, because it’s in the wrong place. If they are genuinely protesting, it would be in more central city places.” ED GOSLING | AM LETTINGS “It’s obviously [...]
Barclays’ Bob Diamond advises the banks to show more remorse November 3, 2011 BOB Diamond, the chief executive of Barclays, told a BBC lecture yesterday that bankers still needed to accept responsibility for the errors behind the financial crisis. In a remarkable U-turn from his answers to the Treasury Select Committee in January, when he said bankers should stop apologising for the crisis, Diamond warned that banks had [...]
OSBORNE UNVEILS ARTS TAX BREAK November 3, 2011 TO TATE Britain for the launch of Legacy10, the scheme cooked up by culture minister Jeremy Hunt and RLM Finsbury chairman Roland Rudd to encourage the nation to leave 10 per cent of their wealth to charities and cultural causes when they die. Backers of the scheme, which takes advantage of a Budget change from [...]
