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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

• Britain: back to being the sick man of Europe?

  

  IN THE 1970s, Britain was dubbed “the sick man of Europe”, a role previously played by the Ottoman empire in the late 19th century. A poor growth record since the second world war combined with terrible industrial relations (29m days lost to stri…
  - 4 days ago, 19 Jul 17, 8:47am -
• The psychic Brexit ballot paper

  

  DR WHO, the long-running British science-fiction hero, has a long-standing device to get him out of tricky situations; a piece of "psychic paper" that lulls the viewer into accepting the doctor's credentials. Apparently blank, the paper says whatever…
  - 13 days ago, 10 Jul 17, 7:00am -
• Can the fund-management industry deliver a better deal for investors?

  

  IMAGINE an industry where the average profit margins were 36%, where the regulator found little evidence of price competition and where the average person did not get the benefit of the lower charges available to the wealthiest customers.
  - 25 days ago, 28 Jun 17, 6:15am -
• Why the falling oil price isn’t hurting markets

  

  INVESTORS could easily get confused about the impact of oil-price rises on the economy and markets. The story seemed to be clear: high prices bad, low prices good. The two great oil shocks in the 1970s were unambiguously bad for Western economies—u…
  - 31 days ago, 22 Jun 17, 10:47am -
• The globalisation counter-reaction

  

  WHEN the Archduke Franz Ferdinand (pictured right) was assassinated in 1914, there were few initial indications that world war would follow. In retrospect, many people have argued that the killing was a freak event that should not have resulted in th…
  - 39 days ago, 14 Jun 17, 7:09am -
• Britain’s political outlook seems toxic to investors

  

  SUDDENLY Britain looks a lot less attractive as a home for international investors. The Conservative party under Theresa May gambled on a snap election to deliver a "mandate for Brexit". It unveiled a muddled manifesto that alienated voters and was o…
  - 41 days ago, 12 Jun 17, 7:26am -
• Markets struggle to make sense of Britain’s election chaos

  

  UK politicsRead more British election coverageTHERESA MAY decided to call a snap election on a walking holiday in Wales. History will regard it as the most disastrous ramble since Captain Oates wandered out of the Antarctic tent in 1912.
  - 44 days ago, 9 Jun 17, 3:26am -
• Britain’s vote catches out the markets—again

  

  SO AN election that was called to give Theresa May a mandate to negotiate Brexit looks like it has done anything but. The exit poll suggested that the Conservatives would have the most seats, but short of a majority with 314.
  - 45 days ago, 8 Jun 17, 5:17pm -
• What will the markets do if Labour wins?

  

  WHEN the British election campaign started, a victory for Theresa May looked a nailed-on certainty. The Conservative lead was as high as 20 percentage points and the party was 1/20 on to claim the most seats.
  - 47 days ago, 6 Jun 17, 10:44am -
• May’s mandate melts

  

  UK politicsRead more British election coverageTHERESA MAY, Britain’s prime minister, called a surprise election for June 8th arguing that she needed a strong mandate for negotiating Brexit.
  - 58 days ago, 26 May 17, 5:52am -

The Guardian: Nils Pratley on Finance

• The promise of a new era at Sports Direct must also mean new personnel
  Mike Ashley has finally hired a CFO and has forecast other investor-pleasing changes. But nothing would please investors more than a new chairSkip over a few details in Sports Direct’s full-year results statement and you can almost think the founde…
  - 3 days ago, 20 Jul 17, 2:48pm -
• We can only address pay imbalances if we can see them | Nils Pratley
  BBC fears transparency will push up salaries; it might, but secrecy just serves to hide unjust disparitiesThe BBC fought against publishing the salaries of its highest-earning performers because it thought a list would serve to drive up salaries in t…
  - 4 days ago, 19 Jul 17, 2:43pm -
• HBOS inquiry: the time for delays is over | Nils Pratley
  The FCA has its reasons for the hold-ups – but nine years is too long to wait to find out if the bank’s top brass should be barredIt is now almost nine years since HBOS failed but, if you thought our City regulators couldn’t possibly spin out t…
  - 5 days ago, 18 Jul 17, 4:51pm -
• HS2 supporters boast of benefits – but costs keep going off the rails | Nils Pratley
  Is spending £55.7bn on the high-speed railway really the best way to ‘rebalance the economy’ and deliver a ‘jobs bonanza’?‘HS2 was always designed to be much more than just a high-speed railway and today we can see the opportunities it bri…
  - 6 days ago, 17 Jul 17, 2:52pm -
• Post-Brexit London is open for business (no matter how grubby)
  The City watchdog’s rewriting of the premium listing rules to accommodate a potential mega-listing in London of Aramco is deplorableNow we know how the City will be kept open for business after Brexit. If a foreign government, in this case Saudi Ar…
  - 10 days ago, 13 Jul 17, 6:57pm -
• The rehabilitation of RBS is painful, costly – and nowhere near over | Nils Pratley
  The bank is resolving another ‘legacy issue’ by paying £4.2bn over mis-sold loans in US, but a return to profit is still a distant dreamThere goes £4.2bn from our (mostly) state-owned bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, to cover the first of two big…
  - 11 days ago, 12 Jul 17, 4:58pm -
• Pearson picks up $1bn from Penguin – but no treat for investors | Nils Pratley
  The education business sold nearly half its stake in the publisher to Bertelsmann, but much of the proceeds will be reinvestedPearson is still going to own a quarter of Penguin Random House, so it’s not too late to hope that it can learn to tell a…
  - 12 days ago, 11 Jul 17, 3:08pm -
• Carillion has paid a heavy price for too many risky contracts | Nils Pratley
  The construction contractor’s spectacular fall highlights the folly of over-optimism in an industry run on thin profit marginsNever trust a construction contractor. Whatever they say about their prudent approach to risk and the watertight nature of…
  - 13 days ago, 10 Jul 17, 1:48pm -
• Gig economy: there's an easy way to end abusive working conditions
  Frank Field MP and Andrew Forsey posit a simple but ingenious solution: make companies show their workforces are genuinely self-employedTales of abusive working practices in the self-employed “gig” economy are no less shocking for being familiar.…
  - 17 days ago, 6 Jul 17, 5:00pm -
• Worldpay shareholders should decline its meek merger deal | Nils Pratley
  Card processing firm’s proposed merger with US rival Vantiv is not the knock-out offer this healthy business deservesSir Mike Rake, the chairman of Worldpay, should go back to the drawing board. His first attempt to sell the FTSE 100 card processin…
  - 17 days ago, 6 Jul 17, 2:13am -