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10 The Sunday Times January 10, 2021 BUSINESS

Liam Kelly

JACK HILL student at Cambridge, caught a new book by James Ashton. Vardags sticks stiletto Kwarteng’s pep the eye of a Procter & Gamble Jansen and Patterson, both FUNNY BUSINESS recruiter with his knitwear at now 53, prospered at P&G. In talk for bosses a careers fair. “Do you play 2018, Jansen succeeded into ‘dress-code leaker’ What can companies expect cricket?” one Philip Jansen Patterson as BT’s boss. from new business secretary called out to him. No, came Although fashion came Finely sculpted eyebrows aristocrats, Qatari princes Kwasi Kwarteng, who the reply; the woolly was before fielding when he was were raised last summer and Malaysian millionaires, replaced the hapless Alok simply a fashion choice. young, Patterson likes sport. when a 1,000-word dress has launched a High Court Sharma last week? It wasn’t cricket but it was In his time at BT, he splurged code dictated by the divorce writ against Hannah Marshall, Since becoming MP for the start of a long friendship, billions on TV rights for law firm Vardags was leaked. a former worker, accusing her Spelthorne in Surrey in 2010, says The Nine Types of Leader, events such as Champions Founder Ayesha Vardag, of being the leaker. the ambitious Old Etonian League football, with critics known as the Diva of The firm claims that the Brexiteer has found time to saying he didn’t invest Divorce, decreed in an 23-year-old, who left its write or co-author six books. BESTSELLING BOOKS enough in superfast internal email that staff marketing team last March, One of those, Britannia broadband. Jansen is now should be “discreetly sexy” forwarded the email to her Unchained, published in How to Make the World Add Up changing course by piling Tim Harford but never “tacky or tarty”. personal account the day she 2012, suggests that Kwarteng, 1 Little Brown billions into the rollout. She added: “Cardigans are was dismissed. Vardags says 45, will take no prisoners. Relentless almost never OK.” that the alleged leak was a Among other observations, it Eddie Hearn 2 Hodder & Stoughton This caused widespread breach of both copyright and says: “The British are among The Anarchy Good times for mirth, not least because confidentiality. the worst idlers in the world. 3 William Dalrymple Vardag, 52, has been spotted Marshall is no pushover: We work among the lowest Bloomsbury cheeky brewer in a cardigan in the past, she has taken the firm to an hours, we retire early and Rich Dad, Poor Dad Diageo jumped on a 4 Robert T Kiyosaki including on ITV’s This employment tribunal, our productivity is poor. Plata bandwagon when it launched TWITTER POLL Morning in 2013 — but the firm claiming discrimination. She Whereas Indian children Rebel Ideas Guinness 0.0 after four years did not see the funny side. is also preparing a defence to aspire to be doctors or Matthew Syed of development. The drinks 5 Yes No Now Vardags, which has the writ. Let’s hope any court businessmen, the British are John Murray giant fell off it less than two represented British outfits are discreetly sexy. No cardigans: Ayesha Vardag’s dress code was exacting more interested in football Shoe Dog weeks later when it recalled 6 Phil Knight and pop music.” Simon & Schuster the alcohol-free cans over 70% 30% 6 Investment bankers have had a good pandemic, buoyed by Ouch. There may be some Factfulness contamination fears. fundraisings and takeovers. Last year was a record one for glum faces heading into Hans Rosling et al A start-up is now looking JUST SAYING . . . 7 Sceptre Numis, with £154.9m of income and £37.1m in pre-tax profits. 1 Victoria Street soon. Elon Musk to take advantage. Big Drop It was kept busy as clients tapped shareholders for emergency 8 Ashlee Vance Brewing Co, founded by cash after the first lockdown. And although it worked on only Virgin former City lawyer Rob Fink, Tariff-free does not feel like tariff-free The Intelligent Investor one float, it was a biggie: AIM-listed Numis was among seven Howzat! When 9 Benjamin Graham has launched its own 0.5% banks that shared £35m of fees on the £4.5bn blowout listing when you read the fine print Harper Business stout — and is thumbing its Gav caught Phil Start With Why Elon Musk has become the of The Hut Group, Matt Moulding’s online retail empire. Simon Sinek nose at its 262-year-old rival. Co-chief executives Alex Ham and Ross Mitchinson were If Gavin Patterson hadn’t 10Penguin Big Drop took just four world’s richest man on the paid £5.5m, but it was not an even split. Ham, 38, picked up M&S boss Steve Rowe on disruption worn a cricket jumper in weeks to produce its Good back of Tesla’s share price £3.5m for the stellar performance of his corporate broking to supplies of items such as Percy Pig November 1989, corporate Bestseller List prepared by Nielsen using Things — a nod to Guinness’s surge. Is it a sign of an data supplied by and copyright to division; Mitchinson, 42, at equities and analysis, bagged the sweets to its stores across the Irish Sea, Britain might have been Nielsen BookScan, taken from the TCM for “Good things come to those unsustainable tech bubble? rest. Prufrock doubts he will be sobbing behind his facemask. caused by Brexit red tape different. Patterson, then a the four-week period ending January 2 who wait” ad slogan. Sláinte! @ST_Business DATABANK INSIDE THE CITY SABAH MEDDINGS THE WEEK IN THE MARKETS THE ECONOMY Consumer prices index current rate prev. month FTSE 100 DOLLAR Peel Hunt said a stronger end announced that Orkun Kilic, FTSE 100 USD > GBP 0.3% 0.7% to the year should mean sales the representative of activist CPI including housing current rate prev. month Life under 8,000 growth in the third quarter investor Paulson, had $1.36 0.6% 0.9% may be 7%, ahead of its resigned from the board. The V 0.01 lockdown forecasts, when it reports on news came after Paulson 12-month high: $1.37 Retail prices index current rate prev. month 7,000 low: $1.15 January 19. reduced its shareholding last 0.9% 1.3% The impact of a new month from 10.3% to 8.8%. EURO is sweet for 6,873.26 Average weekly earnings on prev. month on last year EUR > GBP lockdown, coupled with Also, Premier has agreed a 412.74 H: 7,674.6 6,000 a growing expectation that revised relationship deal with 6.39% L: 4,993.9 £560 U 0.9% U 2.7% Unemployment current rate prev. month Mr Kipling workers will remain at home Oasis Management, a Hong 5,000 €1.11 for at least part of the week Kong hedge fund, whose FTSE 250 V 0.01 12-month high: €1.20 1.69m 4.9% 4.8% A traditional Battenberg cake for the foreseeable future, representative, Daniel 2020 low: €1.06 Source: Thomson Reuters Eikon Manufacturing output on the year on last month is four squares of pink and will continue to boost sales. Wosner, stays on the board. YEN yellow sponge, sandwiched Premier has worked to Oasis once accused former RISERS FALLERS Entain: £14.75 U 30.1% on rejected Tui: 380p V 17.1% on virus fears Aston YEN > USD V 7.1% U 1.7% together with jam and reduce debt levels by £25m chief executive Gavin Darby takeover bid : 886.2p Martin Lagonda: £17.85 V 11.1% on Retail sales on the year on last month covered in marzipan. This to £383m at the end of of leading Premier into a U 22.9% on acquisitions : sentiment : £42.52 V 6.8% on Easter, however, it will come September, allowing it to “zombie-like state” through 340p U 20.3% on special dividend flight cancellations : £11.44 ¥104.02 U 2.4% V 3.8% 21,064.24 Petrofac: 165.8p U 20.1% on Opec deal V 6.1% on profit taking : U 0.82 with a fresh twist. reduce finance costs, with “five years of failure”. 575.94 H:21,886.08 to curb production Glencore: 276.5p 110p V 5.6% on Brexit border 12-month high: ¥112.11 disruption Source: Refinitiv/AJ Bell low: ¥102.34 , the FTSE net debt to core earnings Alex Whitehouse has been in 2.81% L:12,829.7 U 18.6% on commodity price rises UK trade latest 3 mths prev. 3 mths latest 12 mths 250 producer of Mr Kipling dropping from 2.7 times to the role since August 2019. OIL balance (£bn) +1.73 +12.85 +27.79 cakes and Bisto gravy, is 2.3 times. It has the £37m Jefferies said these changes DOLLARS/BARREL DOW JONES FTSE EUROFIRST Gross domestic latest quarter prev. quarter annual change introducing a raspberry and proceeds from the sale of its were a positive step towards HANG SENG product lemon version of the cake as it remaining stake in Hovis. liberalising Premier’s 31,097.97 27,878.22 1,585.36 $55.99 U 16% V 18.8% V 8.6% 4.19 seeks to refresh its range, The company appears to ownership. Japan’s Nissin 491.49 H:31,193.4 647.09 H:29,056.4 48.83 H:1,690.8 U Budget deficit latest month prev. month year-to-date 1.61% L:18,213.7 2.38% L:21,696.1 3.18% L:1,096.5 12-month high: $71.75 (PSNB) in £bn which has been on shop be moving on from a bruising Foods owns 19.3%. low: $15.98 -31.6 -21.7 -240.9 shelves since 1967. battle with two of its biggest Shares in Premier have NASDAQ SHANGHAI SENSEX GOLD This, coupled with a shareholders. Last week, it risen 190.9% over the past 13,201.98 3,570.11 48,782.51 DOLLARS/TROY OZ lockdown-induced rush to year, closing at 106.6p last 313.70 H:13,202.0 97.04 H:3,576.2 913.53 H:48,782.5 the grocery aisles as families Premier Foods week — well above the 65p 2.43% L:6,860.7 2.79% L:2,660.2 1.91% L:25,981.2 $1,854.99 10-YEAR BOND YIELDS % stock up on treats and offer from American giant V 42.78 ingredients, will cap a strong 120p McCormick, maker of S&P 500 CAC 40 ALL ORDS 12-month high: $2,052.50 variation 12 months year for a company that once Schwartz spices, that was 3,824.68 5,706.88 7,024.20 low: $1,475.03 high low seemed to be edging its way 80 rejected in 2016. 68.61 H:3,826.7 155.47 H:6,111.2 173.60 H:7,255.2 BITCOIN UK 0.29 U 0.10 0.82 0.08 towards the corporate Peel Hunt has a 120p target 1.83% L:2,191.9 2.80% L:3,754.8 2.53% L:4,564.1 DOLLARS 40 compost bin. on the shares, while Jefferies NIKKEI DAX S&P TSX US 1.10 U 0.19 1.87 0.50 Premier reported sales of has a 110p target. With signs $40,916.34 £421.5m for the 26 weeks 0 of a potential dividend on the 28,139.03 14,049.53 18,042.07 U 9,878,17 JAPAN 0.04 U 0.02 0.10 -0.15 ending September 26, a 15% 2020 horizon, they should have 694.86 H:28,139.0 330.75 H:14,049.5 608.71 H:18,058.6 12-month high: $40,916.34 2.53% L:16,358.2 2.41% L:8,441.7 3.49% L:11,172.7 low: $3,615.27 GERMANY -0.52 U 0.06 -0.17 -0.84 rise on that period in 2019. Source: Thomson Reuters Eikon further to grow. Buy. Price at 3pm Saturday

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2.1 22.0 8.4 6 HSBC 411.8 +32.9 595.4 283.4 0.0 N.A 83.9 148 Quilter 159.0 +5.3 174.7 97.6 2.8 53.1 2.8 182 WH Smith 1609.0 +99.0 2618.0 700.5 0.0 N.A 2.1 71 Burberry 1834.5 +45.0 2329.0 1085.0 0.0 357.3 7.4 116 Hutchison China MediTech 522.0 +62.0 528.0 258.0 0.0 N.A 3.8 11 Reckitt Benckiser 6660.0 +118.0 7960.0 5150.0 2.6 N.A 47.5 80 Whitbread 3085.0 -15.0 4837.0 2049.0 0.0 N.A 6.2 34 Carnival 1323.0 -44.0 3708.0 605.0 5.5 N.A 16.1 136 IG 876.5 +14.5 895.0 563.4 4.9 13.5 3.2 191 Redrow 569.5 -2.0 848.0 313.2 0.0 17.4 2.0 149 William Hill 269.8 -0.3 312.2 36.7 0.0 15.8 2.8 144 50.2 +3.6 93.5 30.2 0.0 N.A 2.9 127 IMI 1281.0 +116.0 1284.0 674.8 2.6 22.7 3.5 15 Relx 1887.0 +94.5 2099.0 1482.5 2.4 28.8 36.5 119 Wizz Air 4252.0 -312.0 4884.0 2006.0 0.0 N.A 3.6 161 Ceres Power 1410.0 +90.0 1420.0 236.0 0.0 N.A 2.4 37 Imperial Brands 1638.0 +102.5 2045.5 1219.0 8.4 10.4 15.5 164 Renewables Infrastructure 127.0 -0.8 139.6 100.0 5.3 35.4 2.4 104 WM Morrison Supermarkets 182.6 +5.3 199.3 161.8 3.8 16.8 4.4 171 Close Brothers 1455.0 +73.0 1626.0 926.5 2.7 20.0 2.2 157 Inchcape 659.5 +16.0 719.0 420.0 0.0 234.5 2.6 107 Renishaw 5975.0 +215.0 6225.0 2276.0 0.015088.4 4.3 163 Worldwide Healthcare Trust 3885.0 +160.0 3885.0 2210.0 0.6 4.4 2.4 58 Coca Cola HBC 2431.0 +54.0 2883.0 1494.0 2.3 23.5 8.9 63 Informa 566.2 +17.2 863.6 354.4 0.0 N.A 8.5 47 Rentokil Initial 545.6 +36.0 571.0 340.1 0.0 41.8 10.1 45 WPP 828.8 +28.8 1067.5 483.7 1.2 N.A 10.2 23 Compass 1473.5 +110.5 1990.0 1002.0 0.0 139.4 26.3 59 InterContinental Hotels 4816.0 +126.0 5157.0 2385.5 0.0 N.A 8.8 89 Rightmove 634.8 -16.0 701.2 400.1 0.0 41.2 5.5 153 2380.0 -68.0 2538.0 935.0 0.5 23.5 2.7 95 Intermediate Capital 1779.0 +53.0 1877.0 559.5 3.0 32.7 5.2 4 Rio Tinto 6310.0+840.0 6310.0 2968.0 4.5 19.4 105.0 110 ConvaTec 207.6 +8.4 220.4 147.0 2.0 226.5 4.2 68 International Airlines Group 156.8 -3.1 671.0 91.0 5.5 N.A 7.8 135 RIT Capital Partners 2075.0 +10.0 2110.0 1346.0 1.7 114.3 3.3 167 451.6 -15.8 540.5 269.0 0.0 N.A 2.4 150 International Public Partnerships 173.8 +3.6 176.6 128.2 4.2 30.1 2.8 56 Rolls-Royce 107.3 -4.0 699.0 69.6 0.0 N.A 9.0 20 CRH 3437.0 +379.0 3504.0 1574.0 2.2 20.5 27.0 50 Intertek 5836.0 +188.0 6440.0 4164.0 1.8 35.8 9.4 140 345.4 +27.4 345.4 191.3 1.1 32.6 3.0 Price/earnings ratios are based on historic data, with yield and p/e values 52 Croda International 6612.0 +16.0 6660.0 4070.0 1.4 41.1 9.2 195 197.9 +10.6 452.2 127.1 2.8 35.7 2.0 3 Royal Dutch Shell 1468.2 +170.4 2275.5 900.0 4.7 N.A 113.9 calculated from most recent reported dividends and earnings per share, using 93 DCC 5526.0 +348.0 7204.0 3878.0 2.7 19.0 5.4 137 ITM Power 586.0 +70.0 586.0 91.0 0.0 N.A 3.2 121 Royal Mail 360.3 +22.6 362.5 124.3 0.0 163.9 3.6 trailing 12-month figures. P/E is not calculated when last twelve months EPS is 114 3552.0 +102.0 3574.0 2168.0 1.0 108.5 3.8 103 ITV 110.0 +3.2 149.0 54.4 0.0 14.7 4.4 74 RSA Insurance 678.4 +1.0 680.0 326.9 1.2 22.1 7.0 less than or equal to zero. 52-week highs and lows are end of day. Excludes 125 3158.0 +62.0 4282.0 2360.0 2.0 24.9 3.5 124 IWG 355.6 +12.4 469.0 114.0 0.0 N.A 3.6 185 RWS 535.0 -1.0 747.0 413.0 1.7 31.7 2.1 exchange-traded funds. nc = no change. N.A. = not applicable. Source: Refinitiv