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Euromonitor International: Insight

• Japan Tobacco to Acquire Natural American Spirit Outside US

  

  Analyst Insight by Don Hedley - Contributing Analyst Reynolds American Inc. has announced that the international rights to the Natural American Spirit brand name and associated trademarks, along with the international companies that distribute and ma…
  - 1 Oct 15, 1:40pm -
• The Best New Retailing Concepts of 2015

  

  Analyst Insight by Michelle Malison - Retailing Research Associate The retailing team is very pleased to announce the best retail concepts as part of our ongoing research. The best retail concepts were nominated in four categories – grocery, non-gr…
  - 30 Sep 15, 4:00pm -
• The Best Cities for Startups

  

  Listen as MP3 According to the recently released Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking 2015 by Compass, the list of cities ideal for startups is dominated by North American and European cities. However, a few emerging cities cracked the list, including Sa…
  - 30 Sep 15, 1:00pm -
• From Nobel Prize-Winners to Navigating the B2B Digital Landscape

  

  Post originally appeared on IIN Europe website “Stay curious and keep learning. You don’t have to have all the answers all the time,” says Sarah Boumphrey, Head of Strategic, Economic and Consumer Insight at Euromonitor International. “Grasp…
  - 30 Sep 15, 4:00am -
• Generational Differences in Mobile Payment Preferences

  

  One of the most important things to consider when launching a mobile wallet is the end user, and a mobile wallet will rarely find success if it does not cater to the millennial generation. According to Euromonitor International Survey data, there are…
  - 29 Sep 15, 4:00pm -
• White Paper | Cómo entender el impacto del comercio ilícito en las industrias a nivel mundial

  

  Alrededor del mundo, un número cada vez mayor de bienes y marcas se ven afectados por el comercio ilícito, desde productos de consumo tales como vestuario, medicamentos, electrónica y bebidas alcohólicas hasta otras industrias como lubricantes y…
  - 29 Sep 15, 12:44pm -
• White Paper | How to Understand the Impact of Illicit Trade on Business Around the World

  

  Globally, an increasing number of goods and brands are affected by illicit trade, from consumer products like electronics, apparel, pharmaceuticals and alcoholic beverages to other industries such as vehicle lubricants and auto parts. The global valu…
  - 29 Sep 15, 10:00am -
• Introducing the Industry Forecast Model

  

  The Industry Forecast Model is an interactive and highly visual dashboard that places the client in the driver’s seat. The Industry Forecast Model can help your business plan for shifts in economic environments, pressure test strategic plans, measu…
  - 28 Sep 15, 12:56pm -
• Submerging or Emerging Economies?

  

  Follow @SarahBoumphrey Emerging markets may have been getting bad press in recent times but the factors that have underpinned their growth are still real. No one can deny a slowdown is occurring, but the situation is more nuanced than that and commer…
  - 28 Sep 15, 4:00am -
• O sucesso da Drinkfinity, da PepsiCo, no Brasil

  

  Recentemente, a PepsiCo lançou no Brasil o sistema de hidratação Drinkfinity, que inclui uma garrafa de água e cápsulas contendo sabores, vitaminas e nutrientes. O produto se diferencia no estagnado mercado de sucos concentrados no país, que at…
  - 27 Sep 15, 4:00pm -

Reuters: Global Markets

• Pfizer walks away from $118 billion AstraZeneca takeover fight

  

  LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer abandoned its attempt to buy AstraZeneca for nearly 70 billion pounds ($118 billion) on Monday as a deadline approached without a last-minute change of heart by the...
  - 26 May 14, 11:55am -

The Economist: Buttonwood's

• So long, farewell

  

  IT IS an enormous privilege, and responsibility, to write for The Economist and capture a small sliver of readers’ attention. All told, there have been well over a thousand posts on this blog (the site history runs for 98 pages) as well as 546 prin…
  - 69 days ago, 8 May 18, 10:40am -
• The flaws of finance

  

  BUSINESS school graduates do not all want to work in investment banking these days. The industry does not have the same kind of cachet it did before Lehman Brothers went bust. Still, 31% of those who left Harvard Business School last year went into f…
  - 76 days ago, 1 May 18, 11:59am -
• Hope I save before I get old

  

  IF YOU reach the age of 65 in the OECD, you can expect to live for another 19 years or so (more if you are a woman, less if you are a man). If you stop work earlier than 65, and live a bit longer than average, you could easily be retired for 25-30 y…
  - 80 days ago, 27 Apr 18, 10:13am -
• The best books on finance and economics

  

  THE late Hans Rosling is best known for his Ted talks (here is one on the wonders of the washing machine). Sadly he died last year.
  - 82 days ago, 25 Apr 18, 10:56am -
• Six precepts every investor should remember

  

  SIR ELTON JOHN has a three-year farewell tour planned. This columnist has only a few weeks to go, before heading off to a new Economist beat. So it seems like a good idea to summarise some of the themes which have dominated this blog. To start, long…
  - 89 days ago, 18 Apr 18, 10:55am -
• The smartphone and the toilet

  

  THE impact of technology on the economy is one of the most-debated issues of the moment, whether it is the potential for automation to cause unemployment, boost long-term productivity, or widen inequality. A good deal of the annual Barclays Equity-Gi…
  - 96 days ago, 11 Apr 18, 6:56am -
• An update from Jeremy Grantham

  

  JEREMY GRANTHAM is an investor with 50 years of experience in the markets who is known for his caution about the outlook for long-term returns (he works for the GMO fund management group). But he caused a stir earlier this year when he said the chanc…
  - 97 days ago, 10 Apr 18, 12:11pm -
• A plan that needs more money

  

  AMERICAN private-sector workers face a problem. Too few of them have private-sector pensions, and the government scheme, Social Security, set up by Franklin Roosevelt (pictured) is less generous than it used to be. One study estimated that 20m elderl…
  - 98 days ago, 9 Apr 18, 9:36am -
• We have seen the future and it twerks

  

  CYNTHIA NIXON is the latest celebrity to run for office in America; the “Sex and the City” star is trying to be governor of New York. If she succeeds, she will follow in a long line of celebrities-turned-politicians including Sonny Bono, Arnold S…
  - 28 Mar 18, 6:21am -
• Markets think trade war is good for “absolutely nothing”

  

  IN THE original Godzilla movie, made in Japan back in 1954, the testing of American nuclear weapons leads to the creation of a giant dinosaur that threatens to destroy not just Japan, but the rest of the world. Now Asians face another American creati…
  - 23 Mar 18, 6:03am -

The Guardian: Nils Pratley on Finance

• Sky's independent directors should learn valuation is art, not science | Nils Pratley
  Rupert Murdoch versus Comcast battle shows board rolled over too cheaply previouslyCan it be only 19 months since outside shareholders in Sky were supposed to be grateful for a bid from the Murdochs at £10.75 a share? It is. In December 2016, the in…
  - 4 days ago, 12 Jul 18, 11:42am -
• Ocado's share boom is no indicator of longterm success | Nils Pratley
  Value has risen on the back of smart tie-ups, but rapid expansion brings huge risksYou could have bought shares in Ocado at 960p at 9am on Tuesday and sold them before the close of play at £11, a tidy return of almost 15%. What happened? Nothing of…
  - 6 days ago, 10 Jul 18, 2:07pm -
• Government needs U-turn over mania for nuclear plants
  Its own infrastructure adviser says more renewables is the low-cost optionHere’s a report that must not be lost in the noise of Brexit. The National Infrastructure Assessment is a once-a-parliament affair from a body that was created to save us fro…
  - 6 days ago, 9 Jul 18, 7:01pm -
• Ministers should heed JLR's warning over £1.2bn cost of Brexit
  Ralf Speth’s analysis of how British ‘crown jewel’ Jaguar Land Rover would lose its sparkle can’t be simply dismissed Jaguar Land Rover is the company ministers love to drool over. Theresa May herself has called it “one of the jewels in the…
  - 11 days ago, 5 Jul 18, 2:31pm -
• Food fight over Premier – it's hard to pick a winner
  Activists want action on an overpaid chief exec, while loyalists plead for more timeThe scrap at Premier Foods, owner of Mr Kipling cakes, Angel Delight and Bisto gravy, is turning into a mini classic. On one side, there is an angry Hong Kong hedge f…
  - 12 days ago, 4 Jul 18, 2:16pm -
• US justice department causes jitters for Glencore | Nils Pratley
  Action shows why some fund managers have always regarded mining firm as un-investableGlencore is the Swiss-based FTSE 100 miner that goes where others fear to tread. The hunt for higher returns hasn’t obviously paid off – the 2011 flotation price…
  - 13 days ago, 3 Jul 18, 1:38pm -
• Tesco and Carrefour alliance sounds like a tough gig for suppliers | Nils Pratley
  Small firms urged to think fondly of the chance to sell to a bigger customer should be scepticalFood retailing seems to have turned into a game of choose a partner, or as boardrooms would see it, an exercise in high-level manoeuvring. Here comes Tesc…
  - 13 days ago, 3 Jul 18, 2:30am -
• Stagecoach game for rail franchises despite east coast line debacle | Nils Pratley
  Not even a shareholder dividend cut of 35% can dissuade bosses from re-biddingIf you’ve just written off the thick end of £200m on a single job, a sum equivalent to 25% of your company’s now-reduced stock market value, you might prefer to run aw…
  - 17 days ago, 29 Jun 18, 4:48am -
• Is the EU trying to undermine the City over Brexit? | Nils Pratley
  
  - 19 days ago, 27 Jun 18, 2:33pm -
• Delay on third runway served Heathrow's owners well | Nils Pratley
  Politicians seem so exhausted in getting project across the line that risk allocation is left for laterThe true scandal in Monday’s Commons vote on expansion at Heathrow wasn’t Boris Johnson’s absence but the fact that the government presented…
  - 21 days ago, 25 Jun 18, 2:38pm -