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10 The Sunday Times October 25, 2020 BUSINESS

Liam Kelly

TODD OREN taxpayers when he can. The claims he has been taxed Papa John’s patriarch Better not float it FTSE 250 chain has been twice, on each side of the FUNNY BUSINESS like Beckham hit badly by the pandemic, Irish border, and because of slumping to a £105m loss, its “procedural omission” has serves slice of sourness Has Golden Balls lost his first, in the year ending July. been unable to reclaim the golden touch? A City trader Having claimed more than cash from HMRC. As if to mark Black History home delivery two years ago, gets in touch to lament the £124m in furlough cash and Given that Martin has Month, disgraced Papa John’s Schnatter says Papa John’s poor performance of Guild won a £15.9m rebate from long advocated a no-deal founder John Schnatter has has been guilty of “lacklustre Esports, a competitive HM Revenue & Customs over departure from the EU on resurfaced with a diatribe. pizza quality”. Writing on the videogames company backed VAT charged on fruit the basis that trading Readers may recall that, in Seeking Alpha trading by former England captain machines, Martin, 65, is arrangements would be 2018, the 58-year-old was website, he warns that its David Beckham. thirsty for more. Buried in “simpler and safer” without booted out of the firm he new bosses have “limited Guild floated at the start of the ’Spoons annual report one, perhaps he should get started after making pizza experience” and that as the month to much fanfare, comes the revelation that it is used to it. controversial statements restaurants start to reopen in valued at more than £50m. demanding a £524,000 about anti-racism protests, America, punters will be less Who could resist the chance refund from the excise duty it then using the n-word on a inclined to order. Billionaire to be on a shareholder paid on goods sent to its Irish Talking turkey media training call with staff. Schnatter also reckons that register alongside football’s when they reopened in Former big cheese Papa John’s is overvalued, erstwhile sarong model? July. The mulleted Brexiteer over City lunches Schnatter — who since his fall with a $2.5bn (£1.9bn) But Guild’s performance As the prospect of a Covid from grace has also been on market capitalisation. hasn’t exactly set the City Christmas looms ever larger the receiving end of divorce Perhaps his latest pizza alight in the same way a amid new curbs on mixing proceedings from his wife, came with a topping of bending Beckham free kick indoors, last weekend Annette Cox — has resurfaced regret. Schnatter sold used to spark wild Prufrock sent out a rallying to cut up the company he 350,000 shares for $18.7m in celebrations. In just three cry to readers, seeking TWITTER POLL started in 1984 and built into March. Since then, Papa weeks, the shares are down loopholes to save that noblest Yes No a global pizza giant. John’s share price has surged 15% — wiping £300,000 off of pursuits: the City lunch. Since his involuntary by almost 50%. the value of Beckham’s stake. One, Martin Isaacs, John Schnatter with his ex-wife, Annette Cox With a £370m family fortune, suggests: “Kill a turkey and 28% 72% 6 McCarthy & Stone specialises in retirement homes, but Prufrock reckons Becks, 45, then up to 30 people can perhaps it should relaunch the website Friends Reunited. will cope better than our attend the poor thing's Paul Lester, its chairman, has struck a £630m deal to sell the JUST SAYING . . . miserable trader chum. funeral.” Tony Redding goes FTSE 250 builder to private equity firm Lone Star. While a step further: marry the shareholders and analysts were surprised, Lone Star is much Christmas bird, invite 15 more familiar to the heavyweight industrialist. A full industry recovery Double Irish sets guests to the reception, then Lester, 71, is known for losing a £1.3bn takeover tussle to will take time and “cremate” it so that 30 more Babcock in 2010 while at defence services company VT, and Tim spluttering can come for the wake. As Covid-19 grounds for a love of West Bromwich Albion that runs so deep he uncertainty remains boss Tim While it may sound planes, do you think a named his home in Dorset the Hawthorns, after the team’s Martin has long bemoaned complicated, it beats having former shareholder’s stadium. More saliently, he was also chairman of brick-maker InterContinental Group boss Keith government curbs on his lunch on Zoom. plan to revive Flybe as a Forterra until last year, a position he took up in 2015 when the Barr pleads for patience from investors pubs, but he appears all too liam.kelly@ regional airline will work? company was owned by ... Lone Star. Fancy that! happy to grab money from Small beer: the Beckhams sunday-times.co.uk @ST_Business DATABANK INSIDE THE CITY JAMIE NIMMO THE WEEK IN THE MARKETS THE ECONOMY Consumer prices index current rate prev. month FTSE 100 FTSE 100 DOLLAR 0.5% 0.2% move, given the subsequent sheet is in better shape. USD > GBP CPI including housing current rate prev. month Don’t click impact of the coronavirus on Actually, it is time to start to 8,000 the world. The Globant stake look at how we grow and $1.30 0.7% 0.5% was sold for about $300m where we need to invest.” U 0.01 on a WPP 7,000 12-month high: $1.34 Retail prices index current rate prev. month (£226m) two months after the Read spoke of targeting low: $1.15 departure of Sorrell, who specific acquisitions to help 1.1% 0.5% EURO went on to build a new £2bn reel in clients, rather than 5,860.28 Average weekly earnings on prev. month on last year recovery EUR > GBP 59.30 H: 7,674.6 6,000 digital business, S4 Capital. bulking up for the sake of it. £550 U 2.2% U 1.9% In his most recent attack, In other words, he said, WPP 1.00% L: 4,993.9 Unemployment current rate prev. month just yet Sorrell, 75, pointed out that would not be buying another 5,000 €1.10 FTSE 250 W 0.00 Globant’s share price had public relations firm in 12-month high: €1.20 1.52m 4.5% 4.3% 2019 2020 low: €1.06 Sir Martin Sorrell could not since tripled, meaning that Uruguay — a (very) thinly Source: Thomson Reuters Eikon Manufacturing output on the year on last month resist another swipe. WPP might have raised closer veiled dig at his former boss. RISERS FALLERS YEN Earlier this month, he to $1bn from the sale. He also That sounds promising, Mitchells & Butlers: 159p U 20.5% on Networkers International: 240p YEN > USD V 8.4% U 0.7% criticised the “bozos at WPP”, likes to remind people that but it fails to address the hospitality support JD Wetherspoon: V 20.9% on continuing woes : Retail sales on the year on last month 923.5p U 19.4% on Sunak scheme 133.8p V 17.3% on production falls the advertising behemoth he WPP’s shares have roughly immediate problem: the AO World: 363p U 18% on online boom : 290p V 12.5% on chief ¥104.69 U 4.7% U 1.5% founded, for offloading its halved since he left. collapse in advertising since 18,109.57 : 29.2p U 17.9% on leaving Fresnillo: £12.19 V 9.3% on V 0.71 286.66 H:22,108.3 recovering losses Tui: 322.9p U 17.3% lower gold output : 208p V 9% on 12-month high: ¥112.11 holding in a business bought Two years into his repair the pandemic struck. WPP’s on vaccine optimism sentiment Source: Refinitiv/AJ Bell low: ¥102.34 before his acrimonious exit in job, Read appears to be on shares have lost a third of 1.61% L:12,829.7 UK trade latest 3 mths prev. 3 mths latest 12 mths OIL balance (£bn) 2018. The investment in the hunt for deals once again. their value since the start of DOLLARS/BARREL +12.93 +2.10 +18.05 question was a 20% stake in The 53-year-old told the March. The second quarter, DOW JONES HANG SENG FTSE EUROFIRST Gross domestic latest quarter prev. quarter annual change Latin American digital last week: when the country was in full 28,335.57 24,918.78 1,402.56 product services firm Globant. “A house is built on firm lockdown, was seen as the $41.77 V 20.4% V 2.2% V 21.7% 270.74 H:29,551.4 531.99 H:29,056.4 19.63 H:1,690.8 V 1.16 After succeeding Sorrell as foundations. Our foundations trough for ad spending, yet Budget deficit latest month prev. month year-to-date 0.95% L:18,591.9 2.18% L:21,696.1 1.38% L:1,096.5 12-month high: $71.75 (PSNB) in £bn chief executive, Mark Read today are much firmer than there are lingering worries low: $15.98 -36.1 -30.1 -208.5 quickly set about simplifying they were two years ago. We about how long the crisis will NASDAQ SHANGHAI SENSEX GOLD the sprawling empire the are simpler. Our balance last and the strength of the 11,548.28 3,278.00 40,685.50 DOLLARS/TROY OZ WPP founder built over rebound. What will 123.27 H:12,056.4 58.36 H:3,451.1 702.52 H:41,952.6 decades, which includes WPP advertising budgets look like 1.06% L:6,860.7 1.75% L:2,660.2 1.76% L:25,981.2 $1,899.92 10-YEAR BOND YIELDS % agency giants Ogilvy and for the next two years? Will V3.39 Wunderman Thompson. £15 the industry go back to S&P 500 CAC 40 ALL ORDS 12-month high: $2,052.50 variation 12 months low: $1,451.31 high low Read believed the FTSE normal once the pandemic is 3,465.39 4,909.64 6,373.70 100 group was unwieldy, 10 in the past? It seems unlikely. 18.42 H:3,580.8 26.22 H:6,111.2 11.30 H:7,255.2 BITCOIN UK 0.28 U 0.10 0.87 0.08 0.53% L:2,237.4 0.53% L:3,754.8 0.18% L:4,564.1 DOLLARS laden with debt and At 665p, or an £8bn market struggling to adapt to a digital 5 cap, WPP appears to be NIKKEI DAX S&P TSX US 0.84 U 0.10 1.94 0.50 world controlled by Facebook cheap — but despite Read’s $12,988.41 0 23,516.59 12,645.75 16,304.08 U 1,676.90 JAPAN 0.04 U 0.02 0.10 -0.18 and Google. He began selling turnaround efforts, there is 105.96 H:24,116.0 263.24 H:13,789.0 134.67 H:17,944.1 12-month high: $13,796.49 2018 2019 2020 low: $3,615.27 off non-core operations and still a rocky road ahead for 0.45% L:16,358.2 2.04% L:8,441.7 0.82% L:11,228.5 Price at 3pm Saturday GERMANY -0.57 U 0.05 -0.17 -0.84 paying down debt— a good Source: Thomson Reuters Eikon the ad giant. Hold.

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1.94 14 Vodafone 112.6 +3.2 169.5 87.1 7.1 N.A 30.21 50 Bunzl 2466.0 -91.0 2710.0 1242.0 2.1 21.7 8.31 124 875.6 +6.0 1560.0 635.4 0.0 N.A 3.03 16 Prudential 1079.0 -19.5 1509.0 682.8 2.4 28.1 28.15 101 Weir 1568.0 -17.0 1670.5 608.6 0.0 N.A 4.07 73 Burberry 1488.0 -46.5 2340.0 1017.0 0.8 50.6 6.02 104 1167.0 -37.0 1357.0 755.8 2.0 37.1 3.92 154 Quilter 131.0 +0.9 179.0 97.6 3.4 43.8 2.36 88 Whitbread 2386.0 +162.0 4462.3 1551.1 1.2 17.8 4.82 44 Carnival 1027.5 +120.7 3732.0 581.0 7.5 N.A 9.98 99 Howden Joinery 691.8 +43.0 736.8 394.0 0.6 30.3 4.13 10 Reckitt Benckiser 7000.0 -354.0 8020.0 5130.0 2.5 N.A 49.80 132 William Hill 279.0 +4.5 313.0 28.6 0.0 16.3 2.93 151 41.2 +1.1 95.3 29.1 0.0 N.A 2.41 7 HSBC 321.4 +15.1 617.6 281.5 2.4 N.A 65.46 195 Redrow 474.8 +29.4 850.8 293.0 0.0 14.5 1.67 131 3478.0 +292.0 4526.0 1500.0 0.0 N.A 2.97 197 Close Brothers 1098.0 +79.0 1663.0 849.0 3.6 15.1 1.66 118 Hutchison China MediTech 459.0 -27.0 530.0 249.1 0.0 N.A 3.26 13 Relx 1635.0 -75.5 2109.0 1382.9 2.8 24.9 31.59 98 WM Morrison Supermarkets 172.8 -0.2 210.0 157.6 3.9 15.9 4.16 63 Coca Cola HBC 1974.0 +43.0 2933.0 1393.1 2.8 19.1 7.19 133 IG 777.0 +8.5 873.5 534.2 5.6 12.0 2.88 153 Renewables Infrastructure 135.4 +0.4 140.6 95.8 4.9 11.4 2.36 159 Worldwide Healthcare Trust 3555.0 -115.0 3734.8 2159.5 0.7 20.9 2.14 23 Compass 1150.0 -28.5 2084.0 865.8 2.3 17.7 20.51 123 IMI 1120.0 +6.0 1214.5 619.8 3.0 19.8 3.05 97 Renishaw 5780.0 -35.0 6020.0 2234.5 0.014596.0 4.21 54 WPP 665.4 +8.2 1085.5 450.0 1.5 N.A 8.15 139 2408.0 -60.0 2550.0 900.0 0.5 23.8 2.75 36 Imperial Brands 1300.0 -15.0 2072.0 1218.0 14.3 14.4 12.30 42 Rentokil Initial 554.0 +14.8 578.0 289.2 0.0 42.5 10.27 109 ConvaTec 185.9 +2.6 225.8 142.4 2.4 195.6 3.73 166 Inchcape 505.0 +26.2 725.0 400.2 0.0 179.6 1.99 76 Rightmove 672.0 +6.8 710.6 373.1 0.0 43.6 5.87 179 343.6 +6.8 544.0 248.8 3.0 10.6 1.80 66 Informa 449.0 +42.2 875.4 326.7 0.0 N.A 6.74 4 4578.0 -68.5 5175.0 2954.0 6.4 13.6 76.34 181 Cranswick 3378.0 -22.0 4126.0 2688.0 1.8 21.3 1.77 58 InterContinental Hotels 4201.0 +27.0 5297.0 2161.0 0.0 N.A 7.67 126 RIT Capital Partners 1924.0 +42.0 2185.0 1252.0 1.8 106.0 3.02 19 CRH 2845.0 -125.0 3119.0 1500.0 2.6 17.0 22.33 108 Intermediate Capital 1293.0 -40.0 1896.0 452.0 3.9 33.8 3.80 89 Rolls-Royce 243.7 +21.8 792.0 100.8 0.0 N.A 4.71 Price/earnings ratios are based on historic data, with yield and p/e values 55 Croda International 6264.0 -200.0 6510.0 3814.0 1.4 38.9 8.07 81 International Airlines Group 109.0 +13.2 453.1 86.5 8.0 N.A 5.41 143 308.0 +0.6 344.7 177.1 1.3 29.1 2.69 calculated from the most recent reported dividends and earnings per share, 87 DCC 5028.0 -320.0 7548.0 3463.0 2.9 20.2 4.95 138 International Public Partnerships 171.0 +3.2 172.2 122.8 4.3 29.6 2.76 5 Royal Dutch Shell 971.8 -2.0 2356.0 905.7 9.8 N.A 75.13 using trailing 12-month figures. 52-week highs and lows are end of day. 105 3566.0 +88.0 3586.0 2030.0 1.0 108.9 3.86 45 Intertek 5996.0 -152.0 6492.0 3786.0 1.8 36.8 9.68 148 Royal Mail 249.5 +5.7 258.6 118.9 3.0 15.5 2.50 Excludes exchange-traded funds. nc = no change. N.A. = not applicable. 121 2792.0 +140.0 4362.0 2334.0 2.2 22.0 3.13 192 166.9 +13.4 367.1 122.6 6.6 11.7 1.69 93 RSA Insurance 443.6 +13.8 736.8 321.2 1.8 14.4 4.59 Source: Refinitiv